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Originally Posted by kalos72
This is nothing but a bully taking what he wants...and all of us are too scared to do anything about it.
All this because, "People of Russian decent live there"? Russia gave Crimea away in 1954...
I would sanction the shit out of this guy...sell arms to the Ukraine....loan them 150B...whatever it took.
We let them take parts of Georgia...if we are this "World Makers" like our politicians like to dream of at night or current policy of "non action" is sad...
This pisses me off....  |
Unfortunately there is nothing that anyone can do to make Russia withdraw from the Crimea, or the Eastern Ukraine if it sends its forces into it other than engaging Putin in sensitive diplomacy.
The Russians don't think the same way about democracy and the end of the Cold War that westerners do. They feel humiliated by losing the Cold War and watching their former allies join NATO. The Ukraine is far to close to home and to their own culture and history for Russians to let go off, and is the final line in the sand for them. They wont back down.
If you sanction the Russians they will cut off the gas supply to Europe, and sell nuclear technology to Iran and North Korea. If you politically isolate a country like Russia it will start breaking every arms treaty it has signed since the end of the Cold War. It will also probably start to revert to its old ways and may start taking back all of the old Soviet Union and will cosy up with China.