Posted on 02/28/2014 10:56:59 AM PST by cornelis
... Obama wants stability, the New York Times reports, quoting internal sources. He sees Ukraine as merely a crisis to be managed rather than an opportunity to alter the increasingly autocratic trajectory of the region, allow Ukrainians to join their destiny to the West, and block Russian neo-imperialism.
Sure, Obama is sympathetic to democracy. But it must come organically, from internal developments, you see. Must not be imposed by outside intervention, but develop on its own. But Ukraine is never on its own. Not with a bear next door. American neutrality doesnt allow an authentic Ukrainian polity to emerge. It leaves Ukraine naked to Russian pressure.
What Obama doesnt seem to understand is that American inaction creates a vacuum. His evacuation from Iraq consigned that country to Iranian hegemony, just as Obamas writing off Syria invited in Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah to reverse the tide of battle.
Putin fully occupies vacuums. In Ukraine, he keeps flaunting his leverage. Hes withdrawn the multibillion-dollar aid package with which he had pulled the now-deposed Ukrainian president away from the EU. He has suddenly mobilized Russian forces bordering Ukraine. His health officials are even questioning the safety of Ukrainian food exports.
This is no dietary-hygiene campaign. This is a message to Kiev: We can shut down your agricultural exports today, your natural-gas supplies tomorrow. We can make you broke, and we can make you freeze.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Anybody who has ever played “Risk” can tell you this.
Depends. Does the USA and the EU threaten to cut off gas supplies, and send in the tanks when things get tricky?
How much less? If you could care less, that means you do care now. Good for you!
I could really care less about Ukraine though.
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.
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.
There’s two horse’s asses in that picture.
So where's your cutoff? Just ballpark your answer by century. I'm curious how much higher Georgian Christians rank over Ukrainian Christians.
A.D. 1000
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.
Ok, so any Christians after 1000AD are worthless. Got it.
The subliterates “could care less”, why even bother with them?!
So those Russian troops that were issued new uniforms didn’t fool you?
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?
Barry Hussein Ugama Obama has been threatening Uganda of late.
Let me know when he rolls the tanks. /s
“What Obama doesnt 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.
Of course not. I suspected they were Russian spetsnaz.
Not guys you want to mess around with.
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