The Battle for Novorussiya

[Lauren Johnson]

opinion from anon military analyst(machine translation)

"The other day it became known that if the world did not come to the Donbas, the NATO aircraft in the next two or three weeks will cause massaging air strike against violators of the peace plan. On the possibility of such an attack yesterday in Munich, said the commander of NATO forces in Europe Philip Breedlove. The fact that the world will not be clear to everyone, as the APU and the special forces of NATO forces are in Ukraine will do everything to shelling continued. Officially, NATO aircraft, as well as in the former Yugoslavia, to attack the position of the troops, who did not stop fighting action, but actually more than 95% of "point" blows will fall on forces and militias only about 5% in units of Ukraine who do not obey the Central Command (Right sector and some volunteer battalions). The task of NATO forces to create a decisive advantage on the battlefield, clean Donbass by "terrorists" and to strengthen the central presidency Poroshenko. What could take in this case Russia? In principle, almost nothing. According to numerous statements by Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials is not a party to the conflict and, therefore, NATO airstrikes on positions militias can not be regarded as a military action against Russia. In addition to the convening of the UN Security Council and angry speeches of politicians is unlikely that something will happen again. Do not declare war on the same. Mrs. Merkel still believes this venture quite risky and therefore it last week flew to Washington, where he tried to convince Barack Obama to postpone the plan, to give a final opportunity to peaceful settlement in Ukraine. Now Vladimir Putin is quite complicated dilemma: either to give the Donbass at the mercy of the APU and NATO or the Americans ahead and send troops (DNI recognize and LC), but in doing so bring a powerful new wave of sanctions and further barrage of criticism of Russia. And then, and another very bad.In the near future we will see whether President Rosii find an honorable way out of the trap of straddling him. "

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that an air craft carrier was taking on extra ordnance before departing the USA.