Crimean bridge from Russia to Crimea

[CrimeaTea]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naqeMbivuUQ

Friends, I want to ask you what you think about the construction of the Crimean bridge in the Ukrainian Crimea. These are legitimate actions on the part of Russia, in relation to Ukraine. Without her permission to build different objects.

[mundame]

Nobody cares about the Crimea.



I see the infestation of Russians here continues. It's like having mice in the kitchen cupboards! Really hard to get rid of them.

But I suppose it's all from one person, or two at the most. Obviously these Russians posting on American forums are all paid by Putin's government -- this has been known for years -- and they have to post at a high rate to get paid, and so, I have read, they have many accounts simultaneously, around ten or more. And then they pretend to be different people by signing up many times on the same forum.

I started thinking about this tactic because of reading "Random Acts," by Franklin Horton, who is a prepper novel writer, very good, but this novel has anti-social media themes. His villain is a lives-in-mom's-basement loser named Victor who is 400 lbs and has long hair and beard that he dyes in red and blue streaks and he works (badly) in a video games store. His only friends are in video game chat rooms, and it turns out that of these several people, it's really all one person, Mohammed, who is a Syrian posting from Germany with many accounts and identities who is carefully grooming this crazy to do terrorism acts in America. Later Mohammed poses as a pretty girl whose name and identity he gets from her prolific Facebook posts and photos. This is not going to go well for the real girl, I'm guessing -- I'm not there yet in the book. But the idea of this girl drives Victor crazy and he starts killing people.


We need to be careful what we believe, how gullible we are.

[jimnyc]

Friends, I want to ask you what you think about the construction of the Crimean bridge in the Ukrainian Crimea. These are legitimate actions on the part of Russia, in relation to Ukraine. Without her permission to build different objects.

I feel the pain of Crimea, of whom Russia has stolen control of.

Do you realize that Russia tells the world that YOU WANTED THIS? And you are perfectly ok with everything and no vote is necessary.

[Gunny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naqeMbivuUQ

Friends, I want to ask you what you think about the construction of the Crimean bridge in the Ukrainian Crimea. These are legitimate actions on the part of Russia, in relation to Ukraine. Without her permission to build different objects.


It is not a LEGAL (therefore illegitimate) action no matter how many bridges you build to steal another country's land by force. The Soviet Union recognized Ukraine's independence formally, to include Crimea. As did most of the rest of the world. To invade and hold it by force is a crime.

You sound as stupid as the other commie on the board. Matter of fact, TOO MUCH like him. Unlike a Democrat, democracy is NOT a suicide pact around here. Go ahead and screw up, criminal. I'll be waiting.

[Elessar]

Eh! So far the OP is a one-shot wonder!

Impressive - NOT!

[Gunny]

Eh! So far the OP is a one-shot wonder!

Impressive - NOT!If it is a different poster. Let me find out it's not. I'll ban BOTH accounts. He can cry to Jim for forgiveness through the main page.

[LongTermGuy]

"Anybody here still?"
http://images.taboola.com/taboola/image/fetch/f_jpg,q_auto,h_217,w_260,c_fill,g_faces:auto,e_sha rpen/https://prezna.com/get/uAx-2609383895220320915.jpeg
`Russia's Latest Land Grab`


`Russia’s occupation and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in February and March have plunged Europe into one of its gravest crises since the end of the Cold War.

Despite analogies to Munich in 1938, however, Russia’s invasion of this Ukrainian region is at once a replay and an escalation of tactics that the Kremlin has used for the past two decades to maintain its influence across the domains of the former Soviet Union.

Since the early 1990s, Russia has either directly supported or contributed to the emergence of four breakaway ethnic regions in Eurasia: Transnistria, a self-declared state in Moldova on a strip of land between the Dniester River and Ukraine; Abkhazia, on Georgia’s Black Sea coast; South Ossetia, in northern Georgia; and, to a lesser degree, Nagorno-Karabakh, a landlocked mountainous region in southwestern Azerbaijan that declared its independence under Armenian protection following a brutal civil war.

**Moscow’s meddling has created so-called frozen conflicts in these states, in which the splinter territories remain beyond the control of the central governments and the local de facto authorities enjoy Russian protection and influence.


