[TheRealThing]

Russian troops now control nearly every critical service in the Crimea. And, on March 16, a public referendum is to be held to determine the people's wishes on seeing Crimea split off from the Ukraine in order to join the Russian Federation. LOL, right. And I heard today that North Korea held an election and Kim Jong-un got 100% of the vote. :please: Nobody is going to vote against a blood thirsty regime the likes of North Korea, and it will take a stout heart to vote against Putin's wishes on March 16th.

So, here we all are, waiting to see what the "Global Community" is going to do about all this. Of course, the answer is clear, NOTHING. And America? Well, we seem to be hiding behind the global community. Folks, the day we Americans lose the will to defend ourselves, is the day we will go down. Nobody will come to our aid. Heck, just as we all grew up thinking America is the supreme super power, so did the so-called global community. So now we're waiting for those who have followed our lead for lo, the last 5 generations, to take the point on things like this? They're not about to start doing our heavy work, that's for sure. Why?, the UN and all the rest of the talkers have been trained for over 50 years to get out of our way and let the big boys take care of the world's bad guys. There has never been anything like the USA, and we had better darn well get our act back together.

Now, am I saying we should go into the Black Sea with a carrier battle group? Well, we probably should have when this thing first started. Ever heard of the "Budapest Memorandum?" That's a little binding document we signed.

"A treaty signed in 1994 by the US and Britain could pull both countries into a war to protect Ukraine if President Putin's troops cross into the country. Bill Clinton, John Major, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kuchma – the then-rulers of the USA, UK, Russia and Ukraine - agreed to the The Budapest Memorandum as part of the denuclearization of former Soviet republics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Technically it means that if Russia has invaded Ukraine then it would be difficult for the US and Britain to avoid going to war."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-05...louts.html

FTR, talk is cheap. There was a time that when one signed a treaty with the US it was like money in the bank. Now, not so much. Back in 1994 we talked the people of Ukraine into giving up their nukes, promising to protect them in the case of Russian aggression. I doubt some cat in Mom jeans talking all professorial is what the Ukrainians thought they were trading their nukes for. In short, in light of the Budapest agreement, if we were to roll in there with guns cocked, it would only be us living up to our word. I mean, there is a reason Putin's troops aren't wearing insignias of rank and proper uniforms.