RT @NoahCRothman: CNN: U.S. confirms that Russian troops are present in Ukrainian Crimea.
— Jedediah Bila (@JedediahBila) February 28, 2014
Putin: rolling into Ukraine. Obama: running in circles through the White House with Biden.
— John Hayward (@Cobretata) February 28, 2014
YESTERDAY – CNN’s Chief International Correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, informed network anchor Wolf Blitzer on Thursday that there was no indication that Russian forces were planning to intervene militarily in Ukraine. Less than 24-hours later, Russian forces militarily intervened in Ukraine.
“Some are concerned we might be on the eve of another Cold War,” Blitzer fretted. “What, if anything, would stop Vladimir Putin from getting involved?”
“There doesn’t seem to be any notion that he is actually going to do so,” Amanpour insisted.
“The U.S. right now says it only sees Russia’s military exercises ‘within the normal range,’” she continued. “It does not see any of the kind of massive planning that Russia would have to do in terms of planning, and logistics, and securing air, and land, and rail, and road corridors to incur into Ukraine.”
TODAY – Reports indicate that Russian paramilitary forces under Moscow’s control occupied airports in the autonomous Ukrainian Republic of Crimea overnight on Friday, less than 12 hours after Amanpour made this declaration. This preliminary occupation turned out to be a prelude to Russian forces exploding out of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol and taking control of the regional capital just 80 kilometers to the Northeast.
Several hours later, the Agance France-Presse confirmed an earlier report in Pravda which revealed that 2,000 Russian armed forces had been airlifted into a regional airport in Crimea. (link)
This video is funny too. Remember, President Obama has openly admitted to using both Fareed Zakaria and Christiane Amanpour as White House foreign policy advisors.
D’oh.