Posted on 08/04/2014 2:45:30 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
In any normal country, an event like the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 would have resulted in, at the very least, a pause in overt military activity that might give rise to another such atrocity. But in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, by no means a normal country, there was only one possible course of action: escalation.
Igor Strelkov, the principal commander of rebel forces in Eastern Ukraine and a former Russian – not Ukrainian – military leader, has openly admitted that his support among ordinary Ukrainians in the East is exceptionally thin and he can’t win on the battlefield without the direct assistance of Russian troops. He’s actually threatened Putin with insurrectionist activity inside Russia if such support isn’t forthcoming. So it’s hardly surprising to see Putin preparing such an attack, and sending in Russians to take over the leadership of the Ukrainian rebel forces lest the entire movement simply collapse.
Putin smiled as Ukrainian rebels shot down even more planes with Russian missiles, including in the area where MH17 went down, and Russia began massing even more Russian troops at Ukraine’s border, sending even more weapons, including rocket launchers, to the rebel forces inside Ukraine, and even began firing its own artillery into Ukraine in naked acts of war.
And Putin wasn’t satisfied with conventional warfare. In Kremenchuck and Lviv, Western areas outside the scope of rebel activity, terrorism acts began to unfold: there were assassination attempts against the local mayors. In the former case, the mayor was gunned down mafia-style and killed, while in the latter the mayor escaped harm after a rocket attack. Pro-Russia forces are engaging, in other words, in the same kind of activity in Ukraine that Putin condemns as “bandit” activity in places like Chechnya and Dagestan.
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If your right and I’m wrong that’s fine.
No I’m anything but not a liberal.
Fine maybe I was wrong.
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
I don’t think she’s a big fan of Putin.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/author/kimzigfeld/
LOL. Wonder what she thinks of Obama?
Um no, I’m not. I came to this forum to discuss current events and make a thoughtful contribution.
As I have said before Putin’s regime will fall and Russia most likely will be liberalized like Belgium or the Netherlands. If of course the chinese just don’t overrun Siberia or there is a civil war and the country breaks up.
I have never signed up on here before. As I have said will say and am saying we can not afford a confrontation with Russia at this time. The left here, illegal immigrants, agenda 21, and hundreds of other things should be closer to our attention.
If anything these threads are a distraction from stuff going on at home.
Well I believe the Wikipedia article says it doesn’t reference the supernatural. Either it’s wrong or you are.
So the future of Russia is to become a sweet little teddy bear like Holland or Belgium.
That is a new one, you should post that more often.
So just read it for yourself and then you’ll know. I did. Stop posting erroneus information about subjects you are ignorant of.
Well I believe the Wikipedia article says it doesn’t reference the supernatural. Either it’s wrong or you are.
It’s wrong. Anybody can write whatever they want on wikipedia.
Okay fine then, I’ll concede if I have time.
No I meant it the russian populace would become liberalized and westernized. I could give you the demographic data yeah abortion, gay marriage, secularization that stuff.
If you have read my posts you would know I meant that after the inevitable collapse of the Putin regime occurs.
Nice try but I’m not that stupid.
Okay I concede you win. Whatever.
Uh yeah, sure. That is quite an opinion.
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