Alternate headline: "Doubts grow about Vladimir Putin's concerns about his international isolation as White House insists 'We've got him with the borscht sanctions!'":
Russia has now amassed around 15,000 troops along the border with Ukraine, the U.S. ambassador to NATO said on Friday, and the [Obam]agon warned that movement of Russian heavy caliber artillery systems across the border into Ukraine is "imminent."
The Pentagon went further, suggesting Russia is escalating the military action there. U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute offered the troop estimate during a security forum in Colorado, saying there were "now up again over about 15,000 Russian troops amassed along the border with Ukraine."
Colonel Steve Warren, a[n Obam]agon spokesman, said the U.S. has seen the powerful rocket systems moving closer to the Ukraine border and they could be put into the hands of Russian-backed separatists as soon as Friday. He says he doesn't have an exact timeline.
U.S. officials warned this week that they had new evidence that Russia intended to deliver heavier and more powerful multiple rocket launchers to the separatist forces in Ukraine. Warren told reporters Friday that the delivery could happen at any time, adding "it's that close" to the border.
Warren also said that Russia continues to fire artillery across the border into Ukraine.
"For the last several days Russian forces using Russian artillery from Russian soil have conducted attacks against Ukrainian military positions in Ukraine," said Warren. "This is unquestionably an escalation from a military perspective."
Meanwhile, in the tension-filled depths of the White House Situation Room....
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Incidentally, do any of you happen to recall the last time anybody on the Left used the term "smart power"? Would that be round about the last time any of them employed the phrase "reset button"?
"FORE!," on the other hand.....
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