Posted on 03/04/2014 7:15:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
When you elect a coward as president, your country is treated like a coward. When you lay your arms down when confronted by an enemy, they consider it surrender.
Here is another wooly-headed university type (Georgetown) who served in the State Dept. in the Reagan and Bush administrations, but didn’t learn much. It’s really easy to act tough while safely settled in the ivory tower of academia. He should know that your mouth shouldn’t write checks that your actions can’t cash.
Because Putin has been an aggressive imperialist all his life. His burning ambition is to reestablish the Russian empire.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Poland, Alaska, Finland, and Romania.
All have Russian speaking minorities, all were once a part of the Russian empire, and all have a good reason to fear Russian Military mischief in the future unless the world contest Putin's Military expansionist desires. 1/6 of the worlds landmass once belonged to the Russian Empire. And that is what is really at stake without checking Putin's current mischief in Crimea.
I think he imagines himself a new czar.
He figures Bammy has many czars and he wants to be THE czar.
We won’t.
And no one will remember Crimea a year from now.
In punishing Russia, we’re really punishing ourselves. We need Putin more than he needs us.
I don’t see the punitive measures against Russia going anywhere anytime soon.
The horse has already left the barn. America’s impotence and weakness, courtesy of Obama, invited it. There’s really not much to do. Other than ramp up our energy development big-time.
Besides, as a concern, Putin taking Crimea is small potatoes, compared to the current decay and disintegration of America. Economically, culturally, and morally, this country is in a death-spiral.
You don’t have to stand with Putin to despise neocons. What I think is funny is the neocons’ breathless reporting about places like Crimea, Abkhazia, Ossetia, as if they’ve always been thinking about them and concerned about what goes on there. Will Putin move on Moldova, Schizvanli, or Spingali? Who cares? He took over a huge part of Georgia. Great, we have a Marxist in our White House. Will kicking Putin out of Crimea raise my salary or put food on my table? It might lower gas prices, probably not, but a better way to lower prices is to get the Marxists out of DC.
I might give anti-Putin rhetoric if two things were true:
1. I thought American long-term interests lie with supporting the EU and its enviro-wackos over the Russians who rightly reject homosexuality.
2. Putin was morally and legally wrong to do what he did.
Neither is the case.
Oh and when you add in China’s expansionist desires, you create a world economy where the US, is just another thrid world player. Your ability to buy goods and food will be NOTHING like the posterity your used to.
Poland has very few Russians.
Amen! We’ve had a coup right here and we’re talking about punishing Putin?
When’s Elliot Abrams going to start worrying about North Korea? Maybe then I can start taking him seriously.
Russian minority in Poland consists of 13,000 people (according to the Polish census of 2011)
In the past - the times of the Second Polish Republic, partitions of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - the number of Russians within Polish borders was much higher, over 100,000.
But the current number is enough for Putin to send in troops under the guise of protection.
Poland was a part of the Russian Empire, and that’s Putins goal, to reestablish Czarist Russian Empire.
Your fierce protection of war criminal Putin makes one wonder if you have any material interest in Russia. We have international obligations, whether you like them or not. One of them is to protect Ukraine in case of invasion. Not keeping our promise just empowers the bully and makes us look weak - the liberal dream. Are you a closet liberal, by any chance?
Well, that’s been America’s prime foreign policy of late... promoting homosex around the globe.
With that level of depravity in the leaders who guide our policies, I’m not about to ever even remotely assume America is going to be on the right side of these conflicts anymore. That is, if Egypt, Libya, and Syria hadn’t already made this argument.
In Pre-War Poland, ethnic Poles were 70% of the population....most others were Jews and Ukrainians and some Volksdeutsche. Today it's about 95% ethnically Polish.
American long-term interests lie with opposing international war criminals, preferably with military force.
Putin was and is legally and morally wrong invading Ukraine - there is plenty of evidence that “reasons” for invasion were forged, despite your Russian convictions.
Wow! 10 years on FR and I’ve finally been found out! Fierce protection? You must have me confused with someone else.
Turkey scrambles jets after Russian plane flies near its Black Sea coast.
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