Posted on 06/01/2014 7:13:11 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Has Russia gone rogue?
Information revealed last week indicates that it has, and that because of the reckless weakness of Barack Obama, America now faces a neo-Soviet Russian bear primed for aggression, just as in the era of the USSR.
Last week, the spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, announced that Russia is now a vigilante nation. He stated: “And if not a single state in the world is capable of admitting the evident facts that Ukrainian authorities have been acting as criminals, Russia’s Investigative Committee will shoulder this responsibility by opening a criminal case.”
o in other words, Russia will act alone to arrest and punish leaders of foreign governments whom it declares guilty of “crimes,” no matter what the rest of the world may think about it. This from a nation that routinely demands that the U.S. bow to international organizations in places like Syria.
In the Wall Street Journal, seasoned Russia expert Leon Aron of the American Enterprise Institute took a crack at analyzing this new brand of neo-Soviet Russian exceptionalism. He highlighted how Putin has disturbingly offered comments tending to imply the superiority of the Russian race, comments he’s been offering the world for years now. Aron feels that Putin’s “recent rhetoric harks back to Russia's two most reactionary rulers: the 19th-century czars Nicholas I and his grandson, Alexander III.”
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Climb down off the ledge, the choices aren’t between surrendering to Putin, or being destroyed in WWIII.
That level of threat won’t exist, until he finishes rebuilding the evil empire if the free world doesn’t put the brakes on him.
I still don’t understand your plan. We let Russia pound East Germany (in 1948), Hungary (in 1956), and Czechoslovakia (in 1968). We didn’t feel it was worth starting WW3 back then - why do you feel the need to start it now.
...and yes, I cannot stand Obama, and I don’t mind Republicans beating him up over Ukraine (he deserves it), but at the end of the day, be it Obama, McCain, Romney, or Reagan, Putin will do what he wishes in his neighborhood and there ain’t a damn thing we’re going to do to stop it.
I don’t believe that someone who keeps talking as though the discussion is about launching WWIII and keeps confusing the current Russia with the Soviet Empire’s vast war machine, is clearly out of touch with reality, and even the current status of Russia.
I agree, I don’t think that’s the case either.
Thank you, I’m through on this.
You might be referring to my reversed meaning, I hope that you could understand the actual point of the post.
I don’t believe that someone who keeps talking as though the discussion is about launching WWIII and keeps confusing the current Russia with the Soviet Empire’s vast war machine, is in touch with reality, and the current status of Russia.
Your fear doesn’t let you and Obama see clearly that your weakness is the danger, and there is no “WWIII” in the equation at all.
“Has Russia Gone Rogue?”
Quite a few centuries ago.
Even a clock is right a couple of times a day. And here McCain is correct. Ukraine is a good cause to support and the economic sanctions appear to have worked, as Russia did not invade the East.
By the way, expressing support for a nation under attack by Russian policy of annexation and destabilization, logically, is not “the US overthrowing the government in Ukraine.”
That is non factual hyperbole.
Not just with Putin.
With every Russian commander trained under the Russian military academies since the Crimean war.
But you have a lot of Americans who are too stupid to comprehend that now matter how many classic Russian military texts you show them.
Some of these idiots are officers, which helps show how we got whew we are.
So what? In China, they think they are the rightful hegemonic power to liberate Native Americans in the US and avenge their great ancestors.
What Russians think and are taught is irrelevant to anybody but Russians and is certainly no formulated argument in itself, to give them a right to any lands.
Show me decades of academic texts elaborating this alleged widespread belief, and I will become suddenly unable to expose idiots who spout that doctrine as widely held to be fools.
What Russians think is key to anticipating what they will do.
Anyone regardless of position attempting to prognosticate Russian actions either political or military while simultaneously ignoring what they think is a fool at best.
Are one of those people who thinks that because Obama is bad Putin must be good?
Only Putin or a Putinista would offer us the Hobson choice of either Godless Obama or support Putin. It’s silly for grown ups to think there is no alternative to Putin and Obama.
Okay, sir, you prefer Putin to the so-called neo-cons, who seem like patriots who prefer American conservatism as it’s been historically understood to misguided, muddle-minded, dumbed-down, idologically pro-Putin conservatism. I hope he doesn’t break your heart too much.
The EU and NATO barely meet their minimal defense pledges. Critics complain that they’re shirking their duties to defend themselves. It appears you’re of another mind that the EU is (apparently in a non-emperical manner) taking over the world. It’s an interesting observation.
NeoConservatism is a failed foreign policy doctrine.
Then you say these NeoCons "seem like patriots who prefer American conservatism as it has been historically understood"
The problem with that is a lot of conservatives and freepers are always complaining because the NeoCons support amnesty, gay rights and reproductive rights for women. Some complain because they are "big government" conservatives.
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