The link is to the fine print announcement in the New York Times that The United States Congress, silently, speedily and with no public debate has passed a motion authorizing the supply to Ukraine of American lethal weapons and other forms of support which ratchet up, in my opinion, the probability of a direct military confrontation between NATO and Russia.
No further proof of the degeneracy of American politics is required. I can find no information let alone public debate on this matter in the complaisant, lickspittle mainstream media.
My concern is that the Washington establishment, like Kaiser Wilhelm, concluded that war with Russia now is preferable to a confrontation with an invigourated Russia, perhaps with Chinese support, in Ten years time.
I would also add that in my opinion the Russians will prove far better fighters than any opponent. I think a re reading of Anthony Beavors book on Stalingrad might be instructive.
The idea that they may need briefings by the DoD on the consequences of nuclear war is a sobering thought for the rest of us.
Posted by: Medicine Man | 16 December 2014 at 01:33 PM
Sorry, Imagine, but you are absolutely wrong. It's not personal.
More - if you use superficial logic only, I should suport Russians, not Ukrainians, and thats why:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia
And this shuld give you guessing, why though knowing this, most Poles suport rather Ukraine than Russia in this conflict.
Same about Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians and Fins or Swedes too...What do we, Central Europeans and Scandinaves know about Russia, that you doesn't ?
Kwasniewski was the quite important member of the Communist Party before 1989.
I was always against him, and never voted for him.
As most of the ex-communist dignitaries, he is venal person, and goes everywhere he finds people ready to pay him for his political services...
Posted by: Piotr, Poland | 16 December 2014 at 03:17 PM
Aka
Petrified Piotr is a Pom-Pom Propagator for Neo-World.
Posted by: Thomas | 16 December 2014 at 03:30 PM
Obviously this can be construed as Russian propaganda but several of these appear real and not staged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFBZphEiZEo
Putting German army style caps on children, torch marches, death to Russians... is behavior that is totally unacceptable in Western Europe countries or the US unless we are talking about countries that are set up for color revolutions and regime change.
Currently the intelligentsia (sic) in Western Europe is up in arms about the rise of anti-EU, anti immigration parties in France, Germany, Sweden, the UK ... yet when it comes to anti-Russian neo-nazi romantics in Ukraine s it is all OK.
Posted by: FkDahl | 16 December 2014 at 05:15 PM
It's hard to imagine, I know, especially when you live somewhere in Dakota, Wyoming or Saskatchewan, that Russian neighbours can have totally different experiences with Putin's policy, you have.
Its not petrifing, its experience, man.
Putin doesn't send his jets near American skies, like he do regularly here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/95751ff2-837e-11e4-8a84-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3M93PhCZ0
Posted by: Piotr, Poland | 17 December 2014 at 04:20 AM