For me this sums it up.
Putin plays chess, Obama has checkers on the chess board and thinks he's playing bingo - the whole time with his narcissistic sense of smug superiority.
How will we survive this utter fool?
Posted on 03/19/2014 6:00:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Fears were rising last night that Russia could seek to grab more territory in eastern Europe as Moscow's noose tightened in Crimea with Ukraine troops forced into abject surrender.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden sought to reassure the three ex-Soviet Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia that America will defend any NATO member against aggression.
'We're in this with you, together,' he said in Vilnius, amid jitters in three countries overrun by Stalin during the Second World War which only won their freedom with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He said: 'Russia cannot escape the fact that the world is changing and rejecting outright their behaviour.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well, at least Obama sent a message of reassurance to Kenya. They won’t have to worry about being absorbed into Russia.
Bulgaria? Someone is smoking some weed. Russia has never had any claims on Bulgaria, unlike the Turks. Most Bulgarians like Russia. This is BS.
Well, well ... I did not realize they were NATO member countries.
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/nato_countries.htm
Bulgaria was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1944. I would imagine that the people remember their history.
Lol...Doesn’t matter any longer. I have my doubts whether we could actually fight another war on the scale of WW2. We don;t have the allies, we don’t have the will, we don’t have the leadership, we don’t have enough young people who consider themselves American or that wish to fight for anything except pot and sex.
Bulgaria was invaded in 1944?
Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany and fought with the Nazis, hello!
I suppose Germany was invaded in 1944, too, but the US, UK and USSR.
ahh, no problem, Bulgaria and Lithuania are full members of NATO. An attack on them is to considered an attack on US soil.
And Ukraine almost joined in the last few years. And we were considering Georgia also.
Anyone remember WWI?
If I was Angela Merkel, I’d be running three shifts at the panzer factory. They’re already handing out the white flags in France.
I think one can safely say that the failure of NATO to defend one of the member countries, in the case of a military attack and invasion would clearly lead to the collapse and dissolving of NATO as a military defense organization, since the core purpose of NATO is precisely that — for — the member nations.
Here’s the information on that ...
Early in 1944, Bulgarian officials tried to achieve peace with the Allies and the Greek and Yugoslav governments-in-exile. Fearing the German forces that remained in Bulgaria, Filov could not simply surrender unconditionally; meanwhile, the Soviets threatened war if Bulgaria did not declare itself neutral and remove all German armaments from Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. Unable to gain the protection of the Allies, who had now bypassed Bulgaria in their strategic planning, Bulgaria was caught between onrushing Soviet forces and the last gambits of the retreating Nazis. At this point, the top priority of Bulgarian leaders was clearing the country of German occupiers while arranging a peace with the Allies that would deprive Soviet forces of an excuse to occupy Bulgaria. But in September 1944, the Soviet Union unexpectedly declared war on Bulgaria, just as the latter was about to withdraw from the Axis and declare war on Germany.
The Soviet Occupation
When Soviet troops arrived in Bulgaria, they were welcomed by the populace as liberators from German occupation. On September 9, 1944, five days after the Soviet declaration of war, a Fatherland Front coalition deposed the temporary government in a bloodless coup. Headed by Kimon Georgiev of Zveno, the new administration included four communists, five members of Zveno, two social democrats, and four agrarians. Although in the minority, the communists had been the driving force in forming the coalition as an underground resistance organization in 1942. The presence of the Red Army, which remained in Bulgaria until 1947, strengthened immeasurably the communist position in dealing with the Allies and rival factions in the coalition. At this point, many noncommunist Bulgarians placed their hopes on renewed relations with the Soviet Union; in their view, both Germany and the Allies had been discredited by the events of the previous fifteen years. In 1945 the Allies themselves expected that a benign Soviet Union would continue the wartime alliance through the period of postwar East European realignment.
http://countrystudies.us/bulgaria/19.htm
If Russia starts annexing old territories they captured during WW2, WW3 would not be far off.
???
Bulgaria is a long way away from any Russian border, with two countries, and the Black Sea separating them.
Russia will have a hard nut top crack with Lithuania. Lithuanians fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Union up to 1973.
The Germans will fight the Russians down to the last Pole.
Yep. Bulgaria does not even share a border with Russia. For Putin to take Bulgaria, Russian tanks would have to cut through the Ukraine, then roll across all of Romania.
I think someone got Bulgaria confused with one of the Baltic states. That doesn't say much for the author of the article.
For me this sums it up.
Putin plays chess, Obama has checkers on the chess board and thinks he's playing bingo - the whole time with his narcissistic sense of smug superiority.
How will we survive this utter fool?
Enough with this ridiculous hysterics.
Who the hell would want that dunghole?
“Bulgaria? Someone is smoking some weed. Russia has never had any claims on Bulgaria,”
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Yes, while Bulgaria was under Communist domination, along with most of central Europe, it was not an SSR teritory, as was Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and others.
Bingo....great post. The USA is simply not a serious nation any longer in the sense that we are “one people” willing to put it all on the line. We are broke, almost half the population is insane IMO, most young people can’t spell or do basic math, the ruling elite don’t believe in the concept of nationhood any longer & we have lost control of our borders with as many as 30 million invaders here....
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