Putin's Counter Revolution

[Joseph Tracy]

I think everybody involved should be spanked and sent to bed without supper.  Also we need a fundraiser to get Kerry a soul/brain transplant. The haircut is good but not that good. 
On Mar 15, 2014, at 9:59 PM, alice malice wrote:

> 
> It's a complicated problem. There are no good choices here, but Putin needs to be punished. He's got what he wanted, now he has to pay for it. 
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >
> >> When Putin spoke of 'chaos' in Kiev and Ukraine as a whole, in his
> >> press conference a few days after the Crimean invasion, he must have
> >> realised that his foreign audience, as well as the citizens of Kiev
> >> and all the people of Ukraine who favoured the revolution, knew there
> >> was no chaos.
> >
> >
> > No chaos, perhaps, but an unelected government that has come to power
> > through a coup d'etat pushed through by right wing extremists in violation
> > of various agreements between the government and the protesters. Right wing
> > extremists presumably represented only a very small part of the protesters
> > against a corrupt but democratically elected government but now constitute
> > twenty percent of the government and have been given/taken over
> > responsibility for national security/the military.
> >
> > It seems that this is what we wanted, supported and continue to support.
> >
> > I am no fan of Putin or Yanukovich but every account of the events that is
> > critical of Putin's actions needs to address these issues. Otherwise it is
> > merely propaganda of the most dangerous sort.
> >
> > And of course, there is also the expansion of NATO and the geopolitical
> > chessboard, not to mention Chevron and Nuland/Kagan or the interests of the
> > EU and Germany which led to the shameful display of our foreign minister
> > making deals with a barely disguised Nazi like Oleh Tyahnybok (as for
> > shameful displays, see also Tyahnybok/McCain).
> >
> > And I will not even mention the decisive issue of who exactly deployed the
> > snipers.
> >
> > As far as I am concerned, the last time I have seen German and US
> > politicians and pundits in such Orwellian harmony was when they decided to
> > bomb the sh** out of Serbia. Didn't like it then, don't like it now. The
> > stakes are much higher now, though...
> >
> > Enter John Kerry for some comic relief:
> >
> > "You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert
> > your interests (...) This is an act of aggression that is completely trumped
> > up in terms of its pretext. It's really 19th century behavior in the 21st
> > century."
> >
> > If political satire had not been dead since Henry Kissinger received the
> > Nobel Peace Prize, it certainly would be now.
> >
> > The Ides of March, eh?
> >
> > Thomas
> 

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