Posted on 03/07/2014 3:19:43 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
I’m going to post my 1st antiamerican post in my life. I believe Russia has had a historical union with the Ukraine for over 500 years. The Crimean ports are the only warm water ports that Russia has. Putin cannot allow Ukraine to go completely independent and join the globalized EU. It would be like Florida trying to secede from the union. We are not the policeman of the world. Ukraine is in the Russian sphere of influence. Our major goal should be to rebuild the Weinberger Doctrine and absolutely prevent any Russian aggression outside their sphere of influence. Flame away. “stay away from a ground war against Russia.” Russia is not the same marxist collossus that we have all feared. Putin is trying to reestablish orthodox values and protect the historical Christian Church unlike the reprobates that are running our country now.
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What is "anti-american" about your post?
I bet that right now the Chinese government is slapping its forehead and saying, “Damn! We should have invaded Taiwan while this idiot is in charge of America! By the time that fool did anything we would have two armies of occupation there and it would be a done deal!”
And a moment later they would slap themselves again and say, “Damn! We could have invaded Japan, the Philippines, and even Hawaii, and that jackass would just sit there, wringing his hands.”
Were I Putin-or any other world leader-I would have taken particular notice of the secretary of state's and military chiefs stating to America and the world that the biggest threat to our national security is ... Climate change!?!
Seriously again, were I Putin, I would be advancing on every front possible and let the US battle the dreaded global warming.
Absolutely! You have stated what so many others have missed in the entire situation.
They also have a base in Tartus, Syria...and obviously with the instability there, the importance of Crimea is magnified.
With that said, I think we are going to see our mid-term elections meddled with like never before. It behooves other nefarious countries to have democrats running things in the U.S., hence I think we will witness some seriously fraudulent behavior this go around with large sponsorship from foreign countries.
Just my $0.02
Amen. Reality has a way of sneaking up on us. Paradigms are a biotch, especially when our formerly righteous nation descends so rapidly into depravity that it now hates everything righteous.
Putin would literally HAVE to be crazy not to be taking full advantage of our current foreign policy weakness...
Putin is still a horrible thug, but he would have to be insane not to take advantage of any weakness that could be an advantage to him
Exactly, which is why no one in the West actually thinks that's the case - it's just posturing for MIV (medium information voters) consumption.
There's a few FR posters left who understand the larger, strategic dynamic, but a lot have left for greener pastures. (Compare read/comment stats @ ZH vs FR.)
The bottom line is this: in order for the US dollar to survive, debt must continually expand. Whether domestic (eg Obamacare) or foreign, the hunt for projects that fit the profile of expensive, credit driven events continues.
Crimea/Ukraine is actually a three-fer: (a) resource control (ie pipelines); (b) justification for military build-up (anywhere, not just Ukraine); and (c) emergency 'grants' & 'loans.
Actually, strike that, it's a four-fer: get the minds of MIVs off domestic treason by focusing on issues which we cannot control. Brilliant, really.
350 years, but who's counting?
Total nonsense. Absence of nation-state doesn't refute nation's existence. Otherwise, Poles, Finns, Chechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians, Lithuanians/Latvians/Estonians, Jews, etc. are not nations since they too didn't have their own country.
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.
” you are impressed by Putin/Russia, because they make Obama look like an idiot ?”
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That is a bit of a distortion of what I said.
I can respect Putin as a strong man, far more then I could Obama, but it does not take anyone to make Obama look like an idiot. He does that quite well on his own.
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