Russia approves use of force in Ukraine

[Old TexMex]

I'm goin' fishin' is what I'm doin....

 

[Ranger514]

Seems to me that every time we respond overseas to restore order or promote a pro democratic government, we end up with huge costs that are never repaid, along with a benefiting country the usual spits in our face for our good will and sacrifice. Regarding the Ukraine, IMO we have no dog in that fight. Our resources and manpower have limits, as does our economy, which is stretched to the limit. It's a Euro issue, so let them deal with it. We can't afford to be the World Police. Just my 2 cents.

 

[LVSteve]

Even if NATO wanted to intervene, geography is against them. To go into the Ukraine through Poland involves exposing the entire left flank to Belorussia, which is firmly in the Putin sphere of influence. Want to invade the Crimea via the Black Sea? That did not work out too well back in the day.

I predict one of the following outcomes.

1) Putin gets a pro-Russian government back in power in Kiev, with all the civil unrest and murder that will entail.

2) Russia annexes the Crimea and all of the Ukraine East of Poltava (half way to Kharkiv from Kiev). Western Ukraine then finds it no longer has a natural gas deal with Russia and has to get all its energy from the EU.

 

[Fishslayer]

My grandparents both came from the Ukraine just before and after 1900. They were germans that had homesteaded in the Ukraine around 1830`s.

Some of our ancestors might have known each other.

 

[the ringo kid]

I'm goin' fishin' is what I'm doin....

Take me with you Dad, and ill bring the first season of Maverick with us to watch when fishin gets a tad tiring. :_))

 

[therevjay]

The Ukraine and the Crimea have been in the Russian sphere of influence for hundreds of years. The U.S. has as much interest there as Russia would here,if we had a beef with Mexico. This is neither the time or place for our beloved leader to try and act macho.

 

[ChuckS1]

Well, just now on FOX they said Russia recalled their ambassador to the USA. Thats NEVER a good sign! I guess we scared them huh?
My grandparents both came from the Ukraine just before and after 1900. They were germans that had homesteaded in the Ukraine around 1830`s.
Some went back on a visit many years later and the people had even stold all the german gravestones to use in fondations for houses and barns. My grandparents would have been annilated had they stayed.
They are or at least used to be a rough vicious people. I had a great uncle who was drafted into the russian army there about in 1909. His sister, my grandmother lost her 1st husband there and she, one infant son and her brother fled together here. My grandpa had came over from the same area about 10 years earlier, had just lost his wife and had 6 kids he had to raise. They married and dad was the first of 10 more! That = 17! I heard many rough storys of the area. They have a very bloody history over there. I heard my family lost people over there in wars. I know grandma lost siblings there.

My grandparents were also Volga Deutsch from the village of Grimm. My grandfather left to avoid conscription into the Russian Army. They ended up in Montana on a farm bordering the Custer battlefield. My grandmother never learned English. My dad was the youngest of 6 kids and I have pictures of him as a teenager on horseback with Crow Indians his own age who he was friends with.

 

[OLDFED]

To Mr. Putin...

...YOU better behave or you'll get another Red Line! I have a box full of red markers and I mean it! You WILL NOT be a happy camper if I draw another Red Line! If you do, I'm going to change that color to Blue! Yes, I have Blue markers too! Take that!

 

[Whitens Moss]

Don't think Bam would pick a fight with Vlad. Total mismatch.

 

[moe smith]

Don't think Bam would pick a fight with Vlad. Total mismatch.

Well, he could send Michelle.

 

[ditrina]

We're done here.. Politics ... Snide remarks... Not so subtle shots at the POTUS...Etc..
Read about it in the Sunday paper.. But not here..