That is not what she meant or what she wants. If she simply recognizes fact that voters are brainwashed and will not elect someone who is labeled as "isolationist/non-interventionist" it doesnt mean she is approving it. For some reason lot of people on this forum make this mistakes. Recognizing reality and planning your liberty actions to be realistic (electing Rand, Rands rhetoric) is not warmongering, supporting evil, starting WWIII...
But your presumption does not hold true when you consider that Ron Paul asserts that Russia has been well within its right to act as it has been (Russia holds treaties permitting for its military actions in Crimea), while Rand Paul has been arguing that Russia is in need of a good spanking for acting illegally, or at least threatening.
Ultimately, were do you think Rand’s suggestions will lead to? Especially, when Washington’s neocons come into play and you take into consideration that Russia’s Bear is hardcore, it does not take lightly to being manipulated.
So Rand Paul wants to send our natural gas over to Europe (noting that Russia provides only 1/4 of natural gas throughout the EU, which 80% is piped through Ukraine and none through Crimea, and has been an ongoing subject of contention between the two nations for nearly a decade now), which I would tend to think (aside from not being much in the way of supporting the free-markets) will punish Americans vastly more than Russia, as natural gas prices are already high enough in America, and sending our clean fuel over there will only reduce the availability of production here in the states; so thusly, prices here will be raised even further (i.e., further price-gouged or price-fixed)—forcing Americans to struggle much harder in these current tough times.
More than that though, what business is it of American politicians to jump into the contracted obligations of foreign nations on their own internal affairs that have no direct impact upon America.
1. America is not part of the EU, American politicians are leaders there only of zip, zero, and nada.
2. The issues in Crimea bear no effect upon natural gas production or distribution.
3. Do Americans really care who Crimea “votes” to be a part of? I certainly know I do not.
4. Sending America’s natural gas into Europe will really only benefit America’s energy companies by increased market-share, prices, further tax write-offs, etc.
5. If Rand Paul is so offended by Russia’s military occupation, perhaps he should first fight here at home to get America’s ducks-in-a-row, how about getting America out of Guantanamo for starters?
