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There was a bit of Putin bashing in the Guardian today and a reader replied criticizing Russia's invasion of Crimea. He also mentioned Putin's 'oligarchs'. I wrote this below. Where are the pictures of Russian tanks and soldiers marching into Crimea? Not even the US can produce any with its amazing satellites of mass surveillance which can track our every move. Spooky or what? The Russians get free health care unlike in the US where the oligarchs scam the public. From Forbes magazine 2015; One Year After Russia Annexed Crimea, Locals Prefer Moscow To Kiev, by Kenneth Rapoza Excerpt: The U.S and European Union may want to save Crimeans from themselves. But the Crimeans are happy right where they are. One year after the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula in
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There was a bit of Putin bashing in the Guardian today and a reader replied criticizing Russia's invasion of Crimea. He also mentioned Putin's 'oligarchs'. I wrote this below. Where are the pictures of Russian tanks and soldiers marching into Crimea? Not even the US can produce any with its amazing satellites of mass surveillance which can track our every move. Spooky or what? The Russians get free health care unlike in the US where the oligarchs scam the public. From Forbes magazine 2015; One Year After Russia Annexed Crimea, Locals Prefer Moscow To Kiev, by Kenneth Rapoza Excerpt: The U.S and European Union may want to save Crimeans from themselves. But the Crimeans are happy right where they are. One year after the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula in
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There was a bit of Putin bashing in the Guardian today and a reader replied criticizing Russia's invasion of Crimea. He also mentioned Putin's 'oligarchs'. I wrote this below.
Where are the pictures of Russian tanks and soldiers marching into Crimea? Not even the US can produce any with its amazing satellites of mass surveillance which can track our every move. Spooky or what?
The Russians get free health care unlike in the US where the oligarchs scam the public.
From Forbes magazine 2015;
One Year After Russia Annexed Crimea, Locals Prefer Moscow To Kiev, by Kenneth Rapoza
Excerpt:
The U.S and European Union may want to save Crimeans from themselves. But the Crimeans are happy right where they are.
One year after the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula in the Black Sea, poll after poll shows that the locals there -- be they Ukrainians, ethnic Russians or Tatars are mostly all in agreement: life with Russia is better than life with Ukraine.
Little has changed over the last 12 months. Despite huge efforts on the part of Kiev, Brussels, Washington and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the bulk of humanity living on the Black Sea peninsula believe the referendum to secede from Ukraine was legit. At some point, the West will have to recognize Crimea's right to self rule. Unless we are all to believe that the locals polled by Gallup and GfK were done so with FSB bogey men standing by with guns in their hands.
In June 2014, a Gallup poll with the Broadcasting Board of Governors asked Crimeans if the results in the March 16, 2014 referendum to secede reflected the views of the people. A total of 82.8% of Crimeans said yes. When broken down by ethnicity, 93.6% of ethnic Russians said they believed the vote to secede was legitimate, while 68.4% of Ukrainians felt so. Moreover, when asked if joining Russia will ultimately make life better for them and their family, 73.9% said yes while 5.5% said no.