How true. SO VERY TRUE. Only confirming Golitsyn that the CCCP fall was a
deception. Independent Ukraine is a failed state because it was designed
that way from 1991. Time to booby trap the oil and gas pipelines and start
re-building Ukraine's nuclear arsenal. Maybe then we will hear a different
parody of Putin from the Onion.
PI
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:57 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Thanks For Being So Cool About Everything
>
> http://www.theonion.com/articles/thanks-for-being-so-cool-about-everything,35584/
> Commentary * Opinion * ISSUE 50 No. 11 * Mar 20, 2014
> By Vladimir Putin
>
> As you know, the last few weeks have been kind of crazy around here. Last
> month, protests in Ukraine ousted the country's Kremlin-allied president
> and ignited a wave of Ukrainian nationalism that threatened to destabilize
> Russia's economic and military interests in the region. Of course, I
> couldn't simply stand by and let that happen, so I intervened and ordered a
> forceful takeover of the strategically important peninsula of Crimea -- a
> territory with historical ties to Russia that our nation had long desired.
> It's certainly no easy task to forcefully annex an entire province against
> another country's will, so I just wanted to thank you -- ?the government of
> the United States, the nations of western Europe, and really the entire
> world population as a whole -- for being super cool about all of this.
>
> Seriously, you guys have been amazing. All of you. I really appreciate it.
>
> To be honest, I was really dreading a whole big fight over this thing.
> When you first condemned the seizure of Crimea as patently illegal and in
> breach of the Ukrainian constitution -- which it absolutely was, by the way
> -- I feared for the worst. But then everybody stopped short of doing
> anything to actually prevent what was essentially a state-sponsored
> landgrab, and I just thought, "Wow, these guys are a pretty laid-back and
> easygoing bunch!" It really was a huge load off when you let everything
> slide like that.
>
> Believe me, I know it must have been hard to stand idly by and do nothing
> as a foreign military invaded one of your allies, or just sit back and
> watch while we set up a complete farce of a referendum -- a referendum
> supervised by heavily armed members of the Russian military, mind you --
> and used it as grounds for backdoor annexation. It also couldn't have been
> easy to keep your cool when we sent commandos to raid the Ukrainian naval
> headquarters in Crimea. But you didn't really make much of a fuss over any
> of it, and I couldn't be more grateful for that. It made my job way, way
> easier.
>
> I totally owe you one, no question about that.
>
> Now, of course I get that you in the international community had to issue
> some sort of response. After all, you had to at least look like you were
> trying to fight for the people of Ukraine as we rolled armed vehicles into
> their country, made it clear that any dissent would be punished, and
> essentially rendered an entire people totally and utterly powerless in the
> face of a bigger, stronger country's national interests. I totally get
> that. But I'm just relieved that you decided on a response as harmless as
> humanly possible, with no real and tangible repercussions on myself or my
> government. You really have no idea how much stress that lifted off my
> shoulders. It was a real lifesaver.
>
> I also understand that moving forward, you'll feel pressure to call a lot
> of high-profile NATO meetings, make statements to the UN, suspend this
> summer's G8 summit, that sort of thing. I also get that all that kind of
> stuff is just a formal procedure you have to follow, because really, at
> this point you've laid your cards on the table. So I just want to thank you
> ahead of time -- honestly, from the bottom of my heart -- for ensuring that
> I can just concentrate on doing whatever I want in any formerly Soviet
> region that is of geopolitical, military, or economic value to Russia
> without having to worry one iota about suffering any consequences. Thanks
> for making that 100-percent clear to me.
>
> There is one thing I want to say though, and I feel a little silly
> admitting this, but there was actually a moment earlier when I did feel a
> little dread. For one unnerving second there, I thought you imposed
> sanctions on Russia's broad national economy, but then I saw the sanctions
> were just directed at a few of my advisers and some bank I don't care
> about. Boy, talk about a major relief!
>
> Really, this whole thing has gone so smoothly that my only real regret is
> that I just wish I had known earlier that you guys were this mellow about
> hostile military takeovers. It makes me wonder what took me so long to get
> around to this.
>
> But you know, I really shouldn't have been surprised, given how cool you
> were with my longstanding record of handling opposition political groups or
> independent-minded journalists, all those gay rights protests that cropped
> up last year, or even that whole ordeal in 2008 when we tried to take over
> separatist regions of Georgia by force. Just knowing I'm free to do things
> my own way -- that I can fully ignore any domestic or international laws
> and any basic principles of human rights -- just takes away a ton of the
> stress involved in making these big decisions.
>
> And, by the way, if you ever need me to play along and act like these
> little Crimea sanctions and rhetorical warnings are in the least bit
> threatening, or feign anger by instituting entry bans on U.S. lawmakers and
> officials, or issue a few sternly worded responses to the international
> community's condemnations, I'm completely down with that. I get the
> back-and-forth charade we're playing here -- the one that says you're
> actually considering some real action against me. Seriously, going along
> with that kind of ruse is the least I can do, given all you've done for me.
>
> I just hope you'll all continue being so nice and accommodating moving
> forward -- especially with what I?ve got planned for the rest of Ukraine
> over the next few months.
>
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