Ukraine: A very special Sunday statement

Reader(s) have probably seen the reports of 175,000 Russian troops gathered on the Ukrainian border. Russia denies anything nefarious is going on. These reports are based partially on US intel, which we guess took a break from spying on Americans to see what's happening elsewhere. Also, US intel ain't the most reliable so...We asked our KGB handler in Moscow, and he doubts there will be an invasion. He also instructed us to prepare a series of pro-Soviet articles in case of war. Just kidding about the last part, or are we...?

William Stroock dot blogpost dot com has no opinion on the Ukrainian matter.  This blog sees no vital American interest in Ukraine and thinks we should stay the hell out. We won't die for Donetsk. 

Our enemies can dig and have dug through old posts in which we seemingly express admiration for Putin. We stand by those posts. Putin is a strongman, an autocrat and probably the greatest Russian ruler since Peter the Great. Do people not remember what Yeltsin's Russia was like? Also, Putin is a friend of the Jew and has worked closely with Israel fighting Isis and al- Qaida in Syria. Putin kills a lot of Islamic terrorists, we'll say that for the man. 

Ukraine was totally unprepared for Russia's move against Crimea in 2014. This blog has made this point before. You're a sovereign nation and your next to Russia. You need to have a kick ass standing army of say ten brigades and the ability to mobilize another ten reserve brigades within 72 hours. Every police station should have a weapons cache, every village a bunker. You need to foster a culture of national self-defense. You need to stand up, arms folded and say, 'You want a piece of this? Come and take it, Vlad, you piano playing little man.' Ukraine didn't do that and that is why Crimea is Russian territory. 

Does that mean we'd support a Russian invasion of Ukraine? No, of course not. Don't tell our Soviet contacts this, but if it came to war, our sympathies would lie with Ukraine. They'd be the plucky underdog, wouldn't they? [Didn't you pull for the Chechens back in the day?-Ed] we did, we did. Now we're quite pleased Putin flattened Grozny and rebuilt it in his own image. Anyway...