From the UKDailyMail.com:
EDWARD LUCAS: I hope I’m wrong but historians may look back and say this was the start of World War III
by Edward Lucas
Deep in the flat and featureless landscape of eastern Ukraine, it is all too possible that the outline of World War III is taking shape.
Whipped up by the Kremlin propaganda machine and led by Russian military intelligence, armed men are erecting road blocks, storming police stations and ripping down the country’s flag.
They are demolishing not just their own country — bankrupt, ill-run and beleaguered — but also the post-war order that has kept most of Europe and us, here in Britain, safe and free for decades.
Vladimir Putin is striking at the heart of the West.
His target is our inability to work with allies in defence against common threats. The profoundly depressing fact is that the events of the past few months, as Russia has annexed the Crimea and suppressed opposition in Ukraine, have shown the West to be divided, humiliated and powerless in the face of these land grabs.
We are soon to face a bleak choice. We can chose to surrender any responsibility we have to protect Ukraine and the Baltic states — almost certainly Putin’s next target — from further Russian incursion. Or we can mount a last-ditch attempt to deter Russia from furthering its imperial ambitions.
Or Belarus??? And Putin will NOT hesitate to take this to the brink… He knows the US will back down…
Of course he does. He has Obama pegged.
BZ
Can we look forward to you enlisting to back up your outrage? I didn’t think so
Yes, at 63 I’m sure I’ll be enlisting. You first sir. And: “outrage”?
BZ
IF there is to be action to stop it, and that is a very big, shaky IF, it will have to be decisive, quick, and extremely overwhelming, coming from three sides.
Putin needs to be assassinated, and so does obummer! Problem(s) solved!
Don’t see WW3 coming from this. Europe is very weak and will do nothing. They got spoiled with all the US forces stationed there during the cold war. Obama has weakened our military to the point where it will be hard to go head to head with the Russians without using nukes. He is weak and or an enabler for Putin. Since Obama is also a Communist its not quite clear what’s going on other than he is trying to destroy this country from within.
I guess that opining on the likely future of the situation equals “outrage” now…That’s right up there with the idea that disagreeing with the president’s policies and poor performance equals racism.