I realized today that I haven't posted anything since before Christmas. It's not for a lack of topics, believe me. I could talk about Vladimir Putin and how I don't trust a guy who manages to stay in power by becoming Prime Minister when his term as President is up and then as soon as the next election comes along, becomes President again. Obviously the guy likes being in charge or he wouldn't stick around so long. Makes me wonder if he's going to become a dictator. He's already trying to take over parts of the Ukraine under some of the flimsiest excuses I have encountered since learning about what led up to WWII in Social Studies.
I didn't really intend for this blog to be my take on current events but if I didn't write about things like that you would just see post after post about my kids. Don't get me wrong, I think my kids are wonderful but there are enough blogs out there about the joys and hardships of motherhood. That's just not my thing. I have always been a strongly opinionated person when it comes to politics and current events. I get that from my dad. In fact, my high school Social Studies teacher commented to my mom once about how obvious it was that politics and current events were discussed in our home. So you can thank, or blame, my upbringing for this blog.
Back to Putin, like I said I don't trust the guy. He didn't even crack a smile during the closing ceremony of the Sochi Olympics, at least not on camera. How can you not smile at the Olympics? Maybe he's just not the smiling type but it just seemed weird. Then all this stuff with the Crimean Peninsula occurred and I was not surprised. Those who think Russia is not a country to be wary of are very wrong. How many times did the UN Security Council try to take action over different things only to be vetoed by Russia? I can't believe Russia disagreed for any other reason than that it didn't suit their purposes to have the proposed action take place. Maybe the United States has done the same thing too but not recently that I've heard.
So what is the rest of the world supposed to do about this development? Are we just supposed to roll-over and let Russia have the Crimean Peninsula? Sure there is going to be a referendum over it where the people living there are going to vote on the issue but can we really trust that the election will be fair and honest. How do we know the election won't be rigged in Russia's favour? And if Russia gets the Crimean Peninsula then what? Will they next decide one part of the Ukraine is not enough and take over the whole thing? Is this scenario starting to sound familiar? If not, you need to go study the events that led up to WWII starting with the appeasement policy of other countries in regards to Hitler's actions before he decided to take over Poland.
Do I think we are headed into another World War? I don't know. I really hope not but at the same time we can't just let Russia waltz in and take over its neighbours.
