[palmer]

This is why Russia must be stopped here and now, otherwise it will just keep on happening, and this with the potential of destroying the NATO alliance if the United States does not act when Russia begins testing us in NATO countries using the same strategy.

You mean the NATO that attacked Serbia in support of Muslim insurgents in Serbia? Give me a break.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Can you explain why you are not concerned about continued Russian aggression (and Ukraine isn’t even the first victim to the “separatist” ploy) and direct threats against NATO? Do you want NATO dissolved? Yes, no?

[palmer]

I am starting to see what this is really about. From the news about a week ago "Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appointed Crimean Tatar leader and Ukrainian MP Mustafa Jemilev as his representative on Crimean Tatar affairs."

The Crimean Muslims are naturally upset over the Russian takeover. They have lots of political support in Ukraine. Ukraine is a province of the original Ottoman Empire then divided up between Russia and Austria-Hungary. It was briefly independent before the Russians moved back in and create the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist state. The Tatars never got a vote in any of that, but now they are seeing their opportunity.

Ironic that for the second time in history, the NATO military threat is being proposed to support Sunni Muslims (the moderate kind although that is relative). NATO has never been used for any other purpose but to back up the Muslims.