Posted on 05/09/2014 5:44:48 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has hailed Crimea's incorporation into Russia. Putin made a speech Friday in the city of Sevastopol on his first trip to the Black Sea peninsula since Russia annexed it from Ukraine in March. Putin watched a parade of Russian navy ships and a flyby of Russian aircraft marking the Victory Day commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Ukraine has condemned Putin's visit as trampling on international law.
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Well I don’t see any Putin is the savior type comments on this thread, although I do see some of the opposite type comments.
Do you think Putin is an evil dictator like Hitler?
looks like the Russians have a new template for rebuilding the Soviet Union: “Free Elections”
Yes. Russian style free elections with tanks in the streets and the local comrades checking your vote to make sure you vote happily.
Not to mention the cutoff of news and replacement by Russian news, which isn’t really news at all.
After the “free elections” comes gun confiscation. No worries comrade, we’ll make sure the “proper” people have guns.
Money talks:
The European Central Bank says capital flight from Russia since the Ukraine crisis erupted may be four times higher than admitted by the Kremlin, a clear sign that sanctions pressure is inflicting serious damage on the Russian economy.
Paul Goble: Staunton, May 11—Vladimir Putin faces a terrible choice in Ukraine, Geydar Dzhemal says. If he sends in Russian forces, he will revive NATO and isolate Moscow internationally as the West and its allies in Russia would like, but if he doesn’t, he will stand accused by nationalists of betraying Russians abroad.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.se/2014/05/window-on-eurasia-putins-only-way-out.html
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Sure. Newly instated hereditary monarchies have lately worked so well in North Korea and Syria.
But seriously, I don’t care what Russia and the Ukraine do with each other and themselves, so long as the US and Israel do not get directly involved.
(Yes I know, but people like Putin make it worse)
Sorry if my grammar is bad, my phone doesn't really support translations to different languages.
I’ve never been so embarrassed for Free Republic, to see people defend an invading Russian army, against a free and sovereign nation.
Some people only pay lip service to freedom. When it comes to actual freedom, they support invading forces.
Go figure...
Good, someone who sees through the Russian fog and is willing to speak, bravo!
You are another, bravo!
This is the end of FR for me. The end, sorry. Supporting tyranny, invasions, corruption and accusing the freedom fighters of Nazi sympathies without ever understanding that 'Nazi' means a member of a German political party which ceased existing in 1945. Oh, and spelling plural of "Nazi" as "Nazi's", as seen above. Illiteracy.
What does this mean? "Putin is a Russian patriot with low low taxes". (Also above.) More illiteracy.
A nation is fighting to gain independence from an imperium, and at the same time working to define its unique identity, denied it by various invaders for centuries, and here Americans stand on the side of the imperialist. Go figure? No! I just wrote to my friends in the region that Americans are naive, uninformed and easily swayed by propaganda, and that is how you (my correspondents' nations) were betrayed in Yalta and Tehran in 1944-5.
We have persuaded ourselves in this country that everything has two sides, and now these useful idiots on FR, like the useful idiots and agents surrounding FDR once, believe that the Maidan uprising had two sides, and that Ukrainian quest for independence had two sides. And unfortunately, that other side is the side of Putin, and yes, the side of Obama (although we must note that the latest absurdist line of Putin apologists here is that Maidan was Obama's project. That, another note, marks a change from them alleging recently a Soros and 'EU sodomite' conspiracy. New orders from the Kremlin or from a radio talk show blabbermouth?)
One more note. The Putin apologists and Nazi obsessives follow and cite reports from the MSM, which they generally and when it is convenient dismiss as lies. Some of us here follow first hand reports from the region.
Don’t get that worked up over it. Opposing voices need to be heard, and yours is one of them.
The Crimea is majority Russian, not that I care. I support neither side. Neither should anyone else. It’s not about freedom. Russia supported Ukrainian independence from the Polish/Lithuanian commonwealth, not for the sake of freedom, but to destroy the commonwealth, which it accomplished. Now the shoe is on the other horse.
His efforts in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are just like Hitler’s moves in Austria. He’s couching it a bit, but it’s open naked aggression.
He’s annexing foreign territory, pure and simple. Who knows where it goes from here?
Thanks. Seems like what’s called for.
Yeah, we’ll see.
I have a friend who is now living in Russia’s new land holding.
The family refers to Putin as Putler. Any idea why?
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