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Russia completes Crimea annexation

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Thank God we have a president like Obama in this situation. With his charisma, strong leadership and negotiating skills, he will have Putin eating out of his hand. Obama drove the Russians out of Georgia in 2009 when he cautioned BOTH sides to exercise restraint, he stopped the missile defense plan in Poland in order to promote peace in Europe. I am confident that Obama will not interfere with the affairs between Russia and Ukraine as well. If North Korea decides to reunite with the south, I am also confident that he will work the new government under President Kim Jong Un to promote peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula as well. We are fortunate to have a strong leader like B. Hussein Obama during such turbulent times.

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-demand...37-44a4-af6d-d2c92e2f1429&_profileOut=comment
 
You do realize that the people of Crimea actually wanted to become part of Russia, right?
 
You do realize that the people of Crimea actually wanted to become part of Russia, right?

Only 98% of Crimea wants to be part of Russia according to the vote. To hell with democracy, we gotta save face.
 
it was our own govt., the CIA who was behind the protests that got rid of the democratically elected president of Ukraine starting a shit storm over there. now it all backfired with Russia taking a part of Ukraine. it all can be traced back to our foreign policy of interventionism.
 
You do realize that the people of Crimea actually wanted to become part of Russia, right?

This is the most important part. Almost all Crimean people are ethnic Russians. What's happening is a Civil war / split, and Russian is simply allowing a part to join Russia.

To have the USA president -- Obama or otherwise -- talk about how Russia shouldn't meddle in a civil war just reeks -- reeks -- of hypocrisy. Don't get me wrong, I love my country and think that, overall, it's the best on the planet, but we're being ragingly hypocritical on this matter.

The truth is that many of the old Soviet countries have done nothing but suffer since the fall of the Soviet Union. Now, many of them are looking back fondly of that era. We're going to see more countries willingly join with Russia.
 
it was our own govt., the CIA who was behind the protests that got rid of the democratically elected president of Ukraine starting a shit storm over there. now it all backfired with Russia taking a part of Ukraine. it all can be traced back to our foreign policy of interventionism.


..Our intervention in other countries politics is the root cause, it's ok we invade Iraq, so why can't Russia invade Crimea ??? I wish we would work on rebuilding America, our schools, bridges,highways and let other countries sort it out for themselves, the only people that advantage from our interventions are the corporations & oil companies.
 
You do realize that the people of Crimea actually wanted to become part of Russia, right?

The switch to democracy and capitalism in a lot of eastern European country's has been less then ideal. There is a lot of divide between the generations due to the lack of economic growth. A lot of the older people feel things were better under communism.

I think the GDP of that country is only like 4B, with a couple million people with most of that of course going to the top.
 
..Our intervention in other countries politics is the root cause, it's ok we invade Iraq, so why can't Russia invade Crimea ??? I wish we would work on rebuilding America, our schools, bridges,highways and let other countries sort it out for themselves, the only people that advantage from our interventions are the corporations & oil companies.

Russia isn't invading anyone.
 
The switch to democracy and capitalism in a lot of eastern European country's has been less then ideal. There is a lot of divide between the generations due to the lack of economic growth. A lot of the older people feel things were better under communism.

I think the GDP of that country is only like 4B, with a couple million people with most of that of course going to the top.


Why the Nostalgia for an Old Communist Economy?

https://mises.org/daily/6697/Why-the-Nostalgia-for-an-Old-Communist-Economy
 
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This is a tough one. On the one hand, it does look like a land grab with Putin ultimately wanting to rebuild the Russian empire. On the other hand, the majority of Crimeans are ethnic Russian and voted to secceed and unite with Russia. The US, EU, and china just don't want to see Russia having the same level of control and influence over Eastern Europe as it did during the Cold War. Therefore, theyre calling the annexation an illegal land grab. It looks like we won't know the true agenda until Russia starts moving further into the eastern part of Ukraine and possibly messing with Georgia or Estonia.

