The West declared the cold war, not the Soviet Russia. Actually the cold war period is so short as compared to very long history of Russia-Western relationships. The cold war period can be neglected for insignificance. All petty differences pale when compared to the defeat of Nazi Germany. If Russia had failed to defeat Nazis at Stalingrad, at Moscow and generally at the front, we would had no Jew these days in Europe, not one. And genocide for other nations. Nazis killed many. Imagine what they would have done if they had won. You've got no other friend like this like Russia. And mark my words. Should neocon madmen succeed in isolating Russia, the fragile world, peace, the USA, and the world economy will go down to hell.
Chechnya voted for Putin with 95+ per cent in the last presidential elections. They enjoy Russian citizenship with all the money they get from the central budget and they want to be in Russia. You may forget the Chechnya argument.
>Crimea does not even have a land connection to Russia.
The Crimea has had centuries as a Russian land officially since 1783, unofficially even longer when fighting with Turkey for the peninsular.
>Russia is simply exercising their military muscle to do a land grab
There was no 'grab', no military actions, at least no civilian got hurt, not one in the Crimea. Live and learn how to deal with ppl. Then again, Russians and Ukrainians are almost one nation. No one wants hostilities except for some foreign sponsors that gave away billions $ to nazi guerrillas allegedly for the sake of "democracy". What a shame.
The peaceful and well organized with all the legal procedures self-determination of the peoples has everything to with ppl's freedom, benefit and legitimacy.
1. The Crimea is the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, their being under Ukraine is very conditional. It has government and it has its own parliament. The Crimea decided to part when the junta that grabbed power in Kiev issued orders and made appointments in the Crimean police violating the laws of the Crimea. Such appointments could have been made only with the agreement with the local government. That right was rudely violated. 2. The constitution of Ukraine has nothing to do with the right to the self-determination of the ppl in the Crimea. They divorced. Russia agreed with the cessation, thus the Crimea is no longer Ukraine for Russia. 3. Yes, I believe it's honest, all the polls showed that attitude right before the referendum. 4. Military forces is the people living there. Imagine that: within one family brothers served in Ukrainian and Russian Armies. When the time came to defend the family and all their friends they just left their bases to join the local self-defending forces. 5. The source of power is people, putins come and go. The main thing is what people decides. Crimea decided to be with Russia. So be it.
So far it's the Crimea who has moved to and invaded Russia with all the mutuality. If the Ukranian unrest persists, the ppl of the Ukraine will flee to Russia as to a safe haven or they will rise to stand up to the junta. The junta in Kiev is almost penniless. I think the rise of the ppl is inevitable with either the subsequent joining with Russia or staying formally independent like Ossetia, for example.
The land was not 'grabbed', the declaration of independence from Ukraine and a subsequent move to the Russian jurisdiction were done in accordance with proper legal procedures and with respect for ppls' rights and their property, all by consent and strong desire of the ppl in the Crimea.
Chechnya participates in Russian elections, with some 90 or so per cent of Chechens voting for Putin in the last presidential elections. They don't want to go. That's for sure.
I did not mention the whole West. But the US-Russia relations saw really good days. Especially in the beginning when both countries confronted the British Empire in the 19th century. And IMO anything is nothing when compared to WWII. Btw, actions speak louder than words: it is Russia that prevented the US from engaging in war with Syria and thus Iran making it too close to WWIII with heavy casualties. Russia has helped. It is Russia who declined to extradite Snowden. His revelations can help the US remain a free nation. And so on. Russia IS friend.
It's absurd to recognize the coup in Kiev as legitimate shift of power. So there's no such thing as a legitimate authority in Ukraine except for the Yanikovoch who is now a refugee government. According to the Intentional law the self-determination of peoples is quite enough and does not require any approval from any other authority to decide on separation. And the people decided. The polls, the referendum, the ppl themselves rejoicing, and the common sense prove it.
The Nazi Germany was not a movies, the warm and close alliance between The US and Russia up until the 20th century was not a movie. The natural phenomena like earthquakes won't be movies either. Don't reject the helping hand. No one knows what's in store for us.
Honestly I don't get the stance of some ppl from the US against Russia. Russia is the best friend and has been the most loyal, the strongest and the most valuable ally for the USA. Really. At times of apocalyptic events Russians and Americans stood together. It was before and it may be again when we have to save the Earth itself. Nobody can help the US but Russia when things get hot. Alienating Russians is what make things worse.
