Well, no one in Europe or the US has any direct interest here.
Tom Send a noteboard - 01/03/2014 09:13:36 PM
It's a messy situation because of a messy border that was drawn by the Soviets and it's just another chapter of the fallout from 1991. It doesn't threaten Romania, or Poland, or Hungary, or Slovakia, the next countries to the West of Ukraine.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Don't Make me Laugh, Mr. Obama
- 01/03/2014 03:14:50 AM
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He's not the only lame duck in this, though.
- 01/03/2014 05:41:01 PM
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It's a little more complicated than that, I think.
- 01/03/2014 07:42:20 PM
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Yes yes yes. This.
- 01/03/2014 09:11:19 PM
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Well, we split on that then - I most certainly do not support such an annexation.
- 01/03/2014 10:25:48 PM
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Any reason you keep misspelling Sevastopol?
- 02/03/2014 12:52:01 AM
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You write "the Ukraine", while calling me old-fashioned? 
- 02/03/2014 01:57:58 AM
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- 02/03/2014 01:57:58 AM
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Yes. Dropping "the" is an anti-Russian move. It will always be the Ukraine.
- 02/03/2014 02:58:32 AM
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Just because there's an article in Russian doesn't mean there has to be one in English.
- 02/03/2014 11:21:25 AM
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I say the Sudan and the Congo.
- 02/03/2014 02:17:33 PM
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You do? Why?
- 02/03/2014 03:21:56 PM
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- 02/03/2014 03:21:56 PM
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As with most analysis at the Guardian, I think it's wrong.
- 02/03/2014 05:00:20 PM
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This one from a former advisor of Reagan-Bush might be closer to your views
- 05/03/2014 09:01:13 PM
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" la Crimée vaut bien un tiramisu" - I liked that.
- 05/03/2014 11:06:55 PM
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Yeah, I laughed reading that too. The original piece in English was probably better...
- 06/03/2014 02:08:03 AM
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I don't think it's limited to Crimea. They will likely occupy Eastern Ukraine as well.
- 01/03/2014 09:08:56 PM
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its going to be hard to find support from the West
- 01/03/2014 06:37:15 PM
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Well, no one in Europe or the US has any direct interest here.
- 01/03/2014 09:13:36 PM
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*NM*
So what's your plan of action?
- 03/03/2014 11:25:59 PM
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My plan of action is to let Putin have Ukraine. We have no interests there. *NM*
- 04/03/2014 01:29:45 AM
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Ehem. Why are you being anti-Russian? ;-)
- 04/03/2014 01:25:37 PM
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Lack of space in a subject line that was the entire message. 
- 04/03/2014 02:21:49 PM
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- 04/03/2014 02:21:49 PM
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I watch дождь via etvnet.com. Lovely site for all Russian TV.
- 04/03/2014 08:23:58 PM
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I like their criticism of Putin generally, but I don't buy the "enemy of my enemy" position.
- 05/03/2014 11:39:15 PM
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Of course we do
- 04/03/2014 04:57:09 PM
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Wrong.
- 04/03/2014 06:04:31 PM
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that ignores the point
- 06/03/2014 02:01:09 PM
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No, it doesn't.
- 06/03/2014 02:57:16 PM
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Re: No, it doesn't.
- 06/03/2014 06:22:32 PM
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Yes, the US violated the agreement.
- 06/03/2014 07:27:23 PM
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I have answered your question but you have still refused to answer my point
- 07/03/2014 01:48:53 PM
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You assume that the Ukraine's borders should be inviolate.
- 09/03/2014 05:56:45 PM
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Russia signed an agreement to not violate those borders
- 10/03/2014 12:18:37 PM
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Yes, and we signed the UN Charter, but invaded Kosovo anyway. Your point?
- 10/03/2014 01:10:33 PM
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Oh, and now the West is talking about $15 billion in loans for Ukraine.
- 05/03/2014 11:41:12 PM
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And you see that as the same thing as sending in troops?
- 06/03/2014 01:37:28 PM
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I think you've listened to too much propaganda from the 1990s.
- 06/03/2014 03:06:18 PM
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More like the 80s
- 07/03/2014 01:50:43 PM
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So I guess traveling to Russia extensively is of no value.
- 09/03/2014 05:58:00 PM
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in this case no it doesn't.
- 10/03/2014 12:20:13 PM
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Right...do you understand how stupid that made you sound?
- 10/03/2014 01:11:34 PM
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Or alternatively, it made him sound as someone who was just referring to something else than you.
- 10/03/2014 08:14:00 PM
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Its a great time to throw some missiles in Poland
- 04/03/2014 03:43:24 AM
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at Poland *NM*
- 04/03/2014 08:09:14 PM
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*NM*
- 04/03/2014 08:09:14 PM
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In case you're not familiar with BMD
- 04/03/2014 11:13:06 PM
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*NM*
*NM*