Opinion: What the West owes Ukraine

CNN ^ | February 25, 2014 | Timothy Snyder

[No One Special]

Timothy Snyder is Housum professor of history at Yale University and author of "Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin."

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

The U.S. owes nothing to Ukraine. Whatever money is put in there will be stolen, just like in Iraq and Afghanistan.

$16 Trillion in debt is enough.

[CPONav]

“The West” owes nothing. Ukraine’s neighbors (the U.S. is not one) can feel free to step in and help their neighbor if they desire.
“The West” needs to mind its own collective business. Every time (EVERY TIME) “The West” gets involved, another dictator takes the reigns. “The West” (especially the United States) needs to let Ukraine and every other country sort out their own damn problems.

[Jack of all Trades]

We owe it to ourselves to not light off WWIII by injecting ourselves into Russia’s backyard, and a former Soviet state.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

The spark that began the revolution was something called Europe: a trade agreement with the European Union that many Ukrainians saw as a chance to enter a world of free trade rather than government syndicates, and the rule of law rather than overwhelming corruption

LOL. The Ukrainians should have looked to Spain, Greece, Hungry, and Cyprus to see what happens when a country hands over its sovereignty to the sodomite EU.

[Billthedrill]

Sure. Turn the whole thing over to Kerry’s State Department. Do we really hate the Ukrainians that much?

[Ms. Blunt]

I don’t anything that comes from CNN or this professor, but when they said students, and then Afghans, my tin foil antennas started twitching...something smells like community organizing. Plus, what happened to all that gold in the palace? The president escaped in a helicopter. Tons of it? Why do they need an infusion of cash?

[DJ MacWoW]

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The Great rule of conduct for us,
in regard to foreign Nations
is in extending our commercial relations
to have with them as little political connection as possible.
So far as we have already formed engagements
let them be fulfilled, with perfect good faith.
Here let us stop. . . .
George Washington on Foreign Affairs September 19, 1796

[Belteshazzar]

Hmmmm ... some pretty disappointing responses.

[No One Special]

And do the bidding of their big brother just like we did after the Holodomor when we gave the USSR diplomatic relations. Try reading the article.

[No One Special]

Disinfo works.

[Billthedrill]

Try reading my reply. I agree with you, or I did. Now you can kiss it.

[Belteshazzar]

“Disinfo works.”

Yes, sadly, it does.

[Belteshazzar]

BilltheDrill, I said “some pretty disappointing responses,” rather than all, because of your response. That said, perhaps, you should assume that the reply of the original poster was made in haste.

[Vinylly]

Our so-called leader should be more concerned about Venezuela then the Ukraine but he’s Hugo Chivez’s lover.

[Billthedrill]

My apologies. Short-tempered today. I happen to hold the Ukrainians in very high regard.

[MrEdd]

Yeah.

Who would have expected rationality here at Free Republic?

The liberal press asserts that conservatives are for any war any time.
They lied to you again, there have to be merits outweighing the disadvantages.

No sale on Ukraine interference.

[mac_truck]

Hmmmm ... some pretty disappointing responses.

Try using some IMF brain wash...4 out of 5 European central bankers recommend it.

[MrEdd]

Holding them in high regard does not magically create a new Eurasia that won’t be destabilized by clumsy Islam centered American interventon managed by Odumbo.

[Belteshazzar]

So, there is no position to be taken between doing nothing and war?