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.
- Unity!
- 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!!!!
