Putin

Is this tattooed on your back?
I like this photo of SR in his dockers.

We definately need a POTUS that the world can respect. Recent presidents seek to further their parties interests. They do not seek to better our country.

 

I like these khakis better

 

...putin on the march to annex crimea...

http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-plans-patriotic-rallies-crimea-crisis-deepens-063306255.html

 

About the weak president thing, I am sure that Putin knows he has a lot of leeway with Obama. It's obvious that America isn't the world power it was in the 1900's.

I don't mean that having a president with a different foreign policy would have prevented any of Putin's actions because thats silly. However, the little slap on the wrist the current administration/EU gives Putin really isn't much of a deterrent for him.

 

Also, I really don't have an opinion on a stance that we take, let Ukraine and Russia do their things unless it posses a threat to us or our allies.

 

The Ukraine isn't a US ally ?

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/10/ukraine-nuclear/6250815/

 

ok now I care

 

I would SOOO welcome another Ronald Regan in the White House...

 

Supposed to be ... There always is a 'but'

 

I suppose they are, but the country is quite low on the list and isn't a major ally. Say if Russia was invading England, this would be huge and the US would certainly be involved right away.

 

Kind of. Bill Clinton signed that Budapest Referendum saying that if Ukraine disarmed the nukes, we would help them be "secure".

 

The same deal that Russia signed guaranteeing Ukraine's sovereignty, and we're all seeing how that's working for the poor Ukrainians.

 

Ukraine was looking to join NATO prior to the recently ousted government

 

Lol...Maybe because Yeltsin signed it, Putin thinks it doesn't apply to him.

 

...there's more to it than ukraine... many of the U.S. allies rely on natural gas for energy that comes through that region from russia...

 

Like Germany

 

Is the text below that "agreement" everyone is talking about?

27. In a further development, on 16 November 1994, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted a law on the accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 21/ and on 5 December it formally acceded to the Treaty. In that connection, on the same day, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States signed a Memorandum on Security Assurances which, inter alia, stated the following: "The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm, in the case of Ukraine, their commitment not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear-weapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a State in association or alliance with a nuclear-weapon State." 22/ The Memorandum further stated that the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States reaffirmed their commitment to seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State party to the non-proliferation Treaty, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons were used. 23/ On the same day, the three depositary Governments of the non-proliferation Treaty gave security assurances to other non-nuclear weapon States parties to the Lisbon Protocol of 23 May 1992, i.e., Belarus and Kazakhstan. France, providing assurances to Ukraine as a non-nuclear-weapon State party to the non-proliferation Treaty, reaffirmed its declaration made to non-nuclear-weapon States which are committed to nuclear non-proliferation, that it will not use nuclear weapons against them except in the case of an aggression carried out in association or in alliance with a nuclear-weapon State or with nuclear-weapon States against France or a State with which France has undertaken security commitments. The Government of China, on 4 December 1994, 24/ provided security assurances to Ukraine by issuing a statement which affirmed that under no circumstances would China use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon States or nuclear-weapon-free zones; this also applied to Ukraine. On 8 February 1995, the Chinese Government issued a similar statement to provide the same security assurance to Kazakhstan. 25/


http://www.cfr.org/arms-control-dis...t-memorandums-security-assurances-1994/p32484