74 Replies to “I Can See Russia From The 18th Hole”

  1. In retrospect, it makes sense why Mr Obama would send the Churchill bust back to London. He was, apparently, more an admirer of Chamberlain’s approach.

  4. Even Neville Chamberlain had enough on Sept 1 1939. This makes two former Soviet republics that Obama has been prepared to passively allow Russia to occupy. Where’s his famous Heinz ketchup red line now? Oh yes, about as firm as that one with Iran. Or Syria.

  6. “Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots and their Christian values…Policies are pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and the worship of Satan. This is the path to degradation.”
    State of the nation address in December of 2013
    Vladimir Putin

  7. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/03/vladmir-putin-crimea-hitler-1938-104711.html#.Uyh6ULHlypo
    “When I tweeted about the possibility of a “Ukrainian Anschluss” on Feb. 20, the Sochi Games were still underway. I noted that Putin’s invasion of Georgia took place during the Beijing Olympiad in 2008 and wondered what would dissuade him from similar action in Ukraine since Russian troops still occupy South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Georgian territories, with no visible harm to Putin’s international relations. By the way, Russia was never sanctioned by the European or the United States over Georgia, and just a few months after the brief war ended the EU restarted talks with Russia on a formal partnership and cooperation agreement. It was quite high-minded of them, but when dealing with Putin, turning the other cheek just gets you slapped again.
    A week or so later, to my surprise, “Anschluss” was on the front page of a Polish newspaper and on the lips of Hillary Clinton. And yet, those who oppose taking any serious action against Putin’s invasion of Crimea still enjoy scoffing at the now-obvious parallels with Hitler’s seizure of Austria and the Czech Sudetenland. It’s a hard habit to break, apparently.
    It’s one thing for academics and pundits to calmly sympathize with Putin and his “vital interests” and his “sphere of influence,” as if 50 million Ukrainians should have no say in the matter. It’s quite another thing for Barack Obama, David Cameron and Angela Merkel to fret about the “instability” and “high costs” caused by sanctions against Russia—as if that could be worse than the instability caused by the partial annexation of a European country by a nuclear dictatorship, carried out with impunity.”
    And not a vodka glass in sight…
    I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM THE NINETEENTH HOLE
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”
    The Pogues Streams Of Whiskey
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaHMG_SvUkw&list=PL521C0E657B99A9A6
    Oh the words that he spoke
    Seemed the wisest of philosophies
    There’s nothing ever gained
    By a wet thing called a tear
    When the world is too dark
    And I need the light inside of me
    I’ll walk into a bar
    And drink fifteen pints of beer
    Iam going, I am going
    Any which way the wind may be blowing
    I am going, I am going
    Where streams of whiskey are flowing

  10. The current situation makes me wish Winston was still around to tell today’s naive pacifists how the world really works.
    And at the same time I’m glad he’s long gone because it would break his heart to see the weak-kneed whores that populate the positions of power in the West today.
    There are a number of apologies for Obama currently being foisted on the public,explaining how Obama is the strong,confident leader, while Putin is merely showing his weakness and paranoia.
    Some people are too frightened to recognize when their side is getting it’s butt kicked.

  11. Andrew Coyne weighs in:
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/03/17/andrew-coyne-the-wests-foreign-policy-realists-are-actually-apologists-for-russia/
    Today I heard the Russian Ambassador to Canada wondering what all the fuss was about – his reasoning – he has a “good memory” of US invasion of Iraq (some validity v.v. hypocrisy of US) and the breakup of Yugoslavia. IOW Russia could care less what anyone else thinks; then again neither did GWB when he went into Iraq for WMD. I guess the ambassador’s memory doesn’t include Russian invasions/takeovers of Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Afghanistan, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc.
    His arguments are nonetheless irrelevant/non-sequitur – I don’t recall one nation (Russia) interfering in the affairs of another (Ukraine), helping with their “self-determination” to be not independent, but annexed by Russia. Perhaps others can come up with a relevant historical comparison.
    Yes, Putin will get away with it. If he goes further (ie invade/intervene in what’s left of Ukraine or other military action), which seems more likely every day, if US/EU decide to truly punish Russia, with exports cut off (sorry Mr Ambassador the Asian neighbours of Russia cannot pick up this slack) perhaps we will next see rioting in Red Square for the removal of Mr Putin.
    OTOH we are witnessing real politik, a throwback to the Cold War, with Russia’s muscular defense of its sphere on influence/satellite state mentality. While the US/Obama reaction has been fairly measured, though firm (with Harper playing the bad cop), Americans shouldn’t be so smug given their Cold War behaviour in the past. It can be argued that Obama’s inaction, apologism and disengagement during his presidency has contributed to Russian adventurism.

  13. Obama lied, the Ukraine died.
    Remember it was him that said no to a missile defence for Eastern Europe.
    At that point you had to be pretty dumb not to see the results of his none actions. The same will apply to Taiwan with China..

