OBAMA MUST DEFEND NATO’S RED LINES FROM PUTIN’S AGGRESSION

By: Michael Barone
4/18/2014 06:00 AM

RESIZE:AAA

Last week, masked men in camouflage garb with no insignia, dressed and equipped like Russian special forces, started taking over police stations and other government buildings in the Donets basin in Eastern Ukraine. They appeared to be working in tandem with local militias in defying the Ukrainian government.

This week, the Ukrainian government has responded by sending in military forces to counter these actions. 

http://www.humanevents.com/2014/04/18/obama-must-defend-natos-red-lines-from-putins-aggression/

asserting control.

Crisis in Crimea - none of our business

Consider the "Crisis" in Crimea in these terms:

Let's say Texas, which was once Spanish territory was seized by Spanish troops, claiming the authority of ancient land treaties.  Mexico acted as a starting off point and was used to send in Spanish troops.

Additionally, let's say that Russia began issuing decrees, stating some unknown treaty with Mexico or Spain.

Now what would America do?

After Obama got through apologizing for former American imperialism, even he would be bound to tell Russia that this affair was none of their affair, we would settle things ourselves, and to stay out.  (though he would somehow arrange for a special UN Mission to accomplish the same thing)

The Ukrainie and Crimea are identical - these areas are traditionally part of Russian territory and are of strategic importance, due to the Naval Port under consideration.  They are NOT within our sphere of influence.

STAY OUT OBAMA AND STAY AWAY - worry about US BORDERS, not Russia.

BORDERS LANGUAGE CULTURE 

- as Dr. Savage reminds us so often.

PUTIN PLAYS CHESS WHILE OBAMA PLAYS MARBLES

By: John Hayward  
3/3/2014 09:34 AM

RESIZE:AAA

House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers (R-MI) summed the Ukraine crisis up perfectly on Fox News Sunday by saying “Putin is playing chess, and I think we’re playing marbles.”  The degree of disconnect between reality on the ground in the Crimean region, and the Obama Administration’s hapless stream of babble and bluster, is amazing.  The message other global leaders and miscreants must be taking from the confrontation is profoundly disturbing.

Rogers relates an old geo-strategic saying: “Russia without the Ukraine is a country.  Russia with the Ukraine is an empire.”  The scary thing is that nobody in the Obama Administration seems familiar with that saying, or much of anything else about the region.  The fallback position for nervous Obama apologists at this point is to snarl at critics, “Well, what do you think he should do, nuke Moscow?”  The point is not that a better President would be on a war footing against the Russian empire, but that a better President might have kept this crisis from bubbling over the way it has, or at least avoided further damage to American diplomatic prestige by fumbling the response so badly.

http://www.humanevents.com/2014/03/03/putin-plays-chess-while-obama-plays-marbles/

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The American state of California is a former Spanish territory.  Consider the situation if Mexicans living in that state agitated and wanted to rejoin Spain.  What would we do?

What is Russia decided that this was somehow in their interests, and decided to intervene, via trade sanctions, diplomatic moves and the like.

What would our response be?

Even a president like Obama would tell them to buzz off and mind their own affairs.

This one is none of our business and we have enough problems at the moment. 

Stay out and stay safe.

EU reportedly agrees to impose sanctions on Ukraine as truce falls apart

The European Union reportedly has agreed in an emergency meeting Thursday to impose sanctions against Ukraine after violence flared up again in Kiev, leaving at least 33 people dead.

In other developments:

• Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly is sending an envoy to Ukraine to try to mediate discussions with anti-government protesters – at the request of the country’s president. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the envoy announcement after Putin and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych talked over the phone, state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported, according to Reuters.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/20/ukrainian-president-announces-and-protesters-have-agreed-to-truce/

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Even the mighty red (And still drunken) Russian bear breaks down when faced with the potential enemormous financial consequences that santions imposed by the EU and US can bring.

Just never forget who the Russians are and NEVER FORGET their bloddy history.

Russia - land of lover and peace = Militia viciously attacks Pussy Riot members with whips in Sochi

Militia viciously attacks Pussy Riot members with whips in Sochi

By Associated Press

February 19, 2014 | 9:15am

SOCHI, Russia — Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the group tried to perform under a sign advertising the Sochi Olympics.

Six group members — five women and one man — donned their signature ski masks and were pulling out a guitar and microphone as at least 10 Cossacks and other security officials moved in. One Cossack appeared to use pepper spray, another whipped several group members while others ripped off their masks and threw the guitar in a garbage can.

http://nypost.com/2014/02/19/pussy-riot-attacked-whipped-in-sochi/

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And don't forget artistic freedom.  For some background, read about the lives and stuggles of 20th century Russian composers, you'll learn the truth about the Communists.

Riot police in Ukraine move in against protest camp

With stun grenades and water cannons, Ukrainian riot police moved in against a protest camp in Kiev's center Tuesday night after nine people were killed in violent street protests.

A large section of the camp has been engulfed in flames as police advance on the demonstrators.

Thousands of protesters had filled Independence Square just hours before, sensing that Ukraine's political standoff was reaching a critical turning point after the deadliest violence yet in nearly three months of protests that have paralyzed the capital and the nation.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/18/protesters-clash-with-police-in-ukraine-capital-as-opposition-say-govt-stalling/

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Gee. aren't the Russians thoese wonderful, sportsman-like folk that we have been seening each night at the Olympic Games in Sochi?

THINK AGAIN!  The Russian Bear is still dangerous and a mad killer.