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From: Peacefan Netherlands <[email protected]>
Date: 10 June 2018 at 19:09
Subject: About Russia and the Crimea : they were right to take it, in my opinion.
To: {US Gov}, {Israeli Gov}, {Dutch political parties}, {CNN}, {Dutch media}
Hi.
Another thing i see western mass media mis-reporting on : Russia and the Crimea.
3 important facts that go under-reported, are :
- The West and Ukraine, as well as several other nations on the very west-side of Russia's border, have been growing closer politically and militarily for at least the past decade. Combined with an attitude in western media and politics that says we can expand and strengthen our overseas military bases whenever we deem fit, but that Russia somehow shouldn't be allowed to, has the Russians genuinely so worried that they are now embarking on new arms-races to offset the upsetting of the M.A.D. principle by NATO in eastern Europe with our plans to expand anti-ICBM deployments. And Putin has made several public calls to resolve such differences diplomatically, but all i see the western media do (even CNN) is to semi-demonize the Russians.
- Russia has had the base of their Black Sea fleet in the Crimea since 1783 (Black Sea Fleet - Wikipedia), and you can't expect them to give that up. Do look at the map and zoom out on the Crimea until you see the Mediterranean Sea.
- Russia has the support of the people in Eastern Ukraine.
Based on this logic, i expand into the following friendly advice :
*** When the M.A.D. principle is upset into either world powers that are militarily nearly equal in strength, *or* too unequal in strength, major problems can erupt. In the first case, war, in the second case : serious morality problems.
- The Russians have a small naval base in Syria now, which i recommend we let them continue to have. We can't trap them completely in the Black Sea using Turkey. And seriously : what is one small naval base in Syria going to do against the roaming power of the NATO fleet and airpower? Not much.
- The North-Koreans are backed by both the Russians and the Chinese as a buffer against western power in Asia. I also predict North-Korea will stay a nuclear weapons power, by doing the same as they have done during the Clinton administration (make promises that years later prove to be broken by them), but *without* being an actual threat to Japan, South-Korea, or the West.
The Kim family is clearly not suicidal. Evil to their own people perhaps, but not geopolitically suicidal. They have proven that over their entire careers as rulers of North-Korea, ever since having lost the Korean war.
And frankly we can not regime-change North-Korea due to the long-term effects that that has on the relationship between the West and Russia and China.
- The Chinese should not be allowed to dominate the South China Sea, but they *should* be allowed to have bases there, much like the Russians need to be allowed a measure of military expansion with that Syrian naval base of theirs, as well.
From: Peacefan Netherlands <[email protected]>
Date: 10 June 2018 at 19:09
Subject: About Russia and the Crimea : they were right to take it, in my opinion.
To: {US Gov}, {Israeli Gov}, {Dutch political parties}, {CNN}, {Dutch media}
Hi.
Another thing i see western mass media mis-reporting on : Russia and the Crimea.
3 important facts that go under-reported, are :
- The West and Ukraine, as well as several other nations on the very west-side of Russia's border, have been growing closer politically and militarily for at least the past decade. Combined with an attitude in western media and politics that says we can expand and strengthen our overseas military bases whenever we deem fit, but that Russia somehow shouldn't be allowed to, has the Russians genuinely so worried that they are now embarking on new arms-races to offset the upsetting of the M.A.D. principle by NATO in eastern Europe with our plans to expand anti-ICBM deployments. And Putin has made several public calls to resolve such differences diplomatically, but all i see the western media do (even CNN) is to semi-demonize the Russians.
- Russia has had the base of their Black Sea fleet in the Crimea since 1783 (Black Sea Fleet - Wikipedia), and you can't expect them to give that up. Do look at the map and zoom out on the Crimea until you see the Mediterranean Sea.
- Russia has the support of the people in Eastern Ukraine.
Based on this logic, i expand into the following friendly advice :
*** When the M.A.D. principle is upset into either world powers that are militarily nearly equal in strength, *or* too unequal in strength, major problems can erupt. In the first case, war, in the second case : serious morality problems.
- The Russians have a small naval base in Syria now, which i recommend we let them continue to have. We can't trap them completely in the Black Sea using Turkey. And seriously : what is one small naval base in Syria going to do against the roaming power of the NATO fleet and airpower? Not much.
- The North-Koreans are backed by both the Russians and the Chinese as a buffer against western power in Asia. I also predict North-Korea will stay a nuclear weapons power, by doing the same as they have done during the Clinton administration (make promises that years later prove to be broken by them), but *without* being an actual threat to Japan, South-Korea, or the West.
The Kim family is clearly not suicidal. Evil to their own people perhaps, but not geopolitically suicidal. They have proven that over their entire careers as rulers of North-Korea, ever since having lost the Korean war.
And frankly we can not regime-change North-Korea due to the long-term effects that that has on the relationship between the West and Russia and China.
- The Chinese should not be allowed to dominate the South China Sea, but they *should* be allowed to have bases there, much like the Russians need to be allowed a measure of military expansion with that Syrian naval base of theirs, as well.
