Posted on 08/31/2014 12:47:10 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Russian tanks advancing through southeastern Ukraine should be deeply embarrassing to Americans.
NOT because Ukraine is of such vital national interest; NOT because the fate of liberty at home hinges on Luhansk or Donetsk; BUT because it is VERY CLEAR that Putin and virtually every other major world leader simply does NOT REALLY CARE what the President of the United States thinks.
In his press conference, President OBAMA REFUSED TO CALL THE RUSSIAN INVASION an invasion. Invasion presumably implies action; instead, it was a CONTINUATION of whats been taking place for MONTHS now, which is actually MORE embarrassing than delineating this as a singular one-off. But Obama was upbeat: I think that the sanctions weve already applied have been effective. DESPITE, well, the EVIDENCE.
To be fair, the fact that economic sanctions have not altered Russian behavior is not really Obamas fault. They were NEVER going to be enough. Effective sanctions would require whole-hearted European support, and since Europes economy is heavily dependent on Russian energy, major players like Germany will not impose the kind of sanctions regime that ultimately brought Iran to the bargaining table, relatively speaking.
Because of Europes dependency, an effective Russia policy simply has to supplement the limited costs of economic sanctions with some other kind of costs. Usually, this is where MILITARY AID would come in. But the Obama Administration has STEADFASTLY REFUSED to send UKRAINE WEAPONS, arguing that arming the Ukrainians might lead to Russian ESCALATION and in any case will not change Russias overwhelming military superiority.
Its a little NONSENSICAL, because Russias perfectly willing to ESCALATE ANYWAY; and if helping our friends resist stronger foes doesnt change anything fundamental, then
why do we help anybody? Why do we even have friends? Why not just accept Russian and Chinese domination over Eurasia and go home?
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Shame to the man in Pr 2:14
Spoke with my people there yesterday. The situation is very bad. Poroshenko and the Verkhovna Rada can’t seem to get going. They are not supplying the troops adequately with food water or arms and these young conscripts are being ground up left and right mostly by Chechen thugs
Makes me sick to see that beautiful country in such peril
How, then, do you propose to get Putin back into his own country? How do you propose to stop him from subjugating his neighbors and rebuilding the Soviet Empire?
Elect a real leader? Take foreign policy seriously? Stop downsizing our military while treating it as a social experiment?
Putin's acts are a direct consequence of a weakened United States under the ineptitude of President Obama. Putin saw this as an opportunity and took it.
All true, and what do you propose to do in the meantime?
I'm not sure there's much we can do. Elections have consequences.
So you say.
Oh, I almost didn’t take you serious enough to tell you that the Poles and Ukrainians know who carried out Stalin’s orders.
Ukranians carried out Stalin’s orders. And when they were taken over by the Nazis they carried out Hitler’s orders. Under the Russian Czars the Ukraine was rich and at peace (for the most part).
They committed suicide for Stalin? I guess you’re a revisionist and convinced that they’ll do it for your hero Putin, right?
Uke commies either feared saying no or they thought they were ushering in a new Soviet age. Why did Ukes carry out Hitler’s Shoa?
Why do you carry out Putin’s orders would be a more pertinent question.
I thought so.
Why did you just sign up for FreeRepublic, so you can post for Putin? I thought so.
Ukrainians were fighting a Partisan war against the Germans, and the Soviets into the IMF 1950s. I think they get this. Also, won’t be hard at all to export some of this pain to Mother Russia proper. Those gas pipelines make nice fat soft targets....
I don’t speak Slav talk.
Yeah. You only speak Dupa.
Yeah, right. You’re as Russian as Putin. How much are you making posting his propaganda?
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