Hokay, now it is officially official, Mama Russia has taken an active
military stance in reaction to the hullabaloo in the Ukraine. Color
me...not shocked at all. Anyone who thought that Russian wouldn't
stick it's steel toed boot into the mess is prolly still working on
their first cup of coffee. Russia has staged military interventions
in places half way around the world from them, so the odds of them
not taking arms in a next door sense is somewhere between slim and
none. Anyone else remember Georgia and I ain't talking about the
home of the Braves?
So now that Russia has moved into Crimea to “protect” Russian
Interests, what happens next? As I pointed out in a previous blog,
where does the rest of the world stand when one group starts doing
what the previous group did? To explainate further, this whole thing
started when Pro-EU forces essentially ceased control of the
government because they felt that their destinies were better with
the EU than with Russia. Now the smaller section of the Ukraine
which favors closer ties with Russia want to split with the Ukraine
and stay with their buddies. The majority of Crimean people support
staying with Russia instead of tossing their lot in with the EU and
Russia is making moves to support them.
So how does the rest of the world react? If you believe it is the
God given right of any people to rebel against a government that they
feel is unfair and that does not represent their best interests, then
how do you react when a group tries to rebel against the rebels that
started the rebellion that you for the most part supported? I mean,
if it is okay for your side to do it, shouldn't it be okay for the
other side to do it too? Sauce for the goose...well lets just say
both gooses get cooked in sauce.
Oh I hear the naysayers screaming about the evils of Russia and how
many different countries they have invaded. However, I am quick to
point out that the ongoing Military situation is not technically an
invasion for two reasons. Reason 1 is that the man who is still the
duly elected president of the nation in question has requested help
from his Russo Buds to make things better in his beloved homeland.
Reason B is that the people in the area in question (Yah know the
actual people who live there?) are calling for help from Russia. In
short, they want the Russians to come in. Hells they are begging for
it.
So we have to ask the question (well we don't HAVE to ask it, but if
we didn't I couldn't finish the blog.) of “Where the fugg does the
powers that be go from here?” What do we as a world do? Do we
send troops and supplies to the Ukraine to help them combat the
Russians? Do we word stern letters of disapproval (That one is
always popular.) which do nothing? Or and this is the big one, do we
simply do nothing in what is essentially an Internal Conflict between
two separate factions within the same nation?
If Crimea truly and honestly wish to stay allied with Russia, then
they should be allowed to. It is their choice, just like the rest of
the country wishing to be allied with the EU. Just because we don't
like that choice does not make that choice bad nor does it give
outsiders the right to interfere. If things truly go to heck in a
handbasket with pogroms and murder in the streets, we might have a
responsibility to step in, but right now we should just leave it all
the fugg alone.
End of Rant
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