Posted on 03/18/2014 9:10:05 PM PDT by varmintman
Nope, we are not the same country anymore.
Demographics is Destiny.
Even yet it’s not quite the same. I don’t see any signs that Crimea was putting up a civil war here, for anyone to take sides in.
“The precedent was set when the USA bombed the hell out of Serbia to strip Kosovo from its sovereign territory.”
Exactly.
USNATO intervention in Kosovo created a precedent in international law, we can see now its consequences.
US supported every secessionist group that wanted to break away from Yugoslavia, they bombed Yugoslavia into smitherness in 1999 for 80 days non-stop, to split it in two, and they declared the Yugoslav Army to be an occupier on its own territory.
The Assembly of Kosovo, a province of Serbia, approved an unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008, when foreign troops were stationned on its territory. Kosovo was soon recognized as a sovereign state, first by the United States, and then by Germany, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and others ...
The West cannot have it both ways. They can’t say that the right of Albanians to self-determination in Kosovo trumps Serbia’s right to territorial integrity, and then turn around and say that Ukraine’s right to territorial integrity trumps the right of Russians in Crimea to self-determination.
I’m not sure what a “smitherness” is, but anyhow this didn’t even rise to the level of a civil war.
Can you find anything about Putin or Russia that’s worthy of criticism, foreigner?
I’m glad you’ve stopped copying and pasting from Alex Jones website ever since I called you out on it, by the way. I’m sure you’ve seen the error of your ways (not), sneaking text here from a site where everyone thinks Bush and Cheney were behind 9/11 and Sandy Hook was a false flag.
The comperable trait is his end game. he's going to move to the West, and you just don't see it. I am talking about Europe, not the US.
We will destroy ourselves before he finishes up his plan. he's not playing checkers. He's playing the long game of Chess without the clock.
Let’s hope Putin is overthrown by someone who realizes that you can have an assertive Russia without waging a covert war on a peaceful neighbor who is no threat to you. The people who are supporting this bully should be happy though since at least one Ukrainian has been killed by his thugs.
You should get this history published. You could name it “Putinism Propaganda History for Dummies”
LNG is more expensive.
WE have recently began to build out capacity, but not enough.
Permits are hard to get because they might increase fraking.
But the need to export is obvious...and the price may have to comedown..The cost in elecrical power, and equipment to compress it is very high. and the ships to do it are also very costly.
I was thinking the same thing.....
Pussy Riot is just an example of the way dissent and free speech are treated in Russia. Read the latest State Department Human Rights report on Russia I posted earlier.
Putin is curtailing civil liberties in Russia.
So homosexuals stripping and acting like perverts in public and in churches is “free speech” and okay with you?
“Pussy Riot is just an example of the way dissent and free speech are treated in Russia.”
“Putin is curtailing civil liberties in Russia.”
Civil Liberties?
Does this look like an exercise of civil liberties to you?
(please watch video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALS92big4TY
Shouting mocking vulgarities in a holy place, disrupting people praying? They also broke into the sanctuary with the altar.
Maybe you think people have a right to do this at your church, your families funeral or wedding?
I guess world sentiment would have been different if they done this in a mosque.
Seriously?
Yes. WWII would have been a lot harder to win without the Russians.
Had Hitler not been stupid enough to attack Russia, we might all be Nazis speaking German now, if we were alive at all.
We gave the Russians a LOT of help.
Do you remember the speech Putin gave and the letter he wrote to the same effect the December after Zero was elected?
He warned the USA, "Not to go down the road to communism, because that is what destroyed Russia."
In other words, not worthy of news and certainly not worthy of sympathy. If anything it showed how petty the MSM was and gave Putin a rare chance to take the moral high ground.
A very nice view of the forest. I am sure the Soros Bund faux-cons will attack it accordingly.
“I don’t see anything not to like with Putin or the vision of the current Russian government.”
lmao. You have no historical perspective. This article reminds me of the Louis Farrahkan speeches with numerology, which unfortunately, has more logic than this diatribe.
Ukrainians despise the Russians and would have fought against the Soviets had the Nazis realized the intense hatred of the Russians/Soviets.
Yes, we did. And they gave a LOT of blood, far more than we gave.
Did you ever read of the mass charges the Russian Army made against the Germans?
They didn't have enough rifles for everyone.
Everyone would run towards the German lines. Only those in front had rifles.
The ones following each carried a stripper clip of five shells. As those in front were killed the followers picked up the rifles, re-loaded and continued until they were killed, and so on.
The Russian bodies stacked up under the fire of the German machine gunners until they formed a wall closer to the Germans.
As the attacks on the Germans went on, the Germans eventually either ran out of ammo or their machine guns overheated.
The Russians would continue picking up rifles from downed comrades, reload them and charge on upon the Germans until the Germans were either shot, retreated, or were bayoneted.
While not being an expert on Russian history, I have obviously read more of it than many who have commented here.
The ignorance of many is simply pathetic. (I also speak and read Russian, but am now very rusty).
The original poster who started this thread, is overall, mostly accurate in his condensed presentation of Russian history.
With the internet and libraries, there are plenty of historical sources. Read them before making a fool of oneself.
The Japanese during WWII...
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