Will a Russian invasion of Ukraine push the west into an economic war ?

[dipsydoodle]

Here’s why. Russia has resolved to use military power, and if necessary force, in Ukraine.

Its likely goals are to occupy Crimea and to bolster the possibility of an eastern Ukraine secession towards the Russian Federation itself.

The west – morally bankrupted by the Iraq war, Guantanamo and serial human rights violations – in August 2013 gave a major signal to Vladimir Putin that it would not intervene in Syria.

Leave aside military action, the west would not even pursue its own objectives by diplomatic force. He took it as a signal that it would not intervene anywhere.

Implicitly, from that moment on, the idea of America as a superpower enforcing international law was over. If Russia now invades Ukraine the west will protest about territorial integrity.

- See more at: http://blogs.channel4.com/paul-mason-blog/russian-invasion-ukraine-push-west-economic-war/441#sthash.Cxnt0pNL.G1QLedNH.dpuf

That is Channel 4 UK - not elsewhere.

[independentpiney]

1. Maybe I'm not just awake yet, but the " diplomatic Tsushime"

bit doesn't really make sense or fit into the premise of the piece. It seems like he came up with a clever phrase involving Russian history and just can't help himself from throwing it in a few times. Good article though.

[Democracyinkind]

2. No shit. I went WTF?? at that one too. nt