Stripes.

This is coolbert:

NOT in over fifty years?

Ominous? Or just scare tactics? Devoted reader to the blog decide for yourself.

"Russian military vehicles descend on Ukrainian border, don 'invasion stripes'"

"The military exercise could be seen as a challenge to the US"

From Fox News through Freeper and the article by Jesse O'Neill | New York Post

WHITE STRIPES AS PAINTED ON RUSSIAN ARMORED VEHICLES. IN CASE OF A SHOOTING WAR PREVENTING FRATRICIDE. RUSSIAN ARMOR POISED ON THE BORDER AND READY TO ROLL?

The painting of such stripes as was last done [?] in 1968. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

"During the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Soviet Union used a series of white stripes on the armoured vehicles of its invasion forces because they used predominantly the same types of combat vehicles as the armed forces of Czechoslovakia (both were Warsaw Pact allies). The markings consisted of one long white strip in the middle of the vehicle from the front and across the roof all the way to the back with two additional strips in the middle of both sides. This is similar to the markings applied on most Soviet tanks and armoured fighting vehicles fighting in Berlin in 1945 during the Second World War to prevent friendly fire from Western Allied (British or American) aircraft"

Marking of such vehicles in the manner as which done a wartime measure only? That is why I say ominous!

See previous blog entry the Russian military activity on the side of the disputed border with the Ukraine of great concern

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