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Obama's Ukraine Folly Comes Full Circle

hypocritexposer

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This has been one of the underlying themes of those who have argued from the beginning of this drama that the West doesn’t have a stake in Ukraine’s fate to even approach the stake of Russia, which has included Ukraine within its sphere of influence for the past three and a half centuries and has viewed that relationship as crucial to its sense of national security.

This raises a question: If we don’t have a serious stake in the matter, and we’re very clear with ourselves and the world that we won’t fight over it, and the preponderance of power flows from other directions, why are we even involving ourselves in the controversy?

To fight with words at the precise moment when power has overwhelmed your policy not only renders an appearance of weakness, it makes the president look bewildered, like he doesn’t really understand what’s going on. That’s not the image that great nations should project.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/obamas-ukraine-folly-comes-full-circle-11218?page=2
 

Steve

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the West doesn’t have a stake in Ukraine’s fate to even approach the stake of Russia, which has included Ukraine within its sphere of influence for the past three and a half centuries and has viewed that relationship as crucial to its sense of national security.

if you can call brutally murdering millions of it's citizens and brutally driving out an entire culture out of it's homeland influence,.. then I would agree..

the actual Ukrainians have little desire to be part of Russia.. they have been forced to be by Russians who have moved in and taken over part of their country..

Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar: Qırımtatarlar or Qırım, Qırımlı, Russian: Крымские татары, Ukrainian: Кримськi татари) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the Crimean Peninsula, which constituted the largest population in the peninsula from the time of its ethnogenesis in the 15th century until 1864, and the relative largest ethnic population until the end of 19th century

In 1944 Crimean Tatars were targeted for mass deportation under Soviet rule.

There remains a large diaspora of Crimean Tatars in Turkey and Uzbekistan.

but the fact is standing up to Russia now is critical.. because obama misjudged Putin.. I would rather push them back now then deal with them in every country that borders them... (including Canada and Alaska.. )

When should we step in,.. when Russia takes northern Canadian waters by force?
 
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