Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (773499)	3/7/2014 1:49:15 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570334

I don't think that would happen but at some point, one of them will have to back down. Neither one wants war. Bullies tend to scare easily. So I am betting on Putin to back down. Doubtful...he's on his turf...but let's say for argument sake that he doesn't back down....and you have to plan for that regardless of the odds...what's the next card Obama plays? Then Obama is stuck with economic sanctions. Putin is playing this game because its a tough game to play and he has a good chance of winning it. That was true from the outset...........but we need to make him sweat...........so that he will be less willing to play the same game the next time. The world has seen what happens when you don't stand up to bullies..........they think they can get away with murder.

To: Alighieri who wrote (773499)	3/7/2014 3:01:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 1570334

Putin ain't going to quit until he gets Crimea.....and then he will go after the Ukraine......not quite as overtly. Moscow Raises Pressure on West in Ukraine Crisis By STEVEN LEE MYERS, DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and RICK GLADSTONEMARCH 7, 2014 MOSCOW — Russia ratcheted up pressure on the West over the Ukraine crisis on Friday, moving for the first time to endorse the Crimea region’s secession plan, threatening Ukrainian customers with a gas shut-off and warning the United States that “hasty and ill-considered steps” toward sanctions would harm relations. The developments illustrated how quickly the crisis has evolved. Just three days earlier, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had said he did not foresee the possibility of the Crimean Peninsula becoming part of Russia. But leaders of both houses of Russia’s Parliament said on Friday that they would support a vote by Crimeans to break away from Ukraine and become a region of the Russian Federation. That was a clear signal that the Kremlin was throwing its full weight behind a secession drive that Ukraine, the United States and other countries have called unconstitutional and a violation of international law. The referendum on the issue that the Crimean regional government plans to hold on March 16 — a little more than a week away — has been denounced by the fledgling national government in Kiev, which said it would invalidate the outcome and dissolve the Crimean Parliament. President Obama has also rejected the referendum, and the United States government announced sanctions on Thursday in response to Russia’s de facto military occupation of the Crimean Peninsula. read more....................