re: #130 Ming

Awesome article by Yulia Tymoshenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine:

“We won’t be visiting anyone with tanks and machine guns, but we have a different army. It is an army that cannot be stopped by borders, trenches, anti-tank fortifications or minefields. It is our Ukrainian army of freedom, democracy, human dignity and spirit. And it is already on the march. Ukraine is fulfilling its mission, which includes the liberation of Russia.

“I believe that everything will be fine.”

I’m surprised he would make such a mistake, but Putin may have underestimated how strongly many Eastern Europeans would feel about his actions in Crimea. And he may have underestimated Obama and Merkel as well.

Putin might well be overestimating the strength and influence of his fifth column in this country. There are plenty of them, of course, and they make a lot of noise but appearances could be deceptive in this case. Putin is a smart guy but he may not have the insight into the subtleties of American culture and politics to realize just how insignificant, and (more importantly) how insincere, these people really are.