Russia is not threatening, all that the Russians say is that some ppl have gone mad supporting crazy nationalists who overthrew the legitimate authorities and democratically elected president Yanukivich. Nobody denies that. Nobody elected the people who now pretend to be representing Ukrainian authority. They are but usurpers and they are backed by crazy ppl like McCain. The ppl in pro-Russian provinces dread the crazy nationalists de-facto in power in Kiev and are not willing to put up with that. They are revolting.
Not, really. That's not true. No external force from mother Russia was used, no force at all except of the people of the Crimea itself who sought independence from the current radical regime in Kiev and defended the people from the hostilities of the radicals.
It did not matter. Anyway that was a demonstration of force of the county that had before proved its power, good will and obligations of an ally. And it was effective. What really matters is that the Soviet Russia did defeat the German war machine and its ruthless ideology in 1941-1945. And today's differences pale when compared with those deeds before.
Imo, Russia is the last hope of mankind:-) concerning freedom, privacy, knowledge, peace, children, love, sincerity, the truth and so on:-) I really want Russia to be Russia than like an ordinary state.
Anyway, how does it feel for the US to support the right wing crazy nationalists in Kiev proud of their founders that collaborated with the SS and used to kill the Poles, Jews, muscovites? How does it feel to support the guys in Kiev who now rule there without the people's mandate, for nobody elected them to power? They just grabbed it. It's beyond me.
Russia was and still is by far the truest and the strongest ally of the US. From the very beginning of the US as an independent country till now. It is Russia that helped the young American country determine its own future when the Civil War broke out between the southern and northern states. Russian ships came to protect the American shores to prevent England and France from the interference with the Civil War.
Also but for Russia you'd have been enslaved by the German Nazis or still at war with them at best. Russia is your best friend stupid ) What makes you think that Russia is your enemy anyway?
Russia did not invade it. Russia has been there for centuries and for the recent decades the Russian fleet has been there in accordance with the intentional treaty between Ukraine and Russian. It would further have been that way if the Ukrainian nationalists had not proposed to ban the Russian language and the Russian people that is a majority in some of the lands. And many people did not what to be associated with the heirs to the Hitler's former Nazist ally which now took power in Kiev. So the Crimea revolted and sought independence. Being always Russian they naturally wanted to 'go home' and reunite with Russia.
New versions of windows have less features than XP. For example, you could easily access your webcam from the explorer with no additional software to install for that. Then again, I HATE ribbon which is implemented almost everywhere.
I am not so selfish and would not want to know what he was doing in his own bed by playing that game and risking his life with the brutalities that can happen to him like those that had happened to Manning.
>What makes you so sure
Like I said before, it's getting too customary. Lack of imaginations or freaky state mind they had in LEAs.
Dead sure, ask yourself what a CIA agent would be doing in Assange's bed.:-) Last I checked, they said it was confirmed it was a good consensual sex. You care he was condomless. I don't. And no one should.
I don't believe a single word they say. I don't trust them. I don't think they would stick with legal procedures. They'll just hide him in a cell for years or kill him.
You can swear it happened, it was not staged? Are you sure?:-) Do you really want to know it for sure knowing full well that it will lead to the extradition to the US and death or life imprisonment? It is fair? Isn't it too much for a sex without a condom?
Fuck the laws and fuck those who believe a word of biased prosecutors and paid spies not knowing from where the wind is blowing.:-) Fuck the laws that's a threat to good people. Fuck condoms too. Fuck long terms of imprisonment, for they make good ppl choose freedom some other way like Aaron Swartz did. Fuck them all.:-) Peace.
Jesus Christ was also guilty:-) But he was a good guy.
Open up your blue eyes and see: much of what the US has done stinks. And probably it's completely legal:-)
I'm personally more concerned about the world getting the US habits of spying, intruding on privacy, infringing of the flow of information, breaking international laws and so on. And I really don't care who's guilty by the rules of a monster.
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Ban any encryption in government :-)
'acorn' to remove? Were you ever a kid?
As mozilla supported faggotry, it was a matter of time for them to support drm and other proprietary anal penetrators.
