[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Time to say NEITHER Kiev, NOR Putin, and just stay out of this, which a WSJ/NBC News poll (April 24th, 2014) found:

80% plus said no more to interventionism of any kind.

[Corporate Democrat]

It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘interventionalism’ is. If ‘interventionalism’ means any intervention over Ukraine of any kind, that is one thing. If it means there should be no military intervention or aid in Ukraine, I agree with you.

[MUDDOG]

I wasn’t a big fan of Ron Swoboda either.

[McGruff]

I don't really care if the Ukrainians kill all the Russians or the Russian kill all the Ukrainians. What I do care about is our government lying to us which is happening more and more these days. Take this newest case.

Report: US threatened Nigeria with sanctions in 2013 for fighting Boko Haram.

Open your eyes people. Don't let anyone pull the wool over them. The truth is out there

[tcrlaf]

“We”, meaning the Obama administration, has no business undermining an already existing Democracy.

Not only that, but “we” backed the most radical, hateful, and violent of the Maidan groups, to top it off.

That it has backfired in the administrations face, and Putin moved to take advantage of it, shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that has been paying attention.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[mac_truck]

The United States missed an important opportunity to rise above the fray of this European/Eurasian tug of war over the Ukraine back in February when it didn't immediately condemn the violent overthrow of the democratically elected government by radical militants, and join with Russia to insist that the international agreement the Yanukovitch government had just negotiated with the opposition leaders on Feb 28th be held in force.

American insistence on abiding agreements and lawful democratic process would have dramatically changed the outcome in Ukraine without the blood shed and loss of territory we have recently witnessed. It may have also provided the "reset" with Russia that the Obama administration has been seeking for the past five years.

-btw I'm quite sure some neoconservative shill will be along shortly to loudly proclaim the Yanukovitch election in 2010 was tainted and his overthrow in 2014 was legitimate. Both assertions are demonstrably false.