Posted on 03/18/2014 11:16:19 AM PDT by opentalk
Former Rep. Ron Paul says that America’s reaction to Crimea’s vote to secede from Ukraine should be,“so what?”
“Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?” the Texas Republican and libertarian icon wrote in a USA Today op-ed Monday.
...Over the weekend, Crimeans voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia,which the Russian government has moved to approve. American politicians have called the vote a sham and the administration has said it does not recognize the results of the vote,placing sanctions on some Russian officials in response.
Ron Paul said at least three other regions, Catalonia, Scotland and Venice,are similarly seeking to leave their countries, and the U.S. and Europe should allow events to proceed uninterrupted there as well as Crimea, saying “self-determination is a centerpiece of international law.”
… Paul said the “minimal” sanctions from the White House is all the global economy can afford, and it is the global economy that promotes peace,not intervention.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I do believe the US financed the Red Army and the Soviet infrastructure.
Who cares? People like Soros and the bankers/financiers of Europe care a lot like they have for years at least going back to the days of Wilson when the Fed Reserve was foisted on the USA by the same group of financiers. Putin is giving the USA an opportunity to break away from this group, not that he would intentionally do the USA any favor.
Odesa (where this attack happened) is in the southern part of the country, one that was backing Russia and Yanukovich. Not western part of Ukraine that rebelled against Yanukovich.
The picture in the link, with the heading “A picture from the attackers’ page on a local social media site, according to the students” is showing a RUSSIAN nazi (the shirt reads “I am Russian”) who hate Ukrainians more than Jews, if it’s even possible.
Tsk, tsk MarMema - shame on you
To some extent. For which investment they did 90% of the killing and 90% of the dying in the war.
Somehow I don’t think Americans would have been thrilled with 5M or 10M dead Americans instead of .25M. Actually, quite a few less against the Germans.
SorosMSM and NGO’s are escalating the conflict. Seems similar to Libya, Egypt, Syria urgency
Instead of helping the Soviets, we could have let Hitler get over-extended in Siberia and taken Germany before he could reverse field.
Somehow I don’t think Americans would have been thrilled with 5M or 10M dead Americans instead of .25M. Actually, quite a few less against the Germans.
Next time, think. Patton had it right.
I think if the Nazis took Moscow, Stalin is overthrown. Perhaps Khrushchev would have led the coup, or maybe the Bolsheviks are tossed completely.
Yup, had we played our cards to win, both fascism and Bolshevism would have been defeated. Such would not have pleased Stalin's Marxist fans in Roosevelt's administration. We never would have had to pay for the cold war.
And Hitler’s mistake was not recognizing how easy it could have been to get the Russians to fight amongst themselves and therefore “Divide and Conquer.”
He does have a point, although I’d step up energy sales to the Ukrainian government.
He does have a point, although I’d step up energy sales to the Ukrainian government.
He does have a point, although I’d step up energy sales to the Ukrainian people. (Not the government.)
I would drill like crazy and supply Europe and undercut Russia on price.
Any vote that gets numbers like 97 percent makes me suspicious, especially when there are troops all around to influence the vote by force if need be.
Europe and Ukraine.
Nice summary .. thank you, sir.
An astute observation.
Thanks. Shame on ynet actually. I appreciate your update.
Abandoning an ally and then attacking him is something only an absolutist and utterly dishonorable government can do.
Thank goodness the USA, at least then, was incapable of such a thing, regardless of how much sense it might have made from a geopolitical sense.
When Hitler attacked Poland, he took on the same status as Hitler. When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, we had every option not to declare them an "ally."
IOW, there is no dishonor involved; your point is specious.
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