Posted on 03/18/2014 8:53:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
From Rocky to Napolean...Goodness...
Yep.
Putin is the only one acting with any rationality in
europe right now. He’s a Russian leader following Russian interests for Russian people. None of this multi-culti nonsense.
Crimea was traditionally part of Russia thus it contains I high percentage of ethnic Russians. It has a number of oil and gas lines running through it, and most importantly it contains Russia’s only warm water port and access to the Baltic. Given that nobody is going to stop him, why would Putin not annex Crimea? It is the most rational thing in the world.
I remember stealing another kid’s candy when I was little.
Was it irational? Yes, it was.
But at the end of the day I had all the other kid’s candy.
Pat is so frigging stuck in the 80s it isn’t funny. He passed being relevant decades ago. It’s really pathetic.
And that is the moral to this story...it escapes them all.
What is he wrong about with this article?
He doesn’t always make sense, but I must say, I find little to disagree with Pat here.
I agree with Pat on this. Too many Conservatives on this forum and elsewhere are reading Putin wrongly. Putin is a nationalist who is doing what he could to protect Russia, against the hypocritical Europeans/Americans.
John Kerry made his contribution to the bonkers theory by implying that Putin was channeling Napoleon: “You don’t just, in the 21st century, behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumped-up pretext.”
Well, he just did. What are *you* going to do about it, Ensign Band-aid?
Besides, have you seen the uniforms on the palace guard? (On Drudge now.) Very tsarist.
You are exactly right. Putin is winning decisively, as a result. And will continue to win decisively, because half of the rest of the world is caught up in a fantasy world where sanctions and harshly worded letters of condemnation can trump facts on the ground. The other half of the world can’t see how the world has changed, and are so blinded by paranoia that they cannot see the obvious truth in what you say — he may be a very good tactician and therefore difficult to predict, but his underlying motives are simple and plain to see.
I agree with Pat on this. Too many Conservatives on this forum and elsewhere are reading Putin wrongly. Putin is a nationalist who is doing what he could to protect Russia, against the hypocritical Europeans/Americans.
You’re right.
Did you hear Pat on Hannity yesterday? Basically saying that all Obama had to do was take the long view and wait Putin out and let the US outspend Russia? Horsesh!t. We can’t outspend anybody unless it’s for the leeches in this country, period.
Classical Russian history, decades old relations and actions, and imagined actions this country could take are and old man’s dreams. Putting Obama now in context with anything historical, or recently historical about Russia is ludicrous. Further, to ask if Putin is irrational in the face of it given our impotent and incompetent leadership is ludicrous in my opinion.
Bingo.
Completely rational.
And we have nothing. But to be fair, even at our strongest militarily there would have been little we could do about this without risking WW3 and Crimea is not worth WW3
My guess is that 10 years from now Russia is going to look a lot like the USSR, with only Poland and Czechoslovakia being in play
I’m not a Pat B fan, but I can’t find fault with his analysis in this piece.
Like him or not, Pat Buchanan’s analysis are usually ( not always, but usually), well argued.
Sound to me like Putin is just adopting 21st century US foreign policy to me, not Napoleon. Oh no, its okay for US to do it, but not Russia
I think you haven’t a clue.
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