Russia is being subjected to sanctions for its annexation of Crimea — which was Russian for several CENTURIES and was voluntarily “gifted” to the Ukraine by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev — despite the concrete threats to its Russian-speaking majority population and to Russia’s core national security interests, despite a referendum whose margins of results may be questioned but not the overall outcome, and despite not one fatality resulting from the operation. In the Ukrainian crisis, provocations from Europe, the West and Kiev, and humanitarian atrocities by the latter, are generally ignored. And the countries censuring Russia and imposing sanctions on it are those responsible for the Iraq war in 2003 — whose legal and security justification was far more tenuous, whose theater was geographically distant and whose humanitarian and geopolitical consequences were far more horrific and destabilizing. ____________ japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/22/commentary/world-commentary/geopolitics-trumps-economics/
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:38:48 +0000
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