No. He's trying to prevent a civil war. The Right Sector came to Odessa and it was a bloodbath.
They set the building on fire. Many deaths. Evil bastards. And this is who our leaders are backing.
He's also asked the pro Russian rebels to postpone their vote. Putin has been the only one using diplomacy in all of this as everyone else is saber rattling and chest thumping.
Invading and annexing another countries territory is not what I would call using diplomacy. This is the type of thing Hitler did in the 1930s and 1940s and SADDAM did it to his neighbors in the 1980s and 1990s.
You are regurgitating the bullshit you've been handed. There was no invasion. Russia by treaty with Ukraine in 1997 and that treaty extended until 2042 was allowed up to 25,000 troops in Crimea.
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No you are defending Bullshit that can't be defended. Yes, Russia leases a base there, but that does not allow Russian forces to deploy outside the base into Ukrainian government buildings and hold Ukrainian military bases hostage. It does not allow the Russian navy to take over the Ukranian naval base and steal the only Ukranian Submarine based out of Crimea. It does not allow Russian soldiers to shoot and kill Ukrainians soldiers as happened. It does not allow Russian soldiers to set up a border check point where Crimea borders Kherson province to the north and make it into an international border.
Yes, Russia can have 25,000 troops there as long as there on base. They are not allowed to go off base with their weapons and tear up seize the rest of Crimea.
You know like America has treaties with foreign powers for the USA to have bases? And Crimea is home to Russia' Black Sea fleet.
Oh and Crimea was Russian until old Nikita decided to give her to the Ukraine as a present in the mid 50's.
Oh and the majority of Crimeans are ethnic Russian and really really were pissed off at the coup in Kiev that threw out their guy.
Ukraine is an independent state with the same rights as any other sovereign independent state. Russia leased a base in Crimea because Ukraine agreed to it. It was business deal for Ukraine essentially, but its still sovereign Ukrainian territory no matter what the foreign entity has paid for. Foreign companies may purchase property in the United States, but it remains United States territory.
The Ukraine has been an independent state since 1991 with its borders recognized by the United Nations and in 1994 it gave up its nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange for Russia to recognize its borders including the fact that Crimea was and is part of the Ukraine. Nothing that Soviet officials did in the 1950s or 1920s, or what the Czar did earlier matters.
Yes, the United States has bases in other countries, but the United States respects those foreign countries and does not use basing rights or deals as a justification to invade and annex territory.
Lots of people get pissed about the political process that occurs in their individual countries. But that does not automatically justify terrorism and succession. There are laws that have to be obeyed. Crimea is dependent on Ukraine for much of its energy and clean water supply. Taxes from the rest of Ukraine have for years been transferred to Crimea. Now Russia has gone in and seized this area just as Hitler seized the German area of Czechoslovakia in 1938 using the same justifications.
Oh and while I'm freaking at it I find it monumentally hypocritical that we are now saying its ok to kill pro Russian protestors when just a few days ago we were condemning the killing of pro western protestors.
What a dogs breakfast Obama has created and civil war is now very possible. They are crying in Odessa that they will never forget and they will never forgive for what our western leaders allowed to happen.
Because of politics.
I fear this is just the beginning
Now doubt, Putin's dream of NovoRossia in Ukraine is on the way. He'll likely invade and take eastern and southern Ukraine landlocking what is left. I'd like to see you defend that naked aggression. Its interesting to see how someone defends a 21st century version of Hitler.