Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
March 13, 2014
Nothing particularly astonishing has happened in the last 24 hours, but tensions are still very high, and anything could possibly happen at any moment.
Everyone seems to be preparing for war.
NATO is running war drills in Poland, just next to the Ukrainian border.
RT:
NATO has begun wargames in Poland as recently dispatched US jets are set to take part in the exercises. Poor weather has delayed naval maneuvers in the Black Sea, with the US saying both drills were planned before the outbreak of unrest in Ukraine.
The air drills began on Tuesday at the Lask Air Base in central Poland. Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski was present as the exercises commenced, standing by as four Polish F-16s lifted off. A US Hercules transport plane landed with support staff, while at least 12 US F-16 fighter jets and 300 personnel are due to arrive by Thursday.
Komorowski, without directly naming Crimea, said “events to the east” provided a reason to protect military spending in an age of austerity.
“I hope events to the east of the Polish border, which is also NATO’s border, will encourage tough decisions regarding Polish security,” Reuters cites him as saying.
The decision to deploy the US jets followed a phone conversation between US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Polish counterpart Tomasz Siemoniak on Sunday. Washington insisted the air exercise was planned long in advance, though Siemoniak maintains the exercise was to have been smaller, only involving transport aircraft.
Wargames in the Black Sea also.
White House press secretary Jay Carney says US military exercises with Romanian and Bulgarian warships in the Black Sea “speak in a clear voice” to Russia.
“We obviously have provided stepped-up assistance to those countries in this case,” Carney said on Tuesday.
“And this is part of our effort to work with our international partners and allies and to speak in a clear voice together that the actions taken by Russia to intervene militarily in contravention of international law and in violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity is something that we all oppose,” he added.
The US, Romania and Bulgaria began joint military training exercises near Russia’s borders on Tuesday.
The USS Truxtun, a US Navy guided-missile destroyer, will also take part in maneuvers in the Black Sea.
Two drones have allegedly been shot down over Crimea.
FNA:
The drone was allegedly surveilling Crimean troop positions over the Turetsky Val block-post, the Novosti Kryma (News of Crimea) online newspaper reported.
The unsanctioned aircraft had been spotted by Crimean self-defense forces and Berkut policemen.
Another, heavier drone, a two-engine one, has been allegedly shot down and fell outside the block-post’s area.
Each drone costs around $4 million.
Russia is also preparing.
An airborne division based in central Russia began large-scale exercises Tuesday against the backdrop of an ongoing political and security crisis in Ukraine.
The Defense Ministry said units of the 98th Guards Airborne Division, based in Ivanovo, a city east of Moscow, were put on high alert and moved to unspecified locations to “check readiness” in simulated combat conditions.
Four thousand troops, 36 military transport aircraft and an unspecified number of combat vehicles are taking part in the exercises, which will run until March 14.
The drills will include a massive simultaneous paradrop involving 3,500 servicemen, the ministry said.
The drills come in the wake of a number of military exercises in Russia’s western regions in the past days, including air defense drills, combat readiness snap checks and a launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Russia says the exercises are not linked to the development in Crimea.
And there has been a staff shuffle.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree relieving Police Major-General Alexander Ilyin of his duties as head of the Interior Ministry’s Main Department for the Moscow Traffic Police. In addition, Police Major-General Boris Kolesnikov has been relieved of his duties as deputy head of the Interior Ministry’s Main Department for Economic Security and Corruption Prevention.
Gennady Marchenko has been relieved of his duties as deputy commander of troops of the Interior Ministry’s Central Regional Command of the Interior Troops, and Justice Major-General Vladimir Morozov has been relieved of his duties as deputy head of the Interior Ministry’s Main Department for Moscow and head of the Main Investigations Department.
The Russian president has also issued a decree appointing Nikolai Golovkin, former head of the Moscow region’s police, to the post of aide to the interior minister. Golovkin, former head of the Interior Ministry’s Main Department for the Moscow region, lost his post in late January 2014. he was appointed to the post in April 2011.
The decree appoints Yury Valyayev to the post of head of the Interior Ministry’s Main Department for the Protection of Public Order.
Obama has held a press conference with the Jewish “Prime Minister” of the Ukraine.
This Jew is like something from Sesame Street. There is a reason public figures use translators, Mr. Yatsenyuk. They don’t do it because they don’t speak any English at all.
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TIME:
President Barack Obama joined the new leader of Ukraine on Wednesday in emphasizing that the United States stands with the country in its simmering conflict with Russia, and that a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Crimea is the best way forward.
“There’s another path available and we hope President Putin is willing to seize that path,” Obama said during an appearance at the White House with interim Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. “But if he does not, I’m very confident that the international community will stand firmly behind the Ukrainian government.”
With Russian troops controlling the Crimea region of Ukraine and Crimea preparing to vote on a referendum to split from Ukraine, Obama said the new government in Kiev remains open to negotiations with Moscow “that could lead to a different arrangement for the Crimean region, but that is not something that could be done with a gun pointed at you.”
Ron Paul is calling for calm. But no one other than the Russian media will listen to him.
In a strict constitutional sense the US plans to lend $1 billion to Ukraine are illegal and the US shouldn’t be doing it, Ron Paul, a former US Congressman and a long-time Federal Reserve critic, has said in an exclusive interview to the Voice of Russia, speaking about the Ukrainian political crisis and the situation surrounding the recent events in the region.
