Jun 8, 2014
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Jon and Sansa art trade for alexeithymia <3
alexeithymia replied to your post:alexeithymia replied to your post:Being super...
Yea just accept it. Is that the guy from Eurovision from so long ago?! because he is just adorable.
Alexander Rybak! Yes, that's him c:
Hey! How are you? How's your government responding to the Ukraine crisis? :( I hope everything turns out fine, from what I read on CNN it doesnt seem US is taking military action.
Hi :) I’m okay, a bit pissed, and quite a bit concerned, but there isn’t any immediate danger over here, despite the general paranoia. You see, the problem is, Poland as a nation has been through this same situation several times before, and we know the signs, and we know the propaganda, we know how it goes. So our government and opposition are completely united, like never before (we do that over here, become thick as thieves in face of danger) and we’re treating the situation extremely seriously, even though the Western world might find our ‘paranoia’ amusing, downplaying the conflict and its repercussions. NATO is not taking any decisive action, as it always happens when an Eastern European country gets invaded or its sovereignity is threatened - the West always wakes up only after the deed is done, and never in time to prevent it. I’m not pointing fingers here, because, well, I don’t think anyone on this website has any real power to change that, but I admit that I’m really tired of being the ‘slightly silly, paranoid cousin’ in our European family. All I’m asking, and this goes out to all my followers and anyone who might stumble on this post, is that you treat this seriously.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish American political scientist, who was born in 1928, so he was a little boy when he witnessed the beginning of WWII (even though he fortunately wasn’t in Poland at that time), said something very true today on CNN:
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, FMR. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR: That prospect, in my view, is by far the more serious one because, in effect, Putin has claimed the right to intervene in Ukraine itself, to intervene militarily by force.
And the Crimean scenario may be a preview of what he’s planning, namely that in some of the eastern regions of Ukraine, which are inhabited by Russian-speaking Ukrainians, some of whom are favorable to Moscow, riots could be staged, they could be provoked by Moscow.
And then Russian troops would enter. And that envisions (ph) what we have to now deter, prevent, discourage.
And it seems to me that we have to take a stand publicly, offering Russia some sort of participation in an overall international effort to help stabilize the Ukrainian economy and so forth; but privately, at the same time, we have to warn Russia very explicitly as to what might be the negative consequences of Russia in effect attacking Ukraine.
And these consequences have to be very serious because, otherwise, some years from now, we will be regretting failure to act the way we regretted the failure to act after Munich in 1938 and 1939, and we know what followed.
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I’m not saying that what is going on in Crimea is going to escalate into a WWIII right now, but I’m siding with Brzeziński here. Crimea might be annexed by Russia, or it might gain independence (which will, let’s face it, only be independence for show, we all know Putin will be pulling the strings on that). I don’t think Ukraine will be able to defend themselves if Russia decides to go into a propaganda war, staging riots and enflaming the situation so that other pro-Russian parts of Ukraine will revolt against the shaky Ukrainian government. In the end Ukraine might get divided, and Putin might not go after the pro-European part just yet, but who knows what will happen in a couple of years. And if Russia is not stopped, what if they decide to move against Poland, or Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia? There are a lot of Russian-speakers over there, will they also require special help from Russian troops? What if it were France, or Italy, or Great Britain, having foreign troops taking over their military bases without any sort of permission? What I’m saying is, please don’t downplay the situation, it is serious, and I’m ashamed of myself that I’m only just now becoming aware of it.
alexeithymia said: Lol how come only now? Didn’t you feel the canon before?
It felt a bit like fanfiction to me. :P I mean, the first two episodes were basically fanservice, and the format was all non-Sherlock-y, or rather, it had a Sherlock-plus feel, Sherlock upgraded, Sherlock-delved deeper, in a way that I didn't expect, but enjoyed very much... But HLV ruined it for me with all the things I didn't like about it, with all the burning issues I had with it, and which smoked the enjoyment right out of me... So I couldn't bear to actually participate with post-HLV fandom, and went on a sabbatical over to SPN. :P But the re-watch has done me good, and I think I might be able to reconcile myself with the storyline...