Crimea referendum: Wide condemnation after region votes to split from Ukraine

Fox News ^ | 16 Mar 2014

[mandaladon]

Crimean voters on Sunday overwhelmingly backed a referendum to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, in an election denounced by the United States, Europe and the Ukrainian government as illegal and destabilizing.

Fireworks exploded and Russian flags fluttered above jubilant crowds after the vote, which election officials said stood at 95 percent with more than half of the ballots counted.

The vote, the final results of which were not expected until Monday, offered voters on the strategic Black Sea peninsula the choice of seeking annexation by Russia or remaining in Ukraine with greater autonomy.

Opponents of secession appeared to largely stay away Sunday, denouncing the vote as a cynical power play/land grab by Russia. But turnout was reported to be well above the 50 percent that would make the referendum binding -- and secession was expected to be approved overwhelmingly.

"We want to go back home, and today we are going back home," said Viktoria Chernyshova, a 38-year-old businesswoman. "We needed to save ourselves from those unprincipled clowns who have taken power in Kiev."

[dragnet2]

BS.....That's the whole problem here....Enough!

The U.S. running around the entire planet promising this and that, making assurances, promising protection.....If you do this, we'll that for you... and on and on and on and on....While a tiny circle of people get super wealthy and more powerful.

All this while our borders have become a balkanized lawless free for all, the economy is a house of cards, while government spends like a drunken lotto winner, spending the American treasure while operating like some corrupt mobster dictatorship...

Enough!

I'll take fortress America after 50 years of total failed reckless foreign policies...

[floriduh voter]

Soros will get his precious bounty either way the ball bounces. Obama the puppet permitted someone to hire idiots to run his foreign policy. They showed their hand and shot people on both sides in Ukraine. If snipers show up in all black, that would be Obama’s foreign policy team.

[floriduh voter]

Montag, the thugs are personal friends of McCain. Putin’s not the worst, baddest apple fallen from the tree. It’s Obama and his GOP rotten apples who want war war war. Women are being strangled by McCain’s Syrian freedom fighters. STRANGULATION - thanks John McCain for siding with the heinous crowd.

[Revolting cat!]

Congratulations, you’re in good company - North Korea, the only country in the world, has recognized the results of the referendum.

[Revolting cat!]

Congratulations again, it turns out that 123% of residents of Sevastopol voted in the referendum.

[Resolute Conservative]

Good argument for this country...?

[caww]

...("I predict Polish troops move into Western Ukraine if that region is threatened")........

Troops in POLAND already have been mobilized to the 'eastern' border of Ukraine weeks ago...

Further Last week...Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski says he would like more U.S. troops in the country to guarantee its security within NATO, which Poland joined 15 years ago......."We would like to see 'greater U.S. armed forces' involvement on our territory within NATO," Komorowski said........On a request that Warsaw made after Russian troops took control of Ukraine's Crimea, some 300 U.S. airmen and a dozen F16 fighters are expected in Poland this week....

ALL the nation states are requiring the USA get more troops in their country.

[VerySadAmerican]

I consider that their business. I saw a guy on TV today, from Moscow, say the elections are fair. And he said Putin is very popular in Russia. Does that make the people in Russian and Crimea stupid? Not any stupider that us.

[Eleutheria5]

Wow. Almost as many votes as O got in some districts of the swing states.

[MarMema]

With you on that!

[WhiskeyX]

What you describe is a half-truth designed to deceive, whether it is the readers or just yourself you are trying to deceive. Take your example about building permits for construction, yes, the Democrats in the United States just love to use building permits to shakedown property owners bribes and favors or just to harass them. Only it is worse in Russia when you are not among the privileged people enjoying the patronage of the state officials. I know of one example right here in the united States, where some of those immigrants from that region remodeled a house by bribing the Democrat building inspector and then used their freedom to build as they like by moving load bearing walls away from their foundation supports. After bankrupting twice, the mess was sold at a bankruptcy auction and the new owners had to tear out all of this dangerously fouled up construction and rebuild the load bearign structures over the foundations again.

Now, I realize you are here to disseminate false propaganda and are not interested in acknowledging anything your opponents have to say, but the readers of the thread may find the following link more informative than your disinformation.

Vladimir Putin Full Length Documentary: The Putin System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Rkom1RpKA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Rkom1RpKA

Vladimir Putin Full Length Documentary: The Putin System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Rkom1RpKA

[MarMema]

apparently you are unaware of the many freedoms we have lost in this country

They had ten year olds who spoke perfect English when I was in Russia, btw. This country badly needs a wake up call. You're probably so immersed in all the bureaucratic requirements here that you don't even realize it. I had to live over there to start getting it.

And I don't want to live there, nor do I think Putin is some angel - though I think Ted Cruz could be one. I know they have a lot of corruption but they also have a wonderful lack of oversight by government that I think we used to have here.

[WhiskeyX]

“I know they have a lot of corruption but they also have a wonderful lack of oversight by government that I think we used to have here.”

Having been around since the days of Stalin, i remeber very well how it used to be. I also can see how Democrats are moving us into an evermore authoritarian government, but we have a way to go yet before we have internal passports like Russia has today or the Soviet propiska which Putin’s regime is trending towards readopting in Russia. So much for the so-called freedoms when you have to have State approval to travel or migrate within Russia.

Nice try at sugarcoating the Russian autocracy, but is just false propaganda propped up by half-truths.

[Monmouth78]

Yeltsin was a terrible leader who horribly mismanaged end of the USSR.