NATO-Russia relations continue to get worse for no apparent reason today, as NATO officials keep warning Russia against invading Ukraine, despite Russia repeatedly reassuring them that this isn’t being considered.
The warnings and the nonsensical predictions of imminent Russian military action have not escaped Russian notice, and the Foreign Ministry issued a statement mocking the “Cold War mindset” of the alliance.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich reacted to the latest NATO announcement that they are cutting cooperation with Russia with comparative indifference, noting NATO did the exact same thing after the brief Russo-Georgian War before calming down.
Noteworthy is that as NATO hyped the ties they are cutting and the future cuts in relations, the Foreign Ministry made no suggestion Russia was even considering any retaliatory measures, and the nation is seemingly content to just wait for the alliance to tire itself out.
I hope Putin is smart enough to sit on his hands here. Moving troops anywhere into the Ukraine is just what NATO numbnuts would like. The foaming at the mouth Western "leaders" who got checkmated in Crimea don't like the egg on their faces at all.
Best to wait for the blowhards to blow themselves out.
No worries. Putin is the only reasonable one in this whole circus.
Disagree, Putin has a moral obligation to protect the ethnic Russians minority from the tyranny of the ethnic Ukraine majority. Remember it wasn’t Putin or the ethnic Russians in Ukraine that overthrew the democratic government in Kiev nor was it the Russian Ukrainians or Putin that voted to remove the Russian language from the official languages of Ukraine. So, I hope the Germans and Poles are smart enough to realize that if a war between United States or Russia over Ukraine should go badly for either the conflict will escalate and tactical nuclear weapons will be introduced to the battlefield and the battlefield will be Western Europe.
And disband NATO instrument of the USA.
It hardly matters what Putin says or does as long as he doesn't grab any more territory. That, in itself, is a massive defeat for him and Crimea is turning into a poisoned chalice with the Tatars demanding autonomy. Everybody has a right of self-determination! And even Putin's supposed stooge, Yanukovych now says he wants Crimea back!
International law. I dont know what the F you are talking about. The time has come for politics to be removed from playing with human race. The time has come to create ane system. A system without currency of any kind. A system that will forever benefit us all. Time for a real change.
Unfortunately he’s the only smart leader out.of the g8 and.he’s still a POS. But you start realizing we are actually worse because we don’t.follow what we preach….we the west makes the rules but only we (usa) can break it. Our founding fathers are doing cartwheels (not in a good.way) in their graves
Russia has gone so far in being reasonable that it is unprecedented. The US has been asinine in it's objections and interpretations….frankly it is beyond comprehension. Only a totality of complete freaking morons would dare to provoke the one country that can actually destroy the US within 8 minutes.
Whatever you may think about US 'superiority', here are the facts: Russia has far superior aircraft, far superior submarines, far superior ICBMs, and most importantly FAR superior missile defense. The US has ZERO hope of 'winning' a nuclear confrontation.
Those are basic facts.
They do have all this superiority? I know little about Russia's military systems but it would surprise me if it were at all remotely decent.
One thing is certain, the US may have whatever toys it has, but it also has tremendous incompetence, that's the one thing we learned from the official version of 9/11. One can only imagine the utter helplessness and confusion the entire US military apparatus would find itself if it were actually attacked by a competent military. If 19 guys with the support of some guys in caves can nearly bring down America imagine what a couple million Russians could do. Seems to me that all this anti-Russa chest thumping comes from a position of weakness.
Those fartheads thought by using their embassy personel nuland and 5billion in borrowed money to put Ukraine on Europe orbit backfired.
Ukraine isn't even a member of NATO.