To: goldstategop
This is Putin’s favorite pretext - a pro Moscow local leader asks for “fraternal assistance” and Moscow obliges. Today the Kremlin is doing it is not for Communist ideology but out of good fashioned national pride. And with a 70% approval rating in Russia, Putin can do whatever he wants coming off a very successful Olympics. That’s why he’s such a masterful politician.The concern here has nothing to do with communism or Putin. It wouldn't matter if a monarchy were re-established in Russia and the Tsar enthroned. The annexation of foreign territory is the very definition of imperialism and that is what Russia doing right now.
96 posted on
03/01/2014 9:30:23 AM PST by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Zhang Fei
Blame Khrushchev for this.
Of course back then Khrushchev had no idea the Soviet Union would one day break up...But this issue should have been one of the very first things settled after the breakup of the Soviet Union, and Yeltsin was too drunk to deal with it.
98 posted on
03/01/2014 9:32:01 AM PST by
dfwgator
To: Zhang Fei
It would be kind of like the Mexican army stepping into the US if things got hot for La Raza, if I understand this situation correctly.
The Ukraine has no love lost for Russia. The best we could hope is that Russians would leave the Ukraine behind. Doubt if Putin is just going to call them home though.
100 posted on
03/01/2014 9:34:16 AM PST by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Zhang Fei
The annexation of foreign territory That foreign territory has been part of the USSR/Russia for the last 300+ years.
113 posted on
03/01/2014 9:46:24 AM PST by
duckln
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