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How ridiculously stupid.Pointless, even.
What has happened to Canada's foreign diplomacy? Canada used to be respected, with heavyweights as its ambassadors, but Harper's reduced the foreign service into a gods-be-damned laughing stock. Canada's praises and rebukes used to carry weight, and sting, but are now brushed aside and ridiculed.
And also, NATO countries seem to be hellbent on bumbling their way into armed, nuclear confrontation with Russia.
These provocations will result, for now, in nothing but a chill from Russia. However, that's because Russia doesn't threaten, it simply does. If Russia feels under attack, she will retaliate in a way the Western governments won't like. Russia already took back Crimea, in a competent and bloodless coup, which was in the exact opposite manner the West creates 'regime-change'.
Fortunately, most of what the West has done so far has been toothless, aside from plunging Ukraine into a civil war. The sanctions Russia has faced till now have been mostly toothless. Some hurt, of course, but most are actually in Russia's favor. They're allowing her to reign in foreign cash flows, and reduce foreign influence in her markets. Both of which Russia has been working toward, anyhow. The West has simply accelerated Russia's efforts.
Really, the only sanction that will hurt Russia is the one the West doesn't even mention: oil. As long as oil is conveniently and purposely forgotten by NATO in its stupid sanctions, we are safe from war. Also, so long as NATO stays out of Ukraine, we are safe, too. Those two are the only Western actions that will force Russia into war.
Hopefully, the West will allow events to play out as they are, in relative inaction.
Russia seems intent on freezing Ukraine through the winter, before making any decision on what to do with the hostile Ukraine government. If the fascists in Kiev survive the winter, then Russia will probably act militarily to destroy Ukraine's military capability, and force the Kiev regime into retreat, defeat, or surrender. Then Russia will probably decide to something about Ukraine as a whole.
But that's only if NATO doesn't do something stupidly insane before the winter.
Let's keep our fingers crossed.
How ridiculously stupid.Pointless, even.
What has happened to Canada's foreign diplomacy? Canada used to be respected, with heavyweights as its ambassadors, but Harper's reduced the foreign service into a gods-be-damned laughing stock. Canada's praises and rebukes used to carry weight, and sting, but are now brushed aside and ridiculed.
And also, NATO countries seem to be hellbent on bumbling their way into armed, nuclear confrontation with Russia.
These provocations will result, for now, in nothing but a chill from Russia. However, that's because Russia doesn't threaten, it simply does. If Russia feels under attack, she will retaliate in a way the Western governments won't like. Russia already took back Crimea, in a competent and bloodless coup, which was in the exact opposite manner the West creates 'regime-change'.
Fortunately, most of what the West has done so far has been toothless, aside from plunging Ukraine into a civil war. The sanctions Russia has faced till now have been mostly toothless. Some hurt, of course, but most are actually in Russia's favor. They're allowing her to reign in foreign cash flows, and reduce foreign influence in her markets. Both of which Russia has been working toward, anyhow. The West has simply accelerated Russia's efforts.
Really, the only sanction that will hurt Russia is the one the West doesn't even mention: oil. As long as oil is conveniently and purposely forgotten by NATO in its stupid sanctions, we are safe from war. Also, so long as NATO stays out of Ukraine, we are safe, too. Those two are the only Western actions that will force Russia into war.
Hopefully, the West will allow events to play out as they are, in relative inaction.
Russia seems intent on freezing Ukraine through the winter, before making any decision on what to do with the hostile Ukraine government. If the fascists in Kiev survive the winter, then Russia will probably act militarily to destroy Ukraine's military capability, and force the Kiev regime into retreat, defeat, or surrender. Then Russia will probably decide to something about Ukraine as a whole.
But that's only if NATO doesn't do something stupidly insane before the winter.
Let's keep our fingers crossed.
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