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To: bentway who wrote (780345)	4/17/2014 2:52:58 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1586631

So much for Ukraine's military operation in the east. Both columns of supposedly elite troops and armored vehicles sent to the region surrendered without a fight yesterday in the face of peaceful resistance from civilians, a defeat so humiliating that one Kiev politician tried to pretend it was actually cunning ploy in which the vehicles had opted to fly Russian flags in a clever bid to sail past the crowds. In what the New York Times calls a "tactical error," the vehicles didn't have accompanying crowd-control forces. So the column en route to Slovyansk, unwilling to fire on its own people, was helpless when confronted by drunken, rowdy civilians, backed by well-armed militiamen. They're idiots. As for elite, from what I understand, they were trained less than 2 months ago. No one has ever said that the Ukrainians are impressive people. After all, they are distant cousins of the Russians. ;)