On Sunday, March 2, 2014 10:38:15 AM UTC-5, Home Guy wrote:
trader4 @ optonline.net" wrote:



So, if this is a US thing and Russia is right and justified in what

Putin is doing, why is it that Canada, Britain, France, Germany and

8 other European countries are all agreeing with the US position,

that the Russian invasion is illegal and unwarranted?



Because the west can do nothing but posture.


What they can or cannot do has nothing to do with the fact
that all these countries agree that what Russia is doing
violates international law and is an invasion of the Ukraine.
A rape is still a rape, whether anyone does anything about it
or not. And we have a dozen countries, not just the USA,
condemning what Putin has done. Including *your* country,
Canada, so why aren't you out there demonstrating and bitching
about that, instead of what the USA is doing? On the other side,
we have Putin, his Crimean puppet and you.....




Anyone who thinks that Russia would do nothing and lose political

control or affiliation with Ukraine (especially the Crimea - with

Sevastopol) is crazy.


WTF should Putin and Russia have political control of the Crimea?
Should the US have political control of Toronto?



By all accounts, most of the population of that region feel more like

ethnic Russians anyways, so for them it's a matter of fighting the

western half of Ukraine as they try to tear them *away* from Russia.

Which would you rather be affiliated with? Western Europe, ie Germany,
France, UK, Italy, Switzerland with a tradition of freedom for individuals,
open, fair elections, freedom of the press, or Russia and Putin?

But you do have a point, if those in the eastern Ukraine are dumb
enough to subjugate themselves to Russia, run by the former KGB and
they want to do so in a fair and internationally supervised election,
then that's their choice. Maybe they've forgotten the long lines for
food, the KGB, the gulags, the 20 million dead under Stalin. Putin
wants to put all that back into place. Now ask yourself, is giving the
people in the Crimea that choice in a fair referendum supported by Russia invading the place? Idiot.