Rant on Ukraine

This comes from two Facebook post I made earlier...some cussing...

One point. We have a mutual defense pact with the Ukraine. It should have NEVER happened but it did. If we don't honor it (not saying we should) what does that say to ever other Baltic country? If you live in Bulgaria right now what are you thinking? Romania? Poland? You just got f__ked is what I would be thinking. If Putin takes parts of the Ukraine and there is no Western response think any westerners are going to seriously invest in these areas? I wouldn't. Heck I was thinking about moving to Bulgaria in a year or two just recently for a variety of reasons. Not now. You are going to realize that the West was just playing you and they are just fair weather friends. Culturally you are Russia's little bitches and you might as well get used to it. All that illusion of freedom that you struggled through so many years of hardship to achieve that was starting to finally solidify just went bu bye. I still have hope that a political situation can be worked out, one that would give control of Crimea to Russia in all but name, and still give the illusion of Ukraine being politically sovereign over that area. But ultimatums have been given now, a few Ukrainian bases have rolled over to Russia but some haven't...if the Russians take one of the bases by force, if shots are fired, the world changes. In some ways for the better. I think it would destroy the latte DC crowd which is busy dismantling our military, giving our economy over to global trade agreements, and pushing for further global political integration and the destruction of US sovereignty. Putin could be handing them an electoral defeat, one positive spin. Just hope the price for that isn't too high as things have the potential go get ugly. Poland and Czechs and mobilizing forces right now, clamoring for NATO help which NATO is treaty obliged to give...Putin may have called everyone's bluff.

Pt 2

I'm mad and you should be mad that 5 billion tax dollars were spent messing around with trying to get Ukraine into the EU. Why isn't that 5 billion euros spent? We have interest in a more westernized Ukraine, but it is time for Europe to get off our backs and step up themselves. They want to be an empire quit using American military and finances to build it, you parasitic slugs. That being said, the situation is what it is. I don't think Putin should be allowed to skate free on this, too many larger issues than just the Crimea. But going forward we need to really clean up our foreign policy and leadership. Why are we going to let the IMF siphon 15 billion dollars of mostly our wealth to bail out western Ukraine? That money could go a long way at home.