Putin’s Ukraine Gambit (Without Ukraine, there’s no Russian empire.)

NRO ^ | 2/28/14 | Charles Krauthammer

[Cyber Liberty]

Anybody who has ever played “Risk” can tell you this.

[1rudeboy]

Depends. Does the USA and the EU threaten to cut off gas supplies, and send in the tanks when things get tricky?

[Revolting cat!]

I could really care less about Ukraine.

How much less? If you could care less, that means you do care now. Good for you!

[Timber Rattler]

Hey, I like the Georgians. They got spunk and theirs is one of the earliest Christian countries in history, along with Armenia and Ethiopia.

I could really care less about Ukraine though.

[wildbill]

I doubt any Russian leader could let Ukraine go in peace, especially the Crimea with its naval access to the Black Sea. Russia simply will never let control of that access pass from their influence/hegemony.

Putin happens to be a very hard=liner however, so the likelihood of his letting Ukraine out of the Russian orbit is probably nil.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[drypowder]

Yes Demetri, tell Vlad I will be more flexible after my election.

Oh cynical me, this Ukraine conflict stinks of a complicit US - Russian false flag and with the obozo in the WH it is a certainty to not bode well for the US.

[steve86]

There’s two horse’s asses in that picture.

[1rudeboy]

They got spunk and theirs is one of the earliest Christian countries in history....

So where's your cutoff? Just ballpark your answer by century. I'm curious how much higher Georgian Christians rank over Ukrainian Christians.

[cornelis]

Activists in cajole and bully mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSvj8F_Br4M

[Timber Rattler]

A.D. 1000

[goldstategop]

No Russian leader thinks Ukraine is anything but an accident of history.

The problem is from Moscow’s point of view is while the Belarusians are pro-Russian, the Ukrainians are like a wild horse that can’t be easily broken.

Looking back, Stalin’s big mistake was annexing parts of Poland to the Ukraine after World War II that messed up a very manageable situation for which Russia is paying dearly today.

[1rudeboy]

Ok, so any Christians after 1000AD are worthless. Got it.

[Revolting cat!]

The subliterates “could care less”, why even bother with them?!

[Domangart]

So those Russian troops that were issued new uniforms didn’t fool you?

[1rudeboy]

It’s worse than that . . . seriously, how does one “know” that Georgia was a member of the Iraq coalition and doesn’t “know” Ukraine was as well?

[Arthurio]

Barry Hussein Ugama Obama has been threatening Uganda of late.

[1rudeboy]

Let me know when he rolls the tanks. /s

[Boogieman]

“What Obama doesn’t seem to understand is that American inaction creates a vacuum.”

Oh, he understands. He understands perfectly well. That’s his intent: to muck about in various countries, then leave and let our enemies take advantage of the power vacuum to seize control.

[goldstategop]

Of course not. I suspected they were Russian spetsnaz.

Not guys you want to mess around with.