“Wonder how fast France and Germany will scurry back into our arms now and remind us of our NATO commitment?”
France and Germany have done all they can to dismantle NATO, now they will have to live with the consequences. France has openly admitted that they are going to lead the world in stopping US influence, so I see NO point in supporting them over Russia.
"I am deeply convinced that [the EU] has absolutely no moral right to push this large European country into mass-scale unrest of any sort," Mr. Putin said. I’m with you Putin tell these Euro-weenies to get lost.
Our interest is cearly served by a free, independent, and European Ukraine. Such a state will further shift the balance of power in the EU eastward (i.e., away from France), and will--at least temporarily--halt Putin's ambitions to rebuild the Soviet empire.
If France is leading then Russia must be following. Unless it's vice-versa.
We Need a 'Multipolar' World, Russian, Chinese Leaders Say - May 28, 2003 - "Russia and China stand for a multipolar, just and democratic world order based on the commonly recognized principles of international law," Presidents Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao said in a joint statement apparently targeting the United States and its decision to go to war against Iraq without fresh U.N. approval.
Joint declarations in 1997 and 1998 referred to the need for a new world order based on "multi-polarization" - a reaction to a "unipolar" order dominated by U.S. "hegemony."
In 2001, Jiang and Putin signed a treaty of "good neighborliness, friendship and cooperation" that again highlighted the importance of "anti-hegemonism."