Crimea

So Russia has moved to secure Crimea, where its prized Black Sea fleet resides. No surprise there, although Secretary of State John Kerry, the lantern-jawed buffoon that President Obama trots out to justify the indefensible, comically affected indignant outrage and declared Russian behavior to be, “an incredible act of aggression.” Yet neither the swift Russian reply, nor any of the other events in this latest deposing of a democratically-elected leader come as much of a surprise.

Recent events in the Ukraine have taken center stage since the Russian parliament passed legislation approving the deployment of more troops into the Crimea.  The rationale is simple: to defend the Russian fleet that makes port in the Black Sea.  This is Russia’s only warm water port and has been a point of contention for more than a century.  After the Crimean war of the 1850s, Russia lost her rights to base her fleet there.  It wasn’t long afterwards, however, that Russia reclaimed that right after Napoleon III’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian war.  Since then, Russia has had military ship

Investigative journalist Robert Parry talks about Russia’s move to invade Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and the role of the US and the west in fomenting crisis there.

RIA Novosti | March 4, 2014

SIMFEROPOL  – A senior Crimean lawmaker said on Monday that representatives of three southern Ukrainian administrative capitals expressed willingness to become a part of the autonomous republic if its autonomy is broadened in a referendum.

Here is the latest I have been able to quickly round up:Russia/Crimea/UN/Russia setting agenda in Ukraine-

We're not facing a new Crimean War - yet. Only up to a point. NATO's wet dream is one thing; it is quite another to pull it off - as in ending the Russian fleet routinely leaving Sevastopol across the Black Sea through the Bosphorus and then reaching Tartus, Syria's Mediterranean port. So yes, this is as much about Syria as about Crimea. The post Carnival in Crimea appeared first on BSNEWS.

(AE) – The media’s lies and disinformation about the events in Ukraine are absolutely breathtaking.  The concerns and predictions laid out in my “REICH WATCH, E2″ video, posted on December 12, pretty much called the whole thing.

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance | March 2, 2014

RT | March 2, 2014

About 10 Ukrainian Black Sea Fleet ships have left the naval base in Sevastopol, with several vessels now heading to Odessa, administrative sources have said. The ships left the base voluntarily but some of them broke down and returned, they claimed.