The Russians are in full Retreat!
Posted on 03/04/2014 8:16:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Even a week ago, the idea of a Russian military intervention in Ukraine seemed far-fetched if not totally alarmist. The risks involved were just too enormous for President Vladimir Putin and for the country he has ruled for 14 years. But the arrival of Russian troops in Crimea over the weekend has shown that he is not averse to reckless adventures, even ones that offer little gain.
In the coming days and weeks, Putin will have to decide how far he is prepared to take this intervention and how much he is prepared to suffer for it. It is already clear, however, that he cannot emerge as the winner of this conflict, at least not when the damage is weighed against the gains. It will at best be a Pyrrhic victory, and at worst an utter catastrophe. Here’s why:
At home, this intervention looks to be one of the most unpopular decisions Putin has ever made. The Kremlin’s own pollster released a survey on Monday that showed 73% of Russians reject it. In phrasing its question posed in early February to 1,600 respondents across the country, the state-funded sociologists at WCIOM were clearly trying to get as much support for the intervention as possible: “Should Russia react to the overthrow of the legally elected authorities in Ukraine?” they asked. Only 15% said yes — hardly a national consensus.
That seems astounding in light of all the brainwashing Russians have faced on the issue of Ukraine. For weeks, the Kremlin’s effective monopoly on television news has been sounding the alarm over Ukraine. Its revolution, they claimed, is the result of an American alliance with Nazis intended to weaken Russia. And still, nearly three-quarters of the population oppose a Russian “reaction” of any kind, let alone a Russian military occupation
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Both countries were left hanging by NATO
NATO is dead as a serious defense organization. Putler will use the Crimea playbook to snap off some place like Narva, Estonia (on the Russian border and 93% Russian speaking) and NATO won’t lift a finger. The west is rudderless and being run by soulless globalists.
Time to pray for those in people eastern europe. The iron curtain is coming down on them hard again.
It is a war of nerves now, who pulls the trigger first, and Russians are losing it quickly. They might be able to keep Crimea, to international outrage, but that is it. The result will be opposite to their goal: NATO troops stationed closer to them and another unfriendly neighbor.
Let’s see....troops, planes, ships, helicopters...what were their four again?
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Soros? He loves him a good war.
Economically, politically, nor militarily.
The Russians are in full Retreat!
Yeah. I share your concerns. Perhaps if we survive the coming war, we’ll start fighting to win.
LOL!
TIME, brainwashing America for decades seems to frown on brainwashing done by another entity.
What idiots. Look at a map you dolts. Russia cannot give up the Crimean peninsula. No way. No how. And the thugs who took over the Ukrainian popular revolt, made the Russian language illegal. Putin had no choice.
More brain-dead horse sh*t from Time Magazine.
Wow, shocker.
If the Crimea leaves the Ukraine that would really dilute the Anti-EU sentiment.
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