By Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5WPR, INN
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Knows that Obama is full of hot air, and takes advantage of that fact to do as he wishes.
The U.S. has claimed for years that if Israel makes sacrifices, America will support the security of Israel.
Right now, there is a nation that is strategically crucial to America – the Ukraine – engaged in a battle with Russia, another world super power. America has not protected the Ukraine and Israel would do well to observe the situation very closely.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Knows that Obama is full of hot air, and takes advantage of that fact to do as he wishes.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine had the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Eventually, there was a Trilateral Statement, signed in January 1994, under which Ukraine agreed to transfer the nuclear warheads to Russia for elimination. In return, Ukraine received security assurances from the United States, Russia and Britain, as well as other considerations.
A document, called the “Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” was signed between America, Russia, the UK & Northern Ireland, which welcomed Ukraine as a “non-nuclear-weapon State”.
Among other things, the document stated:
Item #1: The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine. (Author’s Note: Russia does not seem to be respecting those borders)
Item #2: The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. (Author’s Note: Russia missed reading that line.)
Item #3: The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind. (Author’s Note: Russia has used economic coercion)
Item #4: The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used. (Author’s Note: No one has helped, as you may have noticed.)
Item #5: The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will consult in the event a situation arises which raises a question concerning these commitments. (Author’s Note: They consulted – and disagreed.)
The Ukraine has a useless piece of paper, and can go and cry to the United Nations or to anyone else – and meanwhile, Russia acts in what it perceives as its own best interest.
Israel must use this issue to her advantage, and realize that the Arabs seek to destroy Israel “piece by piece” using “peace”. No piece of paper is going to change that and no piece of paper is a guarantee of anything.
The Jewish people are responsible for Israel – no one else.
@ honeybee:
Good question, Honeybee. Surely not for physical attraction. Nobody gets close to 80 years and still looks like Prince Charming. Maybe its because we both represent to each other the only close relationship we have had for almost a half-century. We do everything and go everywhere together, including a two-mile walk at a big local fitness center. We also share each other’s political and sociocultural ideas, artistic tastes, prejudices, attachments to our extended families and taboos. Above all, we appreciate each other’s intellects. Whereas other people sit endlessly in front of television sets, lapping up misinformation, mass hysteria and all the rest of the common culture, Stefi and I have an enormous home library and we spend much of our time reading. And the places around the Earth we have been together are of storybook quality, if you are not the kind of person who spends his or her money on guided group tours.
You know, Honeybee, when you are together with the your mate for going on a half-century, it lasts because the two of you have ground down all the rough edges. I suppose it sums up what true love is all about.
I hope your life has the kinds of golden moments we have known.
Have a nice Purim. But don’t be too hard on old Haman, whom our folks did in 25 centuries ago. The world would be less interesting without the bad guys to kick around.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Max Said:
Arnold is correct Darlin, Fox is Big Daddy now. And, trust me, I know my Big Daddies.
ArnoldHarris Said:
At lest you have a sense of humor !!!!!
@ ArnoldHarris:
Why is she wasting her time with you, Darlin?
@ Max:
Max, these days CNN has been hammered down to size as little old grand-dad in the news business, while Fox News has taken over CBB’s former big-shot dominion.
By the way, back in the early 1960s, I worked for a while as a reporter and desk man with United Press International’s Des Moines, Iowa bureau. It proved to offer glamor trying to hide the reality of a slim paycheck. Which was why so many journalists shift to public work. And as someone once said: Freedom of the press works only if you own a press.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
honeybee Said:
No, with CNN. Yes, I know it’s an abusive relationship but Big daddy’s got all the news services.
@ honeybee:
If you had been acquainted with my wife as I have been for 45 years, and had traveled around much of the world with her, as I have done, you wouldn’t tag her as “little lady”. She’s a Jew just as I am, but she’s also a Balkan Slav descended from some of the toughest peasant stock I’ve ever met. These are people who take crap from nobody, including me, and wastes no time on bullshit. Our deal is that she’s my equal partner in all things, and we both take that seriously. I give her help when she needs it. In return, I get fed on time. But she reserves the right to nag me about my driving and making sure I don’t break my diet.
Bright, too. In addition to her native Hrvatski-Srbski, she knows English, Hebrew, and some Latin, Russian, Bulgarian-Makedonian, and Norwegian. She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Archaeology, and has a lot of expertise in historical linquistics. So I respect her as well as love her. And whenever I get the idea that I’m really a smart guy, haShem reminds me about my beloved wife.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
ArnoldHarris Said:
I do know what that is,Darlin. Nice you help the little lady, but not to much, she’ll come to expect it.
@ honeybee:
I don’t alcoholize much at all, Honeybee. Just an occasional Wisconsin-brewed bock beer, and an even more occasional shlivovitsa, which is Croatian/Serbian plum brandy. And I work off the Wisconsin deep winter blues now and then by working with my wife on clearing snow off our 600-ft winding and climbing driveway up the side of our wooded bluff. That plus both of us playing grandfather and grandmother about half of each week. Everyone ought to approach 80 years of age that way. It makes men and women more likely to be in position to celebrate age 90 the same way.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
@ ArnoldHarris:
Really Arnold, Darlin, I know its been a long hard winter, but please put down the vodka and sober up.Yawl
@ Max:
Yawl have personal relationship with Putin? Darlin
It’s Chairman Putin’s greatest ambition to restore the USSR but just not same initials anymore.
I admire the Russians all the more for the way they have responded to the Western-supported coup in Kiev that brought to power, among others, a gang of authentic supporters of the Hitlerites for whom many of their grandfathers fought Russians and murdered Jews in the Great Patriotic War.
Crimea shall now remain Russian land indefinitely, and if the Banderistsi worms and heir Western facilitators push their Catholicize-the-Slavs envelope any further than they have, everything in present-day Ukraine east of the Dnieper River shall also once again be Russian land indefinitely.
Now that I have had an opportunity to research the Ukraine bubble somewhat more thoroughly, I understand that the underlying struggle is an effort by the European Union, NATO and the present administration in Washington to hamper the newly-organized Eurasian Customs Union, established in 2010 by Russia, Belarus, and Khazakstan, with other states in the Caucasus region and in south-central Asia joining them since that time. It is intended that in the near future, the Eurasian Customs Union will develop into a full-scale Eurasian Union with closer ties.
The legally-elected president of Ukraine, ousted a few weeks ago by the Maidan Square Banderistsi, had expressed strong interest in Ukraine becoming a member of the recently-organized Eurasian group of states. Exactly that was the trigger that led to the coup. The reason is simple. The European Union, NATO and those who imagine they own the USA cannot stand the idea of any competing group of countries and their peoples organizing to resist them.
But now the Ukrainians will find out the hard way that the Western gang are little more than loud-mouths who never keep their word even to those whom they always claim they are allied to, such as Israel, for a perfect example.
It is also my further hope that Israel will sit down with their Russian and other Eurasian counterparts to inquire about Israel getting official status in the Eurasian Customs Union. Because it is beyond doubt that any of the western European states would ever allow the Jewish state membership in their own European Union.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Has anyone considered that Obama knew ,long before hand, what action Putin on taking in Crimea? And he permitted it. Obama does not want the American people to view a successful popular up-rising.
Tell it to the American Indians.
Max Said:
CRIME-A RIVER 🙂
BB Will still grovel before the Black Guy in the WH. 🙁
Putin versus Putz.
No contest.
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Israel versus (Putz + Isalmists)…. a little more difficult.