Ukraine Sets Task Of Building Europe's Strongest Army, Returning Crimea — Security Chief -- ITAR-TASS
KIEV, December 17. /TASS/. Ukrainian authorities have set an ambitious task of building one of the strongest armies in Europe and bring Crimea back from Russia, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Oleksadr Turchynov said on Wednesday.
The country’s Defense Ministry and the Interior Ministry will get a more than 10% share in the total budget spending for 2015 estimated at $31 billion. A total of 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) of cash-strapped Ukraine will go to the army.
“We need to create one of the strongest armies in Europe, and we have no other alternative,” Turchynov said. “Our war will end only when the whole territory of Ukraine is freed, including Crimea,” he said.
Turchynov, a former speaker of the country’s parliament who was appointed as the council’s new chief on Tuesday, said one of the first steps is to increase the army reserve to 100,000 people.
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Update: Ukraine Must Create One of Europe’s Most Powerful Armies: Security Council -- Sputnik
My Comment: When appointed to the position of acting Ukrainian President after the revolution .... Oleksandr Turchynov's unwillingness to compromise and his strong support of Ukrainian nationalism at the expense of Ukraine's Russian minority is .... to put it bluntly .... what put Ukraine in the mess that it is in today. Now his call for a massive military buildup and a war against Russia over Crimea .... what can I say but he is doubling down on the disaster that he and many of his fellow Ukrainian politicians help create 9 -10 months ago.
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Yup, and as Speaker, instead of defending the Constitution of Ukraine, he abandoned it.
I wonder how much he was paid to betray Ukraine?
Wow on his blog the majority of people are Russians and Communist .
Here is a article regarding the US adopted Ukraine Freedom Support Act: http://steigan.no/2014/12/17/obama-tar-et-stort-skritt-i-retning-krig-i-ukraina/
It is in Norwegian but it covers very important things. Jay what is your thougts regarding this? I think you can use google translate to translate the norwegian to english.
I am not Russian I am Norwegian, I think just the edutor is Russian. He is very neutral and are not a communist. Just read the post regarding communism that wsas posted 2-4 days ago. Also I am not a communist just pro- Putin to simplify it.
Obama has said he will sign it, but:
Other than the Arming of Ukraine, it is just what has been US Policy.
The "arming" of the Ukraine is at the President's discretion. That means, it will be handed off to the Pentagon.
What they will do, I won't guess, they have a bad habit of tripling down on failure.
The UA's problems are not a lack of weapons. A lot of the UA's problems are the same as the Ukraine Governments. Massive corruption, poor leadership, lousy logistics, poor morale, bad doctrine and lousy tactics, forced conscription, inherent divisions.
There is a brutal vid making the rounds now. An Azov soldier, and his mates are taking shelter in a lousy bunker. The Azov Soldier is explaining to the camera, that there are No Ukrainians in Donbass, no citizens in Donbass, no children in Donbass, no Pensioners in Donbass, only Russian terrorists, and the best thing to do, is kill them all.
He barely get's finished with that statement when the bunker gets hit three times with HE rounds, he gets hit hard. The clip fades to black and it's unclear if he lived.
Hamilcar Barca is just taking a quick break from waterboarding some kidnapped Engineer from Brighton who might be the 9th cousin on his mothers side, of some guy who may have sold quat to al Baghari on time,
And is stalling the nasty chore of cleaning all the blood and mess off his rectal "feeding" probe.
This is what happens when you respect people like John Paul II and former U.S. President Reagan .... who loves freedom and liberty .... who hates governments that infringe on those liberties and freedoms .... in the end you get labeled as a Communist.
Amongst certain segments of the US population, any questioning of US Policy, ( or preferred sections of US Policy), any posting of news or op eds questioning policy, reporting failures of policy or Dear God, posting the views of the ROW,
Don't lead to discussions on the merits, but instead, cry's of Treason, Socialist, Dirty F'n Hippie or evenworse, IslamoEnviroNaziCommie!
There has long been a prominent strain of Facist thought in the US, caused by the failure to treat pre WWII Facists who aided Facist regimes as the enemies they were, and then post War, bringing in massive numbers of some of the worst Nazi Criminals and setting them up in high positions of poer in Science, Education, Medical, Military, Industrial and Intelligence Fields.
The Authors of the Captain America comics were well aware of this. That is why Capt. Steve Rogers went from fighting Crooked Capitalists pre-war, to fighting Hydra, post war.
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