But Russia is fuelling the war in Syria, and it has just torn up the deal
that promised Ukraine security after it surrendered its nuclear weapons--a
terrible precedent
Truer words have never been spoken. All thanks to traitor president Leonid
Kravchuk.
PI
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Bohdan Wynnyckyj <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21598639-west-can-punish-putins-russia-its-belligerence-ukraine-only-if-it-prepared?fsrc=nlw|hig|3-6-2014|7971396|162672556|NA
>
> Very powerful article by a very influential journal.
>
> Crisis in Ukraine Kidnapped by the Kremlin The West can punish Putin's
> Russia for its belligerence in Ukraine. But only if it is prepared to pay a
> priceMar 8th 2014
>
> AS YOU read this, 46m people are being held hostage in Ukraine. Vladimir
> Putin has pulled Russian troops back from the country's eastern border. But
> he has also demanded that the West keep out and that the new government in
> Kiev should once again look towards Russia. Don't be alarmed, he says with
> unambiguous menace, invasion is a last resort.
>
> Some in the West will argue that the starting point for policy is to
> recognise reality, however unpalatable. Let Mr Putin keep the Crimean
> peninsula, which he occupied just over a week ago. It has a
> Russian-speaking majority and was anyway part of Russia until 1954. As for
> Ukraine as a whole, Russia is bound to dominate it, because it cares more
> about the country than the West does. America and the European Union must
> of course protest, but they would do well to avoid a useless confrontation
> that would harm their own economies, threaten their energy supplies and
> might plunge Ukraine into war. Mr Putin has offered a way out and the West
> should grasp it.
>
> That thinking is mistaken. In the past week Mr Putin has trampled over
> norms that buttress the international order and he has established
> dangerous precedents that go far beyond Ukraine (see article<http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21598744-having-occupied-crimea-russia-stirring-up-trouble-eastern-ukraine-end>).
> Giving in to kidnappers is always dangerous: those who fail to take a stand
> to start with often face graver trials later on.
>
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