Paul Craig Roberts, Lew Rockwell, Joel Skousen and the rest of the over-heated Putin Youth have told us that "according to their sources", all the mayhem in Kiev was the work of Nazis, not Ukrainians who want to be free.
Many FReepers seem to have developed a Putin fetish which is based on their hatred for Obama. They let this blind them to the truth that Russia is still our enemy and Putin is a vicious murdering swine.
I don't care if Ukraine wants to join the EU. That's their choice. If we value freedom, then we support their decision to make this choice even if we don't agree.
Well said. That is my thoughts also. Besides, understand that for Ukraine joining EU has the connotation of leaving the Soviet sphere, which lately has become increasingly asiatic. They see far more in EU than we do: they see the two thousand years of Christian culture, even despite the obvious decline.
As one blogger, -- Russian, I believe, -- noted: There is only one civilization in the world and Europe (and the US) have inherited it. That EU has gone all-gay makes it a sick civilization, but it is still the civilization we have, there is no other.
I can understand the American isolationists. I do not clamor for America to swing the 6th Fleet around for this. But the admiration for Putin is a huge and naive mistake.