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Title: What Should We Do About Crimea?
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URL Source: http://russia-insider.com/en/politi ... uld-we-do-about-crimea/ri16087
Published: Aug 29, 2016
Author: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2016-08-29 07:22:37 by Tatarewicz
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Views: 252
Comments: 10
RI... Is Crimea about to explode? The mainstream media reports that Russia has amassed troops on the border with Ukraine and may be spoiling for a fight. The Russians claim to have stopped a Ukrainian sabotage team that snuck into Crimea to attack key infrastructure. The Russian military is holding exercises in Crimea and Russian President Vladimir Putin made a visit to the peninsula at the end of the week. The Ukrainians have complained to their western supporters that a full-scale Russian invasion is coming, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he may have to rule by martial law due to the Russian threat. Though the US media pins the blame exclusively on Russia for these tensions, in reality there is plenty of blame to go around. We do know that the US government has been involved with “regime change” in Ukraine repeatedly since the break up of the Soviet Union. The US was deeply involved with the “Orange Revolution” that overthrew elected president Viktor Yanukovych in 2005. And we know that the US government was heavily involved in another coup that overthrew the same elected Yanukovych again in 2014. How do we know that the US was behind the 2014 coup? For one, we have the intercepted telephone call between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt. In the recording, the two US officials are plotting to remove the elected government and discussing which US puppet they will put in place. You would think such undiplomatic behavior could get diplomats fired, but sadly in today’s State Department it can actually get you promoted! Nuland is widely expected to get a big promotion – perhaps to even Secretary of State – in a Hillary Clinton administration, and Geoffrey Pyatt has just moved up to an Ambassadorship in Athens. Ambassador Pyatt can’t seem to control himself: Just as tensions were peaking between Russia and Ukraine over Crimea this month, he published a series of Tweets urging Ukraine to take back Crimea. Is this how our diplomats overseas should be acting? Should they be promoting actions they know will lead to war? When the mainstream media discusses Crimea they are all lock-step: that’s the peninsula Putin annexed. Never do they mention that there was a referendum in which the vast majority of the population (who are mostly ethnic Russians) voted to join Russia. The US media never reports on this referendum because it produced results that Washington doesn’t like. How arrogant it must sound to the rest of the world that Washington reserves the right to approve or disapprove elections thousands of miles away – meanwhile we find out from the DNC hacked files that we don’t have a lot of room to criticize elections overseas. What should we do about Ukraine and Russia? We should stop egging Ukraine on, we should stop subsidizing the government in Kiev, we should stop NATO exercises on the Russian border, we should end sanctions, we should return to diplomacy, we should send the policy of “regime change” to the dustbin of history. The idea that we would be facing the prospect of World War III over which flag flies above a tiny finger of land that most US politicians couldn’t find on a map is utterly ridiculous. When are we going to come to our senses? Originally appeared at Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Poster Comment: US has to help Israel's Khazars get control of all of what was Ukraine so Israel can have a second homeland and a beach head in Europe as long as the Israeli lobby, Sayanim and their media associates determine who is elected to the US Congress
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
We should do nothing about Crimea. That place has been a hot bed of hostilities since the 1850s, when the British were there. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
That's about the eleventy-billionth time that's been alleged by the NeoKahn's, "War at any time!!!!"
#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
The mainstream media reports that Russia has amassed troops on the border with Ukraine and may be spoiling for a fight.
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: BTP Holdings (#1)
A voice of reason at last.
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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
#4. To: BTP Holdings, 4 (#1)
the charge of the light brigade says it all
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#5. To: Lod (#4)
Tennyson was quite the poet. ;) www.poetryfoundation.org/...-poets/poems/detail/45319
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#6. To: BTP Holdings (#5)
He told us eloquently, "don't poke your nose (or your troops) into Crimea.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#7. To: Lod (#6) (Edited)
Yes. But in the 1850s, Britain was at the height of their empire. Now, we need to ask the same question of ourselves. Are we at the height of our empire? ;) "don't poke your nose (or your troops) into Crimea.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#8. To: BTP Holdings (#7)
Whenever the USD crashes, so will we.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#9. To: Lod (#8)
When China releases their new gold backed (40%) Yuan, it will be the death knell for the Dollar. ;) Whenever the USD crashes, so will we.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#10. To: Lod (#8)
Internationally USD may be worthless but domestically it should continue to function as a (bookkeeping) medium of exchange. Whenever the USD crashes, so will we.
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