Posted on 03/14/2018 11:11:41 AM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
Following a recent trip to Ukraine, Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas told Newsmax that while the final outcome of the ongoing crisis is "impossible to predict," Russian President Vladimir Putin's long-term mission "is to control Ukraine."
"It could easily go on from there to Belarus or Moldova," he added, referring to two other independent states in the former Soviet Union that have large Russian-speaking populations.
Two-termer Pompeo, a Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee, is part of the growing number of younger Republicans in the House urging the administration to take a harder line against Russia on the economic front.
"To the degree that we can demonstrate support for the Ukrainian government, we can change Putin's calculus and increase the risk to him and to Russia for moving combat forces closer to Kiev," Pompeo said.
"The consensus is that the West's response to these events was far too slow and far too weak," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
It’s been a few years now, did Putin take over the Ukraine? No, he did not. He secured Sebastopol which is what he desired, as per the Russia/Ukraine agreement that the rebel government in Kiev sought to deny.
Yes Ukraine proved too resistant so now he’s staked his bets on Middle East (albeit in different format) with Iran and Assad in Syria.
Putin won’t let this go. Ukraine is rich in natural resources and a rich agricultural sector. Also Odessa on the Black Sea is a strong port and shipping center. Russia needs to control this.
The Kiev coup has a childish understanding of a coup. They thought that by grabbing the seat of government, they naturally inherit the entire nation that the old government held.
The truth, is that everyone else in the country has the same right to grab what they wish. A coup only gives you what you can grab by force.
If a coup grabs DC, they don’t own Texas by default. Sevastopol was never going to became a NATO base and it was crazy to dream otherwise
Desert Rhino = Russian Troll Garbage
Desert Rhino = Russian Troll Garbage
I mean Putin troll garbage, these people do not represent the Russian people and still tell the same old 6 year lies, for a country who gets their athletes banned from the Olympics for drug use, smuggles cocaine from South America through their embassy. No decency whatsoever.
Who wants to belong to a nation with the world’s richest man leading it, their prostitutes, er, I mean models, crooked in everything they endeavor, this is about Putin, not the Russian people many boycotting their farce elections.
Yeah bead man. Sure. Beadcounting for McCain and Neuland still. Come on, use your words and try to say something beyond a schoolyard insult.
Nevermind my response to you. Hell, you aren’t even an American!
“Putin won’t let this go. Ukraine is rich in natural resources and a rich agricultural sector. Also Odessa on the Black Sea is a strong port and shipping center. Russia needs to control this.”
Extreme mismanagement by former governments, in the most corrupt country on the planet, makes this look almost too easy to take for ANY Russian leader, not just Putin.
Now,Putin is scape goating the Jews, now,where have we seen that? And ignominiously, this is defended.
These people do not represent the Russian people, with their fake elections, mean spirit, remember how they spoke about Nemtsov, cocaine being smuggled out of the Russian embassy in Argentina, banned from the Winter Olympics and they expect us to believe their lies, some 5, 6 years old.
And I know Russian are flocking to the US, maybe UK too, to all the usual turncoats who will speak ill of our allies.
Vlad wanted a port on the black sea and got it via crimea. He want to keep his port in Syria.
Everybody forgets that the Syrian thingy started because the Saudis wanted to run a gas pipeline through Syria to Europe cutting off the Russians from exporting Natural Gas to Europe. McCain and his fools were 100% behind it. Destabilizing Syria was McCain and Obama’s idea.
He also took over Donbass (Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts). The occupation has displaced 3 to 5 million people and dramatically weakened Ukraine’s once improving economy. From what I’ve heard he’s dismantled factories, especially military ones, and taken them to Russia.
What? Which comment are you referring to? Please don’t tell me the Megyn Kely interview...because that was not at all what he was doing. The translation was HORRIFIC there.
And the Black Sea port was a Russian navy base since the era of Catherine the great 1783. This was 5 years before George Washington was sworn in as President.
And we thought an EU/Soros/State dept coup is going to result in a Ukraine that gives that Sevastopol navy base to NATO. The plan was too cute by half. That would be like us giving Norfolk navy base to China because Virginia went Democrat or something.
Has anyone noticed that as we approach the Ides of March, the head of our State Department becomes Pompey-o?
(Sigh). With great regret I have to agree with you. Ukrainians in my particular experience are a good and hard working people. They have been betrayed over and over by corrupt apparatchiks whose corruption permeates all levels of society.
It is interesting that Vladimir Putin’s main argument justifying the seizure of the Crimean territory, and Russia’s participation in the conflict in the Ukraine in general, is that there was a regime change in the Ukraine that put an illegal political group into power, when the same can be said about Russia, where the current regime is a direct descendant of the Bolshevik terror group that obtained its power illegally. There was never an official renunciation of the actions of the communist regime and its emblems; no declaration that this regime’s rule was illegal; no criminal indictment, and no ban on its emblems and symbols.
This is exactly why we have conflicts with the Baltic nations, Poland, and other countries from the former “Communist bloc.” And it is also why our neighboring countries (Ukraine, the Baltics, and others) have such antagonism towards modern Russia and the Russian language, since Russian is directly associated with a regime that occupied not only Russia, but also a number of Eastern European countries after World War II. It stands to reason that such an attitude towards the Russian language should be ameliorated, as Germany did in its time, spending enormous amounts of money and efforts to separate “everything German” from “everything fascist.”
But the fact is Russia never did that work because our current regime is still a descendant of Stalin’s – a regime that openly entered into a dialogue with Hitler’s government, supported the actions of the fascists in other countries, and even participated in military campaigns, invading, for example, Poland in 1939, and it turns out that that regime to this day, in essence, remains in power. If in the late 1990s and early 2000s the regime somehow hid and suppressed this allegiance, then today it is once again openly shown.
- Ivan Vyrypaev (translation by Michelle Ort.)
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