Posted on 03/02/2014 7:42:07 AM PST by kronos77
In fact, we are likely to rue the day we brought Romania and Bulgaria into NATO, as those countries stand in the way of Russian reach into Serbia.
Russia poses as the friend and protector of Serbia when it serves Russian interests and ignores them the rest of the time. Since Montenegro became independent, Serbia doesn't have an Adriatic coastline so they can't offer a Mediterranean port (ships from the Crimea must pass through the Straits to get to the Mediterranean).
Most of Moldova was part of Romania until 1940. The strip east of the Dniester may be pro-Russian but I don't know about the rest of the country.
Obama is an historic godsend to Putin in this Ukrainian affair.
Without Obama Putin could not have pulled it off.
Has Obama commented on how all this is affecting the GLBT community yet?
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