Tuesday, July 29, 2014




SANCTIONS ON THE TSAR...  THE SLAP THAT HAS NO STING!!!!

I believe I have had this pending conversation at least once or even twice before, but anyway, here I go again.

So the West imposes new sanctions on the Tsar… or as the press would have it; “slaps” him with them!

Good grief!

Well, that’s it!
I fully expect the Tsar to withdraw his forces from the border with the Ukraine and simply give up what is critical to his dream of the new Russian Empire; the Ukraine.

We all know these actions by the West have had a huge impact on the Tsar’s Master Plans in the past!

On top of that, the Tsar has a real history of buckling when someone bows up on him; why just look at how he ran away from the troubles in Chechnya and Dissidents in Moscow.

 Why; I would imagine the phone in the White House will ring any minute now and on the other end will be a blubbering Putin begging for mercy.

Ok, I am sure everyone gets my point by now, so let’s move on to where this “slap” is going to take us.

Let me start by trying to defend the actions of the West, as hard as that may be for a person like me.

What were the options?

What could the West do besides sanctions and this vicious “slap”?

Could we back the current government in the Ukraine?

Well, most pacifist in the West would say they are already doing such.

You see, to a pacifist, “talking” is a very powerful, emotional tool in the world of being judged by words and not deeds.

Could the West have openly supported Ukraine with items such as military hardware?

No.

You see, in the end, even the true Pacifist can sense danger and the Tsar has danger written all over him.

Secondly; as much as the passive West would love to see the Ukraine as part of Liberal Europe, they all know full well, the Ukraine is the Tsar’s backyard and you don’t step into the yard of someone who will come out the front door and beat your brains out!

Ok, so those ideas would work.

What next?

Could the West cause pain for the Tsar in other parts of the world he is interested in?
Ah.. now that would require two traits the West seems to be lacking.

  1.  Unity!
  2. Strategically vision.

Both of these time honored traits seem to no longer exist in the West.

The West / Democracy in general / has seemingly pulled away from the idea of freedom!

The price that must be paid from time to time that insures freedom, seems to be too heavy a burden for the slice of the world that calls itself “civilized”.

In the end, a team of academic advisors who have only read books or had cocktails on the topic of conflict walked into the offices of the Western Leaders and said, “if we do these economic things….it will hurt him and he may realize he needs to pull back”.

These are the words and these are the actions of pacifist dreamers.

 In the long run, these are the actions that tell only one story; the story of “wishful thinking”.

Maybe it will all just go away.

Perhaps the Tsar will wake up and realize what a terrible thing he is doing and change the entire course he has set Russia on.

Let’s close our eyes and all think happy thoughts!

And if that doesn’t work….well….we all know it’s GW’s fault!!!!


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