CRIMEA, RUSSIA, AND IMPERIAL AMBITIONS

Note to the United States and Britain: kindly shut up, and stand aside.
The Ukraine is neither your backyard, nor any of your business.
Yes, the annexation of the Crimea by the Russians would be an act of gangsterism. But they would also be taking back what was historically and by all rights theirs.
Until the Soviets boneheadedly transferred the peninsula to Kievan control in 1954, it was a part of Russia, and fundamentally so.


I'll admit that the Crimean Tatars have an older claim. They collaborated with the Germans, so screw them. It's probably a good thing that Stalin did not erase all memory of their existence, but merely deported them. It shows that underneath that Saddamesque mustache, he was actually pretty humane.

As far as the Ukrainians are concerned, all their politicians, most especially including the bunch of boneheads and fascists that seized control recently, are rapacious brigands and opportunists, very much like their commissar cousins. There is no percentage in this dispute, and other than the Europeans, who for some ridiculous reason feel that they should squawk up a storm over a country that consists famously of potatoes, cabbages, turnips, and fungus -- perhaps they need more of such things in the European Union? -- the Western World has no dog in this fight.
Stay out, shut up, and make nice with that Muscovite bastard.
He's right in this case. And Russia should annex Crimea.
Obama and the Great British dill-heads can stuff it.



Repercussions? What repercussions? No more caviar at state dinners, and British civil servants will suddenly stop accepting free vodka?
Oh boo hoo!


Seriously, what stupid move were you proposing?




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