Brinking and Saber Rattling Over Ukraine

In Crimea, Ukrainian soldiers faced off with Russian soldiers surrounding their bases while the Russian army is said to be digging trenches on the border with mainland Ukraine.

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The UK has joined the US, France and Canada in suspending preparations for the Sochi summit.

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Russia could be ejected from the Group of Eight developed nations.

  BBC

Big talk. Big talk.

"You just don't in the 21st Century behave in 19th Century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext," Mr Kerry told the CBS program Face the Nation.

And no one called him on it: “Mr. Kerry – in which century did the United States invade Iraq on the trumped-up pretext of WMD?”

US President Barack Obama called Russian troop deployments a "violation of Ukrainian sovereignty".

He doesn’t know the meaning of the word “sovereignty”, does he? Or is it “violation” he doesn’t get?

Pictures and further recitation of troop movements and counter-movements are here.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.