Post #393,710
8/26/14 8:32:54 AM
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Democracy, Ukrainian Style.
As Kiev accused Moscow of sending troops across the border to fight with separatists, the Ukrainian president dissolved Parliament on Monday and called for early elections.
President Petro Poroshenko set the voting for Oct. 26, noting that the coalition that had ruled Ukraine collapsed last month.
"The composition of Parliament doesn't represent the political leanings of Ukrainian society," Poroshenko said in a statement posted on his website. "Society has changed so fast that lawmakers haven't been able to keep up with its historic pace."
"Many deputies ... are direct sponsors or accomplices, that is to say allies of the militant separatists," he added. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/25/ukraine-russia-tanks-battle/14558911/
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Post #393,712
8/26/14 10:35:27 AM
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Re: Democracy, Ukrainian Style.
Russian troops "by accident" in Ukraine. Poroshenko called for elections because the constitution requires them if a government could not be formed within 30 days. HTH! Cheers, Scott.
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Post #393,715
8/26/14 10:41:39 AM
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certainly an accident
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Post #393,716
8/26/14 10:46:41 AM
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Being there, or getting caught? ;-)
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Post #393,718
8/26/14 11:09:38 AM
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both, there is no fences there
much like our own borders in certain areas. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep
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Post #393,720
8/26/14 11:35:07 AM
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So, Russian tanks don't have GPS - interesting to know.
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Post #393,723
8/26/14 12:24:46 PM
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paratroopers jump out of tanks? :-)
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Post #393,724
8/26/14 12:41:03 PM
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Paratroopers patrol borders? :-)
Paratroopers is a type of job, indicating what they've been trained in, not necessarily what they were doing at the time. A Russian defence ministry source was quoted by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti as saying: "The soldiers really did participate in a patrol of a section of the Russian-Ukrainian border, crossed it by accident on an unmarked section, and as far as we understand showed no resistance to the armed forces of Ukraine when they were detained." Are the details true? Dunno. But it is a counterpoint to those who say there are no Russian troops in Ukraine. FWIW. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #393,747
8/26/14 9:15:55 PM
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Ah, so *that* is what they were working to accomplish!
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Post #393,749
8/26/14 9:25:41 PM
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:-)
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Post #393,725
8/26/14 1:43:14 PM
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NOW the Constitution is important?
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Post #393,729
8/26/14 4:21:35 PM
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:-)
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Post #393,851
8/28/14 3:39:24 PM
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Disingenuousness, Russian style
Churkin said he wanted to "send a message to Washington: Stop interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign states." C'mon. Quite apart from the respective merits of the two stances, Washington has not sent ground troops into Ukraine, and Moscow has, and lies about it as baldly as any American banker. The Russians are "interfering in the internal affairs of [a] sovereign state" to a degree that makes the machinations of the wicked West look like pretty small beans. Professors Moffitt and Cohen alone appear to remain persuaded of Putin's disinterested virtue. This said, if Russia should elect to re-devour Ukraine, it's not our lookout. Certainly Putin's bitterest critics stateside would have no problem with a US invasion of Mexico should a coalition of Subcommandante Marcos, the Castro brothers and Zombie Hugo Chavez take power there. cordially,
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