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Many of the Ukraine Military have held their ground and are still loyal to their country.They must still have a dream of remaining free from Russian mandates.Meanwhile the diplomatic shuffle is danced in the usual way as we watch the usual goings on.The Diplomatic Shuffle is done when a slick trade is in the wind that needs to be sorta hidden out of sight.
In the next few days or weeks,a deal will be made that will give Russia a firm grip on the Ukraine in exchange for something politicians really want to get their hands on....Wonder what that trade will be?Let me think here,Hmmm.The usual sabre rattling is always good for a bit of distraction.
The observers won't be let in to see human rights violations,
The Human rights folks will be blocked from getting phone messages as this is the way other dictators have done. Internet is already blocked and monitored all over what was once the free world.Did you see the Snowden video from Russia.
Oh,wait a minute that was not Russia censoring was it?My mistake..forgot where growing up had gotten me.Off the subject,was George Orwell a prophet or a fortune teller?I could have sworn he wrote fiction. but I digress.You decide that one.
Those brave Ukraine Soldiers have tried to hold back the Russians with Small arms in the street.
This reminds me of the Nazis just rolling into France in the beginning of the second war.Historical fact that the world sat wringing their hands then to.The leaders had spinal problems that did not allow resistance.The people thought otherwise.French underground used guerrilla warfare to harass the Nazis. The rest of the world did not get involved till bombs dropped on their worlds.When it looked like they might have to start learning to speak German or Japanese inside the discovered Concentration Camps.
There is a way to slap down Mr.Putin that will stunt his popularity a lot.
Bring our space program home to this country and pull out all the money siphoning into Russia from The USA and its allies.The Hill folk have a saying that has been the butt of many jokes but it fits here.That would separate the chaff from the wheat as far as who is our allies.
Either Yer fer us or yer Agin us.
Oil is not a problem in the USA.Isn't now or in the future.We have more under our "assets" than the rest of the world.The will to find it and carefully drill for it does not have to be in the Oceans.
Many states have been under a boom of oil for quite a few years now.There is much more without ever touching the Oceans around us.We need to find it and plan carefully .WE have become much to dependent on outside out of house suppliers.Dump them and look to home before some wannabe little czar decides he can hold the rest of the world for ransom.We need to show that he was not able to even hold a good wife let alone a world hostage.
The photo in the news article I saw was about 2dozen Ukraine troopers with small arms in hand trying to hold their Embassy from Russian troops with armored vehicles and other arms.No one was being allowed to enter or leave . Armored,The kind of weapons not used to guard people,but to intimidate and overwhelm people.Those Ukraine soldiers and folks were standing their ground. Hoping for a miracle from the rest of the world.It reminded me of a very expensive lesson we here in the USA learned a long time ago.
A time when our Heroes faced several thousand seasoned troops that had just returned from fighting professional soldiers.They were well equipped.The odds in proportion to the defenders were tens or hundreds to one in favor of the invaders that surrounded them. The re enforcements they prayed for never arrived to help them.The battle was bloody and in time,took out all the defenders there.The Professional Army was victorious to win this battle.
As a broadcaster used to say,the rest of the story goes like this,The defenders were volunteers to that battle.They never asked to be invaded by General Santa Anna.They knew that they had to delay the huge army for as long as possible till help could arrive somewhere to help.
Santa Anna was defeated a short time later By more volunteers that went to Texas to stop a man with dreams of conquest.He was found dressed in peasant clothes trying to escape when he was discovered and captured.
The Mexican Troops must have known they were doomed.When ever the Texans and Mexican fought,There was a cry that was echoed above the battle as it raged.
The cry was REMEMBER THE ALAMO,REMEMBER WHAT THEY DID FOR US.
I truly pray for a peaceful end to the occupation of any free country under siege.Any place that there is overwhelming odds an people who are oppressed for nothing they did.
We need to needle those in power and the united nations to do something through whatever channels they can open.The Embassies of those involved will perhaps aide in changing the hearts of those involved.
Google the embassies of Russia to ask for peaceful resolve and the Ukraine for support to the people.
Pray for peace and freedom friends
RJP
