ext_36450 ([identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics2014-03-01 09:21 am

Now the Long Knives are poised right in the back of Ukraine:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26400035

Fucking brilliant approach, this. First the attempt to play divide and conquer in Ukraine pretty transparently crashed and burned with the retun of Ukraine's Benazir Bhutto to political influence. Then, the Russians decide evidently that they really did move in Russian Army soldiers into the Crimea. Because the proper instinct when a risky gamble fails is to raise the stakes. This is not going to end well by any means. Now I'm wondering how long Lucashenko will have a country to rule as dictator, and what might happen with Round II with Georgia. If Tsar Vladimir I of the House of Putin succeeds in this kind of thing, that will only encourage him to expand his wars of aggression further because Ukraine is rather larger than Georgia, and this would permit Russia to begin aspiring to regain aspects of the old Tsarist boundaries. I sincerely expected Russia would use Central Asia for this kind of thing, not Ukraine.

The EU wouldn't give a damn about invading Muslims in Kazakhstan, but invading an EU state? That's not going to lead Russia to do anything but decide to engage in still-larger wars of aggression in the long term.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-politics/

And one of the chambers of the Russian legislature just approved this request. Hoo, boy.

Shit got real-er:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26403996

The Ukrainian Army is now on full combat alert. The prospect that the centennial year of the First World War will see the first large-scale conventional European war in decades has risen exponentially.

[identity profile] mahnmut.livejournal.com 2014-03-01 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure how you're expecting people in an English-speaking forum to get your reference. It's like me posting something in Afrikaans to you and expecting you to provide a coherent response.

[identity profile] merig00.livejournal.com 2014-03-02 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
It's an article on ethnic compositions of Crimea which is currently 58% ethinic russian. And about 20ish ukrianinan, 12 tartar. But that's only because back in the days russian/soviet power forcefully relocated most of the tartars. So in my opinion tartars rather show russia a second Chechnya in Crimea than join Russian Federation.

[identity profile] mahnmut.livejournal.com 2014-03-02 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't matter what it is, people shouldn't need a Russian guy to come in and translate it for them, is my point. And no, Google Translator won't do, either.

[identity profile] merig00.livejournal.com 2014-03-02 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree with you. Just wanted to help :)

[identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com 2014-03-02 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
Same question (http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/1831445.html?thread=145088533#t145088533) to you.

[identity profile] merig00.livejournal.com 2014-03-02 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a question for Putin :) LOL

[identity profile] mahnmut.livejournal.com 2014-03-02 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, the only tool that would remotely aid me in understanding your point.