Reports of Russian military fighters flying over Ukrainian airspace several times today.
Putin has also halted all talks with the White House and President Obama. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel can’t get his calls returned from his counterpart in Russia Sergey Shoigu. In Obama’s last talk with Putin, Putin unbelievably denied Russian interference in eastern Ukraine and said that such speculations are based on inaccurate information.
thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/25/exclusive-putin-halts-all-talks-with-white-house.html
How can Putin get away with such falsehoods? The evidence of Russian GRU, FSB, and special forces in Eastern Ukraine is pretty substantial now, including video evidence and Russian agents being caught in Ukraine. Putin lied about Crimea before; i.e there are no covert Russian troops there. When the sham election in Crimea at the barrel of Russian guns finished he admitted: oh, yeah, they were there all along. Now he’s repeating the same
maskarovka in Eastern Ukraine. But why be surprised. Putin is KGB.
The Kremlin lying machine at times appears surreal. According to Reuters:
"*the chief of the Russian general staff voiced concern on Friday to the top U.S. military officer over the situation in southeastern Ukraine and the loss of life in a Ukrainian operation there this week, the Interfax news agency reported.
In a telephone call, Russian General Valery Gerasimov told U.S. General Martin Dempsey that Ukraine had deployed a “substantial group of forces” near the Russian border, including troops whose purpose was to conduct sabotage, Interfax said.*"
reuters.com/article/2014/04/25/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-military-idUSBREA3O1SG20140425
Now this is just insane. Ukrainian troops crossing the border into Russia to commit sabotage?! Ukrainian troops didn’t fire back in Crimea whilst under Russian attack; Ukrainian troops halted columns of their own armed vehicles in Donetsk so as not to attack civilians along the way to take back government buildings occupied by the heavily-armed pro-Russia thugs.
And now this official lie from the Chief of the Russian General Staff of why Russian troops are massing on Ukraine’s borders. There isn’t a chance in heck the Ukrainian army, weak as it is, and up until now reticent to defend its territory, is going to suddenly and brazenly cross into Russia and commit sabotage. This is a LIE, and an official Russian one at that; and it does unfortunately remind one of Nazi Germany’s excuses for invading Poland in 1939 on the basis of another Big Lie that it was the Poles who attacked the Germans first. This whole situation now is not just ridiculous but incredibly, incredibly dangerous when the country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, Russia, starts lying that its territory is in danger of being sabotaged by a foreign country.
I recall listening to Putin talk on TV some weeks back with a friend, a pretty unemotional smart guy, not given to overstatement, who upon finishing listening to Putin’s press-conference said of Putin: “Oh, my God. Look this guy needs help. And I mean psychological help. This is crazy”.
And don’t be took quick to dismiss this please (after all German Chancellor Merkel said Putin had become irrational and was in another world). As if countries in the past haven’t been ruled by leaders who have lost touch with reality and become quasi-delusional, leaders of Russia being no exception especially. Putin is surrounded by sycophants now, nobody can really deny this; he is an autocrat whose whim and desire is subject to nobody in Russia. He became a man in the conspiratorial xenophobic world of the Soviet KGB. According to KGB defector Boris Volodarsky, Putin was behind the radioactive poisoning of anti-Putin activist Litvinenko in London, England and on his orders Litvinenko was assassinated purposefully by the slow and incredibly painful method of death by radioactive polonium poisoning, which polonium could only have come to London from Putin’s Russia. Who takes joy in watching an opponent die a slow death? Putin discussing another FSB defector said something along the lines of how it never ends well for traitors, as if being anti-Putin meant being anti-Russian.
Exhibit one of Putin’s megalomania: Look at the coins Putin has had just now produced to mark Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
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A COMMEMORATIVE SILVER coin with the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin on it has been unveiled to mark the incorporation of Crimea into Russia.
A map of the Crimean Peninsula is depicted on the reverse side.
The BBC reports that the coin weighs one kilograme and is a limited edition of 500 silver coins which have been called ‘The Gatherer of Russian Lands’.
They state that some of the coins may be sold, but the won’t be used as currency.
thejournal.ie/putin-coin-russia-crimea-1428918-Apr2014/?utm_source=twitter_self
Apparently, Putin will have these coins of himself gifted to his higher-ups and buddies. How humble of him.
The crazy thing is is that with Russia’s controlled press, Putin’s approval ratings may go up with the support of unlimited Russian propaganda praising him for defending Mother Russia from phantasmagoric enemies, but it will be the common Russian citizen who will suffer now, and his or her children. All this needless war-mongering (Obama has taken the military option completely off the Ukraine issue) spells doom for the Russian economy. Russia has massive internal problems: corruption, rampant alcoholism, moral problems, public infrastructure, the broken health system, over-reliance on gas for revenue all of which may turn out to be fateful if Putin chooses to go down the expansionist warpath. Putin clearly enjoys militarism and self-aggrandizement.
I saw excerpts of the Russian ambassador’s speech in Toronto on TV but forgot to look at your Sun News link. Heck, I am glad you’re on this thread though. 