Anyone know how to say "12 months" in Estonian?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4R0oXjIzOx4
 

It's not nostalgia just a fact, I've done some traveling there also. Many Eastern European country's haven't fared very well but their independence also came at a bad time as the western country's in the OECD were just starting to financialize their economy's and they have not the experience to defend themselves from economic exploitation.
 
I'm sure we'd be totally cool with upper Michigan joining Canada if they wanted to. No biggie.
 
it was our own govt., the CIA who was behind the protests that got rid of the democratically elected president of Ukraine starting a shit storm over there. now it all backfired with Russia taking a part of Ukraine. it all can be traced back to our foreign policy of interventionism.

Cia behind protests lol,,more like putins henchhmen,,,all the events leading up to now were
Quick and all pre planned by russia imo.
 
This is a tough one. On the one hand, it does look like a land grab with Putin ultimately wanting to rebuild the Russian empire. On the other hand, the majority of Crimeans are ethnic Russian and voted to secceed and unite with Russia. The US, EU, and china just don't want to see Russia having the same level of control and influence over Eastern Europe as it did during the Cold War. Therefore, theyre calling the annexation an illegal land grab. It looks like we won't know the true agenda until Russia starts moving further into the eastern part of Ukraine and possibly messing with Georgia or Estonia.

Anyone know how to say "12 months" in Estonian?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4R0oXjIzOx4

The eastern Ukrainians want to be part of Russia, as well. Calling it a land grab or annexation is simply political rhetoric to get the easily panicked people worked up into a lather and ready to send the military over there to keep us in a perpetual state of war.
 
I'm sure we'd be totally cool with upper Michigan joining Canada if they wanted to. No biggie.

If they wanted to, why not? Go to war with another country to prevent people from exercising their free will?
 
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I'm sure we'd be totally cool with upper Michigan joining Canada if they wanted to. No biggie.



If they wanted to, why not? Go to war with another country to prevent people from exercising their free will?

This issue was decided during the Civil War.
620k+ Americans died.

http://www.civilwar.org/education/civil-war-casualties.html

Civil War Casualties

The Cost of War: Killed, Wounded, Captured, and Missing


The Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict. The unprecedented violence of battles such as Shiloh, Antietam, Stones River, and Gettysburg shocked citizens and international observers alike. Nearly as many men died in captivity during the Civil War as were killed in the whole of the Vietnam War. Hundreds of thousands died of disease. Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty. Taken as a percentage of today's population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls.


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The Numbers Illustrated

The human cost of the Civil War was beyond anybody's expectations. The young nation experienced bloodshed of a magnitude that has not been equaled since by any other American conflict.
Military Deaths in American Wars

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The numbers of Civil War dead were not equaled by the combined toll of other American conflicts until the War in Vietnam. Some believe the number is as high as 850,000. The Civil War Trust does not agree with this claim.
Civil War Battle Casualties

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New military technology combined with old-fashioned tactical doctrine to produce a scale of battle casualties unprecedented in American history.
Civil War Service by Population

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Even with close to total conscription, the South could not match the North's numerical strength. Southerners also stood a significantly greater chance of being killed, wounded, or captured.
Confederate Military Deaths by State

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This chart and the one below are based on research done by Provost Marshal General James Fry in 1866. His estimates for Southern states were based on Confederate muster rolls--many of which were destroyed before he began his study--and many historians have disputed the results. The estimates for Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina, and Arkansas have been updated to reflect more recent scholarship.
Union Military Deaths by State

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Given the relatively complete preservation of Northern records, Fry's examination of Union deaths is far more accurate than his work in the South. Note the mortal threat that soldiers faced from disease.
Casualties of War

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There were an estimated 1.5 million casualties reported during the Civil War.

