U.S. 'Suspends' Role in Russia G8 Summit After Obama, Putin Speak

[amandabeech]

28. We, the EU and the Russians have guaranteed the territorial integrity of Ukraine in a

1994 treaty. Russia has violated that integrity by actions that exceed what is allowed in connection with the lease of the military bases in Crimea. Russia has violated the treaty.

No party guaranteed that there would never be an irregular change of presidents or governments.

If Canada had a presidential system of government, which it does not, I assume that we would be worried if any irregular change in president occurred. We might beef up our border crossings or put some troops on alert. After that, we'd take a wait and see attitude. We might make plans to evacuate Americans if fighting broke out. We'd also be in serious consultations with the British, who I assume would be extremely anxious. However, I don't think that we would be threatening to roll the tanks into Ottawa unless we were attacked.

Putin, with the Russian language media, has hopped up a lot of Russian citizens and ethnic Russians in Ukraine because he wants to re-create the Soviet Union and he can't do that without a lot of Ukraine coming home to mother Russia. He cannot get over the fact that over twenty years have passed since the Cold War came to an end and fourteen years after the 20th century came to an end. The rest of us have said good riddance to both of them and moved on. It's time for him and his friends to do the same.