Posted on 03/14/2014 6:54:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ron Paul has just sided with Putin over the invasion of Ukraine.
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) appeared on the Fox Business Network’s The Independents on Wednesday night where he was asked for his thoughts about the worsening situation in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. Paul said that the United States and the West have engaged in hypocrisy and alleged that they participated in the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich’s government. He added that Russian President Vladimir Putinhas “some law on his side” in Crimea because Russia held a lease on a naval base in the Crimean city of Sevastopol.
“This whole thing that Putin is the big cause of the trouble, and yet there’s pretty good evidence that the Europeans as well as the American government had to contrive to have the overthrow of a government that most people say had been elected,” Paul asserted.
“And then for them to come along and say, ‘Well, it’s an illegal government,’ and they want to have a referendum now, you know, in Crimea, ‘Oh, no, that’s not permissible,’” Paul continued. “Everything that Putin does is illegal. He’s no angel, but actually he has some law on his side.”
How does Putin have any law on his side? Crimea is not even Russian territory. Putin is taking advantage of the turmoil in Ukraine to seize and annex Crimea, probably on the way to either dismembering Ukraine or absorbing all of it by force.
Paul asserted that “contracts, and agreements, and treaties” associated with the Sevastopol base provide Putin with the legal basis to militarily occupy the peninsula. He said that Russia could accuse America of occupying Cuba because it, too, holds a lease on the land around the Guantanamo Bay prison.
“It’s such a façade,” he continued.
The facade is Ron Paul trying to sound reasonable. He leaps to blaming America in just about every instance — note the swipe about Cuba. The United States does not occupy Cuba just because we have a base there, and we are not about to absorb it. Gitmo was established long before the Castro regime took power.
If Sen. Rand Paul is to become a serious presidential contender, he is going to have to find a way to keep his cranky father off the TV. All Ron Paul does is blame America for the misdeeds of others, including Putin.
Host Matt Welch asked if Crimea’s snap referendum, scheduled to be held on Sunday, could really be considered legitimate given that it is being orchestrated by an occupational government “in the shadow” of the Russian government amassing forces on the Ukrainian border.
“Yeah,” Paul said. “I don’t think we should do all that threatening.” Welch attempted to clarify his question, but Paul went on to say that the Crimean invasion is being used as an “excuse” to erect interceptor missiles in “Russia’s backyard.”
The ballot in that referendum doesn’t even provide a “no” option. How can it be legitimate?
Paul goes on from there to assert that people have a right of secession, which is correct, but he then applies it to Crimea, which is incorrect. Crimea has not chosen secession yet. The Sunday vote isn’t about secession, it’s about annexation. Russia swooped in and put 30,000 troops on it and is now holding a snap vote to put a gloss of legitimacy on its invasion. Russia is also massing troops on Ukraine’s borders for what looks like a broader offensive.
Ron Paul would never, ever let any American administration get away with such obvious aggression. But he’s fine with Putin doing it.
Why?
Update: Putin is moving broadly against opposition, even outside of Russia. Does Ron Paul support this?
Not only did Putin block access to opposition news sites in Russia, but Rus govt contacted our admin to turn off servers. They work fast.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) March 13, 2014
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CRUZ 2016
"I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation has a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another;
that every one has a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves;
and that if this country could, consistently with its engagements, maintain a strict neutrality and thereby preserve peace,
it was bound to do so by motives of policy, interest, and every other consideration."
--George Washington, from Letter to James Monroe, August 25,1796
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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, farewell address, 1796
We need someone with the wisdom and experience of Eisenhower, who warned us about the military industrial complex. Another thing that person needs is an educational background that included a historical study of the best uses of US military strength.
What am I saying? Even our faves don't have the wisdom or knowledge to be making decisions about international situations that could lead to war. Maybe they should ask to put our troops on our southern border and then just SHUT UP.
I’m not defending the A-hole.
RE: So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith.
And that my friend, is the problem -— we have ALREADY formed so many engagements, singed so many defense treaties that we are duty bound to protect them with perfect good faith ( even when we don’t have enough resources to do so ).
Maybe it’s time to revisit them all...
Agreed. We would be better being the good neighbor we would want to have, instead of being the busy body HOA president no one can stand.
Another establishment hack outfit helping to make sure hillary gets back into the white house. You guys might not like what was once the libertarian wing of the republican party, but you’re going to keep losing without them.
Could be worse. Could be RUE Paul.
Almost all of us adjust for those minor unedited imperfections and mispellings, they don't usually need to be mentioned in a second post.
Lets have a free election, with Russian troops standing outside the polling station.
Douchebag.
Bump
How do you say Anchluss in Russian?
While I believe that the Crimea should be returned to Russia or become independent if that’s what its population wants (and that getting rid of it would be good for Ukrainian nationalists who otherwise might get outvoted in Ukraine due to Crimean votes), it is ridiculous that the issue be decided by a flash referendum held while the area is occupied by Russian troops. Putin may end up taking the Crimea, but had he stayed away he would have gotten, within a few months, the Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine that would have voted to secede to form an independent country, without any sanctions or other grief.
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