Russian Soldier Selfie shows he's in Ukraine
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08/02/modern-warfare-russian-soldiers-selfies-accidentally-confirm-hes-in-ukraine-photos/If you’re part of a Russian military unit currently engaged in a covert mission to destabilize a neighboring country’s government you probably shouldn’t be spending most of your time taking selfies to upload to Instagram, but if you must take the selfies, you definitely shouldn’t leave the feature which tags your location on.
That is the obvious lesson one Russian soldier learned this week after his unending stream of self-portraits uploaded to social media may have caused an international crisis by confirming what his country has so far denied: Russia has soldiers in Ukraine.
The soldier in question is Sanya Sorkin, a 24-year-old Russian communications expert stationed along the border of Ukraine, but as The Drum discovered, the geo-tags in some of his over 500 pictures uploaded to his Instagram account reveal that they were taken near the Ukrainian towns of Kranaya Talovka and Krasnyi Derkul.
Woops! :\
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Provide materiel? The horror. Oh, well.
Gradually ramp up the level of support? Really? That's a pity.
Send in men? Ah, that's bad. Too bad.
Shell across the border to help the rebels and kill Ukrainian troops? Gee, whiz. Cheese whiz!
What's important is to say how much we respect territorial integrity and human rights. We oppose imperialism and oppression, and want to find a peaceful solution.
Now, how can we blame this on a Republican president, so that we are free of any moral taint of standing by during the deaths of hundreds of soldiers on the Ukr side, the likely many hundreds of Ukrainians on the rebel side, and the many, many hundreds of civilians.
At this point the death toll is greater than in Gaza, and is likely to be for some time. Yet we get protests and vitriol against Israel. Israel's small. We can "punish" Israel. We have power over Israel. Spanking Israel is cheap. And it feels good, because the Palestinians aren't really "allies" in any meaningful sense, and we think of Muslim Arabs as a disadvantaged religious and ethnic minority.
Russia's not small. It's hard to "punish" Russia. We have little power over Russia. Spanking Russia is expensive--sanctions hurt us, too, and if we do anything militarily we're terrified (and paralyzed by the terror) that there's a chance it might eventually lead to the possibility of WWIII. It doesn't feel good, either, because many still think of the USSR as good; there are still those who really want to minimize Stalin's atrocities and think that his "service" to humanity outweighs those atrocities. And because we've bought the agitprop label that Ukrainian=fascist, while the "Russians for Russians" people who want a Greater Russia are somehow better--the Serbian nationalists who tried for Muslim genocide for Greater Serbia and fought with Hitler know their allies and have gone to fight for the rebels in the hundreds. It doesn't help that Ukraine is, in some barely detectable sense, "allies" and are fighting a minority. Even if it is similar to how whites were a minority in Zimbabwe.
Yup. The US will do nothing. Now, if we could just blame Bush II. Or Bush I. Or, even better, make this all Reagan's fault so we can 
the Republicans and then sit back with 
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before a nice, long 
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