Posted on 03/14/2014 6:45:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What a shame.
Enough to make Reagan turn in his grave.
(No dialectical materialism, free-ish markets with big companies cozy with the state, the Orthodox Church as a major influence on society, and cozy with the state. Putin is much more a replay of Nicholas I than of Stalin -- and yes, I picked the Tsar I meant.)
UH,,we should buy stock in pink crayons,,,,,I sense Kerry will be fronting for tough-guy Obama and drawing some more lines soon.
“Yep, I guess Pooty is scared to death about Sec. Slab Faces threat about Monday being the deadline?????????????”
Just had a funny thought..
Isn’t it “Monday in Russia” before it’s “Monday in America?”...
Tick-tock John!
Nyet. Putin wouldn't do that to his friends.
Tsar Nicholas I - an excellent comparison. The wikipedia sez the Russian Empire reached its zenith during his reign. Other than the hiccup of the Decembrist revolt, Nicholas had a long & successful reign.
How long now before Marxism is denounced in Russia as a western import, and Lenin is derided as a non-Slavic Kalmyk from Central Asia? The old debate between Slavophiles & Westernizers is about to crank up again, IMO. The Orthodox Church will be prominent among the former.
Tsar Vladimir I - has a certain ring to it.
;^)
A quick question, from someone writing from Brazil. Where in the Bible, or at least in Adam’s Will, does any of them give Americans the right to decide where the border of Ukraine lie?
Please, let me know under which rights do Americans think they can chose who rules Syria, a country that has been civilized for five thousand years?
And what exactly do you have in mind for teh Ukraine? G/ay rights, affirmative action and Goldman Sachs? Better to be under Putin, then
The Red area includes territory that is a majority Ukrainian.
Your post is odd. No mention in it of what the people of Ukraine want.
I know you want to learn because you ask a lot of questions, so here's a lesson for you. When it comes to inalienable rights and self determination, it's not what Obama wants, it's not what Putin wants and it's not what you want.
It's about what the people of Ukraine want and it's about how the people of Ukraine self identify.
Here's a map that illustrates how the people of Ukraine self identify. It shows the plurality of ethnic groups by counties and municipalities in Ukraine as of the 2001 census. (Olahus via Wikimedia Commons)
The Won would encourage that.
So what’s your prescription? To declare war on Russia?
Are you ready to go to war for a free Ukraine? If not, then you and Ron Paul have more in common than you think.
Yes, that is what Reagan did, right? Helped arm and defend the NATO nations.
RE: So whats your prescription? To declare war on Russia?
Do exactly the same thing Ronald Reagan did in the 80’s. Why reinvent the wheel when it worked then?
Indeed, and Samartha Powers' R2P speil is coming home to roost; not that the US Left will admit any commonality, at all.
Let Germany invade Ukrain to protect ethnic Germans living there. Katherine the Great invited Germans into the Ukrain, to include the Crimea to settle, farm and protect the place against the Turks from whom the Russins had taken the territories. Let America support the Germans. Damn a bunch of Russ.
I see this Ukraine thing as a way to restart the Cold War, which will hopefully encourage our country to be more internationally competitive. It’ll definitely do wonders when it comes to reviving our space and manufacturing industries.
The Cold War is a good thing. Gives us a purpose besides hedonism.
Just re-publish some of Walter Duranty’s old articles in the Times.
“You had a choice between War and dishonor. You chose dishonor. You will have War.”
The importance of Austria 1938 and the Sudetenland 1939 lies in what followed.
If Hitler had stopped with Munich, the NSDAP would still be in power and Germany would be the most powerful country in the world.
The incorporation of majority German areas into the Reich was overwhelmingly popular at home and in the incorporated areas. The notion that some phony “international law” should have been upheld is absurd.
Now, in retrospect, the Anschluss and Munich empowered Hitler to embark on his insane campaign of genocide and Germanization of non-German areas. But that fact does not discredit the Anschluss or the incorporation of majority German areas that belonged to Austria until 1919.
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