Crisis in Oekraïne #62 Rusland is een tankstation.

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US Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich says US instigated Ukraine Crisis
“What I’d do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers’ money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn’t try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.”

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Ukraine crisis: Crimea joining Russia 'like Scotland staying in the Union'
Russia's ambassador in London compares Crimean referendum to Britain's case for keeping Scotland

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Ukraine Wants Action, But U.S. Sends Hashtags Instead
As Russian troops amass along the Ukraine border and take over military facilities in the Crimea region, the United States has distanced itself from any boots-on-the-ground intervention.
The U.S. won't send troops or weapons, but it will send hashtags.
While Congress approved an aid package for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia this week, the State Department pushed a Twitter campaign under the hashtag #UnitedForUkraine, which calls on people to share their support for the country.
President Obama had great success using social media during his campaigning days, but does that same mindset work for foreign affairs?
"I don’t know what effect this is supposed to have," said former State Department diplomat James Lewis. "It's a hashtag. What’s it going to do? For this situation, it’s not a useful tool.

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Op zaterdag 29 maart 2014 09:43 schreef theNull het volgende:
Verschillende mening over het gesprek van gisteravond:
http://www.washingtonpost(...)of-obama-putin-call/

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VATICAN CITY — President Barack Obama and the Vatican gave distinctly different accounts of the president’s audience with Pope Francis on Thursday, with Obama stressing their common ground on poverty and inequality but Vatican officials emphasizing sharp differences over Obama’s health care law which mandates contraception coverage.

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But Obama said those discussions took place with the Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, not with Francis. ‘‘We actually didn’t talk a whole lot about social schisms in my conversations with His Holiness,’’ he added. ‘‘In fact, that really was not a topic of conversation.’’

The marked difference in emphasis introduced a perplexing element to the long-anticipated meeting, which the White House has looked forward to as way to validate Obama’s economic policies. In a report on Vatican Radio the day before the meeting, the Vatican had signaled that the divisive issues would indeed be on the agenda

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Measures announced by Interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk included axing 24,000 public sector jobs and special pensions for members of the judiciary and the military, as well as a 50% increase in gas prices, starting on May 1.

Without these reforms, Yatsenyuk said in Kiev, the Ukrainian economy could shrink by 10% in the coming year. He acknowledged that his country is "on the brink of financial and economic bankruptcy."

He also said that inflation could rise to 14% during 2014, and pledged to counter the rise in the cost of living for the vulnerable, including pensioners.
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We've now heard from the supreme commander of NATO in Europe, Gen. Philip Breedlove, that the 150,000 Russian combat troops on Ukraine's eastern border are "very, very sizable and very, very ready."

NATO on the other hand is "unwilling, unable and unready," at least if you go by some of its vocal military critics in recent years.

Breedlove would contest that description, and NATO remains, after all, the largest and most successful military alliance in history. The problem with history, however, is that the 28-nation alliance has seen better and certainly more coherent days.

From a military standpoint, the Ukraine crisis hits Europe at a time when its European members have slashed $45 billion from their militaries in recent years (the equivalent of the entire German defence budget).

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Op zaterdag 29 maart 2014 12:20 schreef firefly3 het volgende:

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Dus jij weet het exacte aantal en beschuldigd de NATO ervan het aantal op te kloppen voor hun defensie budget, ongeacht dat het opkloppen van aantallen niet goed is voor de wereld stabiliteit? Grote beschuldiging/ aanname van je.

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"The (Russian) force that is at the Ukrainian border now to the east is very, very sizable and very, very ready," Breedlove, a U.S. Air Force general, said.

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Russia may have 40,000 troops near its border with Ukraine, two U.S. officials told CNN on Thursday. The officials said that this estimate was largely based on satellite imagery and that a firm number is difficult to assess.

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We've now heard from the supreme commander of NATO in Europe, Gen. Philip Breedlove, that the 150,000 Russian combat troops on Ukraine's eastern border are "very, very sizable and very, very ready."

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Op zaterdag 29 maart 2014 13:42 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Beetje een hoog aluhoedje gehalte.

Het klopt ook totaal niet met de feiten, zoals die er liggen. Eigenlijk wordt dit scenario uitgelegd alsof er tussen 1991 en 2014 'niets' veranderd is en Amerika en Rusland 'vijanden' zijn gebleven.

- Rusland had lid kunnen worden van de NAVO, 9/11 en het raketschild tegen Iran veranderde de zaak, maar de plannen om erover te spreken lagen er. Putin had zelfs aangeboden om Bush te helpen bij de aanval op Afghanistan.

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- De NAVO had een bewuste keuze gemaakt, om geen militaire infrastructuur of defensieve troepenmachten naar de Baltische staten te brengen en het te beperken tot politieke mogelijk economische samenwerking. Immers was er geen dreiging meer van Rusland.

- Om de relatie met Rusland te verbeteren en te 'resetten' werd het plan voor een raketschild stopgezet door Obama onder druk van Hillary Clinton en kwam er een nieuw ontwapeningsverdrag.

