Comments on: Ukraine Says It Reserves Right To Bar Russian Navy

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:41:38 +0000

Hmmm Maybe WWWIII will have Communist Russia involved. BTW, hasn’t russia learned yet that their “Army” is a joke? I mean seriously in the first day of the war 10 of their MIGs were shot down. How many of our fighters were shot down in Iraq[both times] and Afghanistan? I think the number is 1-2. I know one was shot down in the First Gulf War, but I haven’t heard of any in Iraq, or Afghanistan after that.

By: alex

alex — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:05:57 +0000

Great to see other countrie’s in the region standing up to those stupid pricks.

By: sully

sully — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:19:42 +0000

You would think after all these years somebody could have come up with an idea for an organization of nation-states allied to fight imperialist designs of dictators and despots which have plagued Europe for centuries.
Maybe organized under a treaty which gave them more power united than seperate; that had as a founding principle that an attack on one was an attack on all. Which also allowed entry into the ‘organization’ any nation-state that was committed to freedom and democracy.
I guess the notion that you might someday actually have to fight for your principles is kinda scary.

By: Dr. Jerry

Dr. Jerry — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:42:57 +0000

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat…You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all out might and with all the strength God has given us.”

Sir Winston Churchill, May 13, 1940 before the British Parliament. On May 10, 1940 the armies of Hitler invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Europe was engulfed by World War II.

Shall history repeat itself? Only with different players, assuming the same rolls?

By: Kurt(the infidel)

Kurt(the infidel) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:27:19 +0000

this may very well be the opening of world war 3. its too early to tell but if more countries start getting pulled in and Russia keeps expanding their area of operation then thats what it will become.

If i was the countries that used to be part of the USSR i would band together with Georgia and stomp these commie bastards once and for all. I would love to see the US in their with some F-16s and A-10s giving ground support. nobody does it like our guys.

By: franchie

franchie — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:28:36 +0000

“Shall history repeat itself? Only with different players, assuming the same rolls?”

“And since the end of the Cold War, ethnonationalism has continued to reshape European borders.”
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“After the fall of communism, East and West Germany were unified with remarkable rapidity, Czechoslovakia split peacefully into Czech and Slovak republics, and the Soviet Union broke apart into a variety of different national units. Since then, ethnic Russian minorities in many of the post-Soviet states have gradually immigrated to Russia, Magyars in Romania have moved to Hungary, and the few remaining ethnic Germans in Russia have largely gone to Germany. A million people of Jewish origin from the former Soviet Union have made their way to Israel. Yugoslavia saw the secession of Croatia and Slovenia and then descended into ethnonational wars over Bosnia and Kosovo.

The breakup of Yugoslavia was simply the last act of a long play. But the plot of that play — the disaggregation of peoples and the triumph of ethnonationalism in modern Europe — is rarely recognized, and so a story whose significance is comparable to the spread of democracy or capitalism remains largely unknown and unappreciated”
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“One could argue that Europe has been so harmonious since World War II not because of the failure of ethnic nationalism but because of its success, which removed some of the greatest sources of conflict both within and between countries. The fact that ethnic and state boundaries now largely coincide has meant that there are fewer disputes over borders or expatriate communities, leading to the most stable territorial configuration in European history”
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“Several decades of life in consolidated, ethnically homogeneous states may even have worked to sap ethnonationalism’s own emotional power. Many Europeans are now prepared, and even eager, to participate in transnational frameworks such as the EU, in part because their perceived need for collective self-determination has largely been satisfied.”
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http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080301faessay87203/jerry-z-muller/us-and-them.html

By: Cridhe Saorsa

Cridhe Saorsa — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:48:41 +0000

United the former Soviet territories can stand against Russia and defeat her. If they allow themselves to be picked off one by one, then they have no future but as buffer slave states to the great red bear.