#Ukraine demands that the USA, France, and Britain either respect the Budapest Accord, or return its nuclear arsenal.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-02 01:09:36 UTC
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#Ukraine demands that the USA, France, and Britain either respect the Budapest Accord, or return its nuclear arsenal.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-02 01:09:36 UTC
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False Comparison. USA’s objective is self determination. Russia’s is justification of power and corruption.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 22:22:01 UTC
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Proper Threat: Withdraw or we will sink the entire black sea fleet. #Crimea
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 22:20:19 UTC
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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116810/putin-declares-war-ukraine-why-and-what-nextTARGET IS EASTERN UKRAINE TOO?
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 18:55:00 UTC
Back when I was in university, I did a little work with war games. It was very little. But the experience was life altering.
The absolute out-of-the-blue perfection of Putin’s invasion of Crimea is EXACTLY the kind of scenario that lands in your lap.
I can pretty easily imagine what’s going on in the states right now.
There is no compelling strategic interest in crimea.
The Russians have a legitimate claim to the territory.
We have used the same arguments in Panama and other places.
BUT
The west’s self image is predicated on being the police of self determination and the prohibitor of taking territory by force. The west loses, it loses it’s entire claim for moral legitimacy.
It would have been easier for Putin to just engineer crimean annexation without troops. But you know, it’s BETTER FOR HIM to exercise muscle.
GUTLESS MORON IN WASHINGTON
This is why you don’t elect progressives to the presidency.
They’re almost always confused. This president is not only confused. but lazy and stupid.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 12:56:00 UTC
Obama is the worst president in American history – even worse than Carter.
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-01 08:32:00 UTC
So I guess Putin is going to take Crimea by force? Use it as his “Grenada and Panama”? His resurgence? Show a little muscle? Smart really.
No problem here. Self determination. If they Crimeans go for it, well, then I can’t make a libertarian case against it. No state has the right to control a body of people that do not wish to be controlled by it.
(The federal government has no right to control the people of Texas for example.)
Hate the state.
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-28 11:27:00 UTC
THE RUSSIAN ‘SPIN’
I completely understand (a) Putin’s ambition to create an eastern trade zone, (b) his desire to restore Russia to the world stage (c) the right of people in lands that contain an ethnically Russian majority to self determination, (d) the territorial investment and historical relation with Crimea, (e) the strategic importance of the black sea ports, (f) his fear that the revolution against corruption here in Ukraine will (justly) spread to Russia and unseat him.
What I don’t get is his SPIN, and his media’s spin, that the current government is somehow not legitimate when given the extraordinary corruption here was on a scale so significant that it affected the GDP.
I mean, corruption is always immoral, but at some point its pervasive enough that it becomes not just immoral but material, and at some other point it becomes not just material but catastrophically destructive. And the corruption here is in the catastrophic category. I mean, you can’t claim that anyone conducting that level of corruption is legitimate. You simply can’t. It will backfire on you.
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-28 01:15:00 UTC
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