On Sept. 5, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vladimir Ogryzko accused the Russian consulate in the Crimean capital of Simferopol of distributing Russian passports to the inhabitants of the peninsula.

Where have we seen this before? In South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The writing is on the wall - Putin is setting his revanchist wheels in motion in Ukraine. Will Kiev and Washington (screw Brussels) react in time?

It’s now or never.

France and great Britain were alliees and fought there

http://www.answers.com/topic/crimean-war

seems that today the same scenario is taking place.

Well the Turks aren’t involved anymore, though they make the impossible so that the conflict doesn’t degenerate.

Sarko and Barroso have concluded an economical accord with Ukraine in response to the harsh discussions that took place in Moscow late monday.

Though that Ukraine becomes an EU partner doesn’t disturb the Russians, what they absolutely don’t want it’s that she adheres to Nato.

It taught the Russians that:

1. The EU are wusses, and WILL NOT go to war unless the knife is at there throats.

2. Obama or McCain? McCain, Putin will tone it down. Obama, whe the hell was he? His stupid UN statement?

I’d say we’re %50 closer to WWIII because of the EU and Obambi.

Yea you can sure say that it’s been planed for a long time.

What this article doesn’t point out is that the Russian navy’s lease on the their Black Sea Fleet’s base in Sevastapol is set to expire in 2017. No doubt, Putin realizes that if Ukraine joins NATO, Sevastapol will become a U.S./NATO naval base in 2018. THAT is something Vlad the Impaler is not going to be willing to accept.

This is one of many confrontations we will be having with KGB Putin led Russia in the years ahead.

This is one more reason why we need John McCain as the next Commander in Chief.

Vote McCain-Palin.

The US troops (not mercenaries) that participated in the military exercises in Georgia had left the country before Russia invaded that country. As we saw from the Kremlin’s unwillingness to assault Tbilisi with American military personnel on the ground, there was no way that Putin was going to launch his invasion while 1000 US soldiers were on maneuvers in Georgia.

It’s going to be up to Kiev and Washington to confront Russian revanchism in Ukraine. If either one loses it’s nerve, it’s over.

We are fighting on two fronts, one is successful and hopefully starting to come to a close. The other we will need to put more boots on the ground as the other NATO coutries have defaulted on their promisses. Russia is starting to build up its military assests again, China is building up its assests and Iran is building a nuclear bomb. Not that it so much a race, but, in response to all this it is inevitable that we will need to increase the size of our military and all that goes along with it.

Now, Russia has a choice. They can either start a world conflict that would put us into some financial hot water or they can wait and see if two things fall in their favor. The first being if BHO wins in November. The second is if BHO keeps his promise of raping our military budget and killing off a lot of our defense spending.

At that point, Russia will be able to walk into all of those countries and basically tell them they are now the property of the new Soviet Union. No one in the world will lift a finger to help the Ukraine or the Czech Rep. or the rest of Georgia, or any of the other satellite states.

A few more reasons to vote McCain/Palin … as if we needed any more.

Franchie, I fully expect you to come back and state your case, the fact remains, Muslims were intent on World Dominion and the Christian West rose up.
I will fully debate you on this issue. You are wrong.
If you like I will also debate you on the 680-800 early Moslem attempt at world dominion. As you’ll see I can name Generals, Caliph’s and Popes. Answer.com is politically correct and incomplete. Perhaps you should peruse a Bernard Lewis history of Islam. He’s only the foremost historian in the history of the Western Hemisphere on Islamic issues.
Franchie, also read the early writings of Winston Churchill, his campaign in Algeria (where he was taken prisoner, and was the battleground between Tunisia and Spain) is not only compelling but easy reading.
Once again I’m on a rant, my only point is to keep the record straight.

you must replace the crimean war in its context : the ottoman empire was weakened by moral delusionments (idem for the end of the roman empire), Russia felt great and wanted to expend “pan-slavism”, France and UK were the other dominating “empires”, colonial conquests.

The weakness of the ottoman empire served their agenda for trades and conquests. Crimea war was a convenient help and pretext to keep the statu-quo in their progressive conquests

http://wsu.edu/~dee/OTTOMAN/EUROPE.HTM

or not, seen already that happening lately

http://rustavi2.com/top_video.php?id=5&lang=eng

If yall remember the Litvinenko, former FSB agent that said fuck you to the system, that got injected with polonium and died a horrible death

its about 2 hr long documentary, but its an eyepener for those who still hail the putin and his version of russia.

I guess we could take it all the way back to the Russian apartment bombings that brought Putin to power. He’s left a trail of corpses everywhere he goes.

The Litvinenko poisoning was what I was referring to but it seems likely we’ll need at some point to go back to his birth. Unfortunately for the world.