According to the politician, these actions will be justified by the US administration with the help of certain legislative sanctions and certain laws.
Ron Paul believes that nobody “has the right to come and take the money from the American taxpayer. So, I don’t think that we should redistribute wealth within our own country and I don’t believe we should redistribute wealth around the world with the use of force”, adding that, in his opinion, the US shouldn’t “be in the business of picking who should be running which country around the world” either.
Talking to the Voice of Russia correspondent, Mr. Paul stressed there is evidence that the EU and US government “had contrived to orchestrate a change in /the Ukrainian/ government”, but he strongly believes that “it would be best for that region, it would be best for America if we just stayed out of the argument” as everybody should be able to have self-determination.
Meanwhile, his shill son has written an op-ed for TIME calling for blood:
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation’s sovereignty and an affront to the international community. His continuing occupation of Ukraine is completely unacceptable, and Russia’s President should be isolated for his actions.
It is America’s duty to condemn these actions in no uncertain terms. It is our role as a global leader to be the strongest nation in opposing Russia’s latest aggression.
Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
This does not and should not require military action. No one in the U.S. is calling for this. But it will require other actions and leadership, both of which President Obama unfortunately lacks.
He goes on to outline his sanctions plan.
I have been checking Alex Jones’ YouTube channel, and he doesn’t even seem to be talking the situation. I guess he doesn’t want to go against his hero Rand.
Russia has Commented on the Ukrainian Freedom Police crackdown on press freedom.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday expressed concern over violation of media freedoms and discrimination against journalists covering the ongoing political crisis in Ukraine.
The ministry listed a number of instances in which it said Russian reporters had been blocked from entering Ukraine, deported from the country or faced pressure and even death threats.
According to the ministry, some Russian media websites have been targeted by hackers supporting the recent revolution in Ukraine, while several Russian television channels have been blocked by Ukrainian cable TV providers.
On Tuesday, the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine ordered Ukrainian providers to stop broadcasting Russian TV channels Vesti, Russia 24, Channel One, RTR Planeta and NTV Mir, citing measures to ensure the national security, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Maidan says it won’t use the military to try and stop Crimea from succeeding. I don’t think anyone thought they were going to do that, but it’s good they’ve clarified.
Ukraine’s acting president has said the country will not use its army to stop Crimea from seceding, in the latest indication that a Russian annexation of the peninsula may be imminent.
The interim leader said intervening on the south-eastern Black Sea peninsula, where Kremlin-backed forces have seized control, would leave Ukraine exposed on its eastern border, where he said Russia has massed “significant tank units”.
“We cannot launch a military operation in Crimea, as we would expose the eastern border and Ukraine would not be protected,” Oleksandr Turchynov told Agence France-Presse.
“They’re provoking us to have a pretext to intervene on the Ukrainian mainland … [but] we cannot follow the scenario written by the Kremlin.”
A Senate Panel is moving forward with sanctions.
AP:
A Senate panel on Wednesday advanced what could become some of the most significant U.S. sanctions on Russia since the end of the Cold War in a bid to pressure President Vladimir Putin to pull Russian troops out of Crimea.
By a 14-3 vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bill authorizing $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine’s new government and allowing the Obama administration to impose economic penalties on Russian officials responsible for the military intervention or culpable of gross corruption.
The bill stopped short of going after Russian banks or energy companies as some legislators proposed, giving Secretary of State John Kerry more leeway ahead of diplomatic talks with his Russian counterpart in Europe later this week.
All Democrats supported the measure. Republican objections concerned how the U.S. will pay for the loan guarantees and U.S. approval for expanding the lending capacity of the International Monetary Fund. House Republicans, who are pushing their own Ukraine aid legislation, also voiced their opposition to the IMF provisions.
“Putin has miscalculated by playing a game of Russian roulette with the international community, but we refuse to blink and will never accept this violation of international law,” said Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the chairman of the Foreign Relations panel, who introduced the legislation.
Oh, and Maidan is still refusing to investigate the shootings. I wonder why?
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What we appear to be seeing here is that start of a new Cold War, rather than WW3. That Cold War could end up leading to WW3 – and probably will – but as of right now, it looks as though no one is going to do anything.
Just to Make This Clear, One More Time…
My words are being twisted or misinterpreted, and perhaps that is my fault. One more time. Here we go.
I am supporting Putin. That does not mean that I am claiming that he has a secret plan to fight the Jews. I do not think that. I think it is possible that he may continue to stand up for what is right, and that would involve directly confronting the Jews.
Right now, however, he is confronting the Jews, by opposing them in the Ukraine, opposing them in Syria and opposing their homosexualist agenda. The does not mean he is confronting them because they are Jewish, and I have never argued that this is the case. Nonetheless, this standing up for what is right, in multiple instances, should be celebrated, and it cannot be negated by the fact that he has previously been cordial with Jews.
Right now, everything he is doing is good. And I am going to stand by him. If he begins doing things which are bad, I will, of course, address this.
There is so much being said, it is all getting very convoluted. There are those who believe in a conspiracy theory that he is secretly controlled by a Jewish conspiracy, and that everything that is happening is staged for no clear reason; this is a position I find absolutely absurd, and cannot sympathize with in any way. However, when I speak against this theory – which is now being spread far and wide – I am not endorsing him as a hero. I have simply stated that he is setting himself up to be in a position to act heroically, and at present, he appears to be following through with this.
As long as he continues to do the right thing, I will support him.