Russian Red Grant

Bond

He look a bit like Daniel Craig

Red Alert 4

@HamburgerTime  
I’m rather fearful for the civilians in Afghanistan. But while the American army makes those fears reality, the Russian army is at least in comparison peaceful.

I don’t get it. What does Vladimir Putin holding a Manlycane have anything to do with Rainbow Rocks?

@Background Pony #F1E6  
@SFaccountant  
This and this. I say if Crimea wants to join Russia, letum’. Russia’s whole “invasion” was pretty shady, though. And I’m rather fearful for the Tartars.

If Crimea wants to join Russia, I say let them. Great. I say the same thing about Tibet, Taiwan, Kashmir and Palestine.  
That doesn’t excuse deploying soldiers in another country and then denying they’re yours. And the propaganda drive is a joke. How many Russians in Crimea have been killed or even threatened by the so-called nationalist radicals that Russia is “defending” them from?

@Background Pony #61DF  
At least,we’re not jumping at each other throats discussing this issue.We merely talk about the actuality here.

@Background Pony #F1E6  
Petty much this. Also we’re talking about politics on a pony related website. Uhm..oh well?

The way I see it, Crimea ultimately should have returned to Russia, due to the desires of its people. That the peninsula ended up part of Ukraine at all was a historical accident. However, the way in which Putin handled this irredentism was wrong. The vote was a farce. Everything has happened too quickly - and with too many outside agitators from Russia and Serbia waving around Kalashnikovs & tanks - to be considered legitimate.
 
Also, absolutely no consideration has been given to the nearly 40% of Crimea’s population that isn’t Russian. Especially the Tatars, who rightly fear being overrun and deported again. The dude currently in charge of Crimea’s local administration is a complete racist nutcase.
 
At this point, Putin rolling tanks into Donetsk and Kharkhiv is a virtual certainty, but that’s even less legitimate than his escapade in Crimea, since those areas (despite ethnicity) have not been legally considered part of Russia for nearly a century.
 
By the way, the Russian line on the current leadership in Kiev - that they’re a bunch of Nazis who seized power in a coup - isn’t exactly correct. Yanukovich was forced from power due to his own party (who still hold the majority in the Ukrainian parliament, btw) turning on him and doing what amounted to a snap impeachment. That in itself was also done too hastily, but as far as I can tell was not illegal except in Putin’s fevered mind.
 
Kiev’s interim administration are no angels, but - aside from that stupid move to demote Russian from co-official language (which was correctly abandoned) - they look far better right now than Putin, who may as well be a fascist redux of Stalin at this point.

That’s Mean ;-;

@Background Pony #2DB3  
It was only in 1954 that Crimea became part of Ukraine.

@Background Pony #3642  
Oh, yes. Fear us. We’ve already started doing evil dances every morning, while singing the evil Russian anthem. We’re wearing evil clothes and eating evil food. We’re making evil jokes and evil..ly … laugh at them! Boo!

@Itsthinking  
I’m not Russian,but i think i heard that Crimea had a majority of russian-speaking people that feel more close to Russia than Ukraine,thus why the “soft invasion” is welcomed with open arms by the majority of the population.That dont make Poutine tactic less shady,granted.

@Background Pony #3642  
It’s a relief. It makes it easier to overlook our own masters evil ways and thus makes the world more understandable.

Bad Vlad is manlier than you!

Seems like the US is being the Evil Empire… Again… Afghanistan, Vietnam, add in all the others..

Ucane?  
No, MYCane.

I’m so glad Russia has gone back to being an evil empire.

This guy looks more like a James Bond villain than any actual James Bond villain.

The Crimean Peninsula is Ukrainian.