Ukraine Is Not Ready for the Consequences of Taking Russia’s Military Bait -- Simon Shuster, Time
By sending its military to quell the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, the government in Kiev may be setting itself up for a spectacular defeat, as neither its army nor its intelligence services are prepared for a confrontation with Russia.
Like many of the leading men in Ukraine’s new military pecking order, Petr Mekhed wasn’t exactly ripe for the task of fending off a Russian invasion when he assumed the post of Deputy Defense Minister in February. His last tour of combat duty was about 30 years ago, during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, after which he reached the rank of colonel in the Red Army. When revolution in Ukraine broke out this winter, his wartime experience made him better equipped than most at defending the barricades of the Maidan protest camp in the center of Kiev. But it was not as useful in preparing him to lead his country into war. “For some issues I’ve had to sit down with a book and study up,” he says.
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My Comment: This article was posted before this morning's capitulation of Ukraine soldiers in eastern Ukraine .... so it is prophetic. Bottom line .... this is a crisis that needs to be solved politically .... but as I have mentioned more than once in this blog .... the interim Ukrainian government has done everything in it's power to alienate the east, and to give Moscow the ammunition it needs to destabilize the situation even further.
Sending in these soldiers while boasting that they are your elite paratroopers and then having the Ukrainian military op commander declare that "those who don’t lay arms, will be destroyed" .... and then giving up without even firing a shot .... was probably the last straw for many in the eastern part of the country. This has just made many of them more angry and determined to break away .... and now they no longer fear the Ukraine military.
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It might the beginning of a big cover their rears move by the media.
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