Until Russia annexed Crimea, the situation on the peninsula had played out according to a familiar script: Moscow opportunistically fans ethnic tensions and applies limited force at a moment of political uncertainty, before endorsing territorial revisions that allow it to retain a foothold in the contested region.

With annexation, however, Russia departed from these old tactics and significantly raised the stakes. Russia’s willingness to go further in Crimea than in the earlier cases appears driven both by Ukraine’s strategic importance to Russia and by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s newfound willingness to ratchet up his confrontation with a West that Russian elites increasingly see as hypocritical and antagonistic to their interests.

More:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2014-04-17/russias-latest-land-grab

`Ukraine's revolution and Russia's occupation of Crimea: how we got here`

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/05/ukraine-russia-explainer

[Gunny]

"Anybody here still?"
http://images.taboola.com/taboola/image/fetch/f_jpg,q_auto,h_217,w_260,c_fill,g_faces:auto,e_sha rpen/https://prezna.com/get/uAx-2609383895220320915.jpeg
`Russia's Latest Land Grab`


`Russia’s occupation and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in February and March have plunged Europe into one of its gravest crises since the end of the Cold War.

Despite analogies to Munich in 1938, however, Russia’s invasion of this Ukrainian region is at once a replay and an escalation of tactics that the Kremlin has used for the past two decades to maintain its influence across the domains of the former Soviet Union.

Since the early 1990s, Russia has either directly supported or contributed to the emergence of four breakaway ethnic regions in Eurasia: Transnistria, a self-declared state in Moldova on a strip of land between the Dniester River and Ukraine; Abkhazia, on Georgia’s Black Sea coast; South Ossetia, in northern Georgia; and, to a lesser degree, Nagorno-Karabakh, a landlocked mountainous region in southwestern Azerbaijan that declared its independence under Armenian protection following a brutal civil war.

**Moscow’s meddling has created so-called frozen conflicts in these states, in which the splinter territories remain beyond the control of the central governments and the local de facto authorities enjoy Russian protection and influence.


Until Russia annexed Crimea, the situation on the peninsula had played out according to a familiar script: Moscow opportunistically fans ethnic tensions and applies limited force at a moment of political uncertainty, before endorsing territorial revisions that allow it to retain a foothold in the contested region.

With annexation, however, Russia departed from these old tactics and significantly raised the stakes. Russia’s willingness to go further in Crimea than in the earlier cases appears driven both by Ukraine’s strategic importance to Russia and by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s newfound willingness to ratchet up his confrontation with a West that Russian elites increasingly see as hypocritical and antagonistic to their interests.

More:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2014-04-17/russias-latest-land-grab

`Ukraine's revolution and Russia's occupation of Crimea: how we got here`

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/05/ukraine-russia-explainer



That is one, ugly-ass picture :laugh:

[LongTermGuy]

That is one, ugly-ass picture :laugh:


Makes one want to read the article...the sisters are really cool and all over youtube...

[darin]

Saddam annexes Kuwait -the world rallies and war happens.

Putin annexes Crimea - nobody bats an eye.

Proves military might matters.

[Drummond]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naqeMbivuUQ

Friends, I want to ask you what you think about the construction of the Crimean bridge in the Ukrainian Crimea. These are legitimate actions on the part of Russia, in relation to Ukraine. Without her permission to build different objects.

You claim:


These are legitimate actions on the part of Russia.

Seriously ?

I'd like you to back that up.

Most of the world regards the annexation of Crimea to Russia an illegal act, coming from a so-called 'Referendum' which itself was illegal, and reported as rigged, with voting irregularities (an understatement) rife throughout it. The act of annexation reminds many of Hitler's annexation of Austria to Germany's Third Reich.

This bridge just comes across to us in the West - I think I'm being accurate ? - as adding insult to injury. A further way Russia has of saying 'We have captured Crimea .. it will never know proper autonomy in its affairs again .. we insist upon it'.

I invite you to agree with that assessment. If you don't, can you give us (& yourselves !) hope that Crimea may know freedom again, perhaps in our lifetimes ?