Well, personally I'm flattered that a little bit of bad weather over here
in England has led to so many world politicians showing interest in Uk
rain. Our own troops are already helping with sandbags etc., but I heard
Pootin even wants to send tanks - presumably to put all the excess water
in?
Head-in-sand(bag) Jez
On 2 March 2014 16:00, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I am no fan of Putin. But I am no fan of Ukrainians either, with
> their Nazi past and history of pogroms etc. So basically we have two
> nasties fighting each other.
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> Russia did not invade Ukraine. They were already on the Crimea peninsula
> under an agreement made when the Soviet Union broke up. The majority of the
> people there are Russian. In fact, Crimea was part of Russia until some
> time in the 1950s when it was administratively moved to the Ukrainian
> Soviet Republic, as it was then. So I am pretty sure that Russia will annex
> Crimea and the West will not (and should not) do anything about it.
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> As for the rest, I am no Sarah Palin so I will refrain from making
> predictions.
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> Nathan
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> On Mar 2, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
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> > Looks like we're heading for a major crisis:
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> > http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26405635
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> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-prime-minister-russia-had-no-reason-to-invade/
> >
> > and this doesn't help:
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> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-palin-on-russian-action-in-ukraine-told-you-so/
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> > Chris
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> > When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
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