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Posted on 03/26/2014 7:40:20 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
KP: You are arguing that Ukraine ... should respond with strength to Russian aggression. What do you think Ukraine ... should do to keep Putin out of Ukraine?
Where Ukraine is concerned, Carlyle’s dictum deserves repeating for the umpteenth time: ‘If I am not for myself, who will be for me?’ As an outsider, I am baffled by the authorities’ failure to formally declare that a state of war exists. The Armed Forces and the country need to hear this. Ukraine has been attacked and invaded. Its assets and military bases have been seized, centres of power have been occupied, and its navy has been destroyed. Although the new authorities are becoming more decisive, there still is a perilous lack of clarity. To this day, I’m not sure that soldiers and their commanders know what is expected of them. Here, I am the first to agree that the West has not helped. It is time we stopped praising Ukraine for ‘exercising restraint’. Our message must be: ‘Ukraine has the right and obligation to defend its armed forces, its citizens and its territory, and in this it can count on our full support.’ Hesitation in Ukraine reinforces hesitation in the West and vice versa. Those who say, in so many words, ‘we should not be focusing on Crimea, only on the elections’ are doing untold damage to the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at kyivpost.com ...
Stop believing Russian propaganda. They are liars, thugs, and tyrants.
Here Low[down] in case you missed it on the other thread. Your major award:
If you see troops out your window, please call your doctor. He’ll know what to do.
Congratulations! It looks like you and the rest of the connedservatives who have bought this Russian bs are in luck. Obama agrees with you and will let Putin take whatever he wants without firing a shot.
The Tsar is back in town
Your observation is so trenchant: isn't it amazing how commies can say the most incredible lies with a straight face and then have useful dimwits repeat them?
The Russians got angry because their hand-puppet got kicked to the curb, and now we have to listen to thugs who stuff ballot boxes under machine guns huff and puff about the rule of law.
Hopefully, a bullet finds her and puts her out of her terrible misery.
Suicidal, because a volunteer army with modern weapons always gets its ass kicked by a bunch of vodka-soaked conscripts sporting 1940’s ordnance.
And wherever there are Russky thugs, there is an entourage of cockroaches, fellow travelers, and useful idiots.
Then why would she go to Crimea?
What happened in Crimea isn't going to happen in the parts of Ukraine where actual Ukrainians live.
He's hanging out at Dino's.
When did I say it was not the greatest nation on Earth?
The problem is that we are electing to involve ourselves in the affairs of other nation’s military directives regardless of whether or not there is any moral imperative for us to do so.
In the scope of international affairs, this was basically a bloodless coup in the Ukraine followed by a referendum that both liberal and conservative sources (if there are any anymore) pegged at about 70% in favor of becoming a part of Russia.
Yet you choose to rail against this in the name of doing what is right?
We start by restoring order to our own house first.
It’s much more likely that the “troops” I see outside my door will be domestic rather than foreign.
And just on a side note.... How’s the whole “duty to support those seeking freedom” thing working out for us in Egypt?
This was a very good article. James Sherr makes a lot of sense.
Who is “not supporting them” besides the moron in the White House?
Russia won’t die either, but I am confident that it will lose. It does not understand this country. Even if it wins this round, it will lose. The Kremlin thought it won in December when Yanukovych signed the accord on December 17 [regarding Russian $15 billion loan package], and Putin’s cronies announced that ‘Ukraine is ours.’ Then in two months time, they found they had no influence in Ukraine at all. We now need to show Russia: you take Crimea, you lose Ukraine; you take more of Ukraine, you lose Europe. I think it’s eminently feasible.
Pooty truly does not understand the love of liberty that beats in a heart wanting to be free of tyranny.
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