tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900897907780842887.post949435002375232948..comments2024-03-28T21:20:15.257+01:00Comments on beleggen op de golven: Opslorping van De Krim door Rusland beleggenopdegolvenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579034843641093294noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900897907780842887.post-53613730360502833152014-03-18T12:55:50.322+01:002014-03-18T12:55:50.322+01:00Ambassador Matlock also notes that Putin was not a...Ambassador Matlock also notes that Putin was not always postured as the “thug” and aggressor of Speaker Boehner’s schoolyard imagination:<br /> Vladimir Putin was elected in 2000 and initially followed a pro-Western orientation. When terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, he was the first foreign leader to call and offer support. He cooperated with the United States when it invaded Afghanistan, and he voluntarily removed Russian bases from Cuba and Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam.<br /> Then he pulls no punches, pinning the blame for our current asinine confrontation with Putin exactly where it belongs:<br /> What did he get in return? Some meaningless praise from President George W. Bush, who then delivered the diplomatic equivalent of swift kicks to the groin: further expansion of NATO in the Baltics and the Balkans, and plans for American bases there; withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; invasion of Iraq without U.N. Security Council approval; overt participation in the “color revolutions” in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan; and then, probing some of the firmest red lines any Russian leader would draw, talk of taking Georgia and Ukraine into NATO. Americans, heritors of the Monroe Doctrine, should have understood that Russia would be hypersensitive to foreign-dominated military alliances approaching or touching its borders… http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/2014/03/15/the-ukrainian-follies-what-crackpots-made-nato-alliances-with-albania-bulgaria-rumania-slovakia-and-slovenia/<br />beleggenopdegolvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08579034843641093294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900897907780842887.post-50681323775611708642014-03-18T12:54:05.214+01:002014-03-18T12:54:05.214+01:00verder:
Sanctions are not expected to be imp...verder:<br /> Sanctions are not expected to be imposed on Putin himself at this point, and a congressional source said the first round could also spare Russian oligarchs close to him. Though news reports have cited some of Putin's senior aides as possible targets, U.S. and European officials could decide to start mostly with lower-level Russian officials seen as complicit in the takeover of Crimea.<br /> "Otherwise you leave yourself with no room to escalate" the allied response, the congressional source said… http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/16/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-idUSBREA2F0L420140316<br />beleggenopdegolvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08579034843641093294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900897907780842887.post-64744529241863140072014-03-18T12:52:21.739+01:002014-03-18T12:52:21.739+01:00From Ramsey King report:
Lavrov: Russia’s Connecti...From Ramsey King report:<br />Lavrov: Russia’s Connection to Crimea Is Strong, Russia Has Legal Right to Annex Crimea<br /> Lavrov: “This is a case that can’t be considered in isolation from history. Everybody knows what Crimea means for Russia, and it is more than what the Comoros means for France, or the Falklands for Great Britain.” http://on.wsj.com/1oOslWm<br /> <br />Later, John Kerry said the international community will not recognize the outcome of a Crimea referendum and the US is deeply concerned about the Russian troop buildup on Ukraine’s border.<br /> <br />Then Kerry made a mind-addling [Chamberlainian] comment. (You can’t make up stuff like this!)<br /> <br />Kerry: Possible Sanctions Against Russia Not a ‘Threat’ Or Meant In a ‘Personal Way’<br />JOHN KERRY: We hope President Putin will recognize that none of what we’re saying is meant as a threat, it’s not meant in a personal way. It is meant as a matter of respect for the international, multilateral structure that we have lived by since World War II, and for the standards of behavior about annexation, about succession, about independence, and how countries come about it. [WOW!!!]<br />http://freebeacon.com/kerry-possible-sanctions-against-russia-not-a-threat-or-meant-in-a-personal-way/<br />beleggenopdegolvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08579034843641093294noreply@blogger.com