Well, we split on that then - I most certainly do not support such an annexation.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 01/03/2014 10:25:48 PM
View original postWestern Ukraine let Eastern Ukraine know, in no uncertain terms, that they were going to "punish" Eastern Ukraine for having supported Yanukovich. This is SO FAR BEYOND Yanukovich right now. This is about the fact that the nation has been split for its entire tortured existence.
Yeah. You would think somebody would've had the brains to kill that motion and not alienate the Russophones even further than they already were. If the oligarchs really are running the show, they screwed up badly there. But it doesn't really look like anyone's running the show at the moment...
View original postOf course, I think that the easiest and best solution is the Russian one. I'm not exactly a fan of Putin but I do support annexing the Eastern Ukraine to Russia.
I don't. Sebastopol might make sense, if it remains an isolated case. But not the rest of the Crimea, nor the rest of Eastern Ukraine. It would set a horrible precedent and reward Putin for playing the neighbourhood pyromaniac - and in terms of forcing people (the Ukrainophones in the East, in this case, and the Tatars in the Crimea) to live in one state when they'd rather be living in another, it would probably be even worse than the current state of affairs, where at least the Russophonic Ukrainians are already used to living in an independent Ukraine.
What I do support would be a federal state with far-reaching authorities for the East, with needless to say the reinstallment of that law allowing Russian to be used as an official language on local levels. One could even argue that the Russophonic minority is so big as to make it necessary to accept Russian as an official language nation-wide.
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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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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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*
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*NM*
- 04/03/2014 08:09:14 PM
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In case you're not familiar with BMD
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