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http://mediamatters.org/r(...)-scrapped-mis/198517
It's long been a Republican mantra that President Obama caved to the Russians when he decided in 2009 to scrap a Bush-era missile defense program and replace it with a more flexible system he said would better address the threat of potential short- and medium-range missiles the administration believed Iran had made more progress developing. Defense hawk Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the decision "seriously misguided" at the time.

In fact, experts say, the new program was no less of a threat to Russia, which has always viewed U.S. missile defense as an affront to its own security. The president called it more comprehensive than the previous program -- as well as cost-effective -- and said it would provide "stronger, smarter and swifter defenses of American forces and America's allies." And in an op-ed about the program, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that critics who were accusing the administration of scrapping missile defense in Europe entirely "are either misinformed or misrepresenting what we are doing."

One former U.S. official who worked on national security issues called the Obama administration's new program "a double whammy" to Russia. [CBSNews.com, 3/10/14]

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- In Georgië werd al heel snel tegen Saakashvili gezegd door Condoleezza Rice dat hij niet kon rekenen op de militaire hulp van de NAVO of de VS als hij zelf een conflict uitlokte. De hulp was beperkt tot economische hulp.

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De EU daarentegen is wel medeverantwoordelijk voor deze rotzooi. De bureaucraten in Brussel hebben bewust de revolutie in de hand gewerkt en ondanks dat Verhofdstadt en van Baalen als twee rasmongolen stonden te schreeuwen dat ze Oekraïne zouden verdedigen en dat ze gewonnen hadden is daar niets van terecht gekomen natuurlijk.

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The Obama administration is pushing to free $50 million in long-stalled aid to promote democracy and civil society in Russia, an effort that comes amid a drumbeat of accusations that the United States is meddling in Russia’s internal politics.

The money, held up for years in Congress, represents some of the proceeds from an unusual foreign aid program in which tax dollars were invested in the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia to help them develop into market economies.

For the most part, the investments turned out to be profitable and the money was reinvested. In recent years some of the proceeds were returned to the Treasury, while some money has been redirected to create foundations that provide foreign aid.

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U.S. SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE: Voting 399 for and 19 against, the House on March 27 passed a bipartisan bill (HR 4278) authorizing $70 million in U.S. aid to Ukraine, including $50 million to strengthen its civil institutions. In part, the bill expands Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America broadcasts into Ukraine, Moldova and the Crimean Peninsula. The bill also expands and gives force of law to economic penalties and visa denials ordered by President Obama against certain Russian officials and civilians who have worked to destabilize Ukraine. To pay for itself, the bill cuts U.S. aid to Pakistan by $70 million.

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De Amerikanen hebben 'geen' hekel aan de EU als in de landen op zich, maar wel in het apparaat dat in Brussel zit. Barrosso, Schulz etc. daar hebben de Amerikanen niets mee, vandaar dat ze tegen Merkel zeggen: "Prima wij leveren gas" en tegen de EU bonzen: "Jullie moeten je eigen zaakjes opknappen".

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Het 'feit' is dat Yanukovich Oekraïne failliet heeft laten gaan, dat de huizen van hem en zijn ministers vol liggen met gestolen geld en dubieuze deals en dat ze van hun vijanden martelaren hebben gemaakt door ze te vervolgen. Vergeet niet dat Yanukovich al eerder aan het shoppen was voor financiële hulp en zowel in Europa en Rusland praktisch gezien weinig gehoor kreeg voor zijn criminele en frauderende bende. Als je de staat van het leger ziet dan snap je ook waarom

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Putin heeft handig gebruik gemaakt van de situatie om de Krim in te lijven en te laten zien dat Rusland het niet accepteert als Oekraïne een bende is, maar daardoor heeft hij verdere revoluties juist aangewakkerd. Plus hij heeft eerder nog Yanukovich neer gezet als 'zijn' mannetje en daarmee weinig vrienden gemaakt onder de niet Russisch sprekende Oekraïense bevolking.

Het enige wat je Obama en Kerry echt kunt verwijten is dat de twee niet hun verantwoordelijkheid nemen op het gebied van Syrië, Venezuela, Egypte, Irak, Oekraïne, delen van Afrika en zelfs Afghanistan en constant een afwachtende houding hebben. Ze laten wat drones rondvliegen in het Midden Oosten om Al Qaida kopstukken op te blazen en vinden het wel best. Nu is niemand 'voor' een Amerikaanse interventiemacht, maar enigszins moeite doen om te voorkomen dat onschuldige burgers het slachtoffer worden van burgeroorlogen en revoluties is het minste wat je van een 'supermacht' mag verwachten en wat ook vriend en vijand verwachten. Putin heeft een hekel aan chaos en zwakte.

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Op zaterdag 29 maart 2014 17:59 schreef theNull het volgende:

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Investigators dubbed them "the librarians," four Air Force nuclear missile launch officers at the center of a still-unfolding scandal over cheating on proficiency tests.

"They tended to be at the hub" of illicit exchanges of test information, says Adam Lowther, one of seven investigators who dug into details of cheating that has embarrassed the Air Force and on Thursday brought down virtually the entire operational command of the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.

At least 82 missile launch officers face disciplinary action, but it was the four "librarians" who allegedly facilitated the cheating, in part by transmitting test answers via text message. One text included a photo of a classified test answer, according to Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson, who announced the probe's findings Thursday.
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