Posted on 05/01/2014 6:06:02 AM PDT by cll
RT: Well, let’s talk about Ukraine for a minute. Obviously it’s a hot spot in world topics...How should the US approach the crisis in Ukraine? Should the US do more or less?
GJ: Well, less! Look, don’t get involved in Ukraine! It would be like Russia getting involved in the affairs of Puerto Rico. They’re not going to do it! We shouldn’t be involved in Ukraine! There’s no national security interest here at stake. And I know you’ll hear politicians beating their chests, arguing the opposite. Well, I’m going to argue that there is no national security interest here at risk, and the government has an obligation to protect us against foreign governments that might do us harm – this is not one of those situations.
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But of course we are not doing that.
It should go without saying.
Actually, I think it’s more like Russia getting involved in Mexifornia when the population swings further away from whites and the locals want to be Mexican.
PR is US soil not a foreign sovereign country
You don’t think Putin would get involved in PR in a hot damned minute if he thought it to his advantage?
It would be like getting involved in Cuba or Venezuela .. and trying to annex them.
someone inform Russia Today that no one in this country knows who gary johnson is, or cares what he thinks
We should trade Puerto Rico to Russia in exchange for the return of the Crimea to Ukraine, as well as the end of Russian interference there. It’s what I’d call a win-win trade. Heck, maybe we can send Russia the Wise Latina so she can straighten out Russian jurisprudence.
The U.S. annexed Puerto Rico in 1898, and it has been a U.S. territory ever since.
If the U.S. got involved in matters concerning Kaliningrad, or Siberia, then the authir would have a point. But Ukraine is an independent, sovereign nation that is a U.S. and whose sovereignty and territorial integrity was guaranteed by the U.S., the UK and Russia in a treaty. If the author wanted to use a proper analogy, he should have said that tbe U.S. becoming involved in the situation in Ukraine would be like Russia becoming involved if the U.S. took Vancouver Island from Canada.
What absolutel Bravo Sierra and poppycock.
Puerto Rico is a US territory. Ukraine is not a Russian territory.
Puerto Rico voted to become a US territory without threas of absolute annexation, Crimea voted to become a part of Russia after Russian troops invaded the Ukraine and proscribed the vote for them.
If these cretins cannot see the differences, it is because they willfully do not want to see the difference and are simply spouting Russian propaganda.
But we already knew that.
I noticed they used Puerto Rico as the example instead of the more fitting example of Cuba. Perhaps because the USSR was involved in Cuba. IMO
Good thing he didn’t say “Cuba”
or Cuba or Venezuela or Nicaragua?
“Don’t speak of the devil.”
No kidding. If Vlad decided to invade Puerto Rico (to protect the Russian inhabitants)...our feckless President would offer no resistance.
Well...maybe J Kerry would write a strongly worded letter...
That's a feature, not a bug. We should pay Putin to take PR off our hands, with an extra bonus for taking the Wise Latina as part of the package.
Crimea was part of Russia for longer than Puerto Rico or Texas has been part of the USA.
Or Cuba....
“Well...maybe J Kerry would write a strongly worded letter...”
No, no, just a strongly worded tweet.
Crimea was Russian territory until Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in what was essentially a symbolic gesture. Yeltsin was too drunk to bother asking for it back.
Crimea voted to become a part of Russia after Russian troops invaded the Ukraine and proscribed the vote for them.
LOL! You haven't spent too much time in Crimea or eastern Ukraine, have you? Have no delusions, these people would've voted the exact same way without the presence of Russian troops. They have no desire whatsoever to be any part of Kiev's unelected, bankrupt, facist junta.
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