Putin the Predictable

Salon ^ | May 2, 2014 | Lucian Kim

[Cincinatus' Wife]

There are ways to influence but all this administration ever does is muck it up. Simple odds would have him winning at least one of these global “incidents,” so it’s obviously willful interference and/or hands off to diminish the U.S. and advance anti-capitalist states.

[rbmillerjr]

“defend some botched CIA operation in eastern Europe.”

The only CIA operation in Eastern Europe is in your head. There is a real Russian KGB, GRU Putin operation going on in Ukraine.

This is as simple as it gets. Russia is forcibly annexing former Republics of the old Soviet Union back into the Russian sphere.

[mac_truck]

Your response to the “Soviet KGB” dog-whistle is Pavlovian.

Fetch boy!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cincinatus’ Wife.

[rbmillerjr]

“Your response to the “Soviet KGB” dog-whistle is Pavlovian.”

You can ignore reality if you wish. The facts on the ground in Ukraine are there for all to see.

But for the weak-minded there is the conspiracy theory avenue...just keep veering toward America’s enemies.

[tumblindice]

Please to be chilling everybody—Moose, squirrel, Maxwell, Mandrake, not our dogfight it being ...
Ukrainian joke to make happiness: hot Ukrainian chicks with large American breasts, cool.
OK,

New Russian asks his secretary to make a reservation in the hotel:
- In the room there should be a cool TV set, a big bed, a modern PC, satellite, Jacuzzi, and so on, and so forth.

In the evening when he returns to the hotel besides all the things he ordered, he sees two gorgeous chicks.

- What is it? – he asks his secretary.

- And so on, and so forth...

[rbmillerjr]

Ok, we are all for hot Euro chicks.

It is in America’s national security interests to impede, constrain and now back to contain, Russia’s forcible annexation on Ukraine....not with troops but with economic sanctions and possibly covert action if they send troops in.