So: if a handful of Russians who find themselves suddenly on the other side of a border from their cousins and brothers buy some military surplus jackets and maybe even a few trucks, that’s a Russian invasion of the Ukraine. But it’s cool if we put boots on the ground, and sell arms to the military junta that held guns to the legislature as it “voted” to oust the democratically elected president because he didn’t want to surrender sovereignty to the European Union.
That’s pretty damned deranged thinking in my book.
I’d like to buy a couple of T-72s, APCs, and a Buk missile launcher. Know where I can find a deal?
Not to worry, Obama's got their back!
Suddenly? What are you talking about? Ethnic Russians were colonized in Ukraine decades and decades ago after the Russkies cleared out the local population. Not just Ukrainians, but German farmers, anybody, whom the regime considered a class enemy. It is common practice for the Russkies to ethnically cleanse an area and then colonize it with the children of gulag guards and other freaks.
But this is all an irrelevant fact. Ethnic Russians are a minority in East Ukraine, and, furthermore, separatists are even a minority within that minority. Consistent polls and the separatists themselves, complaining that the local population wasn't doing their part, have proven this.
As for going to the store and buying surplas jackets and maybe some trucks when they're riding on freaking tanks and shooting down airplanes with Buk launchers. My question is this: Are you a retard or just a Putinista?
But it’s cool if we put boots on the ground, and sell arms to the military junta
What boots on the ground? They're asking for arms, not soldiers. What military junta? The military "junta" is the one in Donetsk run by the Russkies. They are literally commandos and mercenaries trained in Russia. One of their generals has even come out and vowed to establish a Soviet-Style rule, complete with full socialism and executions of rule breakers. In Ukraine, it is the Ukrainian Rada which has been in charge since 2012 (new elections in October) led by a President in charge since July or August.
And just FYI, the Russkies not only sell weapons to our enemies, such as Syria and Iran, but they are even aiding Iran with their Nuclear program which threatens genocide against its neighbors. If they can do that, why can't we arm the Ukrainians who, at least, aren't Jihadis?
that held guns to the legislature as it “voted” to oust the democratically elected president
What people were there holding guns on the legislature, stupid? You don't even seem to know anything about the events that led up to Yanukovych fleeing the country. Tell me Russkie, do you think it is okay for a "President" to send goons into the streets to beat, kidnap and torture people, and then finally shoot them to death? Do you think that a people have no right to get a little upset about that going on?
because he didn’t want to surrender sovereignty to the European Union.
The association agreement is not about joining the EU. It's about removing trade restrictions and setting other standards. Israel has the same agreement with the EU. Many non-EU countries do. It is not direct membership into the EU.
That’s pretty damned deranged thinking in my book.
What's deranged is that you bothered to post on this thread when it is clear you don't know what you are talking about.
Do you have a view of the Moskva from your office window comrade?