No idea how to answer the questions, Jim. Thankfully, was wrong earlier when I thought the ‘go’ was Sunday a.m. for the troops to invade.
Sounds like a play out of the DNC. We want the whole Ukraine. Okay, you win. We’ll settle for half.
Or should I say the DNC tactics are right out of the old communist party playbook.
The next step is up to the US.
Integration of Crimea with Russia though is an irreversible fact, underlined by the visit of the Russian government to Simferopol and Sevastopol today.
The intention is to transform it into a low tax zone like Kaliningrad and Russia will subsidize out of the federal budget, travel to and from Crimea.
Like in the Soviet time, it should again become a summer holiday destination for Russians.
Gee, Wally - you mean he didn't call up the Grand Kenyan first?
Obama and Kerry are going to crow about standing up to bully Putin and move on from the Ukraine like they did in Syria leaving Ukraine at Putin’s mercy.
I think Putin is done annexing Ukraine and is now offering Obama a way to save face, i.e, to claim that he (Obama) successfully defused a potential international crisis.
Helping his fellow comrade, comrade Hussein "Frillypants' 0bama, save face?
one possibility — pro-Moscow insurgency inside Ukraine will accomplish the same thing as a Russian invasion.
Obama paid Iran a lot of $$$$ to make them pull back a little while in the nuclear program.
I wonder if Putin saw this and demanded Obama pay him off to not invade.
Putin appears to cut a deal with Merkel, while blowing off 0bama. Merkel empowered, 0bama marginalized, NATO fractured.
You gotta admit, that Putin guy knows how to play the game.
Strange-
my future father-in-law ordered a
“full withdrawal”, not a partial withdrawal,
coz I was almost crossing the border into no-man`s land.
Damn Putin is playing this perfectly.
Partial is not full. Set your snooze alarm for May 25th. I am willing to bet we’ll see plenty of ‘drills’ from the Russian military between now and then. The election results and any unrest that may or may not happen will be key. A lot can happen between now and then.
Shell game. “Not under this one.”
I think Putin is copying the Dems and beating them at their own game:
So something or float an idea. Outrage erupts to the point of “almost” doing something.
Lie about the whole thing. Public calms down.
Make your next move that is even further towards your ultimate goal.
Just to prove that he can come and go as he pleases...
He'll now play rope a dope by causing potential problems for the EU until EU stops bothering to have the US as a part of the various negotiations to calm down one thing after another.
Once the US and the EU are no longer joined at the hip I bet old Vlad will become the epitome of a reasonable guy. A European among Europeans with the US clearly not a member of the club.