March Madness

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1. “Could it be the Russian residents were there for several generations?”
   No it could not and you know it well already. Only for ten years of Russian occupation of Crimea, between 1944 and 1954 they were a majority there and not a part of Ukraine. And that was a direct result of two and a half decades of ethnic cleansing, genocide and mass deportations.

2. It is interesting that Putin fellating demagogues always cry foul when they are called out on their bullshit.

3. “Tell me- is a Canadian of Dutch extraction STILL a Dutch national? This is the strength of Putin’s aggression- Russian-speakers need help from Mother Russia.”
   This is exactlyPutin’s policy. Anyone born within the borders of the former Tsarist russian empire is eligible for a russian passport and Kremlin’s protection when asked for (or not). It is about as absurd characterizing a third generation Canadian a Palesimian refugee.

4. My hunch is Colonialista that your extreme hatred for everything Russia is that you are really a Trotskyite. Still angry about the purges are we?

5. The vocabulary in personal insults which people choose to use always reveals their greatest fears, insecurities, and weaknesses. It always divulges their true characters. It’s an easy way to understand the true motivations of people on public forums. It’s like a ‘tell’ when watching people gamble. It’s to be expected, they’re not the sharpest pencils in the box.
   One of the most intelligent people on SDA is Dr. Loki, you’ll never see him stoop to personal insults. Confident, intelligent people don’t resort to personal insults, they don’t have to. Facts and objective opinions are always more persuasive.

6. Seriously? That’s the best you can do? Me a Trotskyite? LOL. Sure, whatever get’s you though the night, just don’t quit your day job detective.

7. Why don’t you number your standard posts and next time to save valuable bandwidth just state: Whine #1, or Bullshit #2 etc.

8. Amen!!!!
   there is a joke along those lines:-))))

9. They can if they have a legal right to return and Palestinians are a fake nationality anyway.

10. No, Russians know when to really throw in the towel. If you starve them enough, they won’t back you. Putin is on the path to that now.

11. Far from it I fear. Putin’s support is now in mid 70s. russians will take any humiliation, any depravity from their leaders as long as those leaders appear strong and every now and then seek the horde on their neighbours. It is a nation of boot licking servants who turn vicious thug the moment they feel powerful. Subjugate or be subjugated is the russian way.

12. I wouldn’t characterise Russians in that way. As one Russian put it, Russians like a powerful leader. Anything is better than chaos. In a way, they are like North Koreans. They don’t know any better.
    I’d reserve bile for anyone outside that sphere who thinks that simply because someone’s grandad was Russian that gives Putin perfect license to invade.

13. The Crimean adventure is done so far as the Russians are concerned. The President has blacklisted a bank and a number of prominent Russians said to be influential in the government, freezing their assets and presumably making ready to confiscate their property. That will do wonders for the trustworthiness of the United States. I have not heard that Putin is seizing the assets of the Heinz Corporation, but I am sure they have some in Russia. I am sure there is some Congressional authority for Presidential seizure of the property of foreign nationals on the grounds that the US does not like their foreign policy, but I confess I don’t know what it is. Perhaps the President will tell us sometime.
    I hear as I am writing this that a number of Congresscritters and other Americans are now banned from going to Russia. If the President keeps it up, he will maneuver us out of any access to the International Space station, and Russia will be able to claim it as jetsam. http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/

14. Osumashi Kinobe >
    I agree with you, in fact some of my ancestry going back over 100 years ago is Ukrainian, but I could care less if Russia took Crimea or not.
    I wouldn’t wish Putin or Obamba on anyone, but we, Obamba, and the Socialist European Union have no moral ground to stick our noses in this dog and pony show.
    Look at the mess we’ve made of the Middle East, North Africa and SEA.
    Look at the mess we’ve made of our Constitutions and laws protecting our own Liberties, our corrupted legal systems and governments.
    Look at the monopolized house of cards economies, sold off industries, ghetto cities, and the imported drug trade with subsequent gang warfare’s.
    Look at the militarized surveillance Police States we’ve become.
    Home is where we need to focus our anger, money, and attentions.

15. Typical civilized Russian behavior:
    http://www.thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/pro-russian-rioters-kill-and-maim-ukrainians-in-donetsk-t13598.html
    “The same propaganda, in a more subtle and less anti-Semitic, less gay-bashing form, has found its way to the West — first through the usual hard-left and “anti-war” channels, as well as a hired army of trolls posting anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian comments on the Internet and social media; then through more established news media and talk radio.
    An important part in this propaganda has always been played by RT, or Russia Today — the second most-watched foreign news channel in the U.S. after BBC World News and the number one foreign station in five major U.S. urban areas, boasting on its Wikipedia page about being “very popular among younger American people, U.S. college students, and in U.S. inner city neighborhoods.
    Reporting on the riot in Donetsk, for example, RT predictably blamed the violence on the pro-Ukrainian side, who allegedly provoked the Russian nationalists “by shouting far-right slogans ‘Glory to Ukraine’ and ‘Glory to heroes,’ loudly demanding the respect of Ukrainian territorial sovereignty.” In that statement alone, preemptively disseminating the “correct” narrative, the RT editors revealed the unmasked voice of pervasive Russian chauvinism: how dare Ukrainians be patriotic and stand up for Ukraine while in their own country? “