Blogs Mar 8, 2014 at 11:16 am

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The best commentary on what's happening isn't coming from Americans, who are focused on sideshows like which orchestrated protest is better than which, and how to work their favorite themes of "Putin is Hitler" and "The Cold War is still on" and of course "the only important thing is what America does" into the story. John Kerry's breathless but stupid grandstanding is not helping. But I don't think anybody in Ukraine, Russia or Europe cares about Kerry as long as he doesn't accidentally start a war or something.

The most interesting things I've read lately are this article from The Guardian and this thread on Blood and Treasure, not the article itself, which is mostly wrong, mostly irrelevant and mostly out of date, but the comments by "dsquared": http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/bloo….
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But Kerry is the voice of America, the voice of Obama, and Obama is God. "Breathless stupid grandstanding" - it cannot be so!
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I feel confident the Ukrainians in the Crimea care quite a bit about what the US says and does.

I am going to feel really sorry for them when we find something else to watch.
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Nikita Khrushchev, one of the five long term U.S.S.R. leaders, came from the Ukraine. It was not like it's been some unintegrated principality each and every year of the 20th century.

I liken Ukraine to California, a place with about the same population and climate (relative to the rest of the old U.S.S.R). It has been its high tech (aerospace, first Russian computer) and trendy, lifestyle place (Femem).

The invasion seems like an elastic bounce come from a perhaps too quickly shrunk Russian empire. Maybe Ukraine simply belongs inside Russia. There is precedent.

I distrust the EU-ization entirely. Ukraine, with or without its definite article, would be ransacked by the financiers.
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How does one feel sorry for someone?
Will you give them a hug? Include them in your nighttime prayers? Find a nice secluded rock to sit on in the forest and give a good cry?
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Thanks for this report! On the ground accounts like this are often the most interesting.
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What happened? Didn't Victoria Nuland's plan work out? She spent $5 billion on it. And guess what? That was YOUR money. Just like Iraq. They spend OUR money on their stupid plans to dominate the globe. USA! USA!
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Goodness, it sounds like Russia has been learning more from American conservatives than just anti-gay bigotry.
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Thanks for the link, Fnarf. Good read. But I fear that commenter is far too sanguine about the likely endgame, expecting Putin to realize his folly and bring his troops home. This is a really dicey situation with huge hot war potential. Hopefully the cooler heads (and the children distributing flowers) prevail.

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