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Crisis in Ukraine: As Russia surges, is US still a 'superpower'?
Yahoo ^ | March 2, 2014 | Brad Knickerbocker

Posted on 03/03/2014 6:55:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

As the fast-moving crisis in Ukraine shows no sign of winding down, the United States – frequently dubbed the lone remaining “superpower” since the Soviet Union fragmented and fell – finds its place in the world questioned and perhaps tenuous.

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More immediately, does the Obama administration have any effective options to influence behavior in Ukraine as Russian military forces surge there, taking over its Crimea region, and amounting to what interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk calls "a declaration of war”?

As hundreds of armed men in trucks and armored vehicles surrounded a Ukrainian military base in Crimea Sunday, Prime Minister Yatsenyuk said, "We are on the brink of disaster.”

US Secretary of State John Kerry was the point man for the Obama administration as he made the rounds of the Sunday morning television news programs.

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To: MinorityRepublican

Obama’s upbringing and training were all intended to raise a communist.

As a communist, his mission was to destroy the U.S. constitution, and the U.S. itself. All of that was accomplished from within.

The U.S. still has a chance to recover, but, with people like him and the liberals and socialists in congress, and the liberal “state” press to carry their water, and the dependent society which democrats created, it’s going to be a very rough road back, and we might never make it back.

The USSR was a model for communism, and when the Soviet Empire crumbled, it was a huge disappointment to communists everywhere, including Obama and Alinsky. But, a communist America, or a destroyed America, would never leave their dreams and desires. They knew how to get it done, and we’re witnessing the results, and Obama is celebrating, while making the necessary speeches to deflect any accusations that might point fingers at his real mission.

America was duped, and we have to take that statement that Obama made to Putin last year, just before the election, as a “smoking gun”; and that statement was about how he (Obama) would have more flexibility after the elections. We now know what that statement meant, and both Putin and Obama played us all for fools.

The goal of communists is to create a world that is all communist, and Russia is the leader in that mission, and Obama is going along with it, because, it will be the culmination of his lifelong dream, and that of his mentors.


21 posted on 03/03/2014 7:23:51 PM PST by adorno (Y)
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To: RoosterRedux


22 posted on 03/03/2014 7:25:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: SADMILLIE

I wouldn’t say we have a “woman” government. We have a “sissy” government. I’m not a completely devoted blind Palin fan, but I don’t think we’d have a “sissy” government if she was in the white house. I truly do believe she’d be another Thatcher. If John McCain’s not around to screw it up.


23 posted on 03/03/2014 7:26:34 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: SampleMan
The Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons based on a treaty obligation by the U.S. and EU to protect its sovereignty.

What year did the US Senate ratify that treaty, do you remember?

24 posted on 03/03/2014 7:33:18 PM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not under Obama! He wants a post America world.


25 posted on 03/03/2014 7:37:51 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: adorno

Obama is a Communist plant that took 47 years to train and put into position.


26 posted on 03/03/2014 7:51:33 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not with obama in office. Rather than a “superpower,” we are now officially a “poopersour.”


27 posted on 03/03/2014 8:08:50 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Power is a combination of hardware and heart.


28 posted on 03/03/2014 8:10:15 PM PST by lurk
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To: VerySadAmerican

Good point. Sarah is great but even she would agree we need a man— NOW.


29 posted on 03/03/2014 8:12:59 PM PST by SADMILLIE
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Was that not always his plan?

He is more concerned with disarming law abiding US citizens than standing up to Putin.


30 posted on 03/03/2014 9:12:58 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: MinorityRepublican

Any country that possess enough nukes and have the means to deliver them should be considered a superpower.


31 posted on 03/03/2014 9:20:39 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: mac_truck

It appears your implication is correct. I cannot find that it was even presented to the Senate for ratification.

Looks like another worthless assurance of support from the West to Eastern Europe. The Ukrainians should have remembered Czechoslovakia and Poland, before giving up their nukes.


32 posted on 03/04/2014 5:24:51 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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