Ukraine Crisis II: Electric Boogaloo

[The Black Dragon Empire]

Ukraine has rejected joining the European Union Trade Pact at the last minute.
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/21/ukraine-shocks-west-with-eu-decision/?hpt=hp_t3

I believe this to be a fantastic development. For too long has the EU been expanding it's liberalist tentacles across the European Continent. And despite their clear incompetence in handling the Eurozone crisis. Naive governments like Croatia and Serbia continue to push for EU membership (with the former having already been accepted).

The EU's attempt to woo over the FSU states like Ukraine was a blatant attempt at interference in Putin's sphere of influence. The last thing any of us should want to see is a Bureaucratic mess like the European Union weakening the power of our mightiest statesman, Vladimir Putin, or his great nation. Also Ukraine is better off without Brussels making unfair demands on it's internal affairs.


http://rt.com/op-edge/eu-ukraine-russia-deal-130/


Addition (Feb 18 2014)

The Situation has escalated. The U-turn by Yanukovych away from the EU caused protests, which have increasingly become violent. Ukraine has become steadily more polarized and riots have gripped the capital and taken lives. Some commentators have even brought up the possibility of partition or civil war.

What is your take on this?

Addition (Feb 28 2014)

Yanukovych has been overthrown, only to resurface in Russia and saying he is still the rightful president.
The country is broke, illegitimate in the eyes of Moscow. Russia is sending in troops to the secessionist pro-Russia province of Crimea. Russia has now officially sanctioned military force through it's parliament. Ukraine and Russia have both mobilized and it remains to be seen what shall come now.

Addition (March 18 2014)

Crimea has declared independence, and the rest of Ukraine is reeling with separatist violence. The Kiev government struggles to regain control and is establishing a national guard of 60,000 people. Russian forces are meanwhile massed on the border. Putin recognizes Crimea's secession and it is speculated formal annexation could begin soon. Also West has slapped Russia with sanctions.

(Disclaimer: This isn't an RP.)

A new thread, because the old one reached the 500 page limit.

[Risottia]

This is TEUT. The Eternal Ukraine Thread.

[The Black Dragon Empire]

This is TEUT. The Eternal Ukraine Thread.

This is so being used in the thread title now. XD

[Lunatic Goofballs]

How about Ukraine Crisis II: Electric Boogaloo.

[Soviet Russia Republic]

Ukrainian forces leave Navy HQ

[Kyuji]

How about Ukraine Crisis II: Electric Boogaloo.

To upbeat , remember this is still about annexation of a part of one nation by another nation.

[Arglorand]

Someone's (imho excellent) proposal (original in russian) for a suitable response to the Russian demands for Ukraine:

"We are ready to accept the Russian Federation's demands if they fulfill /these/ demands:
1. Putin resigns and the State Duma is dispersed, and so the next elections will be on the 25th of May, 2014.
2. The Russian Federation becomes the Russian Confederation.
3. It cancels all plans for the Customs Union, Eurasian Union and participation in BRICS
4. Pass a law giving regions and oblasts the right to secede from the Russian Confederation by democratic referendum.
5. The President of the Russian Confederation should be a pro-Ukrainian politician.
6. Stop letting the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate dominate. Let the Russian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate have a turn, and also other religions (especially Muslims)
7. Ukrainian language as second official language.
8. The official coat of arms of Russia should be a tryzub on the Russian Tricolore."

[Kyuji]

Someone's (imho excellent) proposal (original in russian) for a suitable response to the Russian demands for Ukraine:

"We are ready to accept the Russian Federation's demands if they fulfill /these/ demands:
1. Putin resigns and the State Duma is dispersed, and so the next elections will be on the 25th of May, 2014.
2. The Russian Federation becomes the Russian Confederation.
3. It cancels all plans for the Customs Union, Eurasian Union and participation in BRICS
4. Pass a law giving regions and oblasts the right to secede from the Russian Confederation by democratic referendum.
5. The President of the Russian Confederation should be a pro-Ukrainian politician.
6. Stop letting the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate dominate. Let the Russian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate have a turn, and also other religions (especially Muslims)
7. Ukrainian language as second official language.
8. The official coat of arms of Russia should be a tryzub on the Russian Tricolore."

What about russia joining the EU?

