Russia and the Ukraine

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It's a thing. Looks crazy.

[colmatrix]

Russia has their own FF's? Deceptions involving invisible women and a thing?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

On the upside, their version of Reed looks way less like k. d. lang.

[Dalty]

Yup. It'll get much worse before it gets better. Maybe Crimean independence.

[neglet]

It's making all the research I'm doing on Tolstoy's life and times much more timely, that's for sure.

[Space Tycoon]

Shit Happens.

[Dalty]

Sometimes you make shit happen.

[Mal Shot First]

When I eat my veggies like I'm supposed to, I make shit happen ERRY DAY, SON!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It's more fun to eat them the way you're not supposed to.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

(In case it's not clear, I'm talking about sticking them up your butt.)

[Space Tycoon]

And this, my friends, is why extending NATO to include former Soviet republics is just a bad idea.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Which side are we supposed to be on?

[Space Tycoon]

How about common sense, for a change?

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

That's not the "Why not both?" I was looking for.

[Dalty]

We have been led to this point by a series of naive and not so comical fuck-ups. The fact that Palin saw this coming, fucking PALIN, tells you all you need to know.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Palin. Putin. Putin. Palin.

I feel much better. Have you kids met Keanu?

[Adam54]

Did Palin see this coming, or does a blind squirrel just find a nut on occasion?

[Dalty]

She specifically said that after Georgia, Ukraine would be next.

She also said Africa was a country though. Win some, lose some.

[Space Tycoon]

Maybe Ukraine should be divided in two. Maybe Crimean independence/reabsorption into Russia is the right way to go. Czechoslovakia was able to separate more or less amicably, perhaps that is the route we should be following here. As with the Middle East, this is not our region, not our primary concern.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It's not just Country. It's also a little bit Rock 'n' Roll.

[Adam54]

Palin Predicted Russia would invade the Ukraine. Half True.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/st ... -russian-/

[Dalty]

Reading Tom Clancy's final Jack Ryan novel before he died, Command Authority.

It's spooky, the Russian play to the Ukraine in this is almost exactly what is happening in real life.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Did Clancy have foresight, or was what's happening just incredibly predictable?

[Fake Strider]

Why not both?

[Quasar]

Should I kick Fake Strider in the dick, or just the balls?