  15. “While the US/Obama reaction has been fairly measured, though firm ”
    Could they really do less and still pretend they have done something?

  16. There are very few, if any, changes initiated by President Brezhnev which I am in agreement. The transfer of part of CCCP (USSR), even though nominally part of Russia, was a ploy then and remained as such for the last six decades.
    I do not believe this very identifiable peninsula, almost an island, has any desirability to the Ukrainians. The language of the Crimea has been Russian for as long as there has been affiliation of the Cossacks with Russia.
    If this relatively new part of the Ukraine, the Crimea, remains part of Ukraine it will be an area of subversion. It became a necessary pawn in the negotiations between the Russian Federation and the Western alliance at this time, only because Vladimir Putin is himself under significant political pressure in Russia.
    This secretive individual, by nature and training, would surely have preferred to wait for a more favourable opportunity to play the Crimean card. However events overtook plans and forced the present situation. Interestingly this probably premature action by the Russian Federation still allows the Crimea to be a negotiation item for the Ukrainian nation. Cheers;

  17. Russia is not Obamba’s #1 geopolitical foe, that honor goes to the American people, and of course anyone else not Liberal elitist Black or Billionaire white.
    Foreign or Domestic has no qualitative meaning to Barry.
    If given the choice, Obamba would suck Putins **** before doing the right thing unselfishly for one American family.

  18. “Interestingly this probably premature action by the Russian Federation still allows the Crimea to be a negotiation item for the Ukrainian nation”. MikeSr
    I disagree, Putin has taken that card away without any need of compromise. The rest of the Ukraine will fall with, or without military action. The EU/UN are toothless & Obama has shit all over himself (Congress will impeach him if he steps out of Line “again” and involves the USA) It’s a deal that will be decided between Russia & the Ukraine people.
    JMHO

  22. That would be the ill-advised transfer that on Monday former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev referred to as one of the mistakes of the Soviet era.
    Everything is now as it should have been had Khruschev not been in a drunken stupor that day.
    There are some here who must figure that mistake was perfectly fine.
    I’ll give them a pass though, since what Republican president Dwight Eisenhower referred to as the military-industrial complex (read NATO) have an interest in creating the false impression of Putin’s alleged expansionism.
    It’s pretty rich, for example, for US spokesmen to say it’s illegal for one country to carve up territory of another.
    Attribute that to repressed memory syndrome, when NATO first bombed Serbia, then carved up Serbian territory and gave it to Kosovo. Hypocrites!
    NATO really has no legal function left, since it was a counterbalance to the Soviet Union, so it has to exercise expansionist policies of the EU.

  23. Try to look at this objectively.
    Has the violence, bloodshed and widespread government repression that characterized the situation in the Ukraine for the past few months stopped?
    Even if there was some voter fraud, haven’t the exit polls and post-referendum actions of the Crimean people clearly shown that they wish to be part of Russia not Ukraine?
    Meanwhile the West has incessantly tried to inflame the situation with idle threats, political posturing, and sabre rattling, based on nothing more than “what ifs”.
    Everyone should just back-off and wait to see what Russia actually DOES, not what they might do based on antiquated cold war propaganda.
    Russia is acting in a calm civilized manner, the people of Crimea are clearly happy with the results. The only ones appearing to cause trouble are the so called western ‘leaders’ who should know better, especially given their track record of armed meddling in the affairs of foreign countries when not asked.
    Everybody needs to chill out and act like objective responsible adults, not grade school kids on a playground.

  26. Thanks for proving north of 60’s point about the Chicken Little ‘what if’ attitude of the western military-industrial complex.
    Got to get that US economy going somehow in light of all of Obama’s cuts to the military?

  27. “Try to look at this objectively.
    Has the violence, bloodshed and widespread government repression that characterized the situation in the Ukraine for the past few months stopped?”
    Try to look at a map.
    The “violence, bloodshed and widespread government repression” took place in Kiev, which is not in the Crimea.
    Enough with your lies already.
    What are you going to say to us when Putin takes the rest of Ukraine?

  29. Yes, do try to look at a map “”violence, bloodshed and widespread government repression” took place in Kiev,”.
    Last time I looked Kiev was in the Ukraine.
    What part of “violence, bloodshed and widespread government repression that characterized the situation in the Ukraine” was so difficult to grasp?
    Taking quotes out of context makes one look foolish.

  30. Yes, Kiev is in the Ukraine.
    Explain to me how Russian occupation of the Crimea, where none of the “violence, bloodshed and widespread government repression” we watched on the internet took place, can be used as the reason there is none now.
    My explanation is that the “violence, bloodshed and widespread government repression” stopped as soon as Putin’s sockpuppet Yanucovych was given the boot.
    In fact there were 3 days of calm before Russian troops appeared in the Crimea.
    I expect an explanation.

