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Subject: Hypotetical Scenario: US - NATO intervention in Kyrgyzstan
Brad Piff    4/7/2010 6:22:59 PM
Kyrgyzstan is close to a violent revolution. Members of the opposition has been arrested and between 40 - 100 demonstrators has been killed by police forces. "The Associated Press news agency reported that an opposition leader had taken over the National Security Agency, the successor to the Soviet KGB. But Galina Skripkina, of the opposition Social-Democratic Party, told Reuters news agency that the president had not yet resigned. "He must... formally submit his resignation to parliament so we can appoint a caretaker government," she said. Reuters also quoted the Kyrgyz border control as saying the frontier with Kazakhstan had been closed. Agence France-Presse says the US has suspended military flights at its base in Kyrgyzstan. " "Kyrgyzstan is a strategically important Central Asian state and houses a key US military base that supplies forces in Afghanistan. Russia also has a base there." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8608440.stm We all know what Putin is thinking about. What kind of tactic, deployment and military units would be needed to secure a democratic country with western qualities??
 
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Hamilcar    Not possible.   4/7/2010 11:15:22 PM
The air bridge us TOO long.
 
Wait and see what Soros' goons plan.
 
H.
 
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smitty237    Agreed   4/8/2010 1:27:57 AM
No way NATO or the United States can intervene militarily.  The Russians would freak out, and it would be a logistical nightmare.  The best thing we can do is monitor the situation and provide support to whichever side we want to win.
 
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YelliChink    Completely agree   4/8/2010 1:34:16 AM
Also, whatever happens in Kyrgyzstan, is not Western business. We don't know who is who and what is what. Intervention must base on intelligence, which the US doesn't have one. It's better sit and watch the bloodshed than going into it without any idea what kind of combination of feces and fan is there.
 
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Nichevo    Do we even know   4/8/2010 2:32:58 AM
what is going on?  who are the good or bad guys?  what are the issues?  how are we coping with - what, Manas?  K2? - being shut down?
 
Yeah, THIS is the Near Abroad, Russia.  Sounds like you taught 'em well.  Enjoy!
 
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Panther       4/8/2010 4:26:42 AM
Intervene? Obama? You have got to be kidding? Oh wait... you mean get involved in a democratic process just like he intervened last year in stopping the slaughter of Iranian demonstrators in their own capitol, no less... over fraud for an election that was handed to them!
 
I'm afraid he will pay this lip service, seeing that it is a grand teachable moment for the rest of us unruly Americans; Or he will be cuddling up with whatever slithers out of the ground by this weekend! I mean hey... the guy just doesn't want to come across as offending, unless the country is an ally of ours, after he hit the reset button with the world?
 
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Brad Piff       4/8/2010 6:38:16 PM

She also thanked Russia for its "significant support" and said she would be sending envoys to Moscow for talks.

Later another opposition leader, Omurbek Tekebayev, told Reuters that Russia had "played its role in ousting Bakiyev" and that there was a "high probability that the duration of the US air base's presence in Kyrgyzstan will be shortened".

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Ms Otunbayeva have already held telephone talks. An extra 150 paratroopers are being sent to Russia's Kant military base, near Bishkek. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8609775.stm
 
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albywan       4/8/2010 10:38:24 PM

Intervene? Obama? You have got to be kidding? Oh wait... you mean get involved in a democratic process just like he intervened last year in stopping the slaughter of Iranian demonstrators in their own capitol, no less... over fraud for an election that was handed to them!

 

I'm afraid he will pay this lip service, seeing that it is a grand teachable moment for the rest of us unruly Americans; Or he will be cuddling up with whatever slithers out of the ground by this weekend! I mean hey... the guy just doesn't want to come across as offending, unless the country is an ally of ours, after he hit the reset button with the world?



or in Afghanistan... no wait, he did intervene here otherwise they wouldn't still have Karzai...
 
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Hamilcar    Well....   4/8/2010 10:47:14 PM
Now I have a better feel for the true situation.
 
I seem to remember that someone said it was the height of folly to put a NATO army into a landlocked country with three of America's worst enemies controlling land and air access into that trap.
 
Stupid.
 
An "expert" said not to worry about it.
 
H.
 
 
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Alexis       4/12/2010 6:42:53 PM
Poor George Soros...
 
- Georgia started and lost a war against Russia. Wonder how long Saakashvili will hold to his post
- Election of Yanukovich to Ukraine's presidency has canceled the 2004 twist towards the US and away from Russia
- And now the "tulip revolution" also in tatters in Kyrgyzstan
 
Colored revolutions have all ended badly.
 
US and NATO military intervention will happen just as much in Kyrgyzstan as it did in Georgia in 2008 or in Ukraine to depose Yanukovich in 2010. That is, it will not happen.
 
 
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Nichevo       4/12/2010 9:11:29 PM
Alexis, are you Russian or French?  I had thought you were French but with this gloating I am not sure.
 
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