we have enough problems here at home time for mr obama to stay out of it militarily maybe impose sanctions but other countries need to be behind us and back us up once
Threats foreign and domestic. Russia is not a threat to us.... They can work out their own shit. I'm way fucking done seeing my tax money spent on an overly bloated military budget. If I were Obama is slash the M budget and drop that dough right into science and technology research... Then just sit back and watch the money pile in
Remember a few months back when there was a huge discussion about the US stepping in to intervene in Syria? Thankfully, the US decided against that. What is happening there has nothing whatsoever to do with the US. Russia is not the world power that the old USSR was. They don't have the money, or the resources to pull some kind of large scale take-over. The cold war USSR threat is waaayyy different than the current Russian power grab going on right now. Russian occupation of the Ukraine is already hurting their economy. If Putin wants to set his country back even further just for the ego boost of occupying a former USSR territory, that's his own fault.I will predict that in 6 months, nobody will care about this at all.
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NightCruiser 10 years ago
I was reading an editorial yesterday and they were talking about Russia's system of Government. Like any authoritarian rule, the leaders line their pockets with kick backs. Putin is rich off the Russian system. So was the former leader of the Ukraine. So much corruption in governments around the world that have no checks and balances. One good thing about the USA political party system is the other side is always digging for dirt on the opponents. You can't get away with corruption for very long before somebody finds out and investigates you. The FBI is always looking for corruption. The problem with our system now is political candidates need Millions of dollars to run for office. Buying influence by campaign contributions is our down fall. Lobby groups are our down fall. Special interest with cash runs the government. If things don't make sense then follow the money trail. This is legalized bribery in my opinion
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Impose sanctions? Ha! What a joke. We need to take over the world and make everyone our bitch just like I do to fuckers on here. Quit being pussys. The world respects muscle and force not policies. They hate us even when we try to play nice. Until God quits making Humans the way he does than I don't know what to tell you.
NightCruiser 10 years ago
This is getting crazy! Congress is putting so much pressure on Obama to do something that Obama is saying stupid stuff like "We will not allow Russia to annex Ukraine!" This is really spiraling out of control Obama will have a hard time getting the UK to agree on tough sanctions. Even tough sanctions may not work on crazy King wannabe Putin. Russia has the propaganda machine going full tilt. So Obama and Congress are backing us into a corner. If sanctions don't work, then what? We have the Military capability to get the job done but does anyone want to risk WW3? Short of that it would bring a lot of death and destruction. I have read that we already have NATO planes flying in the region. What happens if war breaks out between Ukraine and Russia? Do we come to Ukraine's defense? I think we signed an agreement with them to do just that. I think if Russia takes part of Ukraine there will be great temptation to keep expanding. Georgia then Ukraine and on and on until the Soviet Union is back together. They need to pay a price with sanctions. $Billions have been lost in their stock market already. Putin will only care when the Russian people start rioting
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NightCruiser 10 years ago
I guess Crimea is lost to Russia. Some 70,000 Russian troops are in Crimea. Looks like most citizens of Crimea want to be Russians and be ruled by an autocrat ie dictator. Obama is really an idiot(so is our Congress for pushing him to say it)--we won't let Russia do this, he said. He would have been better off saying the Crimea people could do what they wanted to do. So now we are stuck giving $1 billion tax payer dollars to the other part of Ukraine that doesn't know its ass from a hole in the ground. IMO. So now Obama says we will defend Poland. I bet a domino effect start happening to where other pro Russia citizens want to get back under Russian rule. Russia will then invade those countries
NightCruiser 10 years ago
Pretty amazing how the west broke its promise to protect the Ukraine. The Ukraine said it would give up it's Nuclear weapons if the west agreed to protect it from invaders. This was back in 1991. Now the Ukraine said it made a big mistake trusting us. They say they may try and get Nukes again. But really, if they ever used Nukes against Russia, the retaliation would wipe them out. I don't think Russia is moving all those troops in just do they can control the east. Russia's business King pins said Putin told them they should bring their money home and not invest it outside of the Country. This was awhile back. So Putin was probably planning on stirring up trouble. Russian business leaders are worried about Russia being economically isolated. They say they don't think Putin was told what economic disaster would be if he invaded. Others say he did but didn't believe the west would follow through with harsh sanctions. He is probably correct. But if he invades the west............
NightCruiser 10 years ago
Ya Lia if we were going to defend them then we should have stationed troops there. Russia has a head start on us with an estimated 70,000 troops in place. They have moved in helicopter gunships etc. They are just waiting on the March 16 referendum. I bet they are doing all this to put pressure on the western side of Ukraine to make a deal in their favor. We sent sent F-16s to Poland and Russia responded by sending warplanes to their ally. The German Chancellor has come out and said the annexation of Crimea cannot happen. That Russia better negotiate or else harsh economic sanctions will happen.. She was very adamant. So that is all we have is economic sanctions. I think Putin would make Russia go back to the stone ages before he would give in and leave Ukraine. Putin is very wealthy so what does he care? There would have to be massive protest in Russia. That may happen when the common Russian people start suffering financially. The wealthy are already suffering financial losses. Putin knew the west had a pact with Ukraine. Pretty stupid to invade and put us in this position over a tiny country like Ukraine
NightCruiser 10 years ago
To show what scum Putin is he is now cutting the Russian people off from the Internet. Putting Russian government mouth pieces in national media outlets. Right out of the play book of the old USSR
