Re:Ukraine places forces on combat alert and threatens war
by danbruc on Saturday March 01, 2014 @07:10PM
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This is completely irrelevant - a big mistake does not justify a different - and completely unrelated - "smaller" mistake in any way.
Re:Ukraine places forces on combat alert and threatens war
by toyg on Saturday March 01, 2014 @07:19PM
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It's not irrelevant, it just shows how governments "think". This is more or less accepted practice in foreign affairs.
Re:Ukraine places forces on combat alert and threatens war
by danbruc on Saturday March 01, 2014 @07:24PM
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I did not want to imply that the comment is irrelevant, it shows, as you say, an interesting parallel in the way of thinking. I wanted to say that it is completely irrelevant as a justification for the current actions of Russia.
The Crimea was part of Russia until 1954. It had, and still has, a massive Russian military base there. In 1992 Ukraine officially recognized the Crimea as largely autonomous. So in that light, Russia has much more standing to go into the Crimea then Reagan had to go into Grenada.