RE: The US should not intervene in Ukraine!
April 10, 2014 at 4:39 pm
(This post was last modified: April 10, 2014 at 4:40 pm by Anomalocaris.)
I think the US, sitting as we do behind two oceans and immune to invasion, and free from the perpetual terriitorial chess games that determine secuity, like to think of the world in terms of airy prinicples and ideologies. We have really no idea what is going on in Russia, Ukraine, nor the private thoughts of new NATO members.
I think what Russia did was perfectly rational, considered, and predictable. The only surprise is it took so long in coming and didn't happen in 2003. To Russia, letting Ukraine go was tantemount to kissing goodbye, probably forever, any status as a major power. It's not a matter of ideology. It is a matter of whether Russia would want to continue to be a major independent power with considerable say in its own future, or a mere buffer state between NATO and China, sort of like a giant version of Poland.
I think what Russia did was perfectly rational, considered, and predictable. The only surprise is it took so long in coming and didn't happen in 2003. To Russia, letting Ukraine go was tantemount to kissing goodbye, probably forever, any status as a major power. It's not a matter of ideology. It is a matter of whether Russia would want to continue to be a major independent power with considerable say in its own future, or a mere buffer state between NATO and China, sort of like a giant version of Poland.
