Posted on 08/27/2014 6:58:48 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
MOSCOW/ NOVOAZOVSK Ukraine (Reuters) - On Monday, a resident of Novoazovsk in south-eastern Ukraine said she saw a column of armored vehicles approach the town and start shooting.
"It all started at 8:00 this morning, tanks appeared, no fewer than seven of them," the woman, who gave her name only as Lyudmila, told Reuters by telephone. "Right now I can hear rumbling, explosions ... the residents are hiding."
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Ukraine is finished and nothing will stop Putin.
“Putin conducts an undeclared and illegal war which he wages against a nonthreatening and peaceful people to assuage his own narcissism.”
Ya, kind of like we did in Panama, Kosovo, Iraq and Libya. It’s only illegal if you lose otherwise it’s called a just war or some other non-sense.
Ya, so what? Something is either illegal, or not.
Ukraine is a democratic and western country, or, at least, trying to be western, rather than submitting to the oriental despotism that has defined Russia for centuries.
“Ya, so what? Something is either illegal, or not.”
Try to wrap your mind around the fact that there is no controlling legal authority in the international arena. They are sovereign nations which means they can do pretty much anything they can get away with. The west (like NATO bombing the Serbs) have done these types of things all the time but because they won it’s alright. If they ever lose then the victor will declare what they did “illegal” and punish them, if they can. Kind of like the old middle ages concept of “might makes right”. It is what it is so don’t get all prissy about “illegal” things nations are doing as there really is no such thing and never has been.
You’re on the wrong website. This is the pro-American conservative one. Not the pro-foreign tyrant one. Check some of the left wing sites and see if you cannot find one that’s pro-Noriega, pro-Saddam, pro-Gaddaffi, or pro-Milosevic.
Tell it to Milosevic.
So you appeared on this thread, not to “defend” the Russians, but to state the obvious. Thanks.
“What was wrong with Iraq? Saddam Hussain was feeding people feet first into plastic shredders. There’s no moral argument against it, and no real legal one either.”
Well, other than we’ve killed far more Iraqi’s than Saddam ever did, have destabilized the entire country caused the entire Christian population of the country to be slaughtered and made it a breeding ground for terrorists like the ISIS I guess you’re correct. Boy did we show them! /S
Try to wrap yourself around Al Gore with your “no controlling legal authority” rodomontade rhetoric and sophistries. Ukraine has done nothing to Russia. Noriega, Gaddaffi, Saddam, and whatever other vile despots you equate to the peaceful people in Ukraine who only wish to be free do not deserve Putin’s undeclared but cruel war. You’re just his lowbrow apologist.
“You’re on the wrong website. This is the pro-American conservative one. Not the pro-foreign tyrant one.”
I’m not pro-any one when it comes to this kind of stuff. We’ve wasted the lives of thousands of Americans fighting in Iraq and for what? Please tell me what we have achieved there. Now you’re rattling the saber to start WWIII? over what? Some territory that was given to Ukraine by the Russians half a century ago that they are now taking back?
Par for the course in the Middle East.
And before we took out Saddam, lefties like you claimed we were killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi kids with our boycott. Now, you want to blame America first for all of its dysfunction and the actions of foreign players. I guess you America haters can always blame America. How easy is that? But are you really that intellectually lazy?
More Putin incompetence. When I see pictures of Putin now, I am reminded of Charlie Sheen - “Winning!”
The current government of Ukraine was installed via a military coup, so they're not exactly legitimate either. It's hard to know which side to cheer for when they're both doing things that aren't "proper".
“Ukraine who only wish to be free do not deserve Putin’s undeclared but cruel war”
Well if you feel so strongly about it get off your duff and go volunteer, I’m sure the Ukrainian oligarch that is currently running the country would be glad for the help. Otherwise why should we care, there is no US interest in the Ukraine either economic or strategic.
I see. WWIII will be my fault for posting on FreeRepublic. Have you any idea how silly you sound? And this “Yer gonna start WWIII rhetoric” has been another standard trope of lefties for a long time. No, I’m not going to start World War III. If Putin tries to rebuild the Russian empire, he’s going to start WWIII. I’m certain of that.
I’m doing my part, and I’m better informed on your main man Putin than you’ll ever be.
Use your logic President Washington was installed by a coup, and poor Hitler was overthrown by a coup.
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