[Lindenholt]

Someone's (imho excellent) proposal (original in russian) for a suitable response to the Russian demands for Ukraine:

"We are ready to accept the Russian Federation's demands if they fulfill /these/ demands:
1. Putin resigns and the State Duma is dispersed, and so the next elections will be on the 25th of May, 2014.
2. The Russian Federation becomes the Russian Confederation.
3. It cancels all plans for the Customs Union, Eurasian Union and participation in BRICS
4. Pass a law giving regions and oblasts the right to secede from the Russian Confederation by democratic referendum.
5. The President of the Russian Confederation should be a pro-Ukrainian politician.
6. Stop letting the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate dominate. Let the Russian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate have a turn, and also other religions (especially Muslims)
7. Ukrainian language as second official language.
8. The official coat of arms of Russia should be a tryzub on the Russian Tricolore."

What about russia joining the EU?

You mean that they join the EU or that they can't join the EU? Anyway in both cases there is something called the Copenhagen Criteria

[The Free and Just Republic of Freedomol]

Someone's (imho excellent) proposal (original in russian) for a suitable response to the Russian demands for Ukraine:

"We are ready to accept the Russian Federation's demands if they fulfill /these/ demands:
1. Putin resigns and the State Duma is dispersed, and so the next elections will be on the 25th of May, 2014.
2. The Russian Federation becomes the Russian Confederation.
3. It cancels all plans for the Customs Union, Eurasian Union and participation in BRICS
4. Pass a law giving regions and oblasts the right to secede from the Russian Confederation by democratic referendum.
5. The President of the Russian Confederation should be a pro-Ukrainian politician.
6. Stop letting the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate dominate. Let the Russian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate have a turn, and also other religions (especially Muslims)
7. Ukrainian language as second official language.
8. The official coat of arms of Russia should be a tryzub on the Russian Tricolore."

I'd settle for russia looking the other way while the U.S. re-annexes Cuba. After all, we owned them near the beginning of the 20th century, then gave them their freedom.

[Arglorand]

Someone's (imho excellent) proposal (original in russian) for a suitable response to the Russian demands for Ukraine:

"We are ready to accept the Russian Federation's demands if they fulfill /these/ demands:
1. Putin resigns and the State Duma is dispersed, and so the next elections will be on the 25th of May, 2014.
2. The Russian Federation becomes the Russian Confederation.
3. It cancels all plans for the Customs Union, Eurasian Union and participation in BRICS
4. Pass a law giving regions and oblasts the right to secede from the Russian Confederation by democratic referendum.
5. The President of the Russian Confederation should be a pro-Ukrainian politician.
6. Stop letting the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate dominate. Let the Russian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate have a turn, and also other religions (especially Muslims)
7. Ukrainian language as second official language.
8. The official coat of arms of Russia should be a tryzub on the Russian Tricolore."

I'd settle for russia looking the other way while the U.S. re-annexes Cuba. After all, we owned them near the beginning of the 20th century, then gave them their freedom.

Right after the UK invades America to defend English speakers.

[Grand Britannia]

I'd settle for russia looking the other way while the U.S. re-annexes Cuba. After all, we owned them near the beginning of the 20th century, then gave them their freedom.

Right after the America invades UK to defend English speakers.

Fixed

[The Free and Just Republic of Freedomol]

I'd settle for russia looking the other way while the U.S. re-annexes Cuba. After all, we owned them near the beginning of the 20th century, then gave them their freedom.

Right after the UK invades America to defend English speakers.

If they can take it, they can have it. As we've learned, as long as you're a member of the U.N. security council, might makes right.

[Arglorand]

Right after the America invades UK to defend English speakers.

Fixed

Not that many left there. Poland and Lithuania can invade UK to defend Polish and Lithuanian speakers, though.

[Kouralia]

This is totally not
A tag. I mean, seriously? How
Goddamn suspicious are you?

[The balkens]

This is totally not
A tag. I mean, seriously? How
Goddamn suspicious are you?

As suspicious as unmarked soldiers with modern Russian gear.

[Estado Paulista]

Someone's (imho excellent) proposal (original in russian) for a suitable response to the Russian demands for Ukraine:

"We are ready to accept the Russian Federation's demands if they fulfill /these/ demands:
1. Putin resigns and the State Duma is dispersed, and so the next elections will be on the 25th of May, 2014.
2. The Russian Federation becomes the Russian Confederation.
3. It cancels all plans for the Customs Union, Eurasian Union and participation in BRICS
4. Pass a law giving regions and oblasts the right to secede from the Russian Confederation by democratic referendum.
5. The President of the Russian Confederation should be a pro-Ukrainian politician.
6. Stop letting the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate dominate. Let the Russian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate have a turn, and also other religions (especially Muslims)
7. Ukrainian language as second official language.
8. The official coat of arms of Russia should be a tryzub on the Russian Tricolore."

I approve of this post. Shame this isn't likely to happen at all.

