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To: SeekAndFind
From Rocky to Napolean...Goodness...
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3 posted on
03/18/2014 8:55:34 AM PDT by
Tea Party Terrorist
(Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
To: SeekAndFind
Putin is the only one acting with any rationality in
europe right now. He’s a Russian leader following Russian interests for Russian people. None of this multi-culti nonsense.
4 posted on
03/18/2014 8:59:04 AM PDT by
DesScorp
To: SeekAndFind
Crimea was traditionally part of Russia thus it contains I high percentage of ethnic Russians. It has a number of oil and gas lines running through it, and most importantly it contains Russia’s only warm water port and access to the Baltic. Given that nobody is going to stop him, why would Putin not annex Crimea? It is the most rational thing in the world.
To: SeekAndFind
I remember stealing another kid’s candy when I was little.
Was it irational? Yes, it was.
But at the end of the day I had all the other kid’s candy.
6 posted on
03/18/2014 9:02:11 AM PDT by
MeganC
(Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
To: SeekAndFind
Pat is so frigging stuck in the 80s it isn’t funny. He passed being relevant decades ago. It’s really pathetic.
7 posted on
03/18/2014 9:02:52 AM PDT by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: SeekAndFind
He doesn’t always make sense, but I must say, I find little to disagree with Pat here.
10 posted on
03/18/2014 9:04:09 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: SeekAndFind
I agree with Pat on this. Too many Conservatives on this forum and elsewhere are reading Putin wrongly. Putin is a nationalist who is doing what he could to protect Russia, against the hypocritical Europeans/Americans.
11 posted on
03/18/2014 9:04:14 AM PDT by
4rcane
To: SeekAndFind
John Kerry made his contribution to the bonkers theory by implying that Putin was channeling Napoleon: “You don’t just, in the 21st century, behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumped-up pretext.”
Well, he just did. What are *you* going to do about it, Ensign Band-aid?
Besides, have you seen the uniforms on the palace guard? (On Drudge now.) Very tsarist.
12 posted on
03/18/2014 9:05:05 AM PDT by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: SeekAndFind
I’m not a Pat B fan, but I can’t find fault with his analysis in this piece.
17 posted on
03/18/2014 9:11:05 AM PDT by
ChildOfThe60s
((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: SeekAndFind
More anti-American drivel from Puchanan. Why don’t you move to Russia and become a speech writer for Putin, Pat?
22 posted on
03/18/2014 9:15:49 AM PDT by
Red White and Blue patriot
(USA all the way. Love it or Leave it. Better dead than Red. Putin = Hitler 2014)
To: SeekAndFind
Putin is making perfect sense. He’s acting in the same manner and interests as seen throughout world history. To the benefit his country and expand its power. Heck, it’s almost refreshing to just see such basic, old-fashioned rationality... especially in comparison to America, which has descended to such sheer madness.
Putin’s troops take Crimea. Our troops put on drag-queen shows.
26 posted on
03/18/2014 9:24:28 AM PDT by
greene66
To: SeekAndFind
Putin is the one who has chosen a clear direction and is moving in that direction. It doesn’t matter if I agree with it or not.
Obama is downright erratic and paranoid with a tendency to punish the American people when he doesn’t get his way.
27 posted on
03/18/2014 9:27:26 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: SeekAndFind
Too bad Obama doesn’t feel about America the way Putin feels about Russia.
28 posted on
03/18/2014 9:35:22 AM PDT by
Qiviut
(It's hard to be a donk if you're sane & it's hard to be a pubbie if you have any integrity.)
To: SeekAndFind
I am unaware of a pledge to keep NATO out of Eastern Europe. Quite the contrary.
Pat lost me when he analogized Russia to his nemesis, Israel.
29 posted on
03/18/2014 9:36:26 AM PDT by
Williams
(No Obama)
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34 posted on
03/18/2014 9:42:51 AM PDT by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: SeekAndFind
If the true question is who is more irrational, Putin or Buchanan, then the answer has to be “I don’t know”.
To: SeekAndFind
Is Putin irrational? No.
Is Obama irrational? Duh.
Is Merkel irrational? No. She’s just a loud mouth.
39 posted on
03/18/2014 9:50:29 AM PDT by
McGruff
(They say the first casualty of war is truth)
To: SeekAndFind
I completely agree with Pat on this one. Here's the real money quote:
He saw a Mother Russia that had been looted by oligarchs abetted by Western crony capitalists, including Americans. He saw millions of ethnic Russians left behind, stranded, from the Baltic states to Kazakhstan. He saw a United States that had deceived Russia with its pledge not to move NATO into Eastern Europe if the Red Army would move out, and then exploited Russia's withdrawal to bring NATO onto her front porch.
41 posted on
03/18/2014 9:50:37 AM PDT by
pgkdan
To: SeekAndFind
Hopefully Putin's invasion of Crimea will be a wake-up call to a somnolent West.
Here's an excerpt from an article in today's National Post:
The recent Strategic Outlook by the CDA Institute made three specific recommendations in this regard [Canada beefing up defence] Canadian participation in a continental ballistic missile defence shield; creation of a maritime NORAD, integrating Canadas navy and coast guard with that of the U.S.; and, a sufficient number of ships to patrol Canadas three coastlines.
David Bercuson, director at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, talks about the Finlandization of Europe the concept that smaller countries try not to challenge larger neighbours in foreign policy, while attempting to maintain national sovereignty. Were back to Finlandization, on a smaller scale. Theres no undoing it, even if the Russians pull out of Crimea, he said. [a dated comment. Crimea's part of Russia now]
The prospect is already causing a radical re-think of policy in countries like Sweden, which is flirting with the idea of NATO membership, after nearly 200 years of splendid isolation. Jan Bjorklund, Swedens deputy prime minister, floated the idea, warning Russia could seize Gotland, a Swedish island province in the Baltic Sea, if it chose to attack Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The only concept Mr. Putin does appear to understand is Cold War orthodoxy, the balance of power.
On its own, Canada is as impotent as Finland. But in a re-energized, re-financed NATO, the united military potential dwarfs that of the Russians.
Canada has to frame its defence policy in this reality, said Dr. Bercuson.
Obviously a pipe-dream as long as Obama is in office, but the
clock is counting down.
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