If You Give a Putin a Crimea… Dan Steinhart The Casey Report, March 21, 2014 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is a fine piece of children’s’ literature. A little boy offers a cookie to a mouse, who then promptly asks for a glass of milk to wash the cookie down. The mouse continues asking for things: a straw to the drink the milk, a mirror to make sure he hasn’t gotten a milk mustache, and clippers to fix his hair that he noticed was too long when he looked in the mirror. That pattern continues until the story comes full circle and the mouse requests another cookie—the moral being that as long as the boy is willing to give, the mouse is all too happy to take. As any parent of a young child will attest, giving in to someone’s demands with hopes of appeasing them rarely achieves the desired result. The most famous historical example of this, of course, is the West’s appeasement of Hitler leading up to World War II—specifically, when Britain and its future allies kowtowed to Hitl er’s demand to annex the Sudetenland.... ...Putin’s actions do share some striking similarities with Germany’s 1938 annexation of the Sudetenland: Putin’s justification for his takeover of Crimea is that the region’s population is 60% ethnic Russian. (If that’s all it takes, certain parts of Brooklyn should be on high alert as the next potential targets.) Crimea was once part of the Soviet Union and of Russia. Eastern Ukraine, including Crimea, contains the bulk of the country’s natural resources and is wealthier than the western part. Crimea is also Russia’s only warm-water port on the Black Sea. In other words, most of the good stuff is in eastern Ukraine, where Russia is focusing its efforts. Europe and the US offered zero resistance to Putin’s maneuver.... Click here for the complete article, or copy and paste this link into your web browser: unitycoalitionforisrael.org/uci_2014/?p=6448
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:24:32 +0000
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