I only have an ego when it comes to the Christian Bible. If I followed the Ukraine before it was 'news' then it wouldn't be news, however if my views were 'tainted' by 'other threads about other places outside our borders then what is happening in the area is not all that 'new' as it fits a pattern that has been used many times in the past. The specifics of shooting people at a peaceful rally is quite popular in the last 5 years, it is the moment the 'plan' enters the 'action' mode.
You want me to feel as miserable as you do over this, it doesn't hit that close to home for me just as the things that do hit home for me won't be that important to you. I was in a 'good mood' before hitting this thread and when I did there was nothing 'news worthy' going on. Crimea was under Russian control and the rest of the nation was under the control of somebody approved by NATO and the IMF. Do you not find it odd that he would put out a statement saying he would agree to all of the 'demands' before even knowing what the demands are? He should have been thrown into jail just for that alone. What do you and your family want to see happen over there, somebody looking out for your interests or somebody seeing what big biz can collect from the land while the workers are like England when the industrial revolution was just cranking up. The Bosses were very rich and the workers were very poor. That model hasn't changed in the centuries since then.
Russia in Crimea is not something even worth writing home about when you look at what it means on a global scale, nobody is in danger of being harmed and the military that is resisting just wants a government they recognize as being in charge because that is what the 'locals' want. If that happens that way would you respect their choice. That is why my opinion doesn't count very much, that doesn't mean I'm not entitled to have one. It isn't there because I know you would find it offensive.
People who don't change as the 'players' change are setting themselves up for a fall that doesn't have to happen. When Canada was still independent a few of the most popular programs were comments on news that had a political slant and it was discussed by a few well informed outspoken people, and some who were there because their emotions were charged up
I talk about a lot of different subjects everyday, here it seems to center on foreign events more than local events. I have my reasons for that.
So why bitch at Putin or Russia, the violence was there because the US was paying people to make sure it went that way. If your family was in danger (where is dad?) it was the West who was causing it rather than it being any Russian speaking person.
You ever going to comment on anything that I post of do you want to become my editor. Wait till I address you directly before you take it personally. (in that any group has it's good guys and it's bad ones. Russia isn't the bad guy in this instance and they weren't the bad guy 3 months ago when the loan and gas deal was implemented. That is when the US sent in the 'destabilization' team, same as they did in Afghanistan when they the CIA was at war inside the country 6 months before the USSR 'invaded'. It turns out that the news was not true so today when 'they' ut out something you check the validity of it before taking it as truth.
Russia is not the ones the Ukraine should be wary of. The history of the West is to break any Treaty they sign anytime they see fit to do so. They are always there to steal something, always. If you break free from them they will hound you like the US has hounded Cubs since 1960 and Iran since 1979 and Venezuela about a decade ago. Why would you set yourself for that sort of treatment? (if you have to fight to be free of it somewhere down the road)
That would be that the West doesn't break it up. If they want to prevent it breaking up because of the votes of some citizens then they better prepare for war.
The lease on the Port is until 2042 Crimea wants to extent it to forever. I don't think anything Billy signed is going to overide the vote of the people on the ground.
