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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI finally got an answer out of a RWNJ I know re: Ukraine
He's been pissing and moaning for weeks about how "Obama's done nothing" to help the Ukranians. And of course, he wouldn't know Ukraine from ukelele, but that's neither here nor there.
I've been trying to pin him down. "What do you want us to do?" The answer was always some deflective bullshit about "I want Obama to act like a leader" or some such nonsense that doesn't commit him to any real action. Until today. He told me "Ok, I've really thought about this. We need to annex Cuba until Russia decides to give Crimea back."
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)reflection
(6,286 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)Dude, as misinformed as he may be, is actually thinking instead of regurgitating some right wing meme.
treestar
(82,383 posts)never thinking about the repercussions, of course!
The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)"The mind wobbles...."
Avalux
(35,015 posts)How about we annex Quebec?
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)being treated poorly and then use our base lease at Gitmo as a staging area before moving in. I doubt we'd actually have to set foot on Cuba proper, but it would be interesting to see Putin's response if we did exactly what he did in Crimea.
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)Might be some resistance.
reflection
(6,286 posts)Darn good point there. Wish I'd thought of it instead of staring at him with a mixture of revulsion and pity.
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)... personally I would have very much liked a EU ok to annexing Crimea for the territory of Kaliningrad, to be administered as an open city much like Danzig was between the two world wars (my family has roots there, more or less, and I dread the state that the city has been in for the last 20 years).