I still say the whole Crimea thingie is a bore. It mainly gives the snooze media something to do that doesn’t involve working. And, as Spengler details below, the American response thus far will hurt us (and Israel) far more than it will the Russians.
“Granted that hypocrisy is the mother’s milk of both domestic and international politics, but the outcry from Europe and the United States over the Russian seizure of Crimea really is beyond the pale….
“As to forceful detachment of territory from a sovereign state, Kosovo was separated from Serbia through the U.S. and European bombing of Serbia until the Serbs agreed…
“If Russia were to place an embargo on oil and particularly gas exports to Europe, the Europeans would run out of reserves in two months and then the European economy would shut down. Russia, in contrast, would merely lose $7.5 billion of revenues. U.S.-Russian trade is tiny so that trade sanctions by the U.S. would be meaningless…
“The elder statesmen who won the Cold War…are trying in vain to inject a note of sanity into the clown show that passes for American foreign policy on both sides of the aisle…Putin won’t take over…He doesn’t have to. He’ll wait for the West to make an unspeakable mess of Ukraine and then do whatever he wants.”
As Instapundit often says: Our country is in the very best of hands. Not.
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