Posted on 04/06/2014 1:44:29 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Kiev is facing Ukraine’s disintegration. Events seem to be taking on a life of their own without any prompting from Russia.
If this spreads, Kiev will find itself ruling over a shrunken country of less than 20 million or so centered on the West.
What can it do about it? Force is out of the question. Ukraine will have to become a federal state with both Ukrainian and Russian enjoying official status, with full autonomy for all its regions.
There is no alternative. Unless Kiev wants to see large chunks of the country lost to Russia.
No one is going to stop Putin. This is step 4 of many. Georgia, Chechnya, and Crimea came first. Putin fits the text book definition of a fascist yet he gets support here and anywhere a “strong leader” is admired. Mussolini and Hitler had a great many American admirers in the 1930s.
It appears Czar Putin is ready for a second helping of Ukrainian pie. These “spontaneous” bully boys who storm government buildings and hang Russian flags are Russian military Spetsnaz units infiltrated across the Ukrainian borders. Putin will use these demonstrations to send in the regular army to protect Russians as he did in the Crimea.
Meanwhile, our fearless boy-president will jaunt off to a campaign raiser and later, Japan.
I agree with every ‘reply’ post. The truth of each reply is breaking my heart. God did a miracle in Maida. Please let us join together and with a loved one to pray for God to intervene to keep Ukraine a united nation..
As predicted.
Dude when this happened
Borders have shifted in that part of the world for thousands of years.
What makes today’s borders so sacrosanct compared to the previous ones?
Are humans today so much more enlightened than before? Doubtful.
“God did a miracle in Maida.”
God’s miracles stick.
I assume Obama is golfing today.
Seems like the ethnic Russians are more Urban than the Ukrainians, I see the problem. Sort of like Philadelphia.
“It came to power on violence.’
Man, its a good thing that this nation never needed a revolutionary war of any kind and that those British louses just decided one day to up and leave.
Ukraine was not an occupied country...
The will of the total population of the Ukraine was expressed at the ballot box. The current occupants of Kiev disregarded that with a violent coup. They then attempt to act as if they are legitimate representatives of the electorate.
But mainly they show they cannot control or govern and just like to whine as they preside over the collapse of the Ukraine many of whom seem to prefer Russia to the clowns in Kiev.
I think you confuse grudging respect for “Support”.
Putin doesn’t give a damn about “Rules for Radicals. He doesn’t give a damn what some gay wonk in the US Media, or a lesbian late-night comedian joke writer thinks about him.
But, if you have read, (and more importantly, UNDERSTAND) Machiavelli, then Putin’s actions become predictable, given the world situation as it is right now. (and yes, Putin is/was a student of Machiavelli.)
This puts the Chomsky/Zinn-trained people currently running the US Government at a serious disadvantage, especially when they try to apply that theology to foreign policy.
Putin is a student of Machevelli. Putin is also a study of the use of hard power Marxism, and knows how Alinskitism was designed and how to defeat it.
The OSCE said that the 2012 election of Yakunivich was a sham, just like it was in 2004.
Please send proof of your Spetsnaz hypothesis, or is that only your opinion?
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