<blockquote>'..the West should confront Russian President Vladimir Putin with its own arsenal of nuclear weapons to curb what [Lech Walesa] called Russian aggression.'
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(Ukraine) - '..Russia’s aggression in eastern Ukraine grinds on. In blatant violation of a Feb. 15 cease-fire agreement .. By remaining passive now, they make that offensive more likely.' </blockquote>
<blockquote>'NATO's top military commander says the West should consider using all its tools to help Ukraine in its fight against Russian-backed separatists, including sending defensive weapons.'
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NATO Commander Calls For Using 'All Tools' To Help Ukraine, March 22, 2015 (
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'..According to my own sources in Ukraine, where I was two weeks ago, Russian military assets have spread broadly all along Ukraine’s eastern border formed up in three waves in order to stretch and overwhelm Ukrainian defences across an entire front .. This column has oft noted how Putin can’t resist the cover of a distracting global headline for launching or relaunching his incursions .. the operations were planned long in advance ..
So it’s not anyone else’s fault, not Mikheil Saakashvili’s provocation in Georgia, not Ukrainian ‘fascists’ in Crimea or Donetsk. Nothing ‘triggered’ the aggressions. Mostly, the apparent justifications for aggression (“provocations”) were equally pre-concieved along with the blizzard of disinformation that muddied the world’s reaction post facto.'<blockquote>'Russian forces busily resupply for Ukraine ahead of a Spring offensive, according to numerous sources including a former head of Nato. According to my own sources in Ukraine, where I was two weeks ago, Russian military assets have spread broadly all along Ukraine’s eastern border formed up in three waves in order to stretch and overwhelm Ukrainian defences across an entire front. While the world wrangles about Iran’s nuclear ambitions in the future, the one country that can physically obliterate the West in the present, the same sole country that openly threatens to use nukes, gets a free pass as it invades and occupies parts of Europe – repeatedly.
This column has oft noted how Putin can’t resist the cover of a distracting global headline for launching or relaunching his incursions: Beijing Olympics and Georgia, Sochi Olympics and Crimea, FIFA World Cup and Donbass etc. What we deduce above all, what we should know by now, is that the operations were planned long in advance to coincide with those distracting occasions. Logistical challenges dictate it. You don’t unleash hundreds of armored vehicles across borders without months of preparation.
So it’s not anyone else’s fault, not Mikheil Saakashvili’s provocation in Georgia, not Ukrainian ‘fascists’ in Crimea or Donetsk. Nothing ‘triggered’ the aggressions. Mostly, the apparent justifications for aggression (“provocations”) were equally pre-concieved along with the blizzard of disinformation that muddied the world’s reaction post facto.
By now, none of this should need saying, but it does alas. Saakashvili’s allegedly ’wild and crazy’ actions didn’t cause the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia. The Kremlin’s tanks were already rolling in through the Rokhi Tunnel into South Ossetia. Intercepts from that time, subsequently made public, then published everywhere and conveniently ignored by a feckless West, reveal the timeline indisputably..'
- Melik Kaylan,
Putin Prepares Spring Offensive Against Ukraine, April 10, 2015</blockquote>
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'Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.' - Ronald Reagan'[Kasparov] likens the Russian leader's political tactics and power to Adolf Hitler's in the years leading up to the Second World War.'</blockquote>