DUmp to be wrong on Ukraine/Crimea

[miskie]

Putin's no girly man like 0.  He is such an embarrassment.

Indeed. The One is a weak leader - one who is learning 'on the job' that one cannot vote 'present' as CiC. - and Biden ? Honestly, that man is one psychotic break away from a straitjacket. I believe he is on some heavy-duty brain meds to keep him from going "mad super-criminal".

[franksolich]

There are... The Tatars. In Crimea...

Uh, no.

After having lived in Crimea for hundreds and hundreds of years, they're all gone now.

Stalin deported all of them, lock, stock, and barrel, to central Asia, during which time about half of them died.

This was in 1944, when the Germans still occupied some Soviet territory.

They were expressedly forbidden from ever returning; at various times, they've tried, but were pushed back.

[franksolich]

Soviet policies on the peninsula led to widespread starvation in 1921. Food was confiscated for shipment to central Russia, while more than 100,000 Tatars starved to death, and tens of thousands fled to Turkey or Romania. Thousands more were deported or slaughtered during the collectivization in 1928–29. The government campaign led to another famine in 1931–33. No other Soviet nationality suffered the decline imposed on the Crimean Tatars; between 1917 and 1933 half the Crimean Tatar population had been killed or deported.
 
During World War II, the entire Crimean Tatar population in Crimea fell victim to Soviet policies. Although a great number of Crimean Tatar men served in the Red Army and took part in the partisan movement in Crimea during the war, the existence of the Tatar Legion in the Nazi army and the collaboration of Crimean Tatar religious and political leaders with Hitler during the German occupation of Crimea provided the Soviets with a pretext for accusing the whole Crimean Tatar population of being Nazi collaborators.

Modern researchers also point to the fact that a further reason was the geopolitical position of Crimea where Crimean Tatars were perceived as a threat. This belief is based in part on an analogy with numerous other cases of deportations of non-Russians from boundary territories (see, e.g., Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union), as well as the fact that other non-Russian populations, such as Greeks, Armenians and Bulgarians were also removed from Crimea.
 
All Crimean Tatars were deported en masse, in a form of collective punishment, on 18 May 1944 as "special settlers" to Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and other distant parts of the Soviet Union. The decree "On Crimean Tatars" describes the resettlement as a very humane procedure. The reality described by the victims in their memoirs was different. 46.3% of the resettled population died of diseases and malnutrition.....Many of them were re-located to toil as indentured workers in the Soviet GULAG system.
 
Although a 1967 Soviet decree removed the charges against Crimean Tatars, the Soviet government did nothing to facilitate their resettlement in Crimea and to make reparations for lost lives and confiscated property.

[ironhorsedriver]

I'm still waiting for this to be All Bush's fault. I'ts got to be coming.

[Big Dog]

Russian heavy sp artillery seen moving into Crimea...

Barry's little talk gots em scared...

Meanwhile, King Hussein deigns to reduce Army troop strength by 25%, starve the Reserve Components, retire the A-10 fleet, and stop purchasing Main Battle Tanks.

Smooth move, Barky.

[BadCat]

I think Obama is planning to unleash the IRS, EPA, and the Justice Department on Russia. After all it works so well against Americans. If that doesnt work he can use Obamacare against them. That should take down Russian military morale.

Nope, he and John kerry are going to unleash GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE on the russkies.  Remember, they said it was the MOST dangerous WMD.

[Dori]

 

Obama declares ‘happy hour’ with Dems minutes after Ukraine tough talk

“Well, it’s Friday. It’s after 5 o’clock. So, this is now officially happy hour with the Democratic party,” the president told his cohorts. “I can do that. It is an executive action. I have the authority.”

[Ptarmigan]

DUmmies have been wrong many times.

[Chris_]

Ari Fleischer ‏@AriFleischer  
 
If you're Putin, and a President asks you for flexibility until after his election, does it make you think the Pres is weak or strong?

[Big Dog]

Putin rides a Siberian tiger shirtless, and shoots Chechans with an AK-47. At the same time.

Obama rides a girl's bicycle, while wearing a safety helmet and mom jeans; and he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

[jukin]

First Obama and his merry band of idiots started the Middle East on fire. Then the little situation with China and Japan. Now they are working on eastern Europe. I don't think the world can take much more of Obama-Democrat SMART Diplomacy!!!11111!!!!!elebinty.