Well, no one in Europe or the US has any direct interest here.
Tom Send a noteboard - 01/03/2014 09:13:36 PM
It's a messy situation because of a messy border that was drawn by the Soviets and it's just another chapter of the fallout from 1991. It doesn't threaten Romania, or Poland, or Hungary, or Slovakia, the next countries to the West of Ukraine.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Don't Make me Laugh, Mr. Obama
- 01/03/2014 03:14:50 AM
1491 Views
He's not the only lame duck in this, though.
- 01/03/2014 05:41:01 PM
1035 Views
It's a little more complicated than that, I think.
- 01/03/2014 07:42:20 PM
896 Views
Yes yes yes. This.
- 01/03/2014 09:11:19 PM
819 Views
Well, we split on that then - I most certainly do not support such an annexation.
- 01/03/2014 10:25:48 PM
825 Views
Any reason you keep misspelling Sevastopol?
- 02/03/2014 12:52:01 AM
1010 Views
You write "the Ukraine", while calling me old-fashioned? 
- 02/03/2014 01:57:58 AM
885 Views
- 02/03/2014 01:57:58 AM
885 Views
Yes. Dropping "the" is an anti-Russian move. It will always be the Ukraine.
- 02/03/2014 02:58:32 AM
892 Views
Just because there's an article in Russian doesn't mean there has to be one in English.
- 02/03/2014 11:21:25 AM
835 Views
I say the Sudan and the Congo.
- 02/03/2014 02:17:33 PM
885 Views
You do? Why?
- 02/03/2014 03:21:56 PM
967 Views
- 02/03/2014 03:21:56 PM
967 Views
As with most analysis at the Guardian, I think it's wrong.
- 02/03/2014 05:00:20 PM
883 Views
This one from a former advisor of Reagan-Bush might be closer to your views
- 05/03/2014 09:01:13 PM
1055 Views
" la Crimée vaut bien un tiramisu" - I liked that.
- 05/03/2014 11:06:55 PM
905 Views
Yeah, I laughed reading that too. The original piece in English was probably better...
- 06/03/2014 02:08:03 AM
900 Views
I don't think it's limited to Crimea. They will likely occupy Eastern Ukraine as well.
- 01/03/2014 09:08:56 PM
844 Views
its going to be hard to find support from the West
- 01/03/2014 06:37:15 PM
841 Views
Well, no one in Europe or the US has any direct interest here.
- 01/03/2014 09:13:36 PM
781 Views
*NM*
So what's your plan of action?
- 03/03/2014 11:25:59 PM
840 Views
My plan of action is to let Putin have Ukraine. We have no interests there. *NM*
- 04/03/2014 01:29:45 AM
487 Views
Ehem. Why are you being anti-Russian? ;-)
- 04/03/2014 01:25:37 PM
872 Views
Lack of space in a subject line that was the entire message. 
- 04/03/2014 02:21:49 PM
839 Views
- 04/03/2014 02:21:49 PM
839 Views
I watch дождь via etvnet.com. Lovely site for all Russian TV.
- 04/03/2014 08:23:58 PM
836 Views
I like their criticism of Putin generally, but I don't buy the "enemy of my enemy" position.
- 05/03/2014 11:39:15 PM
799 Views
Of course we do
- 04/03/2014 04:57:09 PM
869 Views
Wrong.
- 04/03/2014 06:04:31 PM
772 Views
that ignores the point
- 06/03/2014 02:01:09 PM
1024 Views
No, it doesn't.
- 06/03/2014 02:57:16 PM
797 Views
Re: No, it doesn't.
- 06/03/2014 06:22:32 PM
862 Views
Yes, the US violated the agreement.
- 06/03/2014 07:27:23 PM
914 Views
I have answered your question but you have still refused to answer my point
- 07/03/2014 01:48:53 PM
841 Views
You assume that the Ukraine's borders should be inviolate.
- 09/03/2014 05:56:45 PM
867 Views
Russia signed an agreement to not violate those borders
- 10/03/2014 12:18:37 PM
815 Views
Yes, and we signed the UN Charter, but invaded Kosovo anyway. Your point?
- 10/03/2014 01:10:33 PM
788 Views
Oh, and now the West is talking about $15 billion in loans for Ukraine.
- 05/03/2014 11:41:12 PM
806 Views
And you see that as the same thing as sending in troops?
- 06/03/2014 01:37:28 PM
804 Views
I think you've listened to too much propaganda from the 1990s.
- 06/03/2014 03:06:18 PM
767 Views
More like the 80s
- 07/03/2014 01:50:43 PM
823 Views
So I guess traveling to Russia extensively is of no value.
- 09/03/2014 05:58:00 PM
770 Views
in this case no it doesn't.
- 10/03/2014 12:20:13 PM
779 Views
Right...do you understand how stupid that made you sound?
- 10/03/2014 01:11:34 PM
773 Views
Or alternatively, it made him sound as someone who was just referring to something else than you.
- 10/03/2014 08:14:00 PM
827 Views
Its a great time to throw some missiles in Poland
- 04/03/2014 03:43:24 AM
874 Views
at Poland *NM*
- 04/03/2014 08:09:14 PM
440 Views
*NM*
- 04/03/2014 08:09:14 PM
440 Views
In case you're not familiar with BMD
- 04/03/2014 11:13:06 PM
872 Views
*NM*
*NM*