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Kremlin has lost touch with reality: Baird
bramptonguardian.com ^ | April 25, 2014 |  Mike Blanchfield

Posted on 04/25/2014 1:46:50 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

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What I want to know is why is the West going bonkers over Ukraine? It’s a bankrupt country - worse off than Greece. It doesn’t have oil or gas. And yet the US and the EU is willing to start a war over it. Why?

Munich. Appeasement.

If history has taught us anything, it is that aggression anywhere in the world is a threat to peace everywhere in the world. When that aggression is supported by the cruel and selfish rulers of a powerful nation who are bent on conquest, it becomes a clear and present danger to the security and independence of every free nation. -- Harry S. Truman, 1951

I could find quotes from other presidents as well, if I wanted to look for them.

I'm not saying that this kind of thinking is right or that it suits every situation, but please, either look this stuff up or don't act like you haven't heard it before.

21 posted on 04/25/2014 2:26:18 PM PDT by x
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“Lost touch with reality” means we disagree or we disapprove. Great powers throw their weight around. Politicians accuse their opponents of all kinds of things. Putin is rational in that sense and does have some understanding of reality, even though we may disapprove — and have good reason to disapprove — of what he’s doing.


22 posted on 04/25/2014 2:39:00 PM PDT by x
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There is a wing here in the US govt that wants a war. They tried in Syria to take that from Russia now they are trying to take the Ukraine.

Why is beyond me. They keep failing to build any meaningful European consensus on it.

Just today we are seeing “Russian Spy Boats Off Florida” and “Russian Spy Planes Over .. somewhere”. This is nothing new. Whats new is trying to get us all spun up.


23 posted on 04/25/2014 3:01:43 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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Oh, and by the way. There will be no war over the Ukraine.

Obama and actors in the west will huff and puff and that's about it. Putin will move his chess pieces and end up with the eastern Ukraine.

There will be no NATO troops or planes sent to the Ukraine in the near future. Obama is not going to send forces there, and if you think any other NATO country will act independently of the US, you are wrong.

24 posted on 04/25/2014 3:04:39 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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Ukraine does have a large, untapped field of gas shale that Shell has or is signing leases to explore, develop, and frack. It’s estimated as the 3rd largest European reserve. Of course, both the EU and Russia are interested.


25 posted on 04/25/2014 4:04:23 PM PDT by alien_in_nm
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The problem is Obama has no say in consciousness shaping at this time.

This is tribulation time and Putin is intent on surviving this hunger game, starting first to the get to the finish line.


26 posted on 04/25/2014 4:20:34 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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Yes, but it was US/EU aggression that started everything in Ukraine. Why? What president do you want to quote for that behavior? Maybe SOS Hillary! fits in here: “We came, we saw, he died.”


27 posted on 04/25/2014 10:33:47 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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