Posted on 03/07/2014 3:19:43 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
LT. COL. RALPH PETERS: Putin establishes facts on the ground. Look, the vote in the Crimean parliament today, begging to be allowed to join Russia -- it's a done deal. The plebiscite coming up in less than two weeks is a done deal. Crimea now belongs to Russia. As I've said on FOX before, the only remaining question is how much more of Ukraine Putin will take and when he will take it.
But the weakness, the lack of unity between the EU and the United States -- the greed, the financial cowardice -- is absolutely stunning, and Putin isn't going to stop, and he's going to do worse.
This administration lives in a dream world that negotiations solve everything. This administration, look, they still indulge in this fantasy that you can talk Putin out of Crimea. It is absolutely insane. Putin is not crazy, he's not delusional; our president and this administration are delusional.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: But it sounds like, Ralph, what you're saying is that it would take a military build-up of the kind that you just explained in order to get his attention. That's not something the U.S. is prepared to do.
PETERS: Well, look at the START treaty. There's no cost. It doesn't have to increase our defense budget significantly or anything else. But Obama wants that as part of his legacy even though the U.S. gave up valuable dual-use systems. The Russians gave up junk. Stationing forces, offering to station forces in the Baltic and Poland doesn't have to be extremely costly, and the EU could pony up for that. It doesn't have to take a huge Reagan-era military build-up, although, by God, Reagan's build-up certainly worked against the Soviets and brought them to economic collapse. There are innovative solutions and answers, but you have...
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Full title: Ralph Peters: "Putin Is Not Crazy Or Delusional; Our President And This Administration Are Delusional"
Finally
“Shameful”
Yes, our leadership is a shameful mess
I never thought that I could ever have more respect for post Communist Europe then I have today. Putin, a man, pretty much tells our “pretty boy” to go suck an egg.
GOD save America from the Obozo plague.
I guess Stalin’s policy of Russification in key former Soviet Republics has paid off. Crime does pay. This Russification happened in other places too, like the Baltic Republics and other areas with Ukraine. Look for moves in some of those places too if we don’t get Jimmy Carter Part Deux out of the White House.
Palin was RIGHT and Putin is playing “Hitler” now, one country at a time.
And odumbo is probably golfing again, he is going to Flordia is he not?
Obama is all hat and no cattle as they say in Texas.
Putin? He holds a Texas flush that not even Obama can counter.
But hey, America’s royal family needs another vacation like there is no tomorrow.
The sets of skills required to be a community organizer or a Cold War KGB man are insanely different. We’re witnessing it.
I hope we start to hear more of this from the media.
I cannot even view what Kerry and 0bama are putting out as propaganda ‘talking points.’ Sadly, they actually freakin’ believe in what they are saying and doing! The naïveté is truly stunning.
In that regard, there is no way in hell Europe is going to follow us into attempting to stop Putin, even if it is in their own best long-term interests to do so. Reagan and Thatcher must be turning over in their graves.
As far as Putin is concerned, the media blitz to attempt to make him seem stupid is failing. And anyone who remotely thinks so, underestimates this formidable foe at their own peril. Lulling Americans, attempting to lull old soviet states, into a this false sense of confidence regarding Putin is a going to show to be a catastrophic mistake.
The war game is afoot and the Eagle doesn’t fly until Damascus falls. The world is about to change dramatically and due to President 0bama we will sit on the sidelines and watch until mid-2016. Israel is in great peril and I pray leadership inside the Pentagon have wisdom to understand the ‘wait.’
I’m no Obama fan by any means, but let’s be honest here. The Crimea is next door to Russia and has been under Russia’s direct or indirect control for hundreds of years. If Putin let it fall to the new Ukraine government, he would have looked weak. The big picture is that what is unfolding in Ukraine now is Putin trying to salvage what control/influence he can. Its a very bad situation for him. Just three weeks ago, his man controlled the entire Ukraine—now he’s just playing defense.
Correction—he only wants to homosexualize the non-Muslim world. Figure it out.
A very accurate assessment, IMHO.
Indeed. Maybe Putin should announce he's gay!
One thing that isn’t often mentioned—the Crimea always belonged to Russia. It was attached to the Ukraine as an administrative move under the USSR. When the USSR fell apart, that move wasn’t undone—things were too disorganized. The reality is that the Ukraine is two separate regions—the eastern one is Ukrainian, and was historically so; the western one is predominantly Russian.
Now comes the EU and the US butting in and telling Russia they have to let the Western part go along with the revolting East. Why should the Russians do that, especially when the West is led by our wussified Prez?
With regardes to Russification. .its the same reason the left is doing Mexication of large section of the US..same reason..will be same outcome
It’s really simple: Obama and Putin are evil to the same degree. The only difference is one of them lives in Washington, D.C., the other in Moscow, Russia.
Crimea has been effectively Russian since Tsarist times. The nation of Ukraine is the aberration, an artificial modern construct that amounted to a "difference without a meaning" since all SSRs fell under Moscow's rule. It was lunacy to think that Russia would ever allow a hostile alliance like NATO to control its southern flank and its strategic, sole access to warm water. And it's a good thing the West never drew Ukraine into NATO, or the other members would have been treaty-bound to defend an indefensible position.
Those of us who defend and espouse the Monroe Doctrine for our hemisphere ought to look realistically at Russia's borders in the same light. Putin would be derelict if he didn't do what he is doing now. This is how the real world works, and hard realities cannot be wished away by naive dreamers who believe that changes in the weather pose greater threats than clashing civilizations. I only wish that our president was as concerned for his own country's security as the Russian president is of his.
The world is now shrinking at an accelerating rate. Television and the INTERNET have killed the Southern accent in Texas other than amongst people over 60, what do you think they're going to do to the Ukrainian language??
In another twenty years, there will probably be less than a dozen languages in actual use, figure two Germanic languages (English and German), Two Romance languages (French and Spanish), One Slavic language (Russian), Hebrew and Arabic, One Subcontinent language (Hindi), One Chinese language (Mandarin), and Japanese and Korean.
That will be it. Those maps showing a linguistic breakdown for the Ukraine will be 100% vs. zero %.
All of that would be taking place with or without anything Stalin ever did.
The world is now shrinking at an accelerating rate. Television and the INTERNET have killed the Southern accent in Texas other than amongst people over 60, what do you think they're going to do to the Ukrainian language??
In another twenty years, there will probably be less than a dozen languages in actual use, figure two Germanic languages (English and German), Two Romance languages (French and Spanish), One Slavic language (Russian), Hebrew and Arabic, One Subcontinent language (Hindi), One Chinese language (Mandarin), and Japanese and Korean.
That will be it. Those maps showing a linguistic breakdown for the Ukraine will be 100% vs. zero %.
All of that would be taking place with or without anything Stalin ever did.
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