Based on that I would say no.

Big enough to get his girlfriend pregnant after dumping his wife of 30 years.

If you mean the waters between Russia and Ukrainian Crimea at the Kerch Strait, only Russia insists they are Russian waters.

He'd do better shilling for China. They pay by the word, not by the post.

Russia firing on Ukrainian ships is not an act of war?

President at NSDC: I have to support the decision to impose "state of war", urging MPs of Rada to gather tomorrow vote for the decision pic.twitter.com/IdtGy5awBk

Liveuamap  (@Liveuamap) November 25, 2018

I don’t care who you are...watch that in a living room on high volume on your iPad up to the end and I guarandamntee that you most likely will have a few people freaking the fuck out .

Hopefully hat stays in YouTube only

What could a "foreign actor" hope to possibly accomplish here? The organization of the Russian gov't that disseminates propaganda operates in eastern european IPs, like VK and russian twitter. Places where people could have a pro russian bias and use memes and such to persuade en masse. No foreign gov't is coming to this certain American firearms forum to change opinions, unless it's to sell some guns.

So, here's the transcript of the radio comms between the Russian border guard ships and Ukrainian naval vessels after firing in the Azov Sea. https://t.co/tyi57rujEg

David Cenciotti  (@cencio4) November 25, 2018

It is unlikely that NATO or US forces will participate in any further escalations between Russia and Ukraine. In our analysis, this conflict will likely escalate in the coming hours. 4/5

Strategic Sentinel  (@StratSentinel) November 25, 2018

Hey, if I were the Soviet Dictator (or even Dictator of Montenegro) i’d be bringing them back to my dacha a six pack at a time.

Any large Russian troop movements reported yet?

During the Cold War I was always happy when I read about dead soldiers of the Soviet Union. Their deaths warmed my heart. I never rejoiced over dead Russians, but news of dead Communists brightened my day.

But now it appears I may have been too generous in my thinking that the Russians would get it together once the Communists were gone. Nothing has really changed. Modern Russia is just USSR version 2.

Why would one bother responding to Russian trolls and bots? Unless they are so full of shit they don’t even believe their own posts.

Russia pays me in Vodka.  No, I take it back.  I’m part of the Macedonian troll farms that took the election from Hillary.

Prediction.  Ukraine doesn’t escalate because they know they will get fucked up.

Wow.  Apparently Putin's penis is smaller than we feared.

Fuck the Fussians.  Hope to see many dead Russian sailers being pulled from the water.  Fuck em hard.

They aren't your waters if you can't defend them.

I feed them because the more I do the more they over extend themselves, and they create a history.

You remind me of the pro-unification people in South Korea. They were always talking about peace and unification with North Korea; that they should come together and be as one again.

But when asked who would run the show, they would always prevaricate, bow their heads and mumble. But if you pressed them, they would be truthful: "What government? Well, North Korea would be in charge, of course."

You want peace and harmony on Russia's terms like those pro-unification Korean "students" wanted unification under North Korean Communism.

What a predictable tard.

Per the Budapest Memorandum shouldn’t we be doing something?

Has anyone mentioned the area in front Russian embassy in Kiev is on fire yet?

When Russia invaded and seized Crimea, it captured a large part of Ukraine's navy.  It captured additional vessels in separate naval actions.

Ukraine lost four corvettes (one of which was returned but is in too rough shape to be used as anything but a static training ship until it can go to drydock for refurbishment), a medium landing ship (returned), an diesel attack submarine (its only one), three submarine chasers (2 under construction at the time; these vessels have anti-ship capable torpedo tubes and can be used like torpedo boats against surface ships), a minesweeper, a command ship, a tank landing ship, and a large number of auxiliary and yard vessels (a few of which were returned).  Crimea had major Ukrainian naval facilities.  They lost a lot when the Russians did that.  Some of these vessels have been placed into Russian Navy service with the Black Seas Fleet.

Right now they have one frigate, which has a 3.9" gun and 21" torpedo tubes (which can be used as anti-ship weapons).  But she suffered an engineering casualty and is not yet ready to return to service.

They have a corvette, which has 21" torpedo tubes and 57mm guns, but she is in dire need of refurbishment and isn't suited for seagoing service at the moment.

They have a missile boat, which has 2 Styx anti-ship missiles and minor-calibre guns (30mm).

They have several new gunboats, two of which were among the three vessels captured by the Russians today.  These have two 30mm gun mounts, with each mount having coaxial 30mm GLs and 7.62mm MGs, and two anti-tank missiles.  They have fully armoured hulls, but the armour is only thick enough to protect against splinters and machine gun fire in most places.  These vessels wouldn't be of much use against anything but smaller merchant or other civilian vessels, or other patrol combatants, naval small craft, etc., although they do have short mine rails, so they could lay a few sea mines which could potentially sink a surface ship; they'd at least cause veay damage.

