If that is the case better to take a bullet now from the enemy than later
from your own firing squad!!!
PI
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Francine Ponomarenko <
[email protected]> wrote:
> There was some talk that he may have been forced to defect at gun point
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> On Sunday, 2 March 2014, Stefan Lemieszewski <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> "*You just don't in the 21st-Century behave in 19th-Century fashion *
>> *by invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext*"
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>> --- spoken on the CBS program *Face the Nation* today by John Kerry,
>> the Secretary of State of the country that invaded Iraq in the 21st
>> century
>> on a trumped-up pretext of non-existent "weapons of mass destruction"
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>> --
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>> I guess John has done his bit once again and can go back to
>> preparing to watch the Red Carpet for the Oscars.
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>> Stefan Lemieszewski
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>> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26410431
>> 2Mar2014
>> *New head of Ukraine's navy defects in Crimea*
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>> [PICS - VIDEOS - Maps ]
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>> The newly appointed head of Ukraine's navy has sworn allegiance to the
>> Crimea region, in the presence of its unrecognised pro-Russian leader.
>>
>> Rear Admiral Denys Berezovsky was only made head of the navy on Saturday,
>> as the government in Kiev reacted to the threat of Russian invasion.
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>> Russia's troops have been consolidating their hold on Crimea, which is
>> home to its Black Sea Fleet.
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>> Nato's chief has asked Russia to withdraw its forces to its bases.
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>> "We call on Russia to de-escalate tensions... to withdraw its forces to
>> its bases and to refrain from any interference elsewhere in Ukraine,"
>> Anders Fogh Rasmussen said, speaking in Brussels.
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>> Ukraine was a "valued partner" for Nato and should be allowed to
>> determine its own future, he said.
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>> The US has warned Moscow may be ejected from the G8 for its actions.
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>> US President Barack Obama called Russian troop deployments a "violation
>> of Ukrainian sovereignty".
>> 'Brink of disaster'
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>> Ukraine has ordered a full military mobilisation in response to Russia's
>> build-up of its forces on the Crimean peninsula. Prime Minister Arseniy
>> Yatsenyuk has warned the country is "on the brink of disaster".
>>
>> In Crimea, Ukrainian soldiers faced off with Russian soldiers surrounding
>> their bases on Sunday while the Russian army was said to be digging
>> trenches on the border with mainland Ukraine.
>>
>> The UK has joined the US, France and Canada in suspending preparations
>> for a summit of the G8 in Russia in June. Nato, of which Ukraine is not a
>> member, is conducting emergency talks.
>>
>> Admiral Berezovsky appeared in Sevastopol before cameras alongside Sergiy
>> Aksyonov, the pro-Russian politician elected by Crimea's regional
>> parliament as local prime minister.
>>
>> Mr Aksyonov announced he had given orders to Ukrainian naval forces on
>> the peninsula to disregard any orders from the "self-proclaimed"
>> authorities in Kiev.
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>> Sunday, he said, would go down in history as the birthday of the "navy of
>> the autonomous republic of Crimea".
>>
>> The admiral then pledged to "strictly obey the orders of the supreme
>> commander of the autonomous republic of Crimea" and "defend the lives and
>> freedom" of Crimea's people.
>>
>> Admiral Berezovsky was later sacked by interim Ukrainian Defence Minister
>> Ihor Tenyukh and a treason case launched against him.
>>
>> Ukraine's Ukrainska Pravda newspaper reports that the admiral was
>> speaking before the "numerous cameras of predominantly Russian TV channels".
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>> Earlier, Ukrainian naval officers found their headquarters in Sevastopol
>> occupied by Russian troops and were unable to go to work.
>>
>> Admiral Yuriy Ilyn, who was until recently commander of the Ukrainian
>> navy and served briefly as head of Ukraine's armed forces under ousted
>> President Viktor Yanukovych, told the BBC's Christian Fraser at the scene
>> that the armed forces were "hostages of the situation".
>>
>> Separately, Ukraine withdrew coast guard vessels from two ports in Crimea
>> and moved them to other bases in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov on Sunday.
>>
>> Several Ukrainian army bases were surrounded by Russian troops on Sunday
>> but there were no reports of clashes despite the refusal of Ukrainian
>> soldiers to open their gates.
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>> John Kerry told US media Russia might "not even remain in the G8" and
>> Russian President Vladimir Putin might "find himself with asset freezes".
>>
>> "You just don't in the 21st-Century behave in 19th-Century fashion by
>> invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext," Mr Kerry told
>> the CBS program Face the Nation.
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>> The Russian parliament authorised Mr Putin on Saturday to deploy troops
>> in Ukraine to protect the lives of Russian citizens there.
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>> Moscow has not recognised the government which took power in Kiev last
>> month after overthrowing the elected pro-Russian President, Viktor
>> Yanukovych.
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>> Mr Yanukovych's decision in November to abandon closer ties with the EU
>> in favour of Russia sparked massive protests in Kiev, which ended in a
>> bloodbath, as dozens of protesters were shot dead in clashes with police.
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