Posted on 03/02/2014 7:46:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Vladimir Putin's Russia seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula by force on the weekend and now has his sights on the rest of his Slavic neighbor. The brazen aggression brings the threat of war to the heart of Europe for the first time since the end of the Cold War. The question now is what President Obama and free Europe are going to do about it. --SNIP--
In the brutal world of global power politics, Ukraine is in particular a casualty of the Mr. Obama's failure to enforce his "red line" on Syria. When the leader of the world's only superpower issues a military ultimatum and then blinks, others notice. Adversaries and allies in Asia and the Middle East will be watching President Obama's response now. China has its eyes on Japanese islands. Iran is counting on U.S. weakness in nuclear talks.
The Ukrainians can't be left alone to face Russia, and the Kremlin's annexation of Crimea can't be allowed to stand. Ukraine must remain an independent state with its current borders intact, free to follow its democratic will to join the European Union and NATO if it desires. The world is full of revisionist powers and bad actors looking to exploit the opening created by Mr. Obama's retreat from global leadership, and Mr. Putin is the leading edge of what will quickly become a new world disorder.
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Satirist under fire for comparing Sochi Games and Hitler's Olympics
Maybe he knew too much?
Russia had one last Winter Olympic event: Hegemony.
Before it's over, he'll find a way to give away our most sensitive military secrets. Hell, Bubba already got away with it.
Putin declares war. Obama yells, “FORE!”
Putin wants stability in Ukraine.
Funny thing is that the Ukrainians are really mad at McCain and Kerry. It’s hilarious. They’re saying,
“Who are these McCain and Kerry and why are they getting involved in Ukraine? Do they want to move here?”
Good advise WSJ. Perhaps we can crew those sixth fleet ships with all the illegal aliens you want to make citizens before we sail them off to fight the russians.
What, a Hawaiian sit in? Local Police would easily round up Obama’s old stoned Choom Gang buddies.
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Seriously?
With what army or navy is Putin going to invade and occupy the whole of eastern Europe?
At best we have them in the Crimea, around their already existing military base at the request of this friendly ethnic Russian majority that has all but seceded from the rest of the Ukraine, that is in a civil war, and you have them marching practically into Vienna if we dont what?
If you are looking for a shooting war over this with Russia, then you need to snap out of it.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Autonomous Republic of Crimea
The Cimmerians, Bulgars, Greeks, Scythians, Goths, Huns, Khazars, the state of Kievan Rus', Byzantine Greeks, Kipchaks, Ottoman Turks, Golden Horde Tatars and the Mongols each controlled Crimea in its earlier history. In the 13th century, it was partly controlled by the Venetians and by the Genoese; they were followed by the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire in the 15th to 18th centuries, the Russian Empire in the 18th to 20th centuries, Germany during World War II and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, within the Soviet Union during the rest of the 20th century.
Like Hitler didn't want rump Czechoslovakia? The Western Ukraine is the pathway to Poland, Romania and Hungary.
And we (the West) can't/wont do a thing about it.
Why would you declare war on your neighbor country, simply because they had internal political strife?
Here we go. Obama has signaled the world that he has neutered our military, now they all have a green light.
Folks, this is an excellent object lesson. As we falter, others wills step up. We’re not going to like much of it either.
If Russia gets away with this, they can and will do it again. They’ll do it in short order too.
We’re going backwards folks, and thus the world is as well. This isn’t good. Welcome to the 1930s.
What? We go to war with Russia? I know... who am I? However, I must admit I am not to thrilled with the possibility of such a prospect. Are the Ukranians with their antisemitism such great guys?
Sarah Palin warned that if America voted for Obama, then Putin would invade Ukraine. It is kind of funny that people complain about something that they voted for in 2008 and 2012.
What? We go to war with Russia? I know... who am I? However, I must admit I am not to thrilled with the possibility of such a prospect. Are the Ukranians with their antisemitism such great guys?
Sarah Palin warned that if America voted for Obama, then Putin would invade Ukraine. It is kind of funny that people complain about something that they voted for in 2008 and 2012.
Now that's a pretty good argument for NOT going in the first place, don't you think?
Just because the French did it makes it right?
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