A "casualty" is a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, capture, or through being missing in action. "Casualty" and "fatality" are not interchangeable terms--death is only one of the ways that a soldier can become a casualty. In practice, officers would usually be responsible for recording casualties that occured within their commands. If a soldier was unable to perform basic duties due to one of the above conditions, the soldier would be considered a casualty. This means that one soldier could be marked as a casualty several times throughout the course of the war.
Most casualties and deaths in the Civil War were the result of non-combat-related disease. For every three soldiers killed in battle, five more died of disease. The primitive nature of Civil War medicine, both in its intellectual underpinnings and in its practice in the armies, meant that many wounds and illnesses were unnecessarily fatal.
Our modern conception of casualties includes those who have been psychologically damaged by warfare. This distinction did not exist during the Civil War. Soldiers suffering from what we would now recognize as post-traumatic stress disorder were uncataloged and uncared for.
Consequences

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The Battle of Gettysburg left approximately 7,000 corpses in the fields around the town. Family members had to come to the battlefield to find their loved ones in the carnage. (Library of Congress)

Approximately one in four soldiers that went to war never returned home. At the outset of the war, neither army had mechanisms in place to handle the amount of death that the nation was about to experience. There were no national cemeteries, no burial details, and no messengers of loss. The largest human catastrophe in American history, the Civil War forced the young nation to confront death and destruction in a way that has not been equalled before or since.
 
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I know how bloody the Civil War was. My point is that Crimea and Ukraine are not part of the US and if they choose to become part of Russia it's no business of ours to force our will on them simply to spite Russia and keep us in a war. As far as a US state ceding from the US, same thing, that is the will of that state or part of a state. Should the Civil War have been fought? Perhaps, perhaps not. We know the history but not all of the details that brought on a war.
 
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Cia behind protests lol,,more like putins henchhmen,,,all the events leading up to now were
Quick and all pre planned by russia imo.

do some research on the CIA and you'll come to that convulsion as well. it's the US who wanted the democratically elected pro Russian president out of office so we can have our own puppet to control in Ukraine.
 
I know how bloody the Civil War was. My point is that Crimea and Ukraine are not part of the US and if they choose to become part of Russia it's no business of ours to force our will on them simply to spite Russia and keep us in a war. As far as a US state ceding from the US, same thing, that is the will of that state or part of a state. Should the Civil War have been fought? Perhaps, perhaps not. We know the history but not all of the details that brought on a war.


I disagree that the situation of Crimea, Ukraine and Russia are the same as the situation of the American Civil War when it comes to the question of succession.

As to Russia, not too long ago there was a Russian empire called the Soviet Union.
We shall see if the recent activity in Crimea is the opening move by Russia to reestablish that empire.
 
do some research on the CIA and you'll come to that convulsion as well. it's the US who wanted the democratically elected pro Russian president out of office so we can have our own puppet to control in Ukraine.

It's more complex than that.
It's related to the history of Western Ukraine.
The people in Western Ukraine are not ethnic Russians.
Those were the ones that were protesting in Kiev against Ukrainian stronger ties with Russia.
They do not identify themselves as ethnic Russians and they wanted no part of any agreement that would have created stronger ties between Ukraine and Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Ukraine

Unlike the rest of Ukraine, most of Western Ukraine was never part of the Russian empire

During elections voters of Western (and Central Ukrainian) oblasts (provinces) vote mostly for parties (Our Ukraine, Batkivshchyna)[SUP][20][/SUP] and presidential candidates (Viktor Yuschenko, Yulia Tymoshenko) with a pro-Western and state reform platform.
 
