As usual. Dead wrong.
Here is a (feminist) article I found this a.m.:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-clueless-russia-ukraine-invasion-article-1.2733394And here is Trump's first statement:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/31/politics/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-crimea-putin/index.htmlHow many years have I been telling you, America, that Ukraine's problems started with Ovomit emulating Carter and Brzezinski when they drew the Soviets into Afghanistan. (And I didn't make that up; Z-Big said it himself in an interview with a Paris magazine in the 1990's; Brzezinski hates Russia). Ovomit engineered the Euromaidan protests in November 2013 because he wanted the world to fear an aggressive (capitalist) Russia, not a collective, Communist Soviet Union. I know that, because he said so just prior to those protests. Later, in early 2014, Yanukovich, the only man who could have held the Ukraine together, was deposed. Putin acted on behalf of the people of the Donbas, who have nothing but the coal fields Poroshenko wants to get himself out of the jam he was put in when he borrowed all that money, and thus ruined the Ukrainian economy. Poroshenko is not to be trusted.
If Putin wanted to re-establish an empire, he could have gone into Georgia when that little power-hungry man, Saakashvili, invaded Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Instead, he acted on behalf of the people of those regions and for their protection. Putin, again, was right. The type of protectorate he established in those regions can be used as a template for other troubled regions of the world. (Remember, I was there.)
So help me God, Donald, if you try to walk your statements back just in order to please the American "mob", you will no longer be my choice for president.
You are running out of bargaining chips, America. Back off. The more, and longer, you try to hold onto an outdated view of your own superiority, the harder will be your fall.
Putin is a good man; Russia is a good country. Maybe the American public find that hard to chew.
The Crimean people voted to become part of Russia, a great country. This was real and legitimate. What have I told you about "buyers' remorse"?
Putin well knew, when he told the world at the time Kosovo gained its independence, that this would set a precedent for some of the remaining republics and autonomous regions of the former Soviet Union. It is why he believed the collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the worst events of the 20th century. And look at the Balkans. He was right.
Putin is not interested in building an empire; he is interested in establishing stability. It is America who is the whore of the world.