If this is the intellectual caliber of people who analyze current events in this country, we are all royally screwed:
As Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institution noted concerning the immediate crisis that promoted the demonstrations, it was Europe that presented Ukraine with the “either-or proposition” of joining the European Union or the trade group backed by Russia. Why not both? “We forced [Russia’s] hand whether we intended or not.”
No, idiot, no. This is not about you. Putin said years ago that he considered the collapse of the USSR to be the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the XXth century. He’s been planning for a very long time to invade Ukraine. The invasion was timed to start after the Olympics. Yanukovich was told to provoke street disturbances at any cost. It takes all of 20 minutes to study the timeline of the events and see that Yanukovich wasn’t ousted because he preferred one trade agreement to another but because he opened fire at an unarmed crowd of citizens and started arresting protesters.
Ukraine was never invited to join the EU. Ukraine is a desperately poor country that will not be economically prepared for the EU for decades, if not longer.
I’m sure this Fiona Hill freakazoid is getting paid an enormous salary to utter these arrant idiocies while people who could really analyze the situation and avoid saying something this stupid are languishing in some adjunct position somewhere.
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🙂 🙂
For those who don’t speak Russian: people who live in poor Russian regions are now writing letters to Putin, asking him to invade and annex them. 🙂
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Are they ironic? I somehow thought it was serious.
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Oi. I thought it was in Ukraine because of the letter. Now I see. 🙂
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“Annex me!” “Annex ME!” “ME TOO!” “MEE TOOOOO!”
“I’d like him to annex me again and again!” “ME TOO!”
*ahem*
I am reminded of Monty Python’s Castle Anthrax where swarthy Knights of the Round Table almost met their end … 🙂
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I wish the diplomacy of hurt feelings would totally disappear out of the world
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What about this person? She has a pedigree, but I’m not sure how’d you view what she says. She has spoken at many college campuses, and as an undergrad I was required to attend her lecture for my major.
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I listened to the show, and everybody was saying intelligent, interesting things, until the former ambassador to the USSR came on and started saying weird unintelligent things.
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