Crisis in the Ukraine

Not true!

We boycotted the Olympics . . . and helped Islamic jihad-loving terrorists.

We've never ACCOMPLISHED anything positive. But don't say we've never done anything. We are the masters of being bitten in the butt by unintended consequences.

That being said, what has Russia done when WE have intervened militarily in other places?

 

British prime minister David Cameron announced the nation will not send an official state delegation to the Paralympics. Now that's a boycott by a brave man.

 

Bitched about it in public while being secretly delighted, that's what they did. Or back in the days of the Soviet Union, let other Communist countries carry the ball against the U.S. while saying "Go get 'em." It wasn't worth it to them, either.
PS: You guys realize this crisis is like less than a week old, right? International relations does not move at social media speed.

 

Why do we have to do anything? And besides whatever would be done is too
little, too late. This has been building for a while and we needed a more
pro active approach a while back.

At where we are now I would prefer to turn up the music and act like nothing
is happening. Putin wants us to have a reaction. Don't give him what he wants.

 

If you can't retweet old land, what's the use?

 

If I had known LTL or JC was making an appearance, I might have bothered to tune in. Could've used the laugh.

 

Just let Putin have Crimea. He'll be satisfied with that.

What we want to do is avoid a larger confrontation.

 

Let's offer up Cremora for Crimea. It might help their Olympic Team.

 

Russia, or the Soviets, weren't in a position to fuck with Reagan. Economically or otherwise.

Now, thanks to.....well, the tide has turned. Russia has us by the nuts and we have a tough talking guy with an embarrassing Vietnam record threatening them with harsh consequences.

Ukraine is Putin's financial healing cloth for the Olympics.

 

IT was a ruthless operation harking back to the era of Soviet oppression as Russia’s secret services snatched a political foe from a foreign capital.

Masked men seized an opponent of hardline president Vladimir Putin in an audacious daylight abduction after the victim had sought sanctuary abroad.

Bound and gagged, Leonid Razvozzhayev was smuggled back to Moscow and says he was tortured.

The clinical operation in Ukrainian capital Kiev nine days ago has added to fears Russia is returning to the dark days of brutal commissar Joseph Stalin and his Gulag forced labour camps of the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/vladimir-putin-crackdown-is-like-a-return-1403193#ixzz2uvWdT1Df


Can we stop this now, or are you going to move the goalposts again?

 

I never moved the goalposts. It is really more a matter of reading comprehension.

But, okay, Putin is a thug and Obama is following the same playbook and that makes him a pussy?

Here's Lindsey Graham:

Sure, he didn't say pussy, he just used other words.