Posted on 03/19/2014 12:33:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Russia signaled concern on Wednesday at Estonia's treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority, comparing language policy in the Baltic state with what it said was a call in Ukraine to prevent the use of Russian.
Russia has defended its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by arguing it has the right to protect Russian-speakers outside its borders, so the reference to linguistic tensions in another former Soviet republic comes at a highly sensitive moment.
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Twenty minutes into Brian Williams’ newscast today he mentioned Crimea.
Albertans would defend it, we don’t want those guys this close to our turf either.
Love having real Americans for neighbors, Russians, not so much.
I just told my wife last night that it wouldn't surprise me if Obama gave Russia Alaska back to "insure" peace
A lot of people would be pissed about it. Left and right. Russia would have no qualms over exploiting Alaskan oil. We bought Alaska fair and square. There’s no reason to give it back.
I am stunned. 64 posts into this thread, and no one has yet defended Putin or said it’s none of our business, on the basis that the Estonians are evil EU or Nazis. (Actually, they have a mostly Milton Friedman / free market / reward hard work / competetive economy that the US would do well to emulate.)
Estonia is a NATO member, Ukraine isn’t.
Membership has its’ privileges.
FR Putinistas are regrouping tonight. There’ll be back after these messages with their fantasies of Soros Big Bad Wolf, and ‘sodomite EU’. Patience.
That’s only because, on the other Putin-worship threads, they scoffed at the notion that Putin had his eye on the Baltics. To set everyone at ease, of course. /s
Therein lies the great danger - much greater than events preceding WW1 or WW2. With the US (and most of its people) proven dishonorable / selfish and worthless, and its protective umbrella discredited (or becoming so fast), any country capable of going nuclear doesn't really have much choice but to do so. With many nuclear powers in the world, the chance of a miscalculation leading to a significant nuclear exchange becomes a virtual certainty.
Pretty soon, it will be like the Far Side cartoon.....”Look Marge, the Hendersons now have the Bomb.”
FR Putinistas are regrouping tonight. There’ll be back after these messages with their fantasies of Soros Big Bad Wolf, and ‘sodomite EU’. Patience.
Don’t fret, we will be hearing about the Estonian & Latvian SS veterans tomorrow. Tonight the champagne is following in honor of trampled Crimea.
So, we should not honor our Security Assurances (plural) to the Ukraine, in which we promised our protection in return for Ukraine sending its 5000 nukes to Russia for destruction?
The signal that sends guarantees a global nuclear arms race and that in turn virtually guarantees a nuclear war down the line. Few have learned the lessons of the 1930’s - 1940’s, but this time it’s with nukes.
“At the end of all of this will be an occupation of Poland.”
I hope you aren’t correct, but at this point, anything is possible.
Poland will kick Russia’s ass if they try.
we should only if its in our interest, and the assurances are not a treaty. they were a memorandum.
“Welcome to the Putin Doctrine. He looks at Europe and the United States and sees LGBTQIA, which he perceives (correctly) as weakness, and proceeds accordingly. Power loves a vacuum.”
Well, yes. Quite right. What needs to happen is, the Europeans need to man up. Perhaps France, Germany, the Italians, and any of several other European countries should raise a force to defend against Russian aggression. If they care. I am very tired of the U.S. doing all of the dirty work and then getting kicked in the balls for it by folks from the very same nations that we are expected to defend.
“They’re fine with Putin as long as he feigns some claptrap about being Christian or an anti gay type of shibboleth. It’s enough to make you wonder if they’re just stupid, craven, or too partisan to see that there can be more than one enemy of freedom.”
Useful fake conservatives...plenty of them here.
Does anyone on FR know of any reputable studies as to the radiation effects of a medium scale (say, 100 nukes involved) nuclear exchange? I believe I can reasonably estimate the effects of, say, a Taiwan / China exchange, or a Saudi / Iranian exchange, of that magnitude, but would really like to hear it from an expert. Most analysis I’ve seen was either for a single bomb, or a catastrophic “nuclear winter” type Russia / US war.
Obviously, the location of the dust-up and the prevailing winds would be crucial, but maybe the safest analysis from the US standpoint would be to assume “worst case” winds from Eastern Asia, over the Pacific. Say, a “nuclear pineapple express.”
The information I have from an adviser to Estonia, who spent years there, is that the Russians in eastern Estonia are very satisfied living there - unlike the Russians in Crimea. Disturbances did occur in Tallinn when the statue was moved. However, there were none in Narva.
They are working on a new set of talking points... be patient. Its tough work defending an expansionist thug.
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