Why the Hell did we offer such a deal?
How many Americans are supposed to die over this?
Are we supposed to risk nuclear exchange?
More dangerous than the arrogance of power is the arrogance of clueless powerlessness.
We can't stop this.
There was never the least chance we could.
The crisis in Crimea could lead the world into a second cold war | Dmitri Trenin
DT does not see the current crisis in the context of supposed broader ambitions.
West's puny response to Ukraine crisis will not deter Vladimir Putin | Simon Tisdall
ST exaggerates those ambitions and needlessly demonizes Putin.
Even dangerously.
We should have stayed out of Europe's first Cold War.
The more so the second, if this really signals another.
US out of NATO.
Please.
Putin is shaping events in Ukraine. It's time the west caught up | Observer editorial
Quotha,
One of the alarming features of the crisis on Ukraine's Crimean peninsula is the staggering confidence with which Vladimir Putin is pursuing his agenda there and in eastern Ukraine.
Another is the staggering cluelessness of the Western classe politique that is surprised that Putin is not frightened of the paper tigers, in this context, that are the EU, NATO, and the USA.
Jesus, is nobody in the Western world even faintly in touch with reality?
Are all of our leaders blithering idiots?
And this is just appalling.
Equally, it is clear that when western political institutions have attempted to penetrate Russia's neighbours – the suggestion of Nato expansion in Georgia, and closer EU integration for Ukraine – Moscow has pushed back hard on both occasions.
Really?
It was against the innocent and laudable and sweet as candy spread of "western institutions" that Putin, that KGB thug, wickedly "pushed back"?
Mother of God.
That NATO is not to this day a military alliance against Russia is just the sort of absolute bullshit with which our political elites deceive only themselves, though they are deluded by the echoes in the Western media they control into believing everyone else has been flummoxed.
NATO should have disbanded when the Warsaw Pact collapsed, or at least US forces should have gone home and left Europe to work out - and pay for - new arrangements on its own.
Instead, for decades we have been shoving NATO up Russia's ass.
Putin objects.
What a shock.
What a meanie.
You might find this interesting from the surviving Hitchens:
ReplyDeletehttp://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2014/03/peter-hitchens-vs-edward-lucas-on-the-crimea-confrontation.html
Actually, I am more interested, because alarmed, by the bellicosity of his opponent.
ReplyDeleteAssuming only that would get the Ukrainians to give up their nukes - for which Luces says they had no use - it was indeed in the interests of Britain and the US to make that promise.
But even then it had to be obvious, even to the more foolish, it would be contrary to our interests to raise a finger to keep it.
Even madly irresponsible.