The West declared the cold war, not the Soviet Russia. Actually the cold war period is so short as compared to very long history of Russia-Western relationships. The cold war period can be neglected for insignificance. All petty differences pale when compared to the defeat of Nazi Germany. If Russia had failed to defeat Nazis at Stalingrad, at Moscow and generally at the front, we would had no Jew these days in Europe, not one. And genocide for other nations. Nazis killed many. Imagine what they would have done if they had won.
You've got no other friend like this like Russia.
And mark my words. Should neocon madmen succeed in isolating Russia, the fragile world, peace, the USA, and the world economy will go down to hell.
Chechnya voted for Putin with 95+ per cent in the last presidential elections. They enjoy Russian citizenship with all the money they get from the central budget and they want to be in Russia. You may forget the Chechnya argument.
>Crimea does not even have a land connection to Russia.
The Crimea has had centuries as a Russian land officially since 1783, unofficially even longer when fighting with Turkey for the peninsular.
>Russia is simply exercising their military muscle to do a land grab
There was no 'grab', no military actions, at least no civilian got hurt, not one in the Crimea. Live and learn how to deal with ppl. Then again, Russians and Ukrainians are almost one nation. No one wants hostilities except for some foreign sponsors that gave away billions $ to nazi guerrillas allegedly for the sake of "democracy". What a shame.
The peaceful and well organized with all the legal procedures self-determination of the peoples has everything to with ppl's freedom, benefit and legitimacy.
1. The Crimea is the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, their being under Ukraine is very conditional. It has government and it has its own parliament. The Crimea decided to part when the junta that grabbed power in Kiev issued orders and made appointments in the Crimean police violating the laws of the Crimea. Such appointments could have been made only with the agreement with the local government. That right was rudely violated.
2. The constitution of Ukraine has nothing to do with the right to the self-determination of the ppl in the Crimea. They divorced. Russia agreed with the cessation, thus the Crimea is no longer Ukraine for Russia.
3. Yes, I believe it's honest, all the polls showed that attitude right before the referendum.
4. Military forces is the people living there. Imagine that: within one family brothers served in Ukrainian and Russian Armies. When the time came to defend the family and all their friends they just left their bases to join the local self-defending forces.
5. The source of power is people, putins come and go. The main thing is what people decides. Crimea decided to be with Russia. So be it.
So far it's the Crimea who has moved to and invaded Russia with all the mutuality. If the Ukranian unrest persists, the ppl of the Ukraine will flee to Russia as to a safe haven or they will rise to stand up to the junta. The junta in Kiev is almost penniless. I think the rise of the ppl is inevitable with either the subsequent joining with Russia or staying formally independent like Ossetia, for example.
The land was not 'grabbed', the declaration of independence from Ukraine and a subsequent move to the Russian jurisdiction were done in accordance with proper legal procedures and with respect for ppls' rights and their property, all by consent and strong desire of the ppl in the Crimea.
Chechnya participates in Russian elections, with some 90 or so per cent of Chechens voting for Putin in the last presidential elections. They don't want to go. That's for sure.
I did not mention the whole West. But the US-Russia relations saw really good days. Especially in the beginning when both countries confronted the British Empire in the 19th century. And IMO anything is nothing when compared to WWII.
Btw, actions speak louder than words: it is Russia that prevented the US from engaging in war with Syria and thus Iran making it too close to WWIII with heavy casualties. Russia has helped. It is Russia who declined to extradite Snowden. His revelations can help the US remain a free nation. And so on. Russia IS friend.
It's absurd to recognize the coup in Kiev as legitimate shift of power. So there's no such thing as a legitimate authority in Ukraine except for the Yanikovoch who is now a refugee government.
According to the Intentional law the self-determination of peoples is quite enough and does not require any approval from any other authority to decide on separation. And the people decided. The polls, the referendum, the ppl themselves rejoicing, and the common sense prove it.
The Nazi Germany was not a movies, the warm and close alliance between The US and Russia up until the 20th century was not a movie.
The natural phenomena like earthquakes won't be movies either. Don't reject the helping hand. No one knows what's in store for us.
Honestly I don't get the stance of some ppl from the US against Russia.
Russia is the best friend and has been the most loyal, the strongest and the most valuable ally for the USA. Really. At times of apocalyptic events Russians and Americans stood together. It was before and it may be again when we have to save the Earth itself. Nobody can help the US but Russia when things get hot. Alienating Russians is what make things worse.
