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NEW YORK POST
"WASHINGTON — A high-level member of the Russian military is demanding that Ukrainian forces in Crimea surrender or face a “real assault” — jacking up the tension in an already perilous situation that began after Russian troops rolled into the Ukrainian territory.

“If they do not surrender before 5 a.m. tomorrow, a real assault will be started against units and divisions of the armed forces across Crimea,” Alexander Vitko, who commands Russia’s Black Sea fleet, told the Interfax news agency Monday, Sky News reported The deadline would come at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time."
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Russia is demanding the surrender of the entire Ukrainian Navy as well. Sooner or later, devoid of deterrent, men will revert to actions the Obama administration wrongly think to be partitioned off somewhere in the past. Lindsey Graham's perception of the invasion doesn't seem to be much better.
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“Putin’s on the wrong side of history. He’s on the wrong side of the law. Make him pay a price,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/03/02/33010...rylink=cpy

The wrong side of history? Unless I missed something, Graham evidently thinks large scale warfare to be the stuff of history too. Men like Putin, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Kim Jong-un, Bashar al-Assad, etc. etc., don't give a toot in a gas mask what this administration thinks about them. The only reason that Saddam Hussein, Moammar Khadafy, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Osama Bin Laden and other notable bad guys aren't still savaging their countries and the world, is because they've been dispatched. The point is, there will always be bad guys in this world and, according to scripture, they are only going to get worse, as is warfare per se. And, no matter what the La-La's tell you, mankind is not evolving for the better, and warfare is certainly not going to conform itself to the cleaned up version that seems to be rattling around in these guys heads.
KING SOLOMON--- Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 (KJV)
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Bolded of verse 9 is self explanatory, apart from technology, there is nothing new on this earth, bolded of verse 11 paraphrased, simply says "men will never learn from history." Therefore, as is obvious in current events, we are doomed to make the same mistakes over and over. Hence the foreboding with which our founding fathers launched our Republic.

AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation—in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention. McHenry’s notes were included in The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787.