US says it has conducted 'extraordinary' flight over Ukraine in warning to Russia

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Your weak arse trolling is getting worse.

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Your weak arse is trolling me.

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It’s a tired phrase, but Ukraine isn’t worth a single dead American.

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Welcome to modern day entangling alliances.

How is this flight extraordinary? This flight is part of the Open Skies Treaty, I know there have been issues in the past few years, but Russian flights should be flying over the United States and US flights going over Russia in accordance with a treaty signed in 1992.

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Your weak arse is trolling me.

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Ukraine isn’t an ally.

This is just more neocon idiocy. They’re like children, playing at war. Except they have real power. And real people will die.

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Lima Whiskey

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Ive been reading your posts on Ukraine with interest over the last few days as I don’t know much of the political scene over there, but it seems you’re tuned in. What is it that makes them worthless? Is it the blatant corruption? Apparently there is a segment who wants to be Russian and a segment that wants to align with the West... I understand the idea that American lives are not worth wasting, but is it a state we want to align with at all? Or is it more just a buffer between Russia and more worthy Euros?

The US Open Skies planes should be flying over Russia - There is nothing neo-con about this. This is like "Winds of Change" Scorpions - We are going to be friends with Russia and Russians can visit American PXs 1990s fun.

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Germany will back russia because of oil and gas deals. It's going to get hot this summer.

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Cool, we’re undefeated in wars where Germany is on the other side.

Yes, this is an open skies flight, but factor in the arms deliveries, the military to military training, the joint military exercise. Also our direct involvement in Ukrainian elections, and specifically, the protests we helped organize, that toppled the Yanukovych government.

We’re up to our necks in this, and everything do encourages Kyiv to take more and more foolish risks.

Ukraine believes we will help than defeat Russia.

We may flirt with the idea, which is irresponsible, and makes a crisis more likely, but we would never back them up. We’ll do what we did with Hungary in 56, or Iraq after the Gulf War.

Going down this route will only bring them pain and sadness, and potentially partition. And it’s not necessarily because of anything Russian does. Western Ukrainians, the current government, are pushing policies that victimize Eastern Ukrainians.

Their best option is actually to make peace with Russia, and provide cultural concessions to eastern Ukraine. That will not happen as long as we continue to indulge the radicals in Kyiv.