Other than that, they have a medium landing ship, a minesweeper, several patrol boats armed with nothing more than machine guns, and some auxiliaries, which wouldn't be of real use against enemy ships.

They are trying to finish a couple of Soviet-designed warships and buy a couple of Perry class frigates (whether these would have any missile capability in their service is unlcear).  They have additional Soviet-era ships that are incomplete but they can't and probably won't finish, including a cruiser (which Russia was trying to acquire up until the revolution in Ukraine, which foreclosed the possibility).

This is one case where it's absolutely correct.

Poroshenko asks war veterans to stand prepared to defend their country. https://t.co/WviporNTmV

The Intel Crab  (@IntelCrab) November 25, 2018

There's really only two plus a few additional Communists posting as Americans.

Whataboutism no longer works, Ivan.

a lot of it was just smoke bombs and flares.



they have a few tires they're trying to burn in front of the gate though.

That's the other angle.  Gotta have the cabal guys in there.

That's my problem with all these douchebags.  Russia sucks and Putin is an asshole but I also know western leftists including the Clinton Crew pretty much own the Ukraine and its politics but mostly cash money yo.

Energy routes are corrupt as fuck.

What do you think Primorsky was? Of course they are here.

Pour some fuel on those tires and get this going.

I just wish Biden's son, Victor Pinchuk, along with Sid Blumenthal, and Cody Shearer would suddenly find a reason to rush to the Russian border in the Ukraine to "negotiate" something during an arty strike.

Those coordinates are pretty far (32 miles) from the Kerch Strait.

I've been hearing that they intend to prosecute the POWs as criminals.

It does as a whataboutism.

They might try to use them to leverage a prisoner swap like they did with Nadiya Savchenko.

That's what they did to her:

Conventional forces are no match for Russia.

I can see car bombs going off in red square with some plausible deniability in Russia’s future though.

Ukraine can skin this cat a few ways.

HA!

That's one tough gal.

Since this is GD where a lot of readers are not that familiar with Ukraine, let me remind everyone of the small little coincidence of why this shit is going down today. This is the 5 year anniversary of Euromaidan that brought down the previous pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych and started the Ukrainian civil war (November 24th 2013 was when the first big protest started in Kiev with police counter action and mass injuries, etc)!

I have only read about this here and on Drudge. Nothing on FOX news.
This looks like it could get bad.

https://twitter.com/EnglishRussia1/status/1066793137950081029

Dont know if this has been posted yet, but englishrussia posted a video of the russian ship ramming the ukranian tug.

Good. As Rictus said, this needs to escalate. The frozen Ukrainian conflict will not end until someone steps up and decides to put a decisive end to this.

Neither can claim nor restrict access to those waters given that they have a 2003 treaty designating the Azov as shared territorial waters.

We appeal to the partner countries under the Budapest Memorandum, to the EU countries, to participants of the Normandy format in order to coordinate effective measures to protect Ukraine. We appeal to the whole pro-Ukrainian coalition: we must stand united! pic.twitter.com/NCnpUmSbV4

— ????? ????????? (@poroshenko) November 25, 2018

Calling for the invocation of he Budapest memorandum on Security Assurances.
"Under the memorandum, Ukraine promised to remove all Soviet-era nuclear  weapons from its territory, send them to disarmament facilities in  Russia, and sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty." 1-2 https://t.co/azaJlhDK2s

INTELLIPUS  (@intellipus) November 25, 2018

"In return, Russia and the Western signatory countries essentially  consecrated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine as an independent state." https://t.co/Q5GNxsKSIW

INTELLIPUS  (@intellipus) November 25, 2018

The U.S. doesn't need to send troops to Ukraine, but I'd be all for arming them to the teeth and flooding the market with cheap fracked oil and gas to damage the Russian economy.  Sanctions against Russian timber would be icing on the cake.  I figure with a concentrated effort you could probably knock about 20% off Russian GDP.

Watch them.

If Russia decides to shred it who’s going to do anything?

Ukraine? Maybe.

US, Any NATO country, or anyone else that can do ANYTHING? Lol....no.

Russia knew it was unenforceable when it was signed. They are a country of criminals...what do you expect? Kinda like the turtle getting stung by the Scorpion...

According to her Wikipedia page, she thinks Ukraine should be a dictatorship and should accept Russian annexation of Crimea.  You sure she isn’t a Russian troll?

Her role models as leaders are Pinochet, Reagan, Merkel, Mandela, and Thatcher.  Lol.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadiya_Savchenko

WTI low $50s

yeah, I posted the youtube video a few pages back