With Puppit Yatsenyuk now at the helm in Kiev, Ukraine is being steered inexorably into debt bondage by the West....(another story)....BUT WORSE... this week the new Ukrainian ambassador to Belarus, Mykhailo Yeshel, 'admitted' in a media interview that loans (lures) from Washington were being offered... ON CONDITION UKRAINE PERMIT THE DEPLOYMENT OF AMERICAN MISSSLE SYSTEMS ON IT'S TERRITORY– right on the border with Russia! The emerging picture is clear. Despite all the hysterical 'nonsense' being spouted by Western leaders and their media propaganda machine, demanding Russia to «back off» from Ukraine, the Western regime-change operation in that country is not just being consolidated – it is being ramped up. http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/03/06/ukraine-washington-hysteria-towards-russia-hides-us-regime-change.html
Ukraine is broke and indeed it would prefer to borrow in the West.
Putin, indeed, is likely to raise the stakes for a military conflict. I’l read your link tomorrow.
The problem is we haven’t slagged anybody in 60 years.
Other players have figured out how to game us even
when we have superiour firepower but are constrained
to use it, and we have a short attention span.
America isn’t at war.
The Marines are at war.
American is at the mall.
“Putin isn’t about ready to allow our missles on his border”
“Never poke a bear in the ribs, he might get annoyed”.
Mr. Finian is entitled ho his opinion, or rather, to the Kremlin opinion on the events that he shares. The fact remains that it is Putin's unmarked (a war crime in itself) military that is occupying Crimea and yesterday attacked a Ukrainian military base. The fact is that the Ukrainian revolution, while violent, did not achieve its goals through use of force; Yanuk regime fell because it lost the support of the people, at least in Central and Western parts of the country. The fact is also that both US and Russian Federation guaranteed the territorial integrity of Ukraine. There was no clause in the Budapest memorandum about which modes of transition of power are and are not allowed in Ukraine. When a sovereign country goes through a revolution, it still remains a sovereign country.
To use the words "regime change" in this context is a leftist cliche and a lie. When the US occupied Iraq, that was a "regime change" engineered in Washington. When the US and NATO used bombers to suppress Gaddafi's military in Libya, that, too was a "regime change". When Ukrainian rebels burnt tires and lobbed Molotov cocktails at the Berkut, that was genuine popular uprising. Sympathy toward the rebels, who nevertheless armed themselves from street trash, -- is not "regime change" in the connotations anti-American left attaches to it.
I made a post (#61) about the sniper allegation. There is nothing of substance in the transcript that a pro-Putin news organization printed. Everyone is quoting, note, not the actual alleged evidence "she [...] said that as a medical doctor she can say that, the same type of bullets were used on both police and protestors", -- which is a double hearsay based on similarity of bullets, -- but rather a summary "there is now stronger and stronger understanding...", -- which is a statement of opinion. There is, maybe, "understanding" in some heads, -- there is no evidence. In a typical leftist fashion, Finian bypasses facts in order to make hysterical slogans that suit his mood. Freepers should know better.