Posted on 03/09/2014 12:24:55 PM PDT by annalex
the whole thing has been over-sensationalized
This is quite without precedent. It concerns us little, but from the international geopolitical perspective this is as bad as any Cold War crises and it is not over yet. For example, Putin's aggression destroyed the collective security guarantees that, we thought, marked the end of the Cold War.
to make Obama look like a great statesman
Obama looks terrible in this; I don't know where you are getting this.
Ukraine is a sovereign country that can opt to join whatever organizations it wishes. Here's the stark contrast between the EU and the USSR: EU has no army to occupy its neighbors' territory. RF has, and just did.
You can call me Alex. Ann, my wife, doesn’t post here.
I agree that we are at our, possibly, weakest point militarily, but since neither side wants a shooting war, it is beside the point. I think Putin miscalculated the strength of the Western institutions that go by precedents, laws, treaties, and won’t let him get away with military aggression. He will get a Second Cold War out of this. That, I think did not enter his plans.
That, indeed, is a valid concern, but this thread has very little to do with Obama. I wish our president a good tan.
Iceland?
I think the West is weak militarily, economically, and in almost every way because it is decadent. Western Civilization has lost confidence in itself, and millions think it has nothing to offer. This results from all the wars, the racism, the problems that Western Civilization has not, so far, been able to solve. Western European nations, for example, cannot even muster the energy or the will to survive.
I don't know whether Putin understands this or not, but he doesn't care.
He knows the West is weak.
He calculates that he can bully Western leaders.
And he's right.
Putin's not concerned about "Global Warming" or endangered species. Neither are the Chi-coms.
You mean like when the US invaded Iraq?
Weak or not, — all that is relative, — the post-Soviet world remains a parasite on the Western Civilization’s body. The moment the West closes the pipe with the visas, high tech products and, simply, food, whatever it is that Putin think he has collapses. His own buddies will shoot him and that will be the end of his Crimea conquest.
Well, in retrospect at least, yes. However Iraq in 2003 was seen as a military threat; Ukraine isn’t a military threat to Russia by any stretch.
However, if the West remains weak and continues to sink into decadence, another tyrant will come to take his place.
Here´s Vladimir Putin´s Facebook Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR1PA0SDNzA
Hitler Phones Putin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji6DFOwjqeE
Hitler interviews Vladimir Putin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBO79-_SBrQ
Hitler finds out about Russian Elections
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWMYVZosvRY
Yes.
These are hilarious, thanks.
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