“In the past, Russia has always taken any action required when it believes its survival is at stake. Including in Crimea.”
So did Germany, and we all saw how that worked out for them. Russia’s criminal actions are what threatens Russia’s survival, and not the status of the Crimea. Russia can survive quite well without the Crimea, especially when it stops threatening its neighbors with criminal invasions and conquests.
“Crimea is in no way analogous to Soviet forays in Afghanistan. Potentially it is a new Saint Petersburg.”
At the rate Putin is going, the old St. Petersburg is liable to end up in a foreign separatist state of expatriate Russians who want nothing further to do with aggressive totalitarian Kremlin leaderships.
“And we have known this for sixty years.”
We’ve also known how North Korea’s criminal leadership has wanted to conquer and despoil South Korea for sixty years, and Russia’s criminal conduct threatening conquests is no more acceptable in moral, legal, or actual terms than the North Korean criminal behavior.
Fly off into the clouds all of the time?
German’s war of conquest was acknowledged to be just that. There was no German delusion of self protection as they entered Poland. This lunacy is typical of your posting on other threads though, so at least your fantasies are consistent.
You do not have either the intellect or the integrity to debate the topic at hand. When faced with a set of facts that do not lead where you want to go. You simply try to make things up. That doesn’t help you and military people will of necessity dismiss you.
You babble incessantly but do not study.
Russia’s actions on this matter will cause them no grief.
they are up against it with the European Union (who started a mess they lack both the means and the will to win) but the rest of the world cares little and quite properly so.
This would cool down if the European Union backs off.
Nobody has their back. That might even ultimately result in the rest of Ukraine remaining independent.
We aren’t going to help them, nor should we.
If Push comes to shove , China would side with the Russians. Given the circumstances India might as well.