“An Hard Saying…” is a political commentary blog created by regular people, for regular people. Our mission is to make the world of politics accessible to the average person by making complex issues easy to understand and talking about those things that the regular news media doesn’t want to. In addition to subscribing to new articles on the right, you can now follow us on Facebook!
-
Recent Posts
- Opinions on Education: 70+ Billion Dollars Should Give Us Something Better
- Where Risk Meets Monopoly: The Monetization of War
- Raising the Minimum Wage: Why We Shouldn’t Let Faulty Logic Rule Our Paycheck
- The Broken Window: How Vandalism Simply Illustrates the World of Economics
- Why We Don’t Care: America’s Apathy to World Events Explained
Recent Comments
Archives
Categories
Meta
A New Cold War: the US/Russia Battle over the Ukrainian Crisis
By Niles Wimber
Update:
Russia has begun deploying troops to the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine “for the safety of ethnic Russians in the region”. Considering they have a major naval base there and the region borders with Russia, that only further confirms my commentary below about Russia’s motivations there. Read on.
Since my original review of the Ukrainian Maidan Revolution on February 20th, things have changed quite a bit, namely, the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych and the installation of a new opposition led government. The new government has immediately turned towards the US and the European Union for help with Ukraine’s crippled economy, much to the dismay of Russia who had previously offered to buy out Ukraine’s debt to the tune of $15 billion dollars. For their part, the Russians have started running massive war drills for troops bordering Ukraine, just for the heck of it according to them. Ukraine isn’t really an influential country compared to, say, Germany or China; what’s provoking this sudden Cold War flashback?
Russian tanks on parade. Source: Niles Wimber
Continue reading →
1 Comment
Posted in Commentary
Tagged America, Cold War, EU, national security, protests, Russia, Ukraine