Obama: Crimea referendum would be illegal

[amandabeech]

21. I guess Russia fears that Ukraine will act like a Putin-led Russia.

In Alcoholics Anonymous, they encourage their members to try to think like non-alcoholics. Thinking like alcoholics is called "stinking thinking."

I'm not saying that Putin is an alcoholic, but he is engaging in old ways of thinking--"stinking thinking."

Furthermore, by his actions in the Ukrainian area of Crimea, he is not only abrogating Russia's responsibility under the 1994 Budapest memorandum, but he is just making Ukraine thoroughly angry. For heaven's sake--the Russian navy just blockaded the entrance to the Ukrainian navy's base. That is a classic act of war.

If Putin had decided that his best actions were peaceful, civil ones, he should have requested meeting with the new acting Foreign Minister and Minister of Defense concerning Russia's lease of the Crimean bases, as a normal country would. Instead, he began to believe the paranoid propaganda put out by his own regime.

If he wants Russia to have normal relations with other countries, behaving like a lying bully is not going to do it.

He is simply nekulturny.