As I keep trying to tell people, Putin is KGB; first, last, and always. He is NOT a Christian nor does he have the values of those in this constitutional republic. What he wants is total control.
“Attacks on Internet freedom have long been one of the trademarks of the Putin regime. Although the authorities monopolized most mainstream newspapers, radio and television, they lost the battle for the country’s minds on the Internet, where official propaganda is treated as a joke. For more than 10 years, the Kremlin has tried in various ways to limit the possibility of free expression on the Internet. Hacker attacks on independent sites and blogs became the norm. Hundreds of trolls were paid to monitor forums and post nationalistic and xenophobic comments. Their aggressive comments in broken English can be found under many articles and comments on this newspaper’s website.”
Neither Obama nor Putin should be called Christians.
Secondly, we don’t have a dog in this hunt in Ukraine.
No arms, no weapons, no mercs - nothing. As with Syria, it is too late.
Just because Putin humbled Obama over Syria doesn’t mean that getting involved now is the right thing to do. Arming Syrians would very well have likley had arms ending up in the hands of Syrian terrorists. But some act as if we need to humble Putin now. Too late to do that with Ukraine, but Svobodanistas may disagree...
Putin is a thug like Assad, yes, but it is too late for Ukraine.
Getting involved now would very likely mean empowering or strenghtening Svoboda, Pravy Sektor and many other bad elements in Ukraine. Svoboda was given 1/4 of the interim gov’t seats. Real smart. Not.