by James M. Waurishuk
With the intentional sinking
of the anti-submarine vessel Ochakov by the Russian Navy in the straits
that connect the Black Sea with Lake Donuzlav, Valdimir Putin prevents
the Ukrainian navy ships from leaving their base and entering the Black
Sea. Likewise, the storming of Ukraine's Belbek Air Base in the Crimean city of Sevastopol provides further evidence of Moscow's intent.
What
we are also observing is Moscow’s slow, calculated and systemic
destruction, dismanting, and consolidation of the Ukraine’s military
weapons, military structure, and capability. This effort is to ensure
or reduce the possibility and, or likelihood of a both opposition and
nationalist Ukrainian forces and independent citizens engaging in armed
uprising or civil war against Russian forces.
Putin’s goal and objective of hegemony over Moscow’s once former satellite, the breadbasket region and birthplace of the former Russian and Soviet empires, is his desired end-state. As this process takes place, Moscow will leverage the West’s hollow warnings and diplomatic dissertations to sustain its stance from a position of strength, economically, politically and to some degree militarily.
James M. Waurishuk is a retired USAF Colonel
The Ochakov in 1982
Putin’s goal and objective of hegemony over Moscow’s once former satellite, the breadbasket region and birthplace of the former Russian and Soviet empires, is his desired end-state. As this process takes place, Moscow will leverage the West’s hollow warnings and diplomatic dissertations to sustain its stance from a position of strength, economically, politically and to some degree militarily.
James M. Waurishuk is a retired USAF Colonel
Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/03/russias_power_play_in_ukraine.html
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