Posted on 03/20/2014 3:34:27 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
While I certainly don’t mind seeing Obama beaten up over Ukraine, I do hope it doesn’t lead to war, as we will get our BUTTS KICKED, trying to stand up to his soldiers with a bunch of Trannies.
But I think that, overall, Putin is saying that, REGARDLESS OF THE PAST, you little countries better treat Russians there in a reasonable manner.
Remember, Putin has been the Russian president pretty much since 2001, but ONLY NOW did he take on Ukraine. Bottom-line - treat Russia well, they will leave you alone. And this is TOTALLY DIFFERENT from the Communist days when they wanted every other country to be “liberated”.
... while completly ignoring the respect of "international law".
What mandate did the USNATO get from the UN Security Council? The SC imposed a ban on all flights in the countrys airspace a no-fly zone - not bombings! "The Council specified that the flight ban would not apply to flights that had as their sole purpose humanitarian aid, the evacuation of foreign nationals, enforcing the ban or other purposes deemed necessary for the benefit of the Libyan people. The representative of the United States said that the Council had responded to the Libyan peoples cry for help. The Councils purpose was clear: to protect Libyan civilians. The Security Council had authorized the use of force, including enforcement of a no-fly zone".
It ended with a country totally ravaged by USNATO bombs and cruise missiles ...
You’re not going to be very popular for pointing that out here. Wasn’t Gaddafi sufficiently demonised for you? Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JHJw9SpCO4
That should tell you why he was a marked man from that moment on. The hate on the Saudi faces is priceless.
I think that is exactly the point. Hitler retrieved the Rhineland with a rag-tag proto-army that only later became the feared war machine of the Wehrmacht. France could have swatted him back to Berlin with one arm. They did nothing. Britain did nothing. The rest is history. Strength comes from a coherent assertive foreign policy based on one's own national interests, with a military prepared to back it up if need be, and the will to use it. Putin has it. We don't. All the rest is faculty-lounge masturbation.
If I was any other country, I would not trust the United States.
VDH is usually spot on, but he misses it in this essay.
Strength is a secondary consideration. All of the examples cited are a matter of Will. Putin correctly believes that at this moment in time, neither the US, nor the EU, nor Ukraine has the will to pay the price of stopping him.
Obama’s fecklessness has two roots: 1) he is an indecisive, weak individual (we’re back to a lack of Will); and, 2) his foreign policy is based on the idea that projection of power by the US or the West in general is the main source of conflict and trouble in the world. His Will, such as he has any, is focused on reducing US economic and military strength and avoiding power projection. Obama goes along with limited military action, when it has few immediate consequences (drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan). He has not slashed US military spending, because it is a permanent, huge Keynesian stimulus program for the US (and world) economy, intimately linked with too many political interests to touch.
Obama’s policy is wrong-headed, weak, and invites trouble. But it is deliberate and internally rational.
Putin’s policy is opportunistic, for Russia and himself. He is doing what he can get away with, based on a reading of Obama and the EU “powers”. Isolating Russia and his sphere from the West is precisely what Putin wants.
Alaska under Russia Colonization 1733 - 1867. Russian Orthodox Church is still present in Sitka
Alaska under America 1867-1884 (department of Alaska)
1884-1912 District of Alaska
1912-1959 Territory of Alaska
1959-present State of Alaska
Interesting Russia was in Hawaii from 1814 - 1817 and Russia was in Northern California 1812-1841 Fort Ross.
spain tried to colonize Alaska
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Kodiak
and some glacier has a spanish name starts with M
british tried to colonize Alaska
Japan held two Aleutian Islands during WWII
Hope this answers your question
Russia in Alaska 1733 - 1867 134 years
America in Alaska 1867 - 2014 147 years
“Youre not going to be very popular for pointing that out here.”
I don’t care of being popular or not.
I’m writing about events as I see them.
When I see the members of USNATO gargling themselves with “the repect of international law” mantra, I cannot but recall what they did in Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Libya. Bringing “democracy” through the barrel of the gun ... and in the end, instead of democracy those countries either became mafia druglords territories, or hunting fields for islamic terrorists.
The US and EU have not a leg to stand on in Crimea affair.
What a world we live in.
I would have never dreamed to see one day the US defending the violent deposition of a legitimate elected president by “rule of the mob”, and Russia defending the ballot box and the people’s will in a referendum under the observation of OSCE, which found no fault with the rule of international law.
Is Russia seeking Lebensrum?
Hitler strived to regain parts of Germany that were surrendered by the treaty of Versailles.
Germany had to pay repartations for WWI till I believe 2009.
Russia is actually taking back territories that it gave up through Perestroika.
Baltic States Estonia, Latavia, Lithuania.
Rumania, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, Finland
Russia is not seeking living space, but it is turning the clock back on its reforms and becoming more westernized.
The History of Russia is one that vacillates. Putin is going after the west because the west is weakened and has the inability to respond. The West(europe) has become dependent upon Russia for Oil, Natural Gas. Russian History will show its hand as the world is more volatile.
Russia to survive will isolate itself and bring the satellites around it to be a buffer.
Look what happened to Russia in history with pacts and treaties with the West Russia lost out.
Napleonic War fought in Russia devastated Russia.
germany signed a treaty with Russia than invaded Russia
A better comparison is Russia and Arab Countries (Oil)
Estonia, Latavia, Lithuania, and maybe some of the others on your list were independent Republics before the Soviet Union came into existence.
The U.S. does not need UN approval to go to war. Or do you think the U.S. should be ruled by the UN?
That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Rumania, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, Finland are sovereign nations. The people's of those countries took back the freedom that Russia stole from them.
Ukraine has mostly been part of Russia since they voted to join Russia in 1654.
You said a mouthful. I’ve said pretty much the same, it wasn’t welcome. The Serbs were monsters, Gaddafi was rehabilitated then demonised and brutally murdered in board daylight in public, did you hear him say what he did about Sadam?
You could be next, he tells them. And he was.
Egypt stood up to be counted. Syria just won’t play dead. Afghanistan will have to learn to live with itself and love the Taliban. The best course of action is stay out of the way, and let islam devour itself.
So US can do whatever they fancy, but other countries cannot?
WHY then invoke, day in, day out, “the respect of international law” if the US doesn’t care a straw about it???
I see.
You are correct in saying that Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire, but I don’t think they “voted” to join.
“Three things are the enemy of the left:
(true, classical) Christianity,
(original intent interpretation of) the Constitution, and
(free market) Capitalism. “
Thank you for this.... copied, posted to my FB page. Lets see who I can get to sliver outa the woodwork tonight. :)
The US bombed Lybia back into the stone-age using NATO as a big stick. Out of all of them, the two I was most disgusted with was Sarkozy and Cameron. Kissy-kissy with Gaddafi one moment, bombing the cities and killing the civilians the next. The US didn’t need approval because they manipulated NATO. Are you proud of that?
I don’t recall the UN giving the US permission to bomb the entire country to rubble. IIRC., any permission was couched in terms of protection for civilians.
This, along with the killing of Serbian civilians and the handover to the muslims of Kosovo, leaves a permanant stain on your pride. If it doesn’t, it aught to.
You have no understanding of what “international law” is. International law is created when two nations sign a treaty. They then treat the terms of the treaty as their respective national laws. Russia certainly had no problem violating international law when it decided to violate the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe in 2007. Incidentally, Putin did that by issuing a decree. It was not done by a vote in the Duma.
The U.S. has the same right to cease complying with treaties it has signed.
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