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Crimea leader asks Russia's Vladimir Putin for help in restoring 'peace and calm'
VoiceofRussia ^ | 3-1-2014 | VoiseofRussia

Posted on 02/28/2014 11:09:12 PM PST by tcrlaf

Posted as a headline only a short while ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at voiceofrussia.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crimea; putin; russia; ukraine
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To: European Guest

This is a touchy thing, this Ukraine.

Being ethnically split as it is is a large part of the issue. Half the country want’s to ally itself with Russia, the other wants to distance herself. This is a civil war more than anything else. I don’t think you could go to war for “the Ukraine” right now because the country doesn’t quite know right what it is itself. A partition seems in order. Much of the country seems to welcome the Russians in as big brother protectors. I would not send my troops in to “defend” Ukrainians from a Russian incursion that so many of them see to be rooting for.


21 posted on 03/01/2014 5:09:38 AM PST by FAA
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To: European Guest

So if Cuba invaded Miami cause their’s a large Cuban population there, are you saying the U.S should accept this.


22 posted on 03/01/2014 5:34:58 AM PST by BlueSky194
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

And Danzig in Poland in 39.
The Nazis used Danzig as an excuse to invade Poland.


23 posted on 03/01/2014 5:36:11 AM PST by BlueSky194
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To: European Guest

And what about Chechnya. Why should they be forced to live under the Russians.


24 posted on 03/01/2014 5:37:18 AM PST by BlueSky194
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To: TsonicTsunami08

The Austrians welcomed Afolf Hitler with enthusiasm. There is truth to his statement “we come as liberators not as conquerors.” Most Austrians wanted reunification with Germany - and the West was not about to stand in their way.

The Crimeans are mostly ethnic Russians - again, they want to join Russia, the West is not going to tell them they can’t. A Russian attack on Ukraine proper on the other hand, that would be clear aggression.

But its not like the West can stop the Russian Bear anymore than it could stop Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.


25 posted on 03/01/2014 7:18:20 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: European Guest

European borders are not so sacrosanct as every one believes. They have changed many times throughout history and they will change again for sure in the future.


26 posted on 03/01/2014 7:20:46 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: BlueSky194

And I wonder why so many in here want us to militarily get involved in yet ANOTHER possible civil war.


27 posted on 03/01/2014 8:10:47 AM PST by chessplayer
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March Madness

Less than $5.1k to go!!
Git-R-Done!

28 posted on 03/01/2014 9:47:46 AM PST by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: tcrlaf
Putin had just said to Obama, “The Crimeans asked me to go there. What have you to say about that?” Obama," Me knows nuthin', me quiet"


29 posted on 03/01/2014 10:48:33 AM PST by Marguerite ( When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: All
Putin sits like a man. Obama sits like all the other girls in the room.


30 posted on 03/01/2014 11:00:54 AM PST by Marguerite ( When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: tcrlaf

The US has not business intervening. Where we have intervened since the end of the cold war we have left sorrow and despair and an emboldened terrorist network. US State dept and EU and NATO: stay out.


31 posted on 03/01/2014 11:18:26 AM PST by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: European Guest

Agreed. The US NATO and the EU should absolutely keep their noses out. These entities have already done enough damage to the security of the world in order to promote their secular atheistic and corporate agendas.


32 posted on 03/01/2014 11:21:32 AM PST by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: European Guest

Austria - Still trying to convince the world that Beethoven was Austrian, and that Hitler was German.


33 posted on 03/01/2014 11:24:31 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: chessplayer

Why? Many of them want to get involved because they are clueless about the reality there. Shoot from the ship crowd. Brainwashed by the so-called western media.
http://news.kievukraine.info/2013/07/are-there-in-fact-15000-radical.html


34 posted on 03/01/2014 11:31:12 AM PST by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: Marguerite

So obama should order an attack on Russia to prove to Putin he isn’t a wimp because he crossed his legs?


35 posted on 03/01/2014 1:21:09 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

No, but I can’t stand a man, who looks like a wimp.


36 posted on 03/01/2014 6:52:53 PM PST by Marguerite ( When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: goldstategop

“The Austrians welcomed Afolf Hitler with enthusiasm. There is truth to his statement “we come as liberators not as conquerors.” “

Yes, I saw the news reels on CNN. The Von Trapp family were particularly overwhelmed with joy. /s

With the documented history of the war and Hitler’s designs for world dominance recorded, What”truth” do you speak of ? You seriously can’t beleive that.

Well, I guess you could.


37 posted on 03/01/2014 7:15:36 PM PST by TsonicTsunami08
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