Russia
steals the Crimea away from Ukraine.
Russian
oil pipelines run through eastern Ukraine in route to the ports in the
Crimea.
If
you were Putin, wouldn’t you invade and capture eastern Ukraine to protect
those pipelines?
If
you were Obama, wouldn’t you go golfing?
Pentagon concerned that Russia is about to invade Ukraine
U.S.
officials are saying that Russian troops have been flooding into the region
along the border with Ukraine in the last few days. The estimates of the number
of troops range from 30,000 to 80,000, with Ukrainian officials claiming that
the number is as high as 100,000.
NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Gen. Philip Breedlove, has said
that the Russian force on the border "is very, very sizable and very, very
ready." Since the Russian troops are deployed right on the edge of
Ukraine's border, if they do invade then there'll be no advance warning, and no
chance for Ukraine's forces to react.
A U.S. defense official says that if Russia were to invade, then this would
be "far from a bloodless event as we saw in Crimea," although the
Ukrainian army would be defeated. It's possible that the Russian forces could
push through Ukraine to the other end very quickly, to annex Moldova's
separatist territory Transdniestria, which is on Ukraine's western border.
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