Posted on 03/16/2014 2:32:09 PM PDT by goldstategop
And exactly what is it I said that got you so defensive about your boy Putin?
Russia hasn’t changed in 1,000 years, who’s ignorant idea is it that it’ll behave differently after the fall of the Soviet Union?
You’re a disruptor troll and a loon. That is the only thing you outed on your pansy thread.
What I have a problem with is having it both ways. Do we recognize every group that overthrows their government? Say, like Cuba?
We get pissed when the courts over rule our votes. The people of Crimea have voted. Who the hell are we to say their votes don’t count? To me this is no different from West Virginia seceding from Virginia.
I think you’re right. I don’t have an opinion on this subject. I don’t trust any of the information I’m getting, and there seems to be a few people who come on the discussion threads with an ax to grind.
How many troops did Kentucky send in order to make it happen?
I don’t trust any of the info either. I have no idea what the real story there is.
You’re an apologist for a Russian tyrant who is intent on reclaiming a lost empire that this country defeated. You and the rest of the Putin crotch sniffers can take the first plane to Moscow for all I care.
I consider the EU in many ways to be more “commie” than Russia. Are you a socialist?
Really? Where did I post anything in defense of Russia? Post a link to it or admit that you’re a lying POS because that’s exactly what you are, punk. LOL
That’s because you are a Putin fanboy.
Just because we had plenty of voter fraud in the 2012 election (and nothing was done about it) does not mean that the same took place in the Crimea.
lol....
In a referendum widely denounced as rigged, and closely watched by Russian soldiers and “self-defense” forces, residents of the Crimea voted overwhelmingly to join the Russian Federation on Sunday, with exit polls putting the result at 93%, according to the BBC. The U.S. sponsored a UN Security Council Resolution declaring the vote invalid, but Russia vetoed it on Saturday, exercising its power as one of five permanent council members
I stand against Putin on Crimea and against EU/Kerry on perversion. So, I am against both.
It probably wouldn’t go 95.5% for unification but unification would still win running away. Crimea was “given” to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 after Josef Stalin’s death (why, I’m not sure) and came with Ukraine when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. But before that, if I remember right, it was part of the Russian RSFSR and part of the Russian Empire long before 1917, settled by Russians when the Tatars were driven out.
The result is not entirely illegitimate, Crimea should have probably been allowed to seek unification with Russia. Now the way that Putin went about it? Very reminiscent of a couple of maneuvers pulled in 1938 by a dude with a toothbrush mustache and bad hair. The ends don’t justify the means even if the ends are, in the long run, probably the right ones.
}:-)4
Khrushchev was Stalin's man in the Ukraine...He needed to win over the Ukrainians to consolidate his power...so he "gifted" Ukraine with Crimea, although in the grand scheme of things, it meant little at the time.
So Putin is better at this than Maduro, but doesn’t have it down to a science yet like Kim Jong-Eun.
” Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin
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