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Living Legend
Join Date: Aug 2008
Age: 58
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Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
Transcript of press conference with Putin. If he meant what he says, it ought to be easy to get things backed off the edge. Unfortunately, and I tend to think both the West and Russia are guilty in this aspect, once you encourage the extreme, you can't always rein it back in.
President of Russia I always remember the saying "revolutions consume their own", and I kinda think that's what we are seeing in Ukraine now. |
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Playmaker
Join Date: May 2012
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Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
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Russia already made one naked land grab on Crimea. The same pattern, and denials, are being made on eastern Ukraine now. |
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1) technically the current government is fairly illegitimate, meaning no votes have been held and they came to power not through an election but through popular revolt. 2) he tells the eastern federalists to hold off on their planned referendum (something the West asked him to do) Quote:
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Join Date: May 2012
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Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
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I really think Putin is going to try to take Odessa and other productive regions of Ukraine, the same way he sliced off parts of Georgia and Crimea. I think Ukraine has to worry more about Russians inside it's territory leading groups shooting down helicopters and separatist "federalization" mob attacks, than the Russian troops on the border. |
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