“Finally, Ukraine is a half-continent too far for the Western Europeans to do anything but talk. Ukrainians who thought the European Union states and the US would come to their rescue are destined for disappointment. In his press statement today, the US President did not say that instability in Ukraine affected US interests. Some analysts interpreted that omission as an American "green light" to the Russians to do what they consider appropriate.”
Basically
it’s the same sort of non-committal statement from the U.S. Government
that historians believe “green-lighted” the invasion of South Korea in
1950 and the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Like it or not, the USA has
been the “world policeman” since the conclusion of World War II, so if
the USA appears unwilling to intervene, then the aggressor nation in a
conflict will generally come to believe that no other country will
interfere in its plans to attack another nation and it will have
relatively free reign to do what it wants.
“Comment: President Putin appears content to let the West shoulder the economic burdens of a virtually bankrupt western Ukraine, while Russia asserts hegemony over the eastern part and Crimea.”By Epictetus
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