Stephen Harper and Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin: In 2003, Stephen Harper wanted Canada to join the American invasion of Iraq. In 2006, he backed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon as a measured move to protect its interests. In 2011, he was silent when Saudi Arabia marched tanks and troops into Bahrain to protect its interests. Last year, he backed Frances military intervention in its former colony of Mali. But Russia invading Crimea is akin to the 1938 Nazi annexation of part of Czechoslovakia, according to The Star. He supports the Ukrainian popular revolt that toppled a corrupt president. But he did not back the popular revolt in Bahrain against an autocratic king, or the historic uprising in Egypt against the corrupt and brutal autocrat Hosni Mubarak. In fact, he backed the Egyptian army when it toppled the democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi last year. The coup restored stability, Harper said. Thats what Putin said, too, in embracing Egyptian strongman Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi. Putin is at least consistent he has no use for democracy in either Egypt or Ukraine and The two dominant narratives on Ukraine are by now familiar. Vladimir Putin is using Soviet bully tactics to keep satellite states in line, including this weekends illegal and illegitimate referendum in Crimea. The other view is that the West had been encroaching too much into the Russian neighbourhood for him not to react, and that it is hypocritical of us to be condemning him when the United States and its allies often interfere in and wage war on nations , plus support secessions selectively, as in South Sudan and East Timor. Apropos the Wests inconsistencies, lets look at our own prime ministers. Harper wants Russia booted out of the G8 but he never suggested tossing Saudi Arabia out of the G20. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.