Russia attacks and captures Ukrainian ships

Hold me, David. I’m scared.

Well, this is not good.

Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t? Who knows?

How can I monetize this situation to maximize profits?

@TheAviationist

Russia blocks passage in Kerch Strait Near Crimea, Deploys Su-25 Jets And Ka-52 Attack Helicopters.

FUCK.

It's only Ukraine though. Who cares?

I’m sure there were good people on both sides! President Putin told me he didn’t do it! Some third stupid thing!

So is this Putin swinging his dick or is this some elaborate scenario where Trump stands up to him so that the Deplorables have a reason to question a Mueller’s report when it comes out?

Muellers report is NOT coming out for at least a minimum of 6 more months. Ignore those who say it will be soon.

Wrong thread, R10?

President T is too busy tear-gassing women and children at the southern border to pay attention to this.

The gassing at the border is to detract from Ukraine.....learn how Trump plays the game.

Putin and Trump definitely talked about this in Paris.

^ this

Viva Ukraine 🇺🇦

Putin knows Trump won’t do shit as goes about getting the old Soviet block countries back under his rule.

I won New Hampshire bigly.

@Conflicts

BREAKING: Russia's Federal Security Service says it impounded three Ukrainian naval ships after they illegally crossed the Russian border and three injured sailors are receiving medical treatment: RIA - @SkyNewsBreak

Think about a pair of countries I could care less about. I hope they bleed each other a lot.

The Ukraine is a proxy nation for the US and Israel -- sort of like how North Vietnam was a proxy for Russia/China.

Israel also tried to intrude in Georgia, so the Russians shut them down. This is why all the rage at Putin that Israel never really played before.

Isn't this escalation something that both Ukraine and Russia think they could benefit from? Honest question, I'm not as versed in the Ukraine situation as I probably should be.

For some reason, Ukrainian ships crossed into Russian waters, causing the encounters. Why the Ukrainians intruded is not clear.

Whats Rudys part in all this ?....hes been spending an awful lot of time in the Ukraine.

Of course,wasn't Russian TV reporting Putin would do this last September.Via their new deal with Trumpflakes

Will there be gowns?

Trump the jerk will side with Putin.

Sympathy for the far right in Ukraine has been displayed by the CF on other occasions. In February 2016, for instance, “nearly 200 officer cadets and professors of Canada’s Royal Military College” attended a screening of Ukrainians/Les Ukrainiens: God’s Volunteer Battalion, which praised far right militias fighting in that country.

More generally, Canadians have fundraised for and joined rightist militias fighting in the Ukraine.For their part, top politicians have spoken alongside and marched with members of Ukraine’s Right Sector, which said it was “defending the values of white, Christian Europe against the loss of the nation and deregionalisation.”

(In a story titled “US-Funded Neo-Nazis in Ukraine Mentor US White Supremacists” Max Blumenthal recently described how Washington’s support for the far right in the Ukraine has blown back. Hereported, “an unsealed FBI indictment of four American white supremacists from the Rise Above Movement (RAM) declared that the defendants had trained with Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia officially incorporated into the country’s national guard.”)

In addition to supporting fascistic elements in Eastern Europe, the CF’s authoritarian, patriarchal and racist structure lends itself to rightist politics.

Ranging from Private Basic/Ordinary Seaman to General/Admiral,there are nineteen ranks in the CF. In deference to authority, lower must salute and obey orders from higher ranks. In addition to the hierarchy,the CF has been highly patriarchal.Until 1989 women were excluded from combat roles and the submarine service was only opened to women in 2000. As has been discussed elsewhere, extreme patriarchy represents a sort of gateway ideology to the far right.

The CF has also been a hot bed of white supremacy.For decades institutional racism was explicit with “coloured applicants”excluded from enlisting in several positions until the 1950s.Despite making up 20 percent of the Canadian population, visible minorities represent 8.2percent of the CF (it may be slightly higher since some choose not to self-identify). In 2016 three former CF members sued over systemic racism. Their suit claimed that“derogatory slurs, racial harassment and violent threats are tolerated or ignored …. Victims of racism within the Canadian Forces are forced into isolation, subjected to further trauma and, in many cases, catapulted toward early release.”

Chief of the Defence Staff John Vance’s effort to blame right wing extremism on a few bad apples won’t do. The CF needs to look at how its decisions and culture stimulates right-wing extremism.

Fake news! Never happened! Sad!!