Russia invades Ukraine, EU dithers...

Russia is pouring thousands of men and heavy weapons into Ukraine to prop up the rebels.  You would think tough new sanctions would be imposed at a minimum. That hasn't happened. The truth is the EU lacks the spine to impose tough sanction on Russia because it would hurt their economies almost as much as Russia. Obama could impose tough sanction if he wanted too. It would hurt the US economy much because we don't do that much trade with Russia. He is not doing it because he doesn't want to make his EU buddies look bad.

Via FOX News:

European Union leaders stopped short of imposing new economic sanctions on Russia in response to the latest developments in Ukraine early Sunday, instead tasking the organization's executive body to "urgently" prepare tougher economic sanctions that could be adopted within a week after Ukraine's president warned of a possible "full-scale war" in eastern Europe.
The 28 leaders of E.U. member countries also issued a statement calling on Russia to "immediately withdraw all its military assets and forces from Ukraine."
In recent days, a new advance by Moscow-backed separatist rebels has resulted in the seizure of the coastal town of Novoazovsk, stoking fears that the larger port of Mariupol would be the next target.
The offensive appears to have succeeded in relieving some of the pressure on the rebel-held cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, which had been surrounded by government troops in recent weeks. Ukraine military spokesman Col. Andriy Lysenko said Saturday that troops were abandoning the town of of Ilovaysk, about 15 miles east of  Donetsk, where its forces had been surrounded by rebels for days.

Could Britain repel a UFO invasion?

I doubt Britain could repel a Swiss invasion, much less a UFO invasion...

Britain has the weapons to stop a UFO invasion, says the British government’s former top UFO adviser.

“We do have several prototype aircraft and drones and other weapons you won’t see on the news for another 10-15 years,” says Nick Pope. Pope ran the UFO project for the British Ministry of Defense, where he investigated UFO sightings, abductions and other unexplained phenomena. Pope says that only about 5 percent of the cases  “defied conventional explanation”, and that he “can’t rule out the possibility. There’s some intriguing evidence, but no hard proof.”

Yet Pope, who was a defense planner before he investigated UFOs, is confident that if aliens do come, Britain has enough high-tech weapons to stop an invasion, including the Taranis combat UAV. Now, with all due respect to Her Majesty’s brave armed forces, I’m not so sure that Britain could fend off the Cylons or the Klingons.

The military is being slashed to the point where the British Lion is becoming the Mouse that Roared. The Army is being cut by 20 percent to just 82,000 soldiers, less than half the size of the U.S Marine Corps alone. If the Bugs from Heinlein’s Starship Troopers show up (), force size could be an issue. Read more here...