Reply To: Russian Tensions
TW appears (not for the first time) to be confused. On the one side he has frequently said he supports the Chinese regime, a regime that has said that Sovereignty should be upheld, yet on the other hand he supports the frontier change that Putin is trying to impose by force.
Let’s not forget that the reasons that Putin start of this was the “mistreatment” of ethnic Russians in The Ukraine and the possible expansion of the EU and or NATO.
The speech below was made BEFORE the Crimean/Donbas occupation, it shows that the aim was border change from the very beginning, not a resolution that solved these “problems” in any other way.
“I am determined to solve (1) the Ukrainian question and (2) to see to it that a change is made in the relationship between Russia and The Ukraine that shall ensure a peaceful co-existence. In this I am resolved to continue to fight until either the present Ukrainian government is willing to continue to bring about this frontier change or until another Ukrainian Government is ready to do so. I am resolved to remove from Russian frontiers the element of uncertainty, the everlasting atmosphere of conditions resembling civil war. I will see to it that in the West there is, on the frontier, a peace precisely similar to that on our other frontiers.”
So what is it, TW do you support the aim of frontier change as it was outlined above? In the light of the recent China, is the pre war statement still a reasonable one that you are happy about? It’s a straightforward question, are you happy with the ideas that were put forward in the speech, or do you not?