Posted on 03/21/2014 5:04:41 AM PDT by luke1825
Let's hope he doesn't want Alaska back.
I mean, if Czar Vladimir Putin decides that Russia was really screwed when it sold the vast expanse of Alaska to the United States for a measly $7.2 million back in 1867, he may now want to nullify the deal.
Treaties, contracts and deals mean nothing to the guy.
The man is on a role. He is scooping up pieces of the former Soviet Union as though he were old Communist Czar Joe Stalin. Old Joe gobbled up countries at the end of World War II as though they were war souvenirs. That set off the Cold War.
That long war, won by the U.S. and the West, led to the breakup of the old Soviet Union in 1991. Now Vlad the Great, who could be the grandson Stalin never knew he had, is trying to put it back together again. Thanks to the flexible, overmatched waif in the White House, he is succeeding
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BS. They could have unleashed Patton and easily driven the Red Horde all the way back to Moscow.”
I’m no defender of the Soviets. However, I do live in the world of reality. I’m not going to list all that’s incorrect with your statement; especially with the word “easily” as there’s already hundreds of books on the subject. I’ll just say a couple of things; assuming by “they” you mean Roosevelt and our government; Americans were becoming war weary by 1944 and wanted to get the war over. FDR and team knew this and also knew that Americas tolerance level for casualties was waning. And, thereby would never have allowed what you’re suggesting. Same in the pacific theater, hence we dropped the nukes. Just a side note; I would like to think that you are just having a slow day and being a flamethrower. Hopefully, you’re not so dumb that you actually believe your statement, hopefully..... :)
He wanted to.
Step one of that Diplomacy is not have a Pill Pedaling Homo President working against the U.S.A's best interests.
Now we have people who are writing articles "Joking" about Russia invading Alaska.
We should have (and still should) do what Sarah Palin said and that is Drill our our own Fossil Fuels and Natural Gas. That will give us much needed cash and help undercut the Russian's Enormous Profits they are getting.
But, because certain segments of the population are thick as brick, they won't understand until Spetsnaz Troops are knocking on their front door asking them politely but firmly to report to local Drive-in for counting. Or Else.
They tried diplomacy in 1994 with the Budapest Memorandum, but like anything sinnged by Clinton, it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.
All this could have been avoided if the kid was not re elected in ‘12.
Other world leaders watch Obama carefully.
Now they are acting on their beliefs about the boy.
Russia is making their move because they expect no repercussions. China and Iran are watching as well.
“Churchill and Roosevelt didn’t have much choice.”
Oh yes, they had the choice, but they didn’t want to.
Instead of sitting on their a$$es two years in North Africa and another year in Sicily, they could had opened the second front long before and arrive with their armies in central Europe before the Red Army took them over. But ... they did nothing of the kind; they starting really fighting in the last year of the war, 1944-5.
Precisely. Did anyone really think Russia would give up their claims on Crimea? Fools.
Some of them won’t understand even then, they will still be asking for their EBT benefits even when EBT comes to mean End the Bitching by Termination.
Putin is nothing new really. He represents exactly the same Russia/Soviet Union that we have been dealing with for a long time now.
What IS new is Obama. He is not willing to fight. He thinks appeasement is worth any cost, and somehow we have “progressed” beyond war and conflict, however I think he is having a reality check with the realities of military power, and the true nature of the world in current events.
Unless the leader of the United States is absolute in resolve to defend our country, then people like Putin will take what they can. And that means we have to absolutely know in our hearts that we would risk it all, and that means risking thermonuclear war, to defend our territory. So maybe nuclear weapons are not so unnecessary as Obama thought? And maybe we should look at our deterrent force, and the treaties we sign with Russia in a more realistic light? And what of the other new NATO countries who we have promised to defend in treaty? We promised thermonuclear war to defend them as well, and -when- Putin’s tanks roll over them our word and treaty will be worthless, and we will have no allies.
Is Obama listening to the lessons of history and today’s reality? If not then YES, it is plausible that we could lose Alaska, and a lot more.
I grew up in a home with my father (WWII infantry, N. Africa, Sicily, Italy, Germany). .back when PTSD was called battle fatigue. Reality. They “sat on their asses” very little. - You speak from your kitchen table; a nice, warm, safe spot SECURED FOR YOU by these MEN who FOUGHT, I mean REALLY FOUGHT. I carry the scars of that war; as did he. - Now, in retrospect, YOU can snap your magic fingers and handle it perfectly.
“Instead of sitting on their a$$es”
Pretty harsh aren’t you? Being my now departed father who fought in North Africa and Germany, and had an uncle killed in Holland and another in Italy, I will pray for you. I’m sure they would forgive you, paraphrasing, as you “know not what you speak”. Suggest you breath into a paper bag or maybe pop a Valium?
“warm, safe spot SECURED FOR YOU by these MEN who FOUGHT”
My family’s “warm, safe spot” had never seen a single American soldier. It was SECURED from the nazis by the Red Army.
They waited in vain to see the US Army arrive. What they got was communism, thanks to Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt.
When he came back from Yalta, Roosevelt assured the US Congress; “I come from the Crimea with a firm belief that we have made a start on the road to a world of peace.”
The author is an idiot. This isn’t a joke. Russia has an ongoing border dispute with Canada. Following the Putler doctrine, Russia could easily plant some Russkies up there on the ice and then “defend” them.
It SHOULD mean mushroom clouds appearing in the Russian skies.
My family’s “warm, safe spot” had never seen a single American soldier. It was SECURED from the nazis by the Red Army.
So you are Jewish and hate Ukrainians because of WW2? Correct?
I agree with you. The key to this was our lack of engagement with EU. When EU & NATO started building hopes for Ukraine they should have known that Russia would push back. If we would have worked with both Russia first and diminished the perception of a threat at their doorstep we may not be in this position.
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