We May go to Nuclear War over WHAT?!

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We May go to Nuclear War over WHAT?!
By Scott Baker
OpEdNews Op Eds 3/14/2014 at 02:13:26

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You know you're in trouble when the country you're talking about begins with a preposition. Nobody talks about The Russia, or even The United States of America, unless they want to sound pompous and self-important. The Ukraine is like The Alps, or The Black Sea (more on that in a moment).

Yes, there have been some recent attempts to make The Ukraine sound like a grown-up country by just talking about "Ukraine" as in this jingoistic New York Times article: Russia Masses Military Forces at Border in Ukraine, but it neither comes trippingly off the tongue or flowingly out of the keyboard, and probably won't until The Ukraine is split into Crimea and, finally, simply, Ukraine. For that is where we're headed, if we're lucky, and if saner heads prevail. Go on, punk (American or Russian), do you feel lucky?

And you know what? They should divide The Ukraine. Let Russia keep its warm-water military port, and its multiple bases in Sevastopol, which has been the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet since 1783 -- longer than The United States (as it was called then) has had a constitution! Or...would you prefer a teetering, barely-there, second world nation, of ethic boiling (not melting) pots, become the caretakers for some of the world's most powerful armaments?

This ex-Ottoman empire outpost, ex-Polish territory, ex-Khrushchev era protectorate, can barely be found on the map, if at all, by most Americans. In any case, neither Americans nor Russians (who can find The Ukraine on a map), care enough about this region to go to war over, even conservatives! I looked for a poll indicating American or Russian positions on whether they want their respective countries to go to war over The Ukraine, but couldn't find any. Maybe the usual pollsters find it too ridiculous a question to even ask, considering the protests already taking place.