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In reply to the discussion: Putin Says Plan to Take Crimea Hatched Before Referendum [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)39. Viewed from the U.S. side, yes.
From the Russian side, Kiev's the Saddam.
From the German side, they're just looking like they'd like to douse their heads in a bucket full of ice.
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Please tell me you don't actually believe Putin is the Saddam in that analogy.
NuclearDem
Mar 2015
#27
Thanks for adding common sense. The current headline is also out of context
newthinking
Mar 2015
#31
That was the Ukrainian Independence referendum. Crimea's was 94%, not a slim number.
newthinking
Mar 2015
#33
Crimea was 94%? Are typing the right number or the right region or you mean? Ukraine
JonLP24
Mar 2015
#34
"The coup just was the ignition that made what the people there have always wanted happen."
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2015
#44
I'm sorry, but unless you have some facts that substantiate an alternate narrative on Crimea...
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2015
#62
sure. Russia marched into WW2 Ukraine, millions killed by nazis..they never really left.
Sunlei
Mar 2015
#11
your point that "New Russia" was maybe the same as the old Russian Empire was well taken. nt
uhnope
Mar 2015
#15
I'm sure the plans to invade date back even further than what Putin is now admitting.
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2015
#43
No doubt, the continued expansionism of New Russia will be rationalized by the apparatchik on DU.
LanternWaste
Mar 2015
#53