Putin, arse, elbow
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Grow up.
Thanks, at last a properly punctuated post.
If all you can do is post insults it's about time you did.Thanks, at last a properly punctuated post.
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I said that your written English is poor. That might be insulting, but it is definitely correct. It makes your point (s?) hard to understand.
But you're not that interesting, so we can move on.
Another flight of fancy.
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Ukraine didn't need a particularly critical eye to "look bad" before the invasion! A mess - a bloody one.
Not many of us were particularly interested in the country, which was just another one with some fighting going on in the corner.
Crimea should have been a wake-up, in hindsight. For Ukraine of course it was, as their army shows.
There had been a number of referenda/votes in the area, all rigged. We see it suggested that, Putin may be trying to repeat.
Years back it was accepted wisdom that the USSR needed grain imports, from eg USA, so had to watch itself somewhat.
It appears Pootin saw that, put it right and realised whom to use to build dependance on his oil. The history with Schröder is salutory.
Germany's naivety, we could say gullibility, is notable. Ironic that they were concerned about some of their supply being piped through Ukraine.
Unfortunately, recent oil price vacillations are preventing the usual producer-response to a supply squeeze. Nobody wants the price dropping so they aren't pumping more. Biden is releasing some from reserves, but I imagine oil producers in the US are Republicans, on the whole.
Have I Got News For You, 2014:
Edit: Pootn will be cross about Lithuania.
Not many of us were particularly interested in the country, which was just another one with some fighting going on in the corner.
Crimea should have been a wake-up, in hindsight. For Ukraine of course it was, as their army shows.
There had been a number of referenda/votes in the area, all rigged. We see it suggested that, Putin may be trying to repeat.
Years back it was accepted wisdom that the USSR needed grain imports, from eg USA, so had to watch itself somewhat.
It appears Pootin saw that, put it right and realised whom to use to build dependance on his oil. The history with Schröder is salutory.
Germany's naivety, we could say gullibility, is notable. Ironic that they were concerned about some of their supply being piped through Ukraine.
Unfortunately, recent oil price vacillations are preventing the usual producer-response to a supply squeeze. Nobody wants the price dropping so they aren't pumping more. Biden is releasing some from reserves, but I imagine oil producers in the US are Republicans, on the whole.
Have I Got News For You, 2014:
Edit: Pootn will be cross about Lithuania.
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Saddam was a very good customer of the Russian arms industry
mind you the Russian air defence weapons they bought from Russia turned out to be a pile of poo in desert storm
no surprise there tbh
Likewise I too often struggle with your sentences seeming to be incompletely formed John. I have avoided commenting on them assuming you might have an issue.
Japan and Russia have been in dispute over the Kuril Islands since the end of the Second World War
which has prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending war time hostilities
Russia siezed the islands in the last days of the Second World War
Japan has joined the west in sanctions which Russia has reacted to with anger (?) and has with drawn from peace treaty talks
Russia has been conducting military exercises and military drills on the island(s)
which has prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending war time hostilities
Russia siezed the islands in the last days of the Second World War
Japan has joined the west in sanctions which Russia has reacted to with anger (?) and has with drawn from peace treaty talks
Russia has been conducting military exercises and military drills on the island(s)
Slightly different take on money
"[He] has been acting for many years now only as a businessman, and we should stop seeing him as an elder statesman, as a former chancellor," said Saskia Esken, one of two co-leaders of the SPD.
"He earns his money with work for Russian state companies," she told Deutschlandfunk radio, adding that Schröder "should" leave.
The 78-year-old is chairman of the supervisory board of Russian state energy company Rosneft and also has been involved with the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline projects.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/04/25...cellor-urged-to-quit-party-over-russian-links
I've read that Merkel was against it. Probably on the wiki concerning gas pipes. Her objection didn't go down well. Hindsight is one thing, Russia was open for business and a number of European states went that way. The UK - we had our own. The general feelings seems to be that Germany will do their best to solve the problem. Made more difficult it seems by getting out of nuclear but I've never looked into that myself. Their green party may have something to do with that. Beware, maybe they will get seats here at some point. Some greens do see nuke as bad but they do have their advantages.
Maybe the nuke industry is paying them
The Russians took an opportunity to take that island when the Japanese retreated from Manchuria, forcing soldiers and civilians alike onto any boats they could find...the rest drowned or were simply gunned down. It's one of the war's little known events that was plainly mass murder.
I think they're still arguing over provenance of Sakhlin Island, too.
There is a run down on the Kuril Islands dispute here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute
It's murky and mentions millions of soldiers facing each other at the Manchurian border that turned into an invasion by Russia. Part of the plot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute
It's murky and mentions millions of soldiers facing each other at the Manchurian border that turned into an invasion by Russia. Part of the plot.
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It's BORDER! A "boarder" is a person!
Use of nukes came up in some questions to a panel of various people. This group was mentioned. The first link is mentioned in the 2nd
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live...15-22-intl/h_26c543c795a3eede642ae7284351eaab
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/24/politics/us-planning-on-how-to-counter-putin/index.html
Moldova was mentioned early on due to containing this. It seems this area was the Russian's 14th army headquarters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobasna_ammunition_depot
Now the 2nd mention of fires in Russia not far from their border. Still no information on how these happened.
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live...15-22-intl/h_26c543c795a3eede642ae7284351eaab
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/24/politics/us-planning-on-how-to-counter-putin/index.html
Moldova was mentioned early on due to containing this. It seems this area was the Russian's 14th army headquarters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobasna_ammunition_depot
Now the 2nd mention of fires in Russia not far from their border. Still no information on how these happened.
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