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2014-03-20 Europe

WaPo writer compares Putin's grab of Crimea to Anschluss: and gets it right

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Posted by Steve White 2014-03-20 09:19|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Not James Knox Polk?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-03-20 10:49|| 2014-03-20 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Crimea should never have been part of Ukraine in the first place. It was just Khruschev doling out new opportunities (certainties) for corruption to his Ukraine supporters.

All this Western posturing is at best ridiculous and at worst very dangerous.

Posted by phil_b 2014-03-20 11:35|| 2014-03-20 11:35|| Front Page Top

#3 IMO Russia main agenda per the Ukraine-Crimea Crisis is preempting or containing the Soon-to-be-Nuclear Global Jihad + any Muslim great powers derived from same.

Its other agenda is keeping Germany from returning to Militarism + acquiring NucWeaps - ditto for China in East Asia vee Japan.

IIUC Ukraine repor desires EU help to convert the now-Russian controlled Crimea into a "demilitarized zone" - IT SHOULD BE THE OPPOSITE, I.E. ALLOW RUSSIA TO FORTIFY THE CRIMEA WHILE THE UKRAINE PER SE IS SEMI-DEMILITARIZED.

I believe Putin will accept a moderate level of NATO-EU conventional forces based in the Ukraine but NOT US-led GMD-TMD unless under "joint" US-Russian control.

In Russia's view, US-LED "SPACE DEFENSE" E.G. GLOBAL PROMPT STRIKE = INCLUSIVE OF ITS ANTI-THESIS US-LED "SPACE OFFENSE" I.E. SPACE-BASED PREEMPTIVE, FIRST-STRIKE + FOLLOW-ON WHICH RUSSIA FEARS BECAUSE IT PRESENTLY HAS NOTHING TO MATCH THE US SYSTEMS.

Despite the rhetoric, a Russo-Ukraine War or US-Russia war + related can still be avoided iff the cards are played right.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-20 23:06|| 2014-03-20 23:06|| Front Page Top

#4 * VOICE OF RUSSIA > RUSSIA + US MANAGED TO NEGOTIATE THEIR NUCLEAR ARSEBALS, WHY NOT COOPERATE ON UKRAINE?

Yeah, D *** NG IT, why not???

* SAME > CRIMEA REUNIFICATION NOT SUBJECT TO REVISION, LAVROV TELLS KERRY.

Ditto CHINA = TAIWAN, OKINAWA-SENKAKUS, SOUTH CHINA SEA???

* SAME > CRIMEA REUNIFICATION WID RUSSIA A TURNING POINT IN TWO NATIONS' DESTINIES - LAVROV.

Yuuup.

Also safe to say ditto for OWG America = Amerika vee Pro-US-vs-Anti-US Globalism, to include as agz China + Iran, etc.

Iff Putin ignores Obama + Kerry + Biden ala the Ukraine-Crimea Crisis, + sends in Russian forces anyway, WHY WOULD ONE BELIEVE CHINA + IRAN, ESPEC CHINA, WON'T DO THE SAME.

Lest we fergit, USSR LEADER JOSEf STALIN = "HOW MANY TANK DIVISIONS DOES THE POPE HAVE"!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-20 23:42|| 2014-03-20 23:42|| Front Page Top

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