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Topics => World/Foreign Affairs => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on March 10, 2014, 03:17:56 PM
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Volunteers from self-defense units are taking an oath of allegiance to the people of Crimea as the autonomous republic puts together its own military in order to respond to possible provocations from the coup-imposed government in Kiev.
Around 180 Crimean citizens have already joined the local army, as oaths were taken in the republic’s capital of Sevastopol on Monday and Saturday.
All of the recruits were “carefully checked because they will be handed weapons,” Aleksandr Bochkarev, head of the Crimean self-defense forces, told RIA-Novosti.
“They have already proven themselves in the people’s militia of Crimea. Each of them had previously served either in the military or in the law enforcement agencies. All of them are fit for military service and possess the necessary skills,” he said.
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Looks like a civil war is headed their way.
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Yes, the litmus test of being an ethnic Russian gives you a gun. Aparently Putin sees full annexation of Crimea and a continued Russian puppet regime dominating the rest of Ukraine is minimal goal.
They are ensuring there will be blood, and when it gets real nasty the West will fold like cheap lawn chairs and just make angry statements and file uiseless papers that do nothing to change reality on ground.
See, being a bully to weak progressive regimes does pay dividends.
More on the Crimean takeover - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-11/diplomacy-fails-ukraine-putin-rebuffs-kerry-proposal-kiev-issues-ultimatum-crimea-su (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-11/diplomacy-fails-ukraine-putin-rebuffs-kerry-proposal-kiev-issues-ultimatum-crimea-su)