  33. Bottom line is there will be no war. Kerry has already stated that our number 1 enemy is climate change and war produces too much carbon, not to mention second hand smoke. Even if we cranked up our war capacity machine to full, the windmills couldn’t handle it and all the factories have been outsourced. War also involves guns and as any school board will tell you…..all guns are evil and it’s a crime to even simulate a gun with your fingers. Putin may have non politically correct armed forces but the west has a overwhelming advantage in the number of social science degrees, a army of womens studies graduates and human rights advocates and if we really get mad we can parachute in the EPA who have a proven track record in destroying any economy. Gay pride groups are also still angry with him and that alone should cause him to lose sleep. Add that all up and throw in a weenie in chief surrounded by like minded advisors and you just know Putin’s show of confidence is a ruse to hide the fear he surely feels. Nope,…there won’t be a war but we could take a preemptive strike with a EPA report that delta smelt have been discovered just outside of kiev. That’s today’s version of shock and awe.

  34. Liar. You directly imply Russian invasion of the Crimea is responsible for domestic peace when there was nothing but peace in the Crimea and the violence had taken place in Kiev, which is not in the Crimea. You have written that lie over and over in the last week.

  35. peterj >
    Well Said indeed!
    Personally I think Putin’s just being Raaaaacist because Obamba’s black.

  36. Why has there been no investigation as to which bullets killed the people in Kiev?
    Do you not think it would be in the usurpers’ interest to determine whether the people are dead because of security forces bullets?
    Or is it possible those bullets came from snipers guns who were trying to forment a revolution, the words they themselves used?
    Give it up Oz. You’re on the wrong side of history.
    You’re quite free of course, to send money from your personal chequing account, to help the Ukrainian people pay Russia $1.8 billion they owe for oil and gas. Or the $14 billion a succession of regimes has saddled the Ukrainian population with since their so-called independence since 1991.
    Is it any wonder the citizens of Crimea wanted nothing to do with the incompetent Ukrainian governments?

  37. Not sure where I recently read this, but the suggestion that the feminist movement will not rest until all American males are gay certainly sounds like a plausible goal.
    Putin’s manliness, ie standing up for his people when he’s backed into a corner, obviously is a threat to the feminized west.
    Next thing you know, Obama and Kerry will be threatening to hit Putin with a purse.

  38. I’d welcome a ban on “set you free”.. among other Russian propagandists.. and am likely not alone in this opinion.

  39. Excellent post, no one has said it better. That’s one of the best summaries of the situation I’ve seen. Thanks for that, I’ll pass it on.

  40. You’re quite free of course, to send money from your personal chequing account, to help the Ukrainian people pay Russia $1.8 billion they owe for oil and gas. Or the $14 billion a succession of regimes has saddled the Ukrainian population with since their so-called independence since 1991.
    exactly… or better yet, hop on a plane and go over there and lay your life on whichever line you want to believe in. Calling people who disagree with you ‘liars’ only proves their point. Adults refrain from that, especially on internet forums, it’s pointless.

  41. Go f#$k yourself max. If you can’t handle debate or difference of opinion than go sulk in the corner like a progressive coed. Maybe you would fit in better at “Rabble”

  42. When it comes to you and north of 60 the feminists have clearly succeeded. Although you could do us a favour and salivate over “Putin’s manliness” in private.

  43. What debate? You cannot have a debate with demagogues like those Kremlin’s parrots.

  44. I don’t argue with idiots, they always try to drag the discussion down to their level.

  45. “Is it any wonder the citizens of Crimea wanted nothing to do with the incompetent Ukrainian governments?”
    Right, for example all 123% of them voted for Putin in Sevastopol and that despite opposition boycotting the vote. Even Dear Leader would be impressed with those results.

  46. No, it’s not the difference of opinion that’s the problem. The debate is over. There’s only positions and repetition remaining.. and the repetition is annoying to the extent that one may as well visit Russia Today instead of SDA when every single comment has a Russia Today response.

  47. Oz: “In fact there were 3 days of calm before Russian troops appeared in the Crimea.”
    It was the Olympics’ fault

  48. Yes, yes you stated this many times already. Kremlin’s talking points exhausted so you can rest now and until the next issue of Pravda comes out you’ll concentrate your thoughts on “Putin’s manliness”?

  49. Crimea secedes. So what?
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/03/17/crimea-ukraine-russia-ron-paul-editorials-debates/6544163/
    What’s the big deal? Opponents of the Crimea vote like to point to the illegality of the referendum. But self-determination is a centerpiece of international law. Article I of the United Nations Charter points out clearly that the purpose of the U.N. is to “develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.”
    Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?
    Critics point to the Russian “occupation” of Crimea as evidence that no fair vote could have taken place. Where were these people when an election held in an Iraq occupied by U.S. troops was called a “triumph of democracy”?
    Perhaps the U.S. officials who supported the unconstitutional overthrow of Ukraine’s government should refocus their energies on learning our own Constitution, which does not allow the U.S. government to overthrow governments overseas or send a billion dollars to bail out Ukraine and its international creditors.

  50. Is there anywhere a dictator that Ron Earmark Trademark Paul did not try to blow?

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