Yup.
The Americans are hypocrites - they helped to overthrow a foreign dictator and American lives aren’t even imperiled.
And in a country close to Russia, ethnic Russian and Russian-speaking Ukrainians lives are under real threat. And where does the West have the effrontery to tell Russia NOT to intervene to protect them?
“The Americans are hypocrites - they helped to overthrow a foreign dictator and American lives aren’t even imperiled.
And in a country close to Russia, ethnic Russian and Russian-speaking Ukrainians lives are under real threat. And where does the West have the effrontery to tell Russia NOT to intervene to protect them?”
I have to admit that this was what I started thinking yesterday. We executed an overthrow of the Cuban communists in part to save American property and safeguard Americans living there, not to mention to protect our naval base that we still have.
This is turning into a bit more complicated situation than Putin merely invading a nation just to take it over.
How are Russian speakers in the Ukraine under threat? Are they being subjected to massacres? The only issue that has come up is Russian being demoted from being an official language. Russia is looking to annex the Crimea, and perhaps all of Ukraine. For the past hundred years, Russia's history has been one of land grabs. Nobody can say that our move against Gaddafi had anything to do with a land grab. Our policy in Libya and Ukraine is consistent - we have chosen to support the popular majority, and just as the Libyan people revolted against Gaddafi's decades of abuse, Ukraine's parliament has evicted Yanukovich by an overwhelming majority. I thought we should have let Gaddafi crush the insurrection for reasons of realpolitik, but there's no way that we were being hypocritical by toppling him via NATO airstrikes.