| thranx said: I think Obama has nailed the coffin for dems in the next election with how he dealt with Russia. He has made the US look weak. He has shown how naive he is if he thinks russia will stop there, how many land grabs have they done in the last decade? seems like its been stepping up not winding down. I also have to say Sarah Palin said it well, if the United States stops helping out other countries, if we take a back seat, someone will fill that void, and its most likely Russia and China. So the question is how safe do europeans feel with having Russia and China calling the shots over there? I dont think many europeans would want that. I could be wrong, i'm not european, but I wouldn't feel safe with a countries that have been on land grab sprees and military build ups on my front door step unless we are close allies already. |
I'm european and i don't want the US "helping" us out just as much as i don't like russia and china trying to exert influence.
The US doesn't "help out", the look after their own interests.
And while, if i had to choose which of those "superpowers" took control, I'd probably think of the US as the lesser evil (haveing been raised with a western mindset and all, other people might choose different) i'd still prefere for all of them to mind their own buissnes (unfortunately that's not gonna happen).
As for crimera i couldn't care less if it now belongs to russia or not. I'm from switzerland though and not ukraine so it doesn't concern me all that much, but i don't think anyone here expects russia to try and swallow any more terretory tha crimera. As far as i understand they did it to secure a military base and sea acces (or something) and the people there voted on it and seem to want to belong to russia.
but that's just my 2 cents....
