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re: Putin gives Ukrainian seperatist tanks.
Posted on 6/13/14 at 7:46 pm to Navytiger74
Posted on 6/13/14 at 7:46 pm to Navytiger74
quote:What has made it a fiasco? He has achieved his first goal, that of repatriating the Crimea, an historical part of Russia, to Russia.
His fiasco in Ukraine
By doing that he has guaranteed the Russian navy a permanent warm water port without having to negotiate a new treaty every decade or so with a country that vacillates between European and Russian leanings.
Is that a fiasco for Putin?
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Posted on 6/13/14 at 7:48 pm to LSURussian
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What has made it a fiasco? He has achieved his first goal, that of repatriating the Crimea, an historical part of Russia, to Russia.
By doing that he has guaranteed the Russian navy a permanent warm water port without having to negotiate a new treaty every decade or so with a country that vacillates between European and Russian leanings.
Is that a fiasco for Putin?
sounds like a perfectly executed foreign policy to me (and I am not a Putin kiss asser)
Posted on 6/13/14 at 7:49 pm to LSURussian
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What has made it a fiasco? He has achieved his first goal, that of repatriating the Crimea, an historical part of Russia, to Russia. By doing that he has guaranteed the Russian navy a permanent warm water port without having to negotiate a new treaty every decade or so with a country that vacillates between European and Russian leanings. Is that a fiasco for Putin?
Ukraine is certainly an historic part of Russia, but he won't hold it this time next year. And he's paid (and will pay more yet) a palpable price for it.
This post was edited on 6/13/14 at 7:50 pm
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