Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine
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Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine
#2This sounds very much like a possible tipping point for a world war. Won't the US and NATO oppose this with force? And why would Russia want to recall the US ambassador?
Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine
#3This sounds very much like a possible tipping point for a world war. Won't the US and NATO oppose this with force? And why would Russia want to recall the US ambassador?
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Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine
#4Putin seems to have become confident that Obama's so called "red lines" are nothing more than empty talk.
Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine
#5This sounds very much like a possible tipping point for a world war. Won't the US and NATO oppose this with force? And why would Russia want to recall the US ambassador?
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Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine
#6This sounds very much like a possible tipping point for a world war. Won't the US and NATO oppose this with force? And why would Russia want to recall the US ambassador?
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This time is it right next to EU Schengen border. Also there are some agreements between Ukraine and EU/USA to protect Ukraine border integrity.
Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine
#7This sounds very much like a possible tipping point for a world war. Won't the US and NATO oppose this with force? And why would Russia want to recall the US ambassador?
NATO is irrelevant here. A strict interpretation of the Budapest Memorandum, however, has Russia in violation, which would oblige the US and UK to respond.
Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine
#8This sounds very much like a possible tipping point for a world war. Won't the US and NATO oppose this with force? And why would Russia want to recall the US ambassador?
It will deteriorate the relations, but I don't see any possibility of a world war over Crimea.
Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine
#9Re: Russian parliament approves troop deployment in Ukraine
#10This sounds very much like a possible tipping point for a world war. Won't the US and NATO oppose this with force? And why would Russia want to recall the US ambassador?
Ukraine is not a NATO ally. Article 5 of the Treaty of Washington is the "attack on one is an attack on all" (which is why the French fought in Afghanistan but not Iraq.)
The Alliance can still decide to do something (as they did in the Former Yugoslavian republics in the 90s) but frankly "going toe to toe with the Rooskies" is a lot less appetizing than beating up Serbia.