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After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the bulk of the Soviet arms in Ukraine were returned to Russia, or sold to Israeli arms dealers...$40 billion worth, to help penniless Failed Sate Ukraine in the 1990's.....and the 800,000 demobbed servicemen.
Ukraine doesn't stand a chance against the Russian military machine, the second most powerful in the world, which is WHY the USA, who wants to be the undisputed Top Dog frets about Russia.
BALKANISATON OF UKRAINE MUST NOT TAKE PLACE..............................BUT a decade slow takeover of the whole Ukraine is OK. Crimea first. Ten Eastern Ukraine with 10 million ethnic Russians. Pouring in billions of $ worth of investment in Industry and infrastructure, and then finally the hostile Nazi collaborating Western Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s military was already under strain after last weekend’s regime change, with the interim government ousting much of the military’s existing leadership in favor of new commanders they believed would be more loyal. Now, they’re mobilizing outright for war with Russia.
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That’s going to be a tall order. Even if Ukraine had a huge military, which it doesn’t, its leadership is in shambles, with multiple high profile defections
to Crimea, which is setting up its own military in anticipation of
holding the Ukraine at bay pending a referendum on secession..
A lot of the troops in the Crimea have reportedly defected from Ukraine as well, and the Ukraine’s new navy chief, the third in 48 hours, is ordering what few ships they have left to leave the Crimea and dock at ports in the Sea of Azov.
While Russia’s deployments have been presented as “aggression” by Ukraine, the troops have so far focused on defensive positions around the Crimea, hoping to keep the Ukrainian military from stopping the breakaway region’s secession, and a potential re-accession into the Russian Federation.
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Though rhetorically Ukrainian officials seem to have a lot of support in the West for portraying Russia as an invading horde, there seems to be no real prospect of Western military intervention against Russia, and with Ukraine’s own military woefully unprepared to reconquer the Crimean Peninsula, the mobilization is probably not a prelude to a march across the Isthmus of Perekop.
