Crisis in the Ukraine

It's easy to shout from the sidelines.

Be nice to punt this one to Europe, though: "All yours!"

 

The Cold War is heating up again. Stay tuned.

 

With a V and an I and an E in there I'm surprised he'd want to go.

 

Russia is a key partner in the war on Sunni jihadism and the sooner we reorient ourselves to this reality the safer we all will be.
Somebody tell Obama and Kerry this isn't a f-king Clancy novel.

 

Never let a chance to bash the other side go by, even if you really aren't sure what your side could do better in those circumstances.

 

Squint just right and it reads like something Simmons would run at Grantland.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/03/wee-prediction-about-ukraine

Then he wrote this:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/03/no-vladimir-putin-not-cunning-geopolitical-chess-player

 

Do you have something of value you feel like adding? We'll wait.

 

Watch out. Fart's been eating red meat again.

 

No, I'm sick of fuckheads ducking into what has been a decent discussion and throwing papier-mache grenades.
What's going on over there is serious shit.
The Central African Republic is another shit show nobody seems to want to talk about.

 

Idiot America argues about "True Detective" instead.

 

Bullshit. Everyone knows Rocky Balboa ended the Cold War for good when he beat Drago.

 

If the people of Crimea are ethnically Russian and want the Russians there, is it really a crisis?