Ukraine has issuesFollow

It kinda is, which is why Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and India got them as soon as it became apparent that US will not democratize you if you have them.

I am half waiting for Merkel to say something about peace in our time.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/18/us-ukraine-crisis-nato-idUSBREA2H0D720140318



US still not going to get what they want. Makes me wonder how fast the State Department will move on to something else. Considering the whole point of the coup was to get a guy in power who would push for NATO inclusion so Washington could park their missile defense in Moscows backyard.



Well Ukraine military is occupying Russian Territory without request from the local state government.

Also This much further?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101506025



Does this one count? Is Washington going to respect this regions decision to request to join Russia? I mean its heavily ethnic Russian...Or does it not count because Russia has 1000 troops there as part of the Dniester Security forces (and have for over a decade) in 2006 97% of the population expressed desire to join Russia obviously Putin is puppet mastering this one too.









Edited, Mar 20th 2014 11:42am by rdmcandie

OBAMA IS WEAK! OBAMA IS A DICTATOR!

Didn't Hitler start with places no one else gave a **** about as well?

Nah he started in Spain lots of people got pissed off at that, but the Nationalist movement was to strong and despite 50+ countries contributing to the Republics war effort Franco ultimately took control of the country. Preparations for that Civil War started sometime in 1933, when Hitler along with Mussolini helped push for the Nationalist movement in Spain, which ultimately kicked off their civil war.

He doesn't get much credit for that though since it was mostly behind the scenes stuff, supplies, money, food, and of course "look at me and Muss we are Nationalists and now control our countries you can too!" although some German pilots were used by the Nationalist air force all though this was just regarded as "training" for the Luftwaffe, most of the Air Command in WW2 were pilots who fought with Franco in the Spanish Civil War.




You mean making bank on supplying and funding the **** war machine which the US did right up until 1942.




Edited, Mar 20th 2014 3:25pm by rdmcandie

Edited, Mar 20th 2014 3:27pm by rdmcandie

Its history man. Check out the oil companies (Chevron, Exxon, and Mobil were big players) they supplied Germany heavily, as did Du Pont, Ford, GM, Chase National Bank converted German Currency. There are dozens of other companies that dealt with Germany throughout WW2. Supplying Germany with equipment and oil pulled your country out of the Great Depression. Which is why Hitler is often regarded as the individual who ended the economic blight that was the dirty thirties.

Edit:

An act passed in 1941 was supposed to end this "Dealing with the Enemy" thing, but many companies skirted this because they had legal obligation to fulfill contracts. Chase Bank was indited and went to Federal Court following the War for continuing to exchange currencies for **** Germany (through offshore accounts). Perhaps the biggest ruse was that throughout the war and even following the war the 2nd majority stake holder to some 80% of all American Oil reserves (behind Rockefeller) was IG Farben, a German Chemical company, that had heavy ties to the ****'s.

Such is the way of business. Investors in the US helped build **** Germanys War Machine, they helped maintain it, and then they helped build the Allies War Machine to destroy the ****'s. They made bank. As did the US Government from Tax Revenue, as did the people with jobs. Literally the Industrial Military Complex in action.

(They also supplied USSR and Italy, they did supply Japan too, until Pearl Harbor and most stopped because "Murika and all that)

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Edited, Mar 20th 2014 3:57pm by rdmcandie

It was a weird experience having to agree with Candie here, but I guess it is possible.

I do get that putting Russia through increasingly annoying sanctions might work better than a full scale escalation, but it seems little weird for a President to, from the getgo, to say, we aren't going to actually use force.

I am far from endorsing McCain or his ideas, because he was the other extreme, but.. hasn't Obama learned anything from the Reset policy?

We can have wars with countries with ICBMs without using ICBMs.

If we were trying to invade Moscow, it's likely it would escalate to that point, but we've been having limited engagements for the past 60 years or so.

Well, it is only Alaska.

Moldova sucks!

Had a foreign student from Moldova, I don't think anyone had heard of it previously.