Remember, the coup started all this. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What started the Russian adventure was Obama led NATO incursion and the subsequent destruction of Libya.No oil runneth there.Buahahahahaha! Now the Russians have Obama and Europe by the short hairs.Obama , it need not be said, is a stategic idiot.
Whats good for the goose is good for the borscht.We now earn the wages of Obama’s so called foreign policy. What an idiot!
The current “Open Skies” Treaty (executed in 2002) really began with an idea from the mid-1950’s (i.e., Eisenhower’s time).
You got it.
The EU could have avoided every bit of this if it has just said, "I call and raise you" when Putin put his offer to the Ukraine on the table.
The question is, who stood to gain the most by not waiting a few months for elections. The EU who wouldn't even match much less better the deal Putin made the Ukraine, or Putin who already had a signed agreement in hand?
The sad fact of the matter is the EU got caught rolling the Ukraine like a tubby old drunk.
Now they're trying to pretend they really just had tubby down and were kicking him to protect him from evil Russians intent on reducing his debt and giving him a good deal on energy prices.
Any way you cut it, Putin was only being a realist to occupy Crimea and integrate it back into Russia instead waiting to see if there would be high precision negotiation strikes destroying infrastructure there.
The same genius crew who wouldn't beat the Russian offer to begin with are now reduced to schoolyard taunts and obvious forgeries to try gin up support for the people they bet on in Kiev. The problem is, those dad gum Ukrainian military and police guys keep siding with the local folks instead of the "government" in Kiev.
We should be so lucky. Is it any wonder the propaganda crews are working overtime to make authorities siding with the local folks look like the work of "Putin sock puppets"? Is it any wonder the horror stories the propaganda crews talk about can never be verified any more than the threat to desert turtles in Nevada can be verified?
I've seen more verifiable pictures of government destruction of private property in Nevada than I've seen of Russians lifting a finger in the Ukraine. But we're supposed to let the system slowly grind toward chastising it's own here and all get behind the use of lethal force in the Ukraine to help the EU save face?