Кроме самой статьи интересны и показательны комментарии о правомочности действий РФ, даже больше чем статья, статья обобщенный материал по последним событиям за сутки...
Коменты не выбирал, взял первые попавшиеся:
"The U. S. is not the world's policeman anymore, thank God. We have no vital interests in Ukraine and can't do anything about the situation there anyway. If the European powers don't want to impose sanctions on Russia, that is their decision and they have much more at stake in this dispute than the U. S. The U. S. should just stay out of this affair."
"I suppose if Scotland invaded and annexed part of England to "protect the interests of Scottish citizens" then it would.
Whether or not they get away with it depends on how much control they'll exert over the North Sea oil.
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"It's not a treaty but a "diplomatic document", whatever that means in law nobody seems to know but it isn't a treaty.
It does not carry any treaty obligations to defend Ukraine (because it is not a treaty)
Poppy Bush made a deal with Gorbachev not to expand NATO into the Soviet vacuum in exchange for the removal of Soviet nukes.
The Soviets/Russians kept their side of the deal, Clinton quickly broke the US promises on NATO expansion.
Russia has not "invaded" Crimea. It has treaty agreements for up to 19,000 troops to be located in Crimea. Currently there are 12,000 of which 6,000 have been mobilised to protect Russian military bases and to protect Russian Ukranians from possible attack by the US paid and trained gangs of ultra-nationalist & neo-Nazi Ukranians.
The PNAC plan was/is: destabilise and foment civil war, give Putin a headache to pressure him on the Syrian-Iranian issue where obviously PNAC players want bombing and carnage. Obama is working to neutralise the US war mongers within his own administration/Pentagon/CIA etc
I'm sure that, completely contrary to all the media bluster and hysteria, Obama understands the Russian imperative to defend its assets and Russian Crimeans.
Same with Cameron and Hague in the UK: the press is all full of "sanctions, repercussions, isolating" but the reality as revealed by the photographed briefing document is the opposite: do nothing to hinder Russian economic activity in the City of London.
The media is just full of propaganda, fabrications, bluster and half-truths that have more to do with local in-fighting and political point scoring than with anything in Ukraine."
... исчо мир обеспечивает тем и другим. Все что перечислил Рыжий(чего лишится Росссия в случае блокады) сделано на основе советских изобретений...