Why is this any business of the US?
Sanctions?
What’s he going to do? Pout and throw a hissy fit? Maybe cut 1 day off a 10 day Spring Break Vacation?
“He echoed European Union leaders and the pro-Western government in Ukraine in declaring that the proposed referendum would violate international law. “
That wasn’t what they said and did with Kosovo.
Does this mean they are going to give Kosovo back to Serbia?
https://twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/442031881568387072
Hearing that a couple of journalists have been quite badly beaten up by the self defence units near the Sevastopol base being stormed. Grim.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.578553
Russian soldiers attack Ukrainian military base in Crimea
We should tell the Russians that we will not be using their Soyuz rockets to travel to the ISS. That is a sanction with some bite to it.
I wonder what obama would say if (when) mexico decides to have it’s ILLEGALS declare Cali and Arizona to vote mexico in as it’s supreme power.
Putin laughs at Obama’s “phone and a pen”.
The American reaction (and that word is important, by the way), is far too late. Putin outmaneuvered 0bama long ago. He has been pursuing a coherent and logical strategy regarding Ukraine for a long time now. In contrast, the 0bama regime foreign policy is limited to aiding foreign homosexuals in the fight against global warming. Other than that, we have NO foreign policy to speak of. I have compared it to playing electric football on the vibrating metal board. We are watching our pieces wander around and randomly bump into each other without any guidance or direction. There is no sense of the consequences of any decisions they make. And they are reacting two, three or four steps behind every major international event.
Putin is doing what he is doing for one very simple reason; Because he can. In fact, he must be sitting in the Kremlin with Lavrov laughing and saying “It can’t be THIS easy.”
In Russian, of course.
Yeah, parliamentary vote. According to reports in European press the deputies voted for the legislation without actually reading it. Sound familiar?
It makes me wonder who will own the Sea of Azov?
They going to divide it down the middle with Russia
owning three sides of it?
Interesting...
I’m sure Putin is shaking in his boots/sarc
He has more flexibility now that the election’s over. :D