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To: MrNJ
Show us the evidence. Putin ain't playing ball. obama and people like obama want Putin gone, just like Ghadafi and Mubarek. Crimeans voted 90% to separate from Ukraine, Putin had nothing to do with it. I haven't seen the Russians make one offensive move. I've seen burned out Russian vehicles on our media if they were in Russian vehicles.
Our media doesn't tell us the truth about anything that might hurt obama, and you expect me to believe that Putin is the aggressor here.
If Putin wanted to take Ukraine he could do it ....tonight.
13 posted on 09/15/2014 3:14:39 PM PDT by RedwM
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To: RedwM

You are one of those low information folk we keep hearing about right? You follow Zerohedge correct?


15 posted on 09/15/2014 3:52:40 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: RedwM
Crimeans voted 90% to separate from Ukraine

No one sane is believing that. This "referendum" was recognized only by 10 countries other than Russia in the UN - Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. No one else.

17 posted on 09/15/2014 3:55:45 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: RedwM
I don't know much about the UKraine (other then the women there are very attractive) but the Crimea has been Russia for over 200 years.

From Wiki

The modern history of Crimea begins with the annexation by the Russian Empire in 1783. In 1921 the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created. This republic was dissolved in 1945, and the Crimea became a province first of the Russian SSR (1945-1954) and then the Ukrainian SSR (1954-1991). Since 1991 it has had the status of an Autonomous Republic within Ukraine until its annexation by the Russian Federation in the 2014.

Russia has an important naval base in the Crimea at Sevastopol, From the Finacal Times

"The Crimean port of Sevastopol, home of the Black Sea fleet, is vital to Russia’s naval power in the Mediterranean and beyond. As such the base is of critical importance as Russia seeks to regain some of the global clout that has been dwindling since the disintegration of the Soviet empire."

Sevastopol was built by Catherine the Great in 1784. The Crimea was "given" to the Ukraine as a house keeping arrangement while both where part of the Soviet Union. Now that the Soviet Union is gone Russia and rightly so IMHO, wants the Crimea back. The Ukraine has no historical claim to it, it's been Russian since the time of Catherine the Great.

32 posted on 09/16/2014 12:15:52 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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