Ukraine has torn down its Lenin statues. They are still up in Russia, and Lenin's corpse is still preserved in glass case. Communism isn't dead in Russia.
According to your theory, Putin is a communist and nothing will stop his push to return to those ways, being motivated by communist ideology. I disagree.
Read that other article. You will cease disagreeing.
Bush dealt with Putin better than Obama. Do you agree with that?
The promise of capitalism has to start meaning something or the people who were used to communism will want to return to it. There are many many poor people in both Ukraine and Russia. I don’t think strong sanctions will work. In fact they will have an opposite effect.
Russia is not as weak as it is poor. They are a country with a lot of pride — good and bad. I think it is foolish and dangerous to escalate tensions. Does anyone really want to go to war with them?
I have been to Ukraine. It is a scary place. You drive by big apartment complexes with most of the windows broken—very run down. People who have jobs make a tiny amount of money. There is lots of crime and corruption. The place I stayed had armed guards. You can’t entirely separate the people from the condition of the country. It is one thing to hope for better. It is another thing to have the ability and knowhow to achieve it.
From the News: Russia says its economy would be hurt by the (EU) free trade deal because it would allow Ukraine to export cheaper European goods to Russia, undercutting local products.”
Is that so entirely different from people in the US saying BUY AMERICAN? When Ukraine decided to align with EU over Russia it was about economic issues. NOT about communism.
What I don’t get is why the EU is okay to put sanctions on Russia. Isn’t that punishing Russia in order to financially benefit themselves?
I am not saying force is right. I am saying I do see why Russia is worried about their own economy. Ukraine would be wise to accommodate Russia on at least most of this. Surely they could work out something that would benefit both of them.
We have Lenin statues in the USA. We tear down crosses!!