World War III News Watch Thread: 2/24/14 - 3/2/14

[Jeffrey Thomason]

RT @Galrahn: Based on the scramble by Western governments over last hour, Russian Army must of crossed into mainland Ukraine as rumors suggest.

[danielboon]

RT @Galrahn: Based on the scramble by Western governments over last hour, Russian Army must of crossed into mainland Ukraine as rumors suggest.

before we react the russians will be in paris

[Jeffrey Thomason]

http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/...exts_25457.htm

NATO Allies will continue to support Ukrainian sovereignty and independence, territorial integrity, democratic development, economic prosperity and its status as a non-nuclear weapon state, and the principle of inviolability of frontiers, as key factors of stability and security in Central and Eastern Europe and in the continent as a whole.

NATO and Ukraine will develop a crisis consultative mechanism to consult together whenever Ukraine perceives a direct threat to its territorial integrity, political independence, or security.

NATO welcomes and supports the fact that Ukraine received security assurances from all five nuclear-weapon states parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear weapon state party to the NPT, and recalls the commitments undertaken by the United States and the United Kingdom, together with Russia, and by France unilaterally, which took the historic decision in Budapest in 1994 to provide Ukraine with security assurances as a non-nuclear weapon state party to the NPT.

[Jeffrey Thomason]

RT @EuromaidanPR: #Crimea #Berkut officers that have recently fought against #ukrainians in #Kyiv are now granted #Russian citizenship pic.twitter.com/vBAZnvwqWU

[danielboon]

Middle East News ‏@MiddleEast_BRK 3 min
#Breaking More reports from the road btw. Crimea and Zaporozhye: "Mobile radar station" said to be built up in trucks 50km from #Melitopol!

Middle East News ‏@MiddleEast_BRK 2 min
This is the 2nd report of Russian military activity there and would make all sense as Melitopol houses an important Ukr. forces air base.

[danielboon]

Gregor Peter ‏@L0gg0l · 5 min
U.S 6th fleet moved to high alert status, USS Taylor and Mount Whitney move to Western Black Sea, Debka says http://www.debka.com/article/23720/R...ips-on-standby

[Jeffrey Thomason]

RT @EuromaidanPR: BREAKING NEWS: Shooting has started at the central streets of #Simferopol, #Crimea -5channel |PR News #Ukraine

[Jeffrey Thomason]

http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/...e-bae26a1d2631

U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today released the following statement on Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine:

“I am deeply concerned that Russia’s ongoing military intervention in Crimea may soon expand to eastern Ukraine. Yesterday, President Obama said that Russia would face ‘costs’ if it intervened militarily in Ukraine. It is now essential for the President to articulate exactly what those costs will be and to take steps urgently to impose them.

“Russia’s use of force in Ukraine is unfolding in clear violation of Russia’s own commitments to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, including under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. None of us should be under any illusion about what President Putin is capable of doing in Ukraine, especially now that he has requested, and the Russian Duma has approved, the deployment of Russian troops, not just in Crimea but in the country of Ukraine.

“Every moment that the United States and our allies fail to respond sends the signal to President Putin that he can be even more ambitious and aggressive in his military intervention in Ukraine. There is a range of serious options at our disposal at this time without the use of military force. I call on President Obama to rally our European and NATO allies to make clear what costs Russia will face for its aggression and to impose those consequences without further delay.”

[Jeffrey Thomason]

RT @JimAcostaCNN: CNN has spotted members of POTUS Principals departing WH: Dempsey, Brennan, Hagel

[Jeffrey Thomason]

RT @ajamlive: Ukraine's acting President Turchinov: "Ukraine assesses Russia's behavior as direct aggression towards sovereignty of the Ukrainian state."