Axulus
Veteran Member
It's always amusing when Americans point to the illegality of the actions of other countries.No, Crimea has been illegally annexed by Russia, with the illegal March referendum as crepe-thin cover. The referendum was illegitimate, and accomplished nothing on its own. It was the Little Green Men and their Russian tanks and guns that made the change, not any actual yearning on the part of the population.
In the light of the circumstances at the time Putin clearly did the right thing.
We had an American sponsored coup and regime change in Kiev. Apparently you as good American think that America has the right to sponsor "regime changes" wherever it likes. Please correct me if I'm wrong. So as with everywhere America goes we had chaos in Kiev and large areas of the Ukraine. Neo nazi elements were creating much of it too.
So Putin basically said..."not in our backyard USA". And of course (although for some reason you just don't get it), the largely Russian population sided with Russia.
And what we have is chaos in Ukraine where the USA is involved but a stable situation comparatively in Crimea.
One American author gets to the point rather well.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/05/did-putin-just-bring-peace-to-ukraine/
Putin’s not a troublemaker. He’s not sticking a freaking first-strike nuclear missile system in Havana just 60 miles from Miami. But that’s what Obama wants to do. Obama want to establish NATO bases on Russia’s doorstep and deploy his fake-named “missile defense system” a couple hundred miles from Moscow. Putin can’t allow that. No one in their right mind would allow that. It’s a direct threat to national security. Here’s how Putin summed it up in a recent press conference:
“Russia is an independent and active participant of international relations. Just like any nation it has national interests that must be taken into consideration and respected…..We stand against having a military organization meddling in our backyard, next to our homeland or in the territories that are historically ours. I just cannot imagine visiting NATO sailors in Sevastopol,” he stressed. “Most of them are fine lads, but I’d rather they visit us in Sevastopol than the other way around.” (Vladimir Putin)
Washington’s harebrained gambit was doomed from the get go. Who made the decision to topple Yanuchovych, install a US-puppet in Kiev, fill-out the security services with neo Nazis, and wage a bloody ethnic cleansing purge on the Russian-speaking people in the east? Who was it? Isn’t there any accountability among the Obama team or is it all a matter of “failing upwards” like the Bush crowd? Here’s Putin again:
“Our western partners created the ‘Kosovo precedent’ with their own hands. In a situation absolutely the same as the one in Crimea they recognized Kosovo’s secession from Serbia legitimate while arguing that no permission from a country’s central authority for a unilateral declaration of independence is necessary….And the UN International Court of Justice agreed with those arguments. That’s what they said; that’s what they trumpeted all over the world and coerced everyone to accept – and now they are complaining about Crimea. Why is that?”
The USA is playing you for a fool - Putin is actually a puppet of the USA and the sabre rattling and conflict is all part of the US' plan to enrich the military industrial complex. Stop reading the propaganda that tells you otherwise and wake up and smell the coffee.