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发帖数: 3620 | 1 Chairman Of Joint Chiefs: US Ready For “Military Response” In Ukraine
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With diplomacy having failed miserably to resolve the Russian annexation of
Crimea, and soon East Ukraine (and with John Kerry in charge of it, was
there ever any doubt), the US is moving to the heavy artillery. First,
moments ago, the US DOE announced in a shocking announcement that it would
proceed with the first draw down and sale of crude from the US strategic
petroleum reserve, the first since June 2011, in what it said was a “test
sale to check the operational capabilities of system infrastructure“, but
is really just a shot across the bow at Putin for whom high commodity prices
are orders of magnitude more important than how the Russian stock market
performs. And now, as Bloomberg just reported, the US has escalated even
further, citing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin
Dempsey, who “has claimed that in the case of an escalation of unrest in
Crimea, the U.S. Army is ready to back up Ukraine and its allies in Europe
with military actions.”
So much for those peaceful hour long phone calls between Obama and Putin.
From Bloomberg:
According to the Web site of the Atlantic Council, Dempsey said that “he’s
been talking to his military counterparts in Russia, but he’s also sending
a clear message to Ukraine and members of NATO that the U.S. military will
respond militarily if necessary.”
“We’re trying to tell [Russia] not to escalate this thing further into
Eastern Ukraine, and allow the conditions to be set for some kind of
resolution in Crimea. We do have treaty obligations with our NATO allies.
And I have assured them that if that treaty obligation is triggered [in
Europe], we would respond,” Dempsey said.
According to the General, the incursion of Russian troops into the Crimea
creates risks for all the countries of Europe and NATO allies.
“If Russia is allowed to do this, which is to say move into a sovereign
country under the guise of protecting ethnic Russians in Ukraine, it exposes
Eastern Europe to some significant risk, because there are ethnic enclaves
all over Eastern Europe and the Balkans,” Dempsey said.
And with that, the USDJPY ramp takes the pair to overnight highs, and
futures are set to go green. BTFWWIIID!
More seriously, the real question is how Putin will react to this quantum
escalation in verbal hostilities: wild guess here, but somehow we doubt he
will pick up and leave. |
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