Speaking truth to insipid reporting

Here’s a must read on Ukraine:  “Ukraine Is Hopeless…But Not Serious”, in David P. Goldman’s, Spengler column at PJ Media.

Best lines:

“Ukraine isn’t a country: it’s a Frankenstein monster composed of pieces of dead empires, stitched together by Stalin. It has never had a government in the Western sense of the term after the collapse of the Soviet Union gave it independence, just the equivalent of the family offices for one predatory oligarch after another–including the “Gas Princess,” Yulia Tymoshenko.”

Here’s another:

“As for the Crimea: Did anyone seriously think that Vladimir Putin would let the main port of Russia’s Black Sea fleet fall into unfriendly hands? Russia will take the Crimea, and the strategic consequences will be nil. We couldn’t have a strategic confrontation if we wanted it. How would we get troops or ships into the Black Sea area in the first place in order to have a confrontation? Perhaps the Belgiums will send in their army instead. I suppose we need to denounce the Russians for violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity.”

He offers a great solution for what we should do, but go read the entire article, to get the full impact.  Bravo, Mr. Goldman, for daring to speak truth to insipid reporting!