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Punish Putin?
Townhall.com ^ | March 13, 2014 | Cliff May

Posted on 03/13/2014 4:11:48 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 03/13/2014 4:11:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 03/13/2014 4:13:32 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Albert Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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But what can an American president do

C'mon, Puti, stop it right now! I really mean it, ya' know!!


3 posted on 03/13/2014 4:18:07 PM PDT by laweeks
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Punish Putin? From internet posts alone, I suspect he could win the presidency here. Just goes to show how hungry for an actual leader a lot of people in this country are.


4 posted on 03/13/2014 4:19:32 PM PDT by JimSEA
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Sending armed troops into a foreign country for the purpose of seizing territory is an act of war, and a line not often crossed in recent decades.

But sending troops into a foreign country for the purpose of turning it over to Mooslim terrorists (Kosovo, Lybia) is just fine.

5 posted on 03/13/2014 4:21:51 PM PDT by Hugin
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“Sending armed troops into a foreign country ............ is an act of war, and a line not often crossed in recent decades.”

If you cross out the presumptive line of “for the purpose of seizing territory” then this then the rest of this is absolute BS. I would say this is more about the Russians holding some influence in the area and keeping space between them and the EU and who would not want to do the later?! Is being friendly with the EU really in Ukraine’s interest given the performance of the lesser EU nations through the GFC or is it in fact the EU that is taking over in a less aggressive appearing fashion. The handing over of Sovereign powers is just as likely in signing up for the EU as it is in letting the Crimea vote for their own independence. I am no fan of Putin - he is an Oligarch of the highest order - but we all seem to be ignoring the nation eating socialist machine that is the EU.

Mel


6 posted on 03/13/2014 4:28:54 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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Sending armed troops into a foreign country for the

Oh please, this is a mid level CIVIL war started by a violent overthrow of the legal government by what I suspect were insurgents backed by the West.

Putin can use this very treaty to "restore and/or uphold" the prior government.

Funny how that works out...

7 posted on 03/13/2014 4:33:16 PM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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Think Honduras....... except Obama backed the old government

He lost


8 posted on 03/13/2014 4:37:05 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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[Art.] Serious economic warfare – using “banks instead of tanks” as Russian dissident Garry Kasparov has proposed – may be impossible because Europeans have grown dependent on Russia for natural gas.

Poland may have huge shale-gas reserves available. Unfortunately, onshore drilling on the Continent has been retarded by an old Roman-Dutch law doctrine (their equivalent of English common law), handed down from the Holy Roman Empire, that defines all mineral rights -- i.e. everything in the ground below 18" -- as what the Spanish call hacienda real, viz. crown property, or state property if you will.

And those countries are almost all socialist in some degree today, so that now the old feudal crown ownership is buttressed by newer socialist ideology.

That is why only France and Romania (and, in the last 40 years, Italy) have had any degree of private development of subsurface minerals and petroleum. Owners of surface rights (only) are reluctant to accept the inconvenience of building roads in to drilling sites, and the sites themselves, if the owners are not participating in the potential discoveries.

Recast the laws in central Europe and jump out of the way -- that would open a very large area to useful energy exploration.

9 posted on 03/13/2014 4:46:50 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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He’s already being punished. He has to deal with Kerry and Barry.


10 posted on 03/13/2014 4:48:29 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Oh please, this is a mid level CIVIL war .....

Not hardly. It's a "war of national liberation subversion". Think Vietnam, Laos, Malaya, the Philippines during the Huk revolt. Think Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba.

It's the Communists back at their old grift at the same old lemonade stand, selling the same crap Walter Duranty sold for them back in the 1930's in the pages of The New York Times.

11 posted on 03/13/2014 4:51:16 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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The way I see it, it is settling what should have been properly settled back in 1994.


12 posted on 03/13/2014 4:53:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I think, its too late.

Cliff May is unde the illusion Obama is Reagan.

The Crimea is lost for good - and the restoration of America’s strength will have to wait a future GOP President.

Obama radiates weakness and neither friend nor foe fears him.


13 posted on 03/13/2014 5:19:18 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Walk loudly but carry a limp di*k. .


14 posted on 03/13/2014 5:27:40 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("H)
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What we’ve lacked is the will to stand up to the self-proclaimed “peace activists” who prefer voluntary vulnerability.

I have a feeling some of these so called peace activists are commies themselves. I was at RAF Greenham Common, England in 1983, when the first ground launched cruise missiles arrived. The peace mongers had been camped outside for months. The Brits told me that much of this peace stuff, was financed by the Soviets. I was not surprised.

15 posted on 03/13/2014 6:36:28 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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Did you ever read Caliph Baraq’s piece on cruise missiles in the Columbia student paper?

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/obama-sundial.pdf


16 posted on 03/13/2014 6:41:13 PM PDT by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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Putin planned this the day Obama pulled back the missiles in Europe. Anybody could see this coming, not just Palin.


17 posted on 03/13/2014 6:42:55 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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Town hall’s twisted piece of outright lies is mind boggling.


18 posted on 03/13/2014 7:07:13 PM PDT by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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Did you ever read Caliph Baraq’s piece on cruise missiles in the Columbia student paper?

I had not, but it looks like he is still either stupid, or a commie.

19 posted on 03/13/2014 7:19:05 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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Putin & Russia should receive the same harsh reaction the US got for intervening in Kosovo.
Come on, if his guys in the Crimea sprayed their helmets Blue the media would start to support the peace keepers in the Crimea and it would take them a week to figure out it was the same bunch they were against this week

Putin has no business being there. So what? Blabbering about International law and Putin doing some "19th century" action is just stupid after so many US and NATO moves that you have to split hairs to defend as being any different..

Countries are even less willing to fight over the Crimea than they were over the Sudetenland in the thirties. Given that basic fact, what Putin does in the Crimea depends entirely on what the people there will put up with. So far, it looks like they won't just put up with kissing the rest of the Ukraine goodbye, they're anxious to do so.

The US and EU whining sounds like kids playing Monopoly and insisting little Vlad can't use the same pair of dice all the other little kiddies use.

If the EU is afraid of being over a barrel due to Russian gas prices, fine, sell them all the high grade W Va coal they want. If they prefer their "green" agenda to coal, so be it, pay Vlad the Impaler what he asks or be impaled.

20 posted on 03/13/2014 9:20:09 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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