I don't believe this intimidated Putin.
Posted on 03/18/2014 6:39:02 AM PDT by Biggirl
Yes, I did leave out Syria....see there’s too many countries to remember.
Putin is a bastard, but he’s an opportunistic one, and he is damn good at making his case. That’s what makes him so dangerous. He is playing at a whole other level.
Hello eyeball. Meet thumb. You know Putin is lovin’ poking the “lyin’ king” every chance he gets now. Every time he does, the “lyin’ king” and his minions look ever more and more like the idiots they are. I’ll bet thurston howell the 3rd is really frustrated by now. He and lovey should get on his yacht and sail up the river to Cambodia for the weekend.
The bullies and dictators of the world do not respect lemonade and pretty please.
Wake me when he invades another country. One that is outside of the former Soviet Union. Russians want stability in their region, just as we want stability in the Western Hemisphere.
why the qualifier of the former soviet union? Those countries were independent before the USSR and are independent now.
I certainly would prefer Russia to control the “Stans” rather than have a bunch of crazy Islamo-Fascist states.
“strict adherence to so-called “international law””
Much more than Obama shooting drone missiles in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and God knows where. Which international law gives him the right to do that?
Which international law gave the US deputy State Secretary Nulland the right to set up a coup d’état in Ukraine, a foreign country, and to choose its new prime minister?
Which international law gives the NSA the right of listening to the phone conversations of other countries’ leaders?
When talking about “respect of the international law”, the US has always ignored the log in its own eye.
I don't believe this intimidated Putin.
Take a long hard look. This is how a strong leader acts.
I don’t like what Putin is doing but he’s acting pretty confident that there is nobody out there willing to stop him. If I’m him, I move in on all the former soviet states while Barry is preoccupying himself with gay issues and destroying the US economy and making people believe their real enemy is the guy next door.
“Yea, so I did it, so what? whatcha gonna do about it Barry?”
This is a direct consequence of the 2012 elections.
The Ukraine, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia aren’t in any serious danger of going Islamo-facist.
In fact they are all pretty much friendly with the US.
Man, oh, man. I just woke up and trying to enjoy my coffee. That picture just ruined my breakfast.
Hungary and the Czech Republic and Slovakia aren’t former parts of the Soviet Union, and they are now part of NATO, which is a whole other kettle of fish.
Sucks to be Ukraine, I agree. But maybe if they weren’t so busy fighting Poles and Jews instead of Russians during WWII maybe they wouldn’t be in this predicament.
“Kosovo....Iraq....Libya....Egypt.....Afghanistan......is he wrong?”
IRS, FBI, DEA, BATF..etc. Of course not. The world is
governed by the use of force at the point of a gun. Every
law is enforced to the point of death for noncompliance.
Get a ticket, refuse to pay, resist arrest and you die.
One of the last things I worry about is so-called “international law”, which was set up to erode the sovereignty of nations. Putin’s invocation is actually reminiscent of what the USSR used to do to the USA at the UN.
So Russian tanks didn’t roll into Hungry? These countries weren’t controlled by the USSR during the cold war?
wow the things you learn on FR.
I’m talking about now. This is not Soviet Russia, stop consulting the Cold War playbook, it is outdated.
You are the one who brought up the USSR as justification for not supporting the Ukraine.
What you suggest would make the USSR stronger. They are a more dangerous enemy then the islamo-facists.
Do we not agree that Russia, like it or not, is the “Big Dog” in that region? Just as we (or at least we were) the Big Dog in the Western Hemisphere?
Maybe I’m guilty of “realpolitik” here. But I believe there are some concessions you have to make to Russia here regarding their sphere of influence.
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