[Deusaeuri]

Someone's (imho excellent) proposal (original in russian) for a suitable response to the Russian demands for Ukraine:

"We are ready to accept the Russian Federation's demands if they fulfill /these/ demands:
1. Putin resigns and the State Duma is dispersed, and so the next elections will be on the 25th of May, 2014.
2. The Russian Federation becomes the Russian Confederation.
3. It cancels all plans for the Customs Union, Eurasian Union and participation in BRICS
4. Pass a law giving regions and oblasts the right to secede from the Russian Confederation by democratic referendum.
5. The President of the Russian Confederation should be a pro-Ukrainian politician.
6. Stop letting the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate dominate. Let the Russian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate have a turn, and also other religions (especially Muslims)
7. Ukrainian language as second official language.
8. The official coat of arms of Russia should be a tryzub on the Russian Tricolore."

Is this supposed to be a joke? Does anyone actually expect ANYONE in Russia to take this seriously, or even elsewhere?
I hope for the sanity of whoever wrote it (I can't open the link) that this is some sort of attempt at satire or comedy.

[Arglorand]

Someone's (imho excellent) proposal (original in russian) for a suitable response to the Russian demands for Ukraine:

"We are ready to accept the Russian Federation's demands if they fulfill /these/ demands:
1. Putin resigns and the State Duma is dispersed, and so the next elections will be on the 25th of May, 2014.
2. The Russian Federation becomes the Russian Confederation.
3. It cancels all plans for the Customs Union, Eurasian Union and participation in BRICS
4. Pass a law giving regions and oblasts the right to secede from the Russian Confederation by democratic referendum.
5. The President of the Russian Confederation should be a pro-Ukrainian politician.
6. Stop letting the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate dominate. Let the Russian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate have a turn, and also other religions (especially Muslims)
7. Ukrainian language as second official language.
8. The official coat of arms of Russia should be a tryzub on the Russian Tricolore."

Is this supposed to be a joke? Does anyone actually expect ANYONE in Russia to take this seriously, or even elsewhere?
I hope for the sanity of whoever wrote it (I can't open the link) that this is some sort of attempt at satire or comedy.

I hope for your sanity that you didn't take that seriously and did not think it anything else than a satire.

[Feazanthia]

So I'm confused. I read today about Ukraine's military getting the okay to shoot to defend their bases, but today I hear about a naval base in Crimea getting overrun without a shot fired?

What happeend there?

[Kouralia]

So I'm confused. I read today about Ukraine's military getting the okay to shoot to defend their bases, but today I hear about a naval base in Crimea getting overrun without a shot fired?

What happeend there?

Probably at the individual commander's discretion. In that example, the OC might have felt that using force to defend his base would have resulted in unacceptable casualties (e.g. mass abuse of the inevitable Ukrainian prisoners, collateral damage etc.)

[Arglorand]

So I'm confused. I read today about Ukraine's military getting the okay to shoot to defend their bases, but today I hear about a naval base in Crimea getting overrun without a shot fired?

What happeend there?

No. Not without a shot fired. And with casualties.

[The balkens]

So I'm confused. I read today about Ukraine's military getting the okay to shoot to defend their bases, but today I hear about a naval base in Crimea getting overrun without a shot fired?

What happeend there?

Probably at the individual commander's discretion. In that example, the OC might have felt that using force to defend his base would have resulted in unacceptable casualties (e.g. mass abuse of the inevitable Ukrainian prisoners, collateral damage etc.)

It probably will be the exception, not the rule.

EDIT: or vice verca.

[Occupied Deutschland]

So I'm confused. I read today about Ukraine's military getting the okay to shoot to defend their bases, but today I hear about a naval base in Crimea getting overrun without a shot fired?

What happeend there?

Probably at the individual commander's discretion. In that example, the OC might have felt that using force to defend his base would have resulted in unacceptable casualties (e.g. mass abuse of the inevitable Ukrainian prisoners, collateral damage etc.)

Indeed, and at this point it's probably a better thing from a stability/calming action for the Ukrainians to pull out (Klitschko was/is urging a 'temporary withdrawal' from Crimea).

Of course, them pulling out is going to piss off a lot of Ukrainians (Klitschko seems like he might be in some trouble politically if they do with such a position along with his 'collaboration' with Yanukovych prior to Yanu's skeedaddling out of country). But if any Ukrainian military make some kind of last stand there's going to be heap-big pissed off nationalists and others, and as of eight hours ago the Ukes said they weren't going to withdraw.

[Breadknife]

Frying pan. Fire. (As expected.)