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the latest that if ukraine is that truckloads the russian troops have
entered ukraine
via barry and have taken control of at least one border station some have been
emailing me in kind commenting on line saying that
russia is not acting in a way that is that crazy russia is doing something
that while
unpopular too many when who are Western influenced
they are really acting to secure their near
abroad the the area beyond their borders immediately beyond their borders
they are arguably increasing some
internal political cohesion and this is not going to have significant
consequences for russia that what russia is doing is not nearly as outrageous
as what many countries including the US in some cases have done
that's certainly one perspective but when we look at the reality
%uh russian troops moving into
Ukraine's Crimea region by fairy yesterday
after seizing control up a border post
on the Ukrainian side the waterway this is a situation
that is certainly huge levels of aggression
from Russia that is violating the sovereignty of Ukraine I feel weird
saying that because often we we talk about
sovereignty violations jokingly when it comes to people not allowed to have
shoulder mounted RPG's in Alabama
but but this is a serious situation yeah
it is an act of aggression I mean great you're literally stepping over the
border
an invading another country with armed troops
I'm and and I know wall
after that the dissolving of the soviet union i mean that
a lot of russians a lot about very rich Russians and powerful Russians were
upset that they lost
I the Crimean Peninsula they lost that region because
it was a it was called back the SARS playground or something
I bet you a lot of money back I don't know it's just about that
but its certainly disturbing would again it's interesting because regardless of
whether or not it specifically about that
I said this last week or maybe it would but i think is towards the end of last
week
that we have a situation here that is feeling very cold war like and what
Lewis is talking about is yet another
ewing up how this is very cold war
ask now the one convenient thing about the timing
%uh russia's Foreign to ukraine is that maybe there are still some journalist
hanging around from the Olympics in Sochi
and the most convenient timing for invading another country is right after
you held Olympic so you really cut down on carbon emissions
because the journalist don't all have to travel back to the country to cover this
many of them might already be there
so that at least Disney Co friendly invasion a neighboring country
our I guess you found be possibly the only positive thing here in this whole
mess
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