March 12, 2014 | Quote
Why Europe Is Dismayed By Russia’s Invasion Of Crimea
The PBS Newshour had top-notch coverage of the Ukraine crisis last night.
Gwen Ifill noted that Vladimir Putin said Russia reserves the right to intervene where ethnic Russians are under threat of “lawlessness,” then quoted U.S. Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey saying how dangerous that would be:
“If Russia is allowed to do this, which is to say move into a sovereign country under the guise of protecting ethnic Russians in Ukraine, it exposes Eastern Europe to some significant risk, because there are ethnic enclaves all over Eastern Europe and the Balkans,” Gen. Dempsey told PBS on Friday.
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Russia24 giving a history lesson of “Russian territory” in the past. Here we have Russia in 1918 #softpropaganda pic.twitter.com/GQJfAeWtJn
— Boris Zilberman (@rolltidebmz) March 12, 2014