View original postCheck out this lovely video by the BBC. These are the people who are really in charge of Kiev (because they have guns). While we can debate the extent to which they pose an existential threat to the Russians in Crimea and the Eastern part of the Ukraine, the fact is that Russia lost 20 million people in World War II and many survivors are still alive, and stories like this have been played in Russia and struck a nerve. I don't think Russians have been this angry since World War II with another country.
I don't think they are "really in charge of Kiev". But yeah, of course I understand what the Russophones in Ukraine and the Russians must think of that (if we ignore for a moment Russia's own far-right and ultranationalist elements...).
What do you think of this analysis?
View original postAnd yes, I posted this on Facebook, too.
Have to say that guy acting as a Putin cheerleader in that Facebook update of yours rather confused me with all the LOLs. Does he really support Putin, or is he just that disgusted with Western foreign policy that he has sympathy for any realpolitik-practicing autocrat who ignores the sensitivities of the West, be it Putin or Al-Sisi?
Don't Make me Laugh, Mr. Obama
01/03/2014 03:14:50 AM
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He's not the only lame duck in this, though.
01/03/2014 05:41:01 PM
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It's a little more complicated than that, I think.
01/03/2014 07:42:20 PM
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Yes yes yes. This.
01/03/2014 09:11:19 PM
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Well, we split on that then - I most certainly do not support such an annexation.
01/03/2014 10:25:48 PM
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Any reason you keep misspelling Sevastopol?
02/03/2014 12:52:01 AM
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You write "the Ukraine", while calling me old-fashioned?
02/03/2014 01:57:58 AM
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Yes. Dropping "the" is an anti-Russian move. It will always be the Ukraine.
02/03/2014 02:58:32 AM
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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
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I say the Sudan and the Congo.
02/03/2014 02:17:33 PM
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You do? Why?
02/03/2014 03:21:56 PM
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As with most analysis at the Guardian, I think it's wrong.
02/03/2014 05:00:20 PM
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This one from a former advisor of Reagan-Bush might be closer to your views
05/03/2014 09:01:13 PM
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" la Crimée vaut bien un tiramisu" - I liked that.
05/03/2014 11:06:55 PM
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Yeah, I laughed reading that too. The original piece in English was probably better...
06/03/2014 02:08:03 AM
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I don't think it's limited to Crimea. They will likely occupy Eastern Ukraine as well.
01/03/2014 09:08:56 PM
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So what's your plan of action?
03/03/2014 11:25:59 PM
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My plan of action is to let Putin have Ukraine. We have no interests there. *NM*
04/03/2014 01:29:45 AM
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Ehem. Why are you being anti-Russian? ;-)
04/03/2014 01:25:37 PM
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Lack of space in a subject line that was the entire message.
04/03/2014 02:21:49 PM
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I watch дождь via etvnet.com. Lovely site for all Russian TV.
04/03/2014 08:23:58 PM
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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
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Of course we do
04/03/2014 04:57:09 PM
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Wrong.
04/03/2014 06:04:31 PM
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that ignores the point
06/03/2014 02:01:09 PM
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No, it doesn't.
06/03/2014 02:57:16 PM
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Re: No, it doesn't.
06/03/2014 06:22:32 PM
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Yes, the US violated the agreement.
06/03/2014 07:27:23 PM
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I have answered your question but you have still refused to answer my point
07/03/2014 01:48:53 PM
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You assume that the Ukraine's borders should be inviolate.
09/03/2014 05:56:45 PM
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Russia signed an agreement to not violate those borders
10/03/2014 12:18:37 PM
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Yes, and we signed the UN Charter, but invaded Kosovo anyway. Your point?
10/03/2014 01:10:33 PM
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Oh, and now the West is talking about $15 billion in loans for Ukraine.
05/03/2014 11:41:12 PM
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And you see that as the same thing as sending in troops?
06/03/2014 01:37:28 PM
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I think you've listened to too much propaganda from the 1990s.
06/03/2014 03:06:18 PM
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More like the 80s
07/03/2014 01:50:43 PM
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So I guess traveling to Russia extensively is of no value.
09/03/2014 05:58:00 PM
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in this case no it doesn't.
10/03/2014 12:20:13 PM
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Right...do you understand how stupid that made you sound?
10/03/2014 01:11:34 PM
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Or alternatively, it made him sound as someone who was just referring to something else than you.
10/03/2014 08:14:00 PM
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Its a great time to throw some missiles in Poland
04/03/2014 03:43:24 AM
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at Poland
*NM*
04/03/2014 08:09:14 PM
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In case you're not familiar with BMD
04/03/2014 11:13:06 PM
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