via USA Today.
Looming over all of this is the R2P.
It really looks like Russia is setting the table to justifiably go in to protect Ukrainian citizens that are being savaged by the ongoing fighting.
NOTE: I forgot who first raised the issue on this blog, but winter is rapidly approaching. That will be the make or break time for this conflict. The city will be starving and without heat. Summer soldiers will have to fight in the cold....and trust me. The cold will make a man out of you! Ill equipped Kiev forces better get it done and quick or they're going to lose it all in November and December.
MOSCOW (AP) — A convoy of 280 Russian trucks reportedly packed with aid headed for eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, but Ukraine said it wouldn't let the mission in because it isn't being coordinated by the international Red Cross and could be a covert military operation.The Kiev gov is in a no win situation. Either they allow the Russian aid trucks in, not knowing exactly what they're carrying or they deny entry and they suffer the ramifications of an entire region of their country dying in view of the rest of Europe.
The neutral agency said it had no information on what the trucks were carrying or where they were going. That has raised fears in Ukraine and the West, where leaders have voiced concerns that Russia could use the initiative as a pretext for sending troops into separatist-held territory.
Russian television and news agencies reported that 2,000 tons of aid was en route to Ukraine, where fighting between pro-Russian separatists and government forces has claimed more than 1,300 lives since April, according to a U.N. report.
Looming over all of this is the R2P.
It really looks like Russia is setting the table to justifiably go in to protect Ukrainian citizens that are being savaged by the ongoing fighting.
NOTE: I forgot who first raised the issue on this blog, but winter is rapidly approaching. That will be the make or break time for this conflict. The city will be starving and without heat. Summer soldiers will have to fight in the cold....and trust me. The cold will make a man out of you! Ill equipped Kiev forces better get it done and quick or they're going to lose it all in November and December.
