IMO, the Arab spring was a well orchestrated effort sans Obama to begin with. He sure jumped in with both feet to muck things up though, making it all that much more worse.
He totally blew Benghazi. Hopefully, he and his administration will pay dearly for that. Not holding my breath.
It is so strange to watch folks talk about U. S. complicity and Ukrainian corruption, when you realize Putin has gamed his system to remain in power for 14 years now. And when one realizes how corrupt our ow government is, it’s rather laughable to use the pretext of corruption as grounds for invasion and annexation.
Man, Putin is a hero to some folk around here. The guy is an ally of China right now, and building up his military to become a one/two threat with it.
This guy is no modern day hero.
Looks like a good source of info - “Human Rights in Ukraine; Information website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group”
As you may recall, the official Crimean election results, as reported widely in the Western press, showed a 97 percent vote in favor of annexation with a turnout of 83 percent. No international observers were allowed. The pro-Russia election pressure would have raised the already weak vote in favor of annexation, of course.Yesterday, however, according to a major Ukrainian news site, TSN.ua, the website of the President of Russia’s Council on Civil Society and Human Rights (shortened to President’s Human Rights Council) posted a report that was quickly taken down as if it were toxic radioactive waste. According to this purported report about the March referendum to annex Crimea, the turnout of Crimean voters was only 30 percent. And of these, only half voted for the referendum–meaning only 15 percent of Crimean citizens voted for annexation.