All One Might Need to Know About Being Outraged Over Ukraine v Russia

Mar 04, 2014 21:23

One the one hand one Geez-Louise Russians are acting bad, ami'right?  Can't we be all peaceful and stuff.

On the other hand, leaving out our own proclivity for leaping into other sovereign countries with jarheads and airborne troopers and Apaches a-blazing [Beirut, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Iraq, Yemen, Libya], what business is it of the United ( Read more... )

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ford_prefect42 March 5 2014, 08:36:00 UTC
Outrage notwithstanding, it looks to me like it may not be long until we are involved in a situation the ferocity of which few now living recognize. A war.

Russia in Crimea smacks entirely too much of Germany in Sudatenland for my comfort.

Not that there's really anything to be done about it, there isn't. And I profoundly hope that I am wrong (which, I must admit, I have often been in the past). But we are now in a situation where if we and our allies (europe and australia) went to war with our enemies (China, Russia, and the middle east), we'd lose. That's not a very comforting scenario.

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