Jay Carney channels a former Miss Teen America in his response to the situation in Ukraine: No, because you have a situation where Russia is violating international law because a country that Moscow ...a government that Moscow supported was rejected by the vast majority of the Ukrainian people. And because they wanted to determine their own future, because they wanted to be able to make the decision as to their integration with Europe. They didn’t want to be dictated to by an outside state or an outside authority. I think it’s hardly a demonstration of.... It’s not a positive thing for Russia that Ukraine has been moving in this direction. Our whole point is it doesn’t have to be a negative thing. It is a mistake, certainly, in the long-run for Russia not to accept the fact that Ukraine can, the Ukrainian people should be able to decide for themselves in a democratic manner how they will integrate with Europe, and that doing so doesn’t mean they can not maintain their long, historical and cultural ties to Russia.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:06:44 +0000