Russian armor on move in Crimea, note bat marking on side of vehicle.. Intel unit? From today
Posted on 03/15/2014 5:12:36 PM PDT by kathsua
The best way to resolve the situation in Crimea in the event the residents want to separate from the Ukraine would be for Russia to purchase the territory. Russia could then allow the Crimeans to decide what status they wanted such as becoming an independent state or joining the other ethnic Russians in the Russian Federation.
I was going to include this suggestion in a post dealing with the situation in general but decided the proposal would be more likely to be noticed if suggested in a separate post. I believe the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the war between the United States and Mexico in 1848 suggests a resolution of the conflict over control of Crimea.
A dispute over whether an area (occupied by persons who identified with the United States) which is now the State of Texas was independent sparked a short war between the United States and Mexico. The United States easily won the war but then agreed to purchase another part of Mexico that was attracting settlers who identified with the United States. The purchase eliminated the potential for a future conflict between residents of that area and the Mexican government
Crimea is something of value so it would be fair for The Ukraine to receive compensation for its loss. The payment for Crimea could be thought of as compensation for money the national government of The Ukraine has spent on the region for such expenditures as government buildings or infrastructure items like roads. The payment would replace tax money that would no longer be collected from Crimea.
Payment wouldn't need to take the form of money. Russia has ample energy resources and The Ukraine already obtains energy from Russia. Thus, natural gas or some other fuel might be used as compensation. The Ukrainian government has had a policy of trying to keep energy costs down for its citizens. Russia might significantly reduce what it charges for natural gas for the next 10 - 20 years with an implication that the discount would be passed along to individuals. Russia might also offer to compensate anyone wishing to move from Crimea to the Ukraine or The Ukraine to Crimea.
Ukrainian officials need to recognize the potential costs of trying to force Russian Crimeans to stay in a country where they don't feel they belong can lead to civil conflict including terrorist bombings. The conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland and the actions of the Basque separatists in Spain demonstrate what can happen. If some Ukrainians decided to start a Balkans style ethnic cleansing campaign, Russia would feel compelled to invade.
You forgot to mention George Soros. And Nazis. Never forget to mention the Nazis. And post a photo of a shirtless Putin, as a bonus.
For posting the truth you will now be subjected to ridicule and efforts to squelch your voice. It is standard op for the globalists’ thuggery who are paid to work the Internet daily. The banking oligarchs who actually run the world are sometimes reduced to having to expose themselves as in the Ukraine.
But the banking oligarchs are Joos! How can a globalist be a Nazi and pro-Semite at once?
It is better that Soviets take away your rights, eh comrade?
C’mon . . . Vladimir Putin, Man of the People and Hero of the Soviet Union, only has the best interests of those poor Ukrainian peasants at heart.
Russian armor on move in Crimea, note bat marking on side of vehicle.. Intel unit? From today
Yeah, far better for the Ukrainians to live under an authoritarian dictator whose opponents have the strangest habit of turning up dead.
Putin is a ruthless autocrat; and if anyone seriously believes that Merkel is the same as Putin, or Francois Hollande is the same as Putin, they need their head examined.
If you want to find out Russia’s long-term strategy, read “The Foundations of Geopolitics” by Aleksander Dugin.
Here’s a pretty good summary of it here: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/OP294.pdf
Lemberg was the Polish city of Lwow, before the war.
"Why do people misunderstand me? Look,
I love puppies!"
why buy when you can just take it?
either way it’d be a forced sale, an offer they couldn’t refuse. or a kelo decision kind of sale, eminent domain....
putin - communist czar.
Duh, self loathing Joos.
If you want to make a comparison, be honest and name the two forces now in competition for world domination. HINT: Putin is not one of them but the methodology for ruling nations by debt accumulation is one of them.
Only Putin can save us from the Fed?
That may be all they get from the looks of things however at least according to the Gateway Pundit.
Statement of the MFA of Ukraine with respect to assault landing of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kherson region on March 15 Yesterday, 17:31 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expresses its strong and categorical protest against the landing on March 15, 2014 near the village Strilkove, Kherson region of troops of the Russian Federation Armed Forces in a number of 80 military personnel, and seizure of the village Strilkove with the support of 4 helicopter gunships and 3 armored combat machines.
Ukraine Foreign Ministry declares the military invasion by Russia and demands the Russian side to immediately withdraw its military forces from the territory of Ukraine.
Ukraine reserves the right to use all necessary measures to stop the military invasion by Russia.
Yep, the Russian Communists were so terrible that they made the Nazis look like a trade UP. Context is important.
Some people, who apparently are almost completely ignorant about history, don’t understand that many peoples welcomed the Nazis as liberators and fought alongside them. Even German half-Jews, blacks, and a number of far-flung groups like these Azeris fought with the Nazis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Warsaw_Uprising_Aserbeidschanische_Feld-Bataillon_111.jpg
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