Posted on 03/18/2014 12:31:13 PM PDT by robowombat
A military “storming” would certainly involve a hell of a lot more dead than just one.......
Yes, but Putin knows a lot about various active measures and constant armed heckling and sniping by uniformed but ‘unknown parties’ would be a good tactic to unsettle a garrison that is already effectively in enemy territory and pretty much cut off from their country. The Russians don’t seek a war but the evacuation of the Crimea by all Ukrainian military forces. If they keep up ratcheting up the pressure they probably will get the desired results.
“No conservative would support”
But lots of conservatives apparently support things like self-determination for all (self-identified) peoples, a profoundly unconservative idea.
What is happening in Eastern Europe is pure progressive Wilsonianism, and real conservatives should hate it.
Wow. lol - what international law would that be? And what neighbors are going to help? Oh, that’s right the Russians who invaded a sovereign nation. The Russians will “help” themselves to stolen territory.
Yep, most of the news reports are BS.
The best one so far was the one with the headline about Russian book burnings because some Ukrainian in the suburbs used a book to start a fire.
i WAS THINKING OF THE SAME THING...
And what, pray tell, was your position on Slovenian and Croatian independence in 1992?
We (NATO) set the precedent so the Germans could get access to the Adriatic. Now the Russians want Crimea and used the exact procedure we set forward in Yugoslavia. No need for “what-ifs.”
What’s good for the goose...
Really?? Going French while facing Russians? Ever consider the possibility these soldiers have been stuck in that region since all this began?
I agree, and they've probably been pre-arranged between Obama and Putin, so Obama could appear to be "doing something" without actually affecting Russia to any extent. Post-election flexibility and all.
Russian dictators can always find people in the west to defend them, excuse them, praise them. It must be a gift.
Will the Marxists around Obama and pulling his strings ever learn that when it comes to responding to foreign provocations with red lines or 11 of you guys can’t go to Las Vegas a few months that such actions make them (and US) look silly and small and timid and only encourage and embolden men like Putin?!
For certain, it would be wiser to do nothing!
Cuba hasn’t cashed the rent checks since Castro took over.
Oliver Stone (seriously) says it’s all Bush’s fault.
https://www.facebook.com/TheOliverStone/posts/747488641942104?stream_ref=10&_fb_noscript=1
Your example is not fanciful. That is EXACTLY the reason not to allow millions of illegal and unasimilated Mexicans into this country. Of course they can eventually do this to us.
Bingo, and all these isolationists would permit a nuclear armed Russia to reemerge as a new Hitler or Stalin in Europe, something we cannot afford while also contending with China.
Obama is an idiot and Putin should have been stopped before this happened.
No one is suggesting we need to send in troops and start WWIII, but yeah Europe matters to us.
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