[henkster]

Well at least they didn’t shoot him at midnight in the basement of the Lubyanka. See? The Russians are getting more “westernized.”

[I want the USA back]

Happens here too. More subtle, but real.

[olezip]

“We are on the verge of complete destruction of the system of international treaties, economic chaos, and political dictatorship. We are on the verge of war with our closest, kindred people of Ukraine, a sharp deterioration in relations with Europe and America, on the verge of a cold, and, perhaps, a hot war with them,” Zubov wrote.

I am curious as to on what basis Zubov wrote his harsh criticism of the Russian takeover of Crimea. What part of the following history does Zubov claim that Russia is on the wrong side of?

1783: Russia annexed Crimea.

1853: The Crimean War began, lasting three years. Russia lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia. Crimea remained part of Russia.

1917: Crimea briefly became a sovereign state before becoming a base for the White Army of anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian War.

1921: The peninsula, now called the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, became part of the Soviet Union.

1942: Nazi Germany took control of Crimea.

1944: Joesph Stalin forcibly deported all Muslim Tatars, a group of 300,000 who had lived on the peninsula for centuries, due to members’ alleged cooperation with Germany during World War II. Many returned to Crimea in the 1980s and 1990s.

1945: After World War II, the autonomous Soviet republic was dissolved and Crimea became a province of the Soviet Union called the Crimean Oblast.

1954: Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev transferred the Crimean Oblast to Ukraine. It’s often reported that it was a gesture of goodwill from Khrushchev, who had Ukrainian roots.

1991: The Soviet Union collapsed. Many expected President Boris Yeltsin, the new president of the Russian Federation, to take Crimea for Russia. But he didn’t bring it up during negotiations with Ukraine.

1997: Ukraine and Russia signed a treaty that allowed Russia to keep its fleet in Sevastopol. The agreement’s since been extended, so the fleet is set to remain there until at least 2042.

[elhombrelibre]

Putin allows no dissent.

[tcrlaf]

Imagine what would have happened to any of the “Anti-War” Big-university profs who dared to make those kinds of statements about Obama’s illegal Libyan War?

Or Egypt?
Or Tunisia?

They would have been fired, and forced to hire armed bodyguards to protect them from deranged Obamapsychos.

[SgtHooper]

Chrissy Mathews is peeing in his pants over this, and with uncontrollable tingles.