So Russia is taking over the Ukraine

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  1. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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  2. LSUpride123

    LSUpride123 PureBlood

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    It is a view as we nor the world wont do anything to Russia.
     
  3. Winston1

    Winston1 Founding Member

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    You know I'm going to leave the racial insult alone sport. Race has nothing to do with what is happening. However I will address you other comments.

    1) The difference between a bunch of fools with no position posting on Facebook or whatever and the leader of a country that is a nuclear power with armed forces at his command should be self evident. For the slow learners among us I will add that Putin has the tools at his disposal to act. Look at Ossetia in 2008 he sent in his army and took the country. Today he sent in 21,000+ army into Crimea and appears to have taken the country. That my friend is significantly different on all levels than your red necks drunken rants. It has thought, planning and action and a major power behind it. Is it likely he will fully accomplish his goal? Probably not but he is light years closer and much more dangerous.

    2) Yes we live in dangerous times and have for years. However when you have a leader of a major power seemingly on a mission to create havoc as Putin is doing and the danger increases. The potential for mistakes inflaming the situation is greater, there are more flash points where shit can happen. Guess what MLU? Putin has his hands in them all Syria, Iran and Crimea/Ukraine. He is actively working against the US because he sees world affairs as a zero sum game.
     
  4. LSUpride123

    LSUpride123 PureBlood

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    Does anyone really think Putin didn't think this through?
     
  5. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Very much so.
     
  6. MLUTiger

    MLUTiger Secular Humanist

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    I bet it takes you an hour to build up the courage to walk out of your house every morning...
     
  7. mancha

    mancha Alabama morghulis

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    Well with the things going on in The Crimea and Venice voting to break away from Italy, and the political landscape in the US it looks like an update on political boarders is in order:

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  8. Winston1

    Winston1 Founding Member

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    Brilliant comments like that must make you feel good. Easier than addressing the issues..a cowardice all its own.
     
  9. MLUTiger

    MLUTiger Secular Humanist

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    I'm no coward, but I do find it funny that you equate sitting there on your couch, pecking away at the keyboard and crafting a brilliant reply as something courageous. However, the issue at hand is your disillusionment that Putin is going to put together the old USSR again and I am addressing it by ridiculing you for really believing that. Thinking that annexing a section of the Ukraine in which Russia already had complete influence over is a signal that the USSR is rising from the ashes is just fucking stupid. It is about as traumatic as the US making Puerto Rico a state.
     
  10. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Just learned tonight that one of the prisoners who was pardoned by Putin along with that hot piece of Russian ass from Pussy Riot, was Russia's richest man. Made his money in the oil game and was a political enemy of Putin's. So Putin had him arrested, all of his assets seized, including his oil company. Turned into Rosneft, the biggest oil company in the world now. Rosneft, a company who struck a deal recently with Exxon, a deal that was made in Putin's home in Sochi. So Putin stole this guy's company, locked him up for dime, and stole all his money.

    So if I'm Obama, why am I not looking into freezing the assets of these guys in America and killing this deal?
     
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