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To: Norm Lenhart

“So do you think they are going to pussyfoot around when Obama and the GOP start shipping food while Ukraine saves the cash for more weapons/other uses?”

Our foreign policy is based on American national interests, not Russia’s. I don’t give a flying truck what the Russians think.


118 posted on 04/30/2014 8:01:25 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)
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To: rbmillerjr

It is? Is it really? When did that change? I am uncertain how running an Occupy scam on Ukraine serves the national interest, how providing gins to drug dealers in Mexico , how providing weapons to AQ, how denying aid to countries over gay issues or a host of other things is in our national interest.

So help me out here. Or is this a situational ethics thing? Because I would hate to think that a staunch rock ribbed conservative Freeper would conveniently discount all those other national security issues and fixate on this one.

Because there are no national security interests these days. Just social engineering and personal enrichment situations as the above provides rock solid evidence for at the EXPENSE of our national security.


119 posted on 04/30/2014 8:08:48 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: rbmillerjr
“So do you think they are going to pussyfoot around when Obama and the GOP start shipping food while Ukraine saves the cash for more weapons/other uses?”

Our foreign policy is based on American national interests, not Russia’s. I don’t give a flying truck what the Russians think.


I don't see many strong sanctions coming, cuz it would boomerang back and hurt American businesses.

They've no doubt let the administration know the realities of the situation.

Below is a small sample of just US businesses operating in Ukraine; there are a lot more operating in Russia.

http://www.adm.com/en-US/worldwide/ukraine/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.deere.ua/wps/dcom/uk_UA/regional_home.page

http://www.caseih.com/ru_int/Pages/home.aspx

http://www.aig.ua/_1025_220751.html

http://www2.dupont.com/Ukraine_Country_Site/uk_UA/

This older article points out some concerns:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/19/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-business-idUSBREA2I1TQ20140319

From the article:

The Chamber of Commerce, another Washington-based business group, said it was closely monitoring the crisis over Crimea and called for close cooperation with Europe given it's annual trade with Russia is about 15 times larger than that of the United States.

"A go-it-alone approach by the United States could be both economically damaging and ineffective in accomplishing its goals," said the Chamber's Vice President Myron Brilliant, who oversees international affairs for the group.

172 posted on 05/01/2014 11:50:18 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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