Arm the Ukrainians with small arms.
Give them one nuke.
Cut russia out of wire transfer system.
Cut russia out of visa mastercard amex system.
Cut russia out of the internet.
Close all wester airports to Russian airlines, and airlines that are owned by countries that do not also comply.
Ban all Russian goods.
Dump all rubles.
Cancel all debts to russia.
Sieze all russian assets.
Compensate losers with those assets.
There is plenty one can do.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 15:54:00 UTC
THE HIGH VALUE OF ATTACKING SYSTEMS
–“an attack on systems can magnify the effect of a small attack into a major global economic event. … The extreme productivity enabled by systems disruption creates the potential for non-state forces to adopt the strategies of maneuver and attrition in addition to those of almost endless supply of attackers could generate hundreds of millions, potentially billions, in damage. The cumulative effect of these attacks could grind down even the strongest nation-state. “–
–“We are staring at a future where defeat isn’t experienced all at once, but through an inevitable withering away of military, economic, and political power and through wasting conflicts with minor foes.”–
Robb, John (2008-04-01). Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization (p. 32). Turner Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 11:00:00 UTC
–“A corrupt Nigeria won’t do much damage outside of its borders, but a corrupt States or Great Britain is a terrifying reality.”–
Don Finnegan
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 05:17:00 UTC
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/donetsk-airport-closed-as-casualties-mount-in-odesa-live-updates-346417.htmlTHIS IS WHAT I’M AFRAID OF IF IT GETS TO KIEV – NO EXIT.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-06 04:59:00 UTC
http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-873-roman-skaskiw-gives-the-ukrainian-perspective-on-the-ukraine-crisis/(LIBERTARIAN) AWESOME!!! MUST-LISTEN. THE ENTIRE CONTEXT ON UKRAINE
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-05 10:37:00 UTC
PROPAGANDA
Just as a matter of art, the Russian use of the internet, RTV, paid newsgroup and chat room propagandists, denial of service attacks, edited and manipulated video and photographs, paying local insurgents to cause chaos and destruction, bribing poorly paid police to stay home, while issuing perfect-pitch propaganda from bench, has got to be the most innovative form of warfare that I have seen in my lifetime.
I mean, the whole international islamist militia is pretty good. But they have nothing on Russia.
The only alternative to this kind of warfare is the anglo-swiss military model, which trains every single man, gives him a rifle, and makes him stay and capable through his 40’s.
I mean. As someone who appreciates good propaganda and ideology, marketing and strategy, I have to say that its pretty impressive, low cost way of conducting war.
Everyone who hasn’t read Keegan’s History of Warfare should: war is conducted and won by the criteria set by the culture. The west uses truth and immediate conflict for immediate resolution. China uses precisely the opposite: deception and delay. Russia has chosen the middle ground of deception and steady progress.
When we come for Washington DC it will be on such terms.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-05 06:42:00 UTC
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-crisis-this-is-not-some-kind-of-a-shortlived-uprising-it-is-a-war-9321410.htmlPUTIN HAS HIS WAR
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-04 12:28:00 UTC
http://romaninukraine.com/new-paper-on-russian-military-thinking/8 PHASES OF WARFARE
1 non-military asymmetric warfare (info, psycho, ideological, diplo, economic)
2 special operations to mislead pol & mil leadership via diplomatic, media, channels, leaks, false data & orders
3 intimidation, deceiving, and bribing govt and military officers, to make them abandon duties etc
4 destabilizing propaganda to increase public discontent, boosted by the arrival of Russian bands of militants, escalating subversion.
5 establishment of no-fly zones & blockades, extensive use of private military in close cooperation with armed opposition units.
6 military action, preceded by special ops, cyber, sabotage, espionage, subversion
7 info ops, electronic warfare, air harrassment, high precision weapons, EMP,
8 mopping up, with artillery, airdrops etc
10 PRINCIPLES
1 direct influence matters more than direct destruction
2 instead of direct annihilation of opponent, promote his inner decay
3 war using culture matters more than weapons & technology
4 special forces & commercial irregular forces instead of conventional military
5 from the traditional (3D) battleground to information/psychological warfare and war of perceptions;
6 from direct clash to contactless war;
7 from a superficial and compartmentalised war to a total war, including the enemy’s internal side and base;
8 from war in the physical environment to war in human consciousness and cyberspace
9 from symmetric to assymetric warfare, combining political, economic, info, techno & ecological campaigns
10 From war in a defined period of time to a state of permanent war as the natural condition in national life.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-02 18:37:00 UTC
http://www.gallup.com/poll/168770/half-illinois-connecticut-move-elsewhere.aspx”When leftists have sufficiently ruined a place, they simply move on to begin ruining some other place. It’s a metastasizing cancer.”
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-02 05:47:00 UTC
-MY OWN TINFOIL HAT WARNING-
So, what happens if the chinese keep extending the bubble so that it pops closer to 2020 when the USA hits it’s similar cycle AND the demographic cycle, AND europe hits its hard wall, AND the USA loses a grip on the international pattern of finance and trade?
Sea Peoples. It’ll be like the sea peoples. lol
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-01 16:03:00 UTC