[h=2]Putins Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 2005[/h] I would like to bring those who think this way back to reality, to the facts. To do so, I will recall once more Russia’s most recent history.
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory. Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration infected Russia itself.Individual savings were depreciated, and old ideals destroyed. Many institutions were disbanded or reformed carelessly. Terrorist intervention and the Khasavyurt capitulation that followed damaged the country's integrity. Oligarchic groups – possessing absolute control over information channels – served exclusively their own corporate interests. Mass poverty began to be seen as the norm. And all this was happening against the backdrop of a dramatic economic downturn, unstable finances, and the paralysis of the social sphere.Many thought or seemed to think at the time that our young democracy was not a continuation of Russian statehood, but its ultimate collapse, the prolonged agony of the Soviet system.But they were mistaken.That was precisely the period when the significant developments took place in Russia. Our society was generating not only the energy of self-preservation, but also the will for a new and free life. In those difficult years, the people of Russia had to both uphold their state sovereignty and make an unerring choice in selecting a new vector of development in the thousand years of their history. They had to accomplish the most difficult task: how to safeguard their own values, not to squander undeniable achievements, and confirm the viability of Russian democracy. We had to find our own path in order to build a democratic, free and just society and state.When speaking of justice, I am not of course referring to the notorious "take away and divide by all" formula, but extensive and equal opportunities for everybody to develop. Success for everyone. A better life for all

here's the link with all of the address: http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2005/04/25/2031_type70029type82912_87086.shtml
 
This antagonism between Russia and Ukraine goes back much further than recent events.
They once fought a war against each other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian–Soviet_War

The Ukrainian–Soviet War[SUP][2][/SUP] of 1917–21 (Ukrainian: Українсько-радянська війна) was a civil war between the Ukrainian People's Republic and pro-Bolshevik forces for the control of Ukraine after the dissolution of the Russian Empire, as well as a theater of the ongoing Russian Civil War.
 
Putins Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 2005

I would like to bring those who think this way back to reality, to the facts. To do so, I will recall once more Russia’s most recent history.
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory. Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration infected Russia itself.Individual savings were depreciated, and old ideals destroyed. Many institutions were disbanded or reformed carelessly. Terrorist intervention and the Khasavyurt capitulation that followed damaged the country's integrity. Oligarchic groups – possessing absolute control over information channels – served exclusively their own corporate interests. Mass poverty began to be seen as the norm. And all this was happening against the backdrop of a dramatic economic downturn, unstable finances, and the paralysis of the social sphere.Many thought or seemed to think at the time that our young democracy was not a continuation of Russian statehood, but its ultimate collapse, the prolonged agony of the Soviet system.But they were mistaken.That was precisely the period when the significant developments took place in Russia. Our society was generating not only the energy of self-preservation, but also the will for a new and free life. In those difficult years, the people of Russia had to both uphold their state sovereignty and make an unerring choice in selecting a new vector of development in the thousand years of their history. They had to accomplish the most difficult task: how to safeguard their own values, not to squander undeniable achievements, and confirm the viability of Russian democracy. We had to find our own path in order to build a democratic, free and just society and state.When speaking of justice, I am not of course referring to the notorious "take away and divide by all" formula, but extensive and equal opportunities for everybody to develop. Success for everyone. A better life for all

here's the link with all of the address: http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2005/04/25/2031_type70029type82912_87086.shtml

Some of the elements of that speech align with some of the speeches by Adolph Hitler and Nazi Party Propaganda to justify the Nazi Germany takeover of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the Rhineland prior to WW2.
 
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

George Santayana
 
History repeats its-self

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212881/annex.html

Hitler then marched soldiers into the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland right after hosting the Winter Olympic Games.
More information on this takeover can be found at the Nazi Olympics page.
 
Some of the elements of that speech align with some of the speeches by Adolph Hitler and Nazi Party Propaganda to justify the Nazi Germany takeover of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the Rhineland prior to WW2.


exactly, as do Putins actions. Just like Hitler, he is going to see how far he can push until someone stops him.
 
do some research on the CIA and you'll come to that convulsion as well. it's the US who wanted the democratically elected pro Russian president out of office so we can have our own puppet to control in Ukraine.

I don't think putin wiil care too much,he will do what he pleases even if it means incursions into Ukraine,,
the west will do nothing.
 
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