Has Russia Invaded the Ukraine? I Don’t Even Know.

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
August 30, 2014

It's all Russian equipment either way.
It’s all Russian equipment either way.

Today, I am attempting to figure out whether or not Russia has actually invaded the Ukraine or not. It is not an easy thing to find out.

Both the idea of the West making the claim that Russia has invaded when they actually haven’t and the idea of Russia invading and then saying they didn’t don’t really make sense to me.

BBC:

European Union foreign ministers have expressed “deep concern” at Russia’s “aggression against Ukraine”, as the bloc’s leaders prepare to consider new sanctions on the Moscow government.

Speaking after the ministerial meeting in Milan, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Aston urged Russia to “withdraw its forces from Ukraine”.

EU leaders are to meet in Brussels to consider their response to the crisis.

Russia denies that its forces are backing rebels in eastern Ukraine.

But Ms Ashton said there was “deep concern” over “direct aggression by Russian forces”. She called on Russia to stop the flow of arms, equipment and personnel into Ukraine.

In Brussels European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned Russia that the EU was ready to “stand by its principles” and called for a political solution before the crisis reached a “point of no return”.

He was speaking after talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who is due to attend the EU leaders’ summit later on Saturday.

Mr Poroshenko said Ukraine was a victim of “military aggression and terror” involving “thousands of foreign troops and hundreds of foreign tanks”.

lol @ “the people being slaughtered are terrorists.”

Right now, I am leaning towards the idea that Russia has not actually “invaded” the Ukraine, but merely sent a bit of extra weaponry to keep things moving forward. If there were really Russian troops pouring in, NATO would release the satellite images.

While not releasing satellite images, NATO does appear to be preparing for an invasion. Though definitely, we’ve be hearing this for a while.  And they don’t appear to be doing it.

NATO
NATO

RT:

NATO is reportedly working towards the creation of an expeditionary force composed of 10,000 troops from seven different member states as a result of escalating tensions with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.

According to the Financial Times, the force’s creation will be spearheaded by Britain and involve contributions from Denmark, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, and the Netherlands. Canada is also interested in joining the group, but it’s not known what its final decision will be.

Although no formal announcement has been made, British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to declare its formation at the upcoming NATO summit in Wales on September 4th.

Many specifics have yet to be worked out or announced, but planners are reportedly implementing ways to increase the number of soldiers involved even more if necessary. Air and naval units will be integrated into the group, as well as ground troops led by British commanders.

As noted by the Times, the creation of the force comes as a response to Russia’s involvement in the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, with the ultimate goal being to “create a fully functioning, division-sized force for rapid deployment and regular, frequent exercises.” NATO has accused Russia of deploying more than 1,000 troops into Ukraine to bolster separatists in the eastern part of the country.

Russia, however, insists that it does not have troops operating inside of Ukraine and has dismissed NATO’s assertions.

Despite the fact that NATO has opted not to act militarily in Ukraine – unnamed sources told Foreign Policy on Friday that there are no plans to confront Russia with anything more than stronger sanctions – Jonathan Eyal of the London-based Royal United Services Institute said the group needs to demonstrate that its eastern European members are just as integral to the alliance as other states.

“We need to end the idea of different zones of security in Europe,” he told the Financial Times. “We need to be talking about prepositioning, regular rotation of troops and making it very clear that we do not accept that the eastern Europeans are in some different category of membership of NATO.”

The revelation also arrives just a few days after NATO’s Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed interest in forming “a more visible presence” in Eastern Europe in the form of facilities capable of rapidly receiving “response forces” needed to counter Russia.

For his part, Russia’s envoy to NATO, Aleksandr Grushko, said any attempt to stretch further into the region would impact Moscow’s own security planning.

If NATO did invade, Russia would definitely also have to invade.  Meaning the West would effectively have provoked a World War.

But I am increasingly doubtful that such a thing will actually happen.  It seems more likely that it will just roll on as it is.