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| Rape of Ukraine: Britain and E.U. 'Sleepwalked' Into Ukraine Crisis |
| 2015-02-20 |
| [NYTIMES] Britannia and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... made a "catastrophic misreading" of Russia and President Vladimir V. Putin and "sleepwalked" into the Ukraine crisis, treating it as a trade issue rather than as a delicate foreign-policy challenge, British politicians said on Friday in a scathing report. For too long, the European Union's relationship with Moscow had been predicated on the "optimistic premise" that Russia was becoming a democratic, law-abiding country, the report said, rendering member nations insensitive to the degree of Russian hostility toward European Union efforts to negotiate a closer political and economic relationship, known as an "association agreement," with Ukraine. European states "have been slow to reappraise the relationship and to adapt to the realities of the Russia we have today," the report said, and lack a long-term strategic response. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 OTOH TOPIX, WORLDNEWS > RAF FIGHTERS INTERCEPT RUSSIAN BOMBERS OFF CORNWALL. GUAM = CORNWALL, UK = Russian bombers were repor seen INLAND, not just only off or near the Coasts as claimed by London Officios. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BRITAIN WOULD "STRUGGLE" IN WAR WID RUSSIA, FORMER [UK Air] DEFENCE CHIEFS SAY. Where is the USAF-DOD in all this??? ------------------------ Back to the Ukraine ... * RUSSIA TODAY > PUTIN: NO EXTERNAL PRESSURE [ nor Foreign Military Superiority, Dominance] ON RUSSIA WILL GO UNCHALLENGED. RUSSIA = "AMERICA/CO-AMERICA IN EURASIA" HAS SPOKEN! Again, its notsomuch what OWG Co-Superpower Russia, etal, is doing, but how "Retreat is World/Global Peace", Anti-US US Globalist + mighty "red line" defender POTUS Obama responds. OR MORE ACCURATELY, HOW OBAMA DOES NOT RESPOND DELIBERATELY OR DETERMINATIVELY IN THE LEGIT DEFENSE OF US = US-ALLIED INTERESTS??? * JAPAN TIMES [repost]> PUTIN TRIES TO DEFLECT MUSLIM RAGE TOWARD HIS FOES AS JIHAD THREAT RISES IN RUSSIA. ARTIC > Caucasus Knot Chief Gregori Shvedev = "RUSSIA IS THE ISLAMIC STATE'S NEW TARGET ... THE PROCESS [ISIS = Islamic Militant attack/jihad agz Russia] HAS BEGUN". * TOPIX > [Examiner.com] RUSSIAN MEDIAS ADMITS REGULAR RUSSIAN TROOPS TOOK DEBALTSEVE. VERSUS * INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [Business Insider] RUSSIA [Fitch = bond credit rating] DOWNGRADE PAINTS A HORRIFIC PICTURE OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE. * TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > RUSSIA'S CREDIT RATING DOWNGRADED TO JUNK BY MOODY'S. WINNER/ADVANTAGE = HARD BOYZ + GLOBAL JIHAD. Iff Russia cannot borrow, she will be hard-pressed to salvage her economy = ergo will be hard-pressed to maintain or modernize her Armed Forces = National-Geopol Security = RUSSIA WILL BE HIGHLY VULNERABLE TO HARD BOY TERROR ATTACKS + INSURGENCY = RUSSIA'S NUKES WILL BE AT RISK OF FALLING TO THE HARD BOYZ. IFF NUKE-ARMED RUSSIA FALLS, NUKE-ARMED CHINA + INDIA, ETC. CAN FALL = USA ITSELF CAN FALL TO THE JIHAD. COLD WAR-ERA NOW GWOT, POST-9-11 "DOMINO THEORY" + "ZERO-SUM" GAME. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-02-20 21:16 |
| #4 OldSpook, names calling doesn't change basic facts. Russians responding to 2 decades of NATO aggression. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-02-20 16:57 |
| #3 Grom, a thug like Putin running a country mafia style is pretty obviously not a law abiding country. The Ukraine is merely the latest example of Putin's international goonery - go back to Georgia for a previous episode. Stop putting your lips to his ass long enough to think for yourself. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-02-20 16:54 |
| #2 And Britain and the EU loved Obama as well. Shows their judgement is pretty bad in general. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-02-20 14:34 |
| #1 that Russia was becoming a democratic, law-abiding country EU deciding what the law is? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-02-20 13:29 |