Russia is not threatening, all that the Russians say is that some ppl have gone mad supporting crazy nationalists who overthrew the legitimate authorities and democratically elected president Yanukivich. Nobody denies that. Nobody elected the people who now pretend to be representing Ukrainian authority.
They are but usurpers and they are backed by crazy ppl like McCain. The ppl in pro-Russian provinces dread the crazy nationalists de-facto in power in Kiev and are not willing to put up with that. They are revolting.
>Russia annexed the province by use of force.
Not, really. That's not true.
No external force from mother Russia was used, no force at all except of the people of the Crimea itself who sought independence from the current radical regime in Kiev and defended the people from the hostilities of the radicals.
they are Russians.
It did not matter. Anyway that was a demonstration of force of the county that had before proved its power, good will and obligations of an ally. And it was effective.
What really matters is that the Soviet Russia did defeat the German war machine and its ruthless ideology in 1941-1945. And today's differences pale when compared with those deeds before.
Imo, Russia is the last hope of mankind :-) concerning freedom, privacy, knowledge, peace, children, love, sincerity, the truth and so on :-) I really want Russia to be Russia than like an ordinary state.
Anyway, how does it feel for the US to support the right wing crazy nationalists in Kiev proud of their founders that collaborated with the SS and used to kill the Poles, Jews, muscovites?
How does it feel to support the guys in Kiev who now rule there without the people's mandate, for nobody elected them to power? They just grabbed it.
It's beyond me.
Russia was and still is by far the truest and the strongest ally of the US.
From the very beginning of the US as an independent country till now.
It is Russia that helped the young American country determine its own future when the Civil War broke out between the southern and northern states. Russian ships came to protect the American shores to prevent England and France from the interference with the Civil War.
Also but for Russia you'd have been enslaved by the German Nazis or still at war with them at best.
Russia is your best friend stupid )
What makes you think that Russia is your enemy anyway?
Russia did not invade it. Russia has been there for centuries and for the recent decades the Russian fleet has been there in accordance with the intentional treaty between Ukraine and Russian. It would further have been that way if the Ukrainian nationalists had not proposed to ban the Russian language and the Russian people that is a majority in some of the lands. And many people did not what to be associated with the heirs to the Hitler's former Nazist ally which now took power in Kiev. So the Crimea revolted and sought independence. Being always Russian they naturally wanted to 'go home' and reunite with Russia.
New versions of windows have less features than XP. For example, you could easily access your webcam from the explorer with no additional software to install for that.
Then again, I HATE ribbon which is implemented almost everywhere.
Regardless of Snowden, collecting information literally on billions of people can lead to mass abuse and corruption. And a very painful tyranny.
I am not so selfish and would not want to know what he was doing in his own bed by playing that game and risking his life with the brutalities that can happen to him like those that had happened to Manning.
>What makes you so sure
Like I said before, it's getting too customary. Lack of imaginations or freaky state mind they had in LEAs.
>How sure are you that these women were spies?
Dead sure, ask yourself what a CIA agent would be doing in Assange's bed. :-)
Last I checked, they said it was confirmed it was a good consensual sex. You care he was condomless. I don't. And no one should.
I don't believe a single word they say. I don't trust them. I don't think they would stick with legal procedures. They'll just hide him in a cell for years or kill him.
>sexual misconduct?
You can swear it happened, it was not staged? Are you sure?:-) Do you really want to know it for sure knowing full well that it will lead to the extradition to the US and death or life imprisonment? It is fair?
Isn't it too much for a sex without a condom?
Fuck the laws and fuck those who believe a word of biased prosecutors and paid spies not knowing from where the wind is blowing. :-) Fuck the laws that's a threat to good people. Fuck condoms too. Fuck long terms of imprisonment, for they make good ppl choose freedom some other way like Aaron Swartz did. Fuck them all. :-)
Peace.
>I'd call her a spy.
a paid spy :-)
>She's guilty
Jesus Christ was also guilty :-) But he was a good guy.
Open up your blue eyes and see: much of what the US has done stinks. And probably it's completely legal :-)
I'm personally more concerned about the world getting the US habits of spying, intruding on privacy, infringing of the flow of information, breaking international laws and so on. And I really don't care who's guilty by the rules of a monster.