US/NATO War on Russia

[Lauren Johnson]

I hope this thread just dies and goes away. But here is why it is the future if not the present. And by war, I don't mean just annexing the Crimea; I mean going all the way to Poland.

First, we read at Pat Lang's Blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis:

Yes, the tanks will be rolling in a matter of days. Once they cross the border, I doubt they will stop until they are in Kiev and at the Polish border.

But why would Putin risk going all in, so to speak. Certainly, his 'vital national interests' have been threatened for years by NATO's incursions into neighboring countries. Second, there is the Syria situation. And now the Ukraine? Instabilities in both countries have stirred up by NATO operatives. The message? You're next.

Now there is this from Ian Welsh

Ukraine is talking about getting nuclear weapons. Interesting. Or perhaps, worse:

According to translated news sources within the country, Ukraine interim representative threatened Russia with nuclear weapons, if Russia does not remove their troops from within the Ukrainian borders.


Mikhail Golovko said in a live interview that,"Russia can not win in this situation, it is a violation of all international norms and guarantees … If they are violated, we reserve the right to recover a nuclear weapon. Resume nuclear status and will be quite different to communicate, " he said.
Golovko said that Ukraine has all the necessary technology to recreate nuclear weapons, for these purposes must be "3-6 months,"

This is insane. Putin now has reason not to annex Crimea, but to conquer the entire country. You don't talk about doing something like this, you just do it.

Ukraine should never have given up its nuclear weapons. The lesson on nukes is clear. As the joke ran in the 2000′s "Iraq was invaded because it had no WMD, not because it did." Libya gave up its nuclear program, Qaddafi got sodomized by a knife. Meanwhile North Korea is still pissing in America's face whenever it wants.

But Ukraine did give up its nuclear weapons. As such, threatening Russia with them is crazy, just crazy. At the least, as Putin, I would now want to decommission all of Ukraine's nuclear reactors and establish surveillance to ensure they aren't trying to get nukes. And if they are: bomb them into dust, just like the Israelis do whenever they think they can get away with it.

Of course, nuclear reactors are hard to decommission safely with military force, aren't they?

Just bad all round.

In other words, ... What other words are there.