There was an old Tarzan joke from my high school days: "What did
Tarzan do when the elephant crossed the road?"=== "Nothing. The
elephant wore dark glasses, so Tarzan didn't recognize him"...
Ukraine has lost the battle of Crimea (not the war, just the battle).
There is no point at all to the excellent soldiers and officers
currently blockaded there to remain. They should be removed quickly
and reassigned. Instead, Tenyukh and Yarema, on Yatseniuk's
instructions (probably also Turchynov who is "Commander in chief" as
Acting President), were to head to the Crimea, to tell everyone to
"stand fast".
Vozniak feels that this borders on criminality (only one of the
"strange" decisions by this government:
http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/voznyak/5329663fbbdd9/
And Honcharenko from Odesa wonders if there is a "secret plan":
http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/goncharenko/532977f4180c1/
What plan? Whatever plan they have seems to have little in common with
military issues. Imagine Churchill telling his soldiers to stand firm
at Dunkerque in June 1940...
Anyway the Russians have not allowed out two bozos to land:
http://www.unian.ua/politics/898268-tenyuha-i-yaremu-ne-pustili-do-krimu-rnbo-zbiraetsya-na-zasidannya.html
Surprise surprise!! So now Yatseniuk calls a "crisis meeting" etc,. etc,
And the Crimean Ukrainian soldiers are being taken out, piece by
piece. The Commander of the Ukrainian fleet has been kidnapped etc
etc...
Who's calling the shots and why? Tymoshenko from Berlin? What in
blazes is going on?
Staying in the Crimea reminds one of Hitler's order to Von Paulus at
Stalingrad... Is that the sick analogy? Putin the liberator and the
fascists in disarray?
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