Russia tells White House it will not return Crimea to Ukraine !

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  1. goody

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    Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...15.2017&utm_term=Editorial - Early Bird Brief

    Hybrid wars already been challenging NATO, now can very well be turned into something different. But there's one thing certain though; as the inventors of the "Gray Zones", the Gerasimov Doctrine supporters, are real good at fast applying tactics almost anywhere within Russian sphere of influence. This makes NATO and allies even more vulnerable because they did not even adapt the same tactics and now they are changing into something different out of their control. Russia is seemingly ahead in this game but that can change soon with the latest developments. We'll see...
     
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    Yes there was overwhelming majority....113% that voted..did that include pet hamsters and iguana's...and last I saw on youtube there were lotsa guns too...where's aksyonov these days the "proclaimed" governor of Crimea, isn't he on Interpol, like the governor's of Abkhazia and south Ossetia?
     
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    The USA doesn't have a dog in that fight and needs to keep it's nose out of it.
     
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    As far as surprises go, this ranks right down there with Secretariat winning the Belmont...

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    You do not have to think about the Crimea. You need to think about the return of Alaska, California and New York to Russia.
     
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    Alaska was bought and paid for fair and square. About 2cents per acre..there is a receipt btw...check it out..how do you suppose it will be returned? Remember this isn't Crimea where 113% voted including dead people and pet hamsters, or are you implying perhaps a few dozen Eskimos on the Aleutians who may observe Orthodox Xmas, which I doubt ..wholeheartedly they would want anything to do with Muscovites like yourself? How do you figure New York state, or even Missouri like your roommate jeannette-ova claims? And what about California? Muscovites may have had some outposts, but for the most part everything is San- this, and San- that, I don't see anything ending in"ov"...just like in Crimea, no? I see it as possession is 9 tenths of the law..oh and getting back to AK, there's the issue of all those missiles and thousands of USAir Force personnel stationed there, what do you suppose should become of them, maybe they vote for reuniting with moskaliland? How would you disarm all the general populace of Alaska...you are aware Alaska is probably one of the heaviest armed states in the union other than Texas and some others? You don't think of that..but then again you don't think!
     
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    Let Russia have Crimea and the US take back the Panama Canal which Jimmy Carter gave away in 1977. That's the kind of deal we want to see Trump make.
     
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    Shush - He's getting ready to tell us about the Russian discovery of New York...

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    WRONG , ! The USA does have a dig in that fight because the USA was one of thevsignitaries o an agreement with Ukraine and Russia and GB and France that they would gyarantee Ukraine's sovereignty forcUkraine go give up it' nuclear weapons. Wecall know that Russua's guarantee is worth two micro grams of spit but once upon a time USA was a country of it's word.
     
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    How NATO can "adapt the same tactics"? They can't. Because Russia doesn't move its military forces and its sphere of influence towards NATO. Russia doesn't try to penetrate into NATO space, so there is no ground for "hybrid war" of NATO.
     
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    You're referring to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, of course.
     
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    sounds like now that the Trump admin got caught red handed, Putan is trying to help them out by acting tough against Trump
     
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    And how exactly does "F#%k the EU! Yats is our guy!!" fit in with guaranteeing Ukraine's sovereignty?
     
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    Usa took Alaska for rent for 100 years.
     
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    I tried to mean "gray zones" by same tactics and they don't really require no penetration into any sphere of influence. NATO does have the appropriate tools to develop responses accordingly but due to that general "conventional" warfare focus, it can't use the tools properly. Hybrid is hybrid because it combines conventional units with irregular units. Georgia and Ukraine are good examples for why Russia is No.1 in the entire world when it comes to hybrid, and gray zones. Yes NATO has some super duper Special Forces like Seals, Maroon Berets, Delta, etc but they are primarily task/assignment oriented forces. Gray zone proxies are larger in size, local, no legal barriers or liabilities and most importantly "cause" oriented, meaning their will of fighting lasts much longer, at least till the political goal set by the state owning them is accomplished.
     
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    No, no, no.
    Sorry, but you say Russia is No.1 in the entire world? Why? Is Russia able to arrange a hybrid war - let's say - in Turkey? In Poland? In the USA? In the South Africa? In China? I don't think so. But I think if NATO moved closely to Chinese borders, they would find out what Chinese hybrid war is. Do you see that?
     
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    The fools sold themselves to Washington... believe it or not! Now that's stupid. I like the way they believed they were going to become part of the EU and live happily ever after... in Germany no doubt.
     
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    Trump is not stupid. He knows that Crimea will always be a part of Russia, so what's his motive? I came across something that might be true. It said that the real reason behind all this anti Russia rhetoric and letting go of Flynn, was because some countries feared that if they gave Intelligence to Washington, it might be passed on to Russia.
     
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    Man, you guys are paranoid. NATO has been on your borders since 1952 and you're still hyperventilating over the phantom threat of an invasion that has never materialized.
     
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    Trump's a deal-maker and he knows that the sanctions over Crimea are a bargaining chip. The Russkies want them lifted, so what does Vlad the Invader have to offer in return?

    I can think of a few geo-strategic goodies right away...
     
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    It's not that Russia can't arrange a hybrid war if it wanted to, I mean its Intelligence agents are known to be the best in the world, it's just that Russia doesn't want to. To do so wouldn't conform to it's philosophical and political beliefs.
     
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    Tell that to Serbs!
     
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    Dude, "GRAY ZONES"... Please look it up. It's not "Hybrid", even more ambiguous than any other irregular warfare terms.

    1) Russia DID tear apart US spy networks in Turkey. They are forever gone now.
    2) Let alone the sphere of influence, Russia penetrated directly right in the "heart" of the USA. DNC, Flynn, Trump, etc.
    3) I'm pretty sure they have some spare tires made out of Central Asian communities for China, just in case.
    4) Russia has eyes in Poland.

    To me, yes, today Russia is No.1 when it comes to figuring ways out around the "conventional" and its potential legal boundaries. So, inventing new methods of warfares that the world has never ever witnessed before is the actual strength of Russia, not weapons, not nukes, but this sort of strategic planning and decisive application. China's been a good learner as their counterfeit products speaks for it. They learn Russian ways fast too. South China sea is a good example for a gray zone. All of them are unconventional, but not "illegal", therefore no international sanctions can be put. You know, what you don't understand makes you scared. So, these gray zones are considered by the west as "aggressions". To me, this is not the case at all. Russia, by introducing new methods of warfares, creating new rules for the game. Why would Russia play the game by the rules of the west wanting to destroy it? Could it have survived if it did so? Hell no... You come up with perfect solutions at the most crucial time if you have Kasparov, Kramnik, Karpov kind of minds on your side... If the west wants to catch up with it, they have to adapt these methods, and start thinking like Bobby Fischer. Simple as that.
     
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    The election, surely, was a sham.

    Sadly, there would seem to be no doubt that Russia will not return Crimea--just as the Mafia, for instance, will not return its ill-gotten gains.

    And the US will certainly not go to war with Russia over this, as it is not a part of our vital national interest.

    But I do hope that those sanctions are tightened--even if they are mostly symbolic, since Russia can (and no doubt does) purchase its goods elsewhere.
     

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