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Putin’s Ukraine Gambit (Without Ukraine, there’s no Russian empire.)
NRO ^ | 2/28/14 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 02/28/2014 10:56:59 AM PST by cornelis

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1 posted on 02/28/2014 10:56:59 AM PST by cornelis
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To: cornelis

Our country is being destroyed. How about that?


2 posted on 02/28/2014 10:59:08 AM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: cornelis
Sure, Obama is sympathetic to democracy.

Only when the majority votes socialist.

3 posted on 02/28/2014 11:00:16 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

How about it? Are you doing anything?


4 posted on 02/28/2014 11:02:55 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: cornelis

Imperial Russia

Hitler used the same pretext to invade some other countries. “They speak our language”


5 posted on 02/28/2014 11:03:04 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

That’s already been posted.


6 posted on 02/28/2014 11:03:55 AM PST by cornelis
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So? Russia is building up its empire?

Why should I care? Why should it matter, when America itself is decaying into a degenerate cesspool of dope and homosex? With America decaying into an evil entity itself, where will it have any moral authority on anything?


7 posted on 02/28/2014 11:06:52 AM PST by greene66
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To: GeronL

For Stalin, geographical proximity was enough.


8 posted on 02/28/2014 11:07:31 AM PST by cornelis
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To: cornelis

Ukraine has to play by Russian rules. Putin just showed in Crimea who is the real boss.

And he is content to dump the toxic mess of rescuing Ukraine’s collapsing economy onto the West.

The Maidan revolutionaries will discover soon enough with Europe and America flat-broke, there’s little Western appetite for bailing Ukraine out.

And Russia has patience. Sooner than later at least a part of Ukraine will finally join the new Moscow-led Eurasian Community.


9 posted on 02/28/2014 11:08:35 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

I still side with the Ukrainian President.


10 posted on 02/28/2014 11:10:21 AM PST by impimp
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To: greene66
The proper question is, where will you have the moral authority on anything? Or will you use what you said as an excuse?
11 posted on 02/28/2014 11:10:39 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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I could really care less about Ukraine. Let Russia have it. I would back tiny Georgia though since they backed us in Iraq.


12 posted on 02/28/2014 11:11:26 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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Let me guess, you have the contract for building one of his mansions.


13 posted on 02/28/2014 11:11:30 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: cornelis

Never fear. Obama's on it.

14 posted on 02/28/2014 11:12:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Timber Rattler

And if I told you Ukraine backed us in Iraq? What then?


15 posted on 02/28/2014 11:13:39 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: impimp

Which one, the elected one or the non-elected one?


16 posted on 02/28/2014 11:14:44 AM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: 1rudeboy

Still don’t care. Can’t do anything about Russia anyway in its own back yard with Obama and Hagel dismantling our military.


17 posted on 02/28/2014 11:16:04 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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Why should I care?

Were this attitude to represent a serious party position, if someone so flippant should run for office, if this is the extent of your foreign policy . . .

What imaginary world do you live in?

18 posted on 02/28/2014 11:17:26 AM PST by cornelis
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That’s fine. You give a crap about nobody. Next time, just say so and don’t bring Georgia into it.


19 posted on 02/28/2014 11:17:31 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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So it is okay if USA and EU cajoles and bullies countries into joining with them but it is horrible and evil when Russia does it?


20 posted on 02/28/2014 11:17:45 AM PST by Arthurio
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