Putin offers plebiscite to determine Crimea's sovereignty

http://news.yahoo.com/defiant-putin-drops-cool-demeanor-ukraine-talk-221118348.html

"Putin said that Moscow has no intention to annex Crimea. At the same time, he strongly supported a local referendum on Crimea's status, saying that people there have the right to determine their fate." (op cit)


For those of you that don't know, Crimea has belonged to Russia for a very long time, and the next industrial age czar to come along, after Stalin, which was Brezhnev i guess; GAVE Crimea AWAY! That's right! It belonged to Russia and he just UP AND GAVE IT AWAY to Ukraine.

That was around the 1950s, nobody, NOBODY, in those days could foresee the European Union as it stands today, such a united Union; only Nietzsche, of all scholars, saw this coming and he saw it coming in the 19th century, and he also accurately predicted the 'struggle for the mastery of the entire planet' (world war 2)...... in this sense, Nietzsche was prophetic, however, in our intellectual age, we never apply this term anymore, so he was an intellectual (and one that railed against 'women in pants with university degrees' too!)....

Anyway, suffice to say nobody in the 1950s could see Europe Uniting so strongly, and nobody would have suspected, in Russia, at the time of giving away Crimea, that Ukraine would want to join a completely united Europe from top to bottom, east to west, in the year 2014......... but that's the case, Europe's Unity and the European Union's destiny clearly seems bound up with the issue of oil depletion and the coming world where energy is not so abundant as it has been......... let the Ukrainians join the European Union!

But what Putin is offering, even if the people hold a plebiscite, you'll have any number of idiot cooks in the kitchen, Susan Rice, John Kerry, all these NGOs and EU commentators, they'll all be saying the plebiscite was a phoney....... you'll have to wait for their dumb arses to send election scrutineers.........whoever heard of western election scrutineers scrutinizing an election held by and for majority russians?

Obviously if there's a plebiscite, the majority russians are going to vote to re-incorporate with Russia in the Crimea........ Russia taking back Crimea is perfectly legal....... Russia should think about repatriating ethnic Russians and Russia-lovers from Ukraine to Crimea or elsewhere in Russia and start working with Ukraine's government to that end, e.g., with regard to selling their fixed real estate or allowing them property rights in Ukraine, establishing their citizenship - dual or what? etc. I don't think Russia needs to open any lines with America on the issue but Russia can deal with the EU in Brussels directly regarding Ukraine, even if they don't like the govt. in Ukraine enough to deal with them

the situation is messy and should be cleaned up, if only as it's bad for global markets and confuses American journalists who prefer to talk about pet dogs and glossy coats therein.....

hurrah i have spoken

btw, how Putin can tolerate reporters receiving phone calls while he is talking is beyond me.... if i were him i'd make all of them check in their phones before walking in the room or else use blocking technology to block their calls -- even just put lead in the walls