Wonder what that cost, in bodies.
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| Ukraine 'ready for total war' says Poroshenko |
| 2014-11-17 |
| [Al Ahram] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claimed his country was "prepared for total war" as fighting continued Sunday around the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. After a week in which Kiev said several unmarked armoured convoys of troops crossed the Russian border to reinforce rebels in the east, Poroshenko toughened his rhetoric, telling the German daily Bild: "I am not afraid of a war with Russian troops." "We are prepared for a scenario of total war... We don't want war, we want peace and we are fighting for European values. But Russia does not respect any agreement," he said in an interview to be published Monday. He said Kiev was now better prepared to face a rumoured rebel offensive. "Our army is now in a better state than it was five months ago and we are being supported by the entire world," he told the paper. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 If Putin turns off the gas, the only bad thing that happens to him is that he delays monetizing some of his vast reserves of oil and gas. But what happens to Eastern Europe? Power plants start shutting down. Factories start closing down due to lack of electric power, people get sent home from work to sit in houses without lights and heat. People start dying from exposure sitting in their homes. How long does that last until power riots break out? The whole theory that turning off the gas will hurt Putin worse than it will hurt Europe sounds like Europe whistling in the dark. Fantasy land. |
| Posted by: DLR 2014-11-17 21:24 |
| #6 And in other news,..., the US is promising video of the Kazakhstan launch, Sunday. Wonder what that cost, in bodies. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-11-17 18:05 |
| #5 When Poroshenko says he's ready for total war, he means he's ready to break up pieces of Chernobyl and drop it on the Russians. Nothing else would make much of an impression, but dumping several tons of rubble from Chernobyl on Rostov would give Russia some severe heartburn. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2014-11-17 16:40 |
| #4 Putin won't turn off the gas. No gas sales means no money. He won't do that. |
| Posted by: badanov 2014-11-17 16:15 |
| #3 This is so pointless. Poroshenko has no cards in his hand worth playing, and neither does the EU. All Putin has to do is turn off the gas and oil and they're done. Obama wouldn't do anything if Putin invaded Nebraska, so the whole thing is just a farce, posturing for the voters back home to 'look tough'. Kabuki theatre through and through. |
| Posted by: DLR 2014-11-17 11:18 |
| #2 So does this mean they have assembled the cores? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-11-17 10:57 |
| #1 And, I suspect, so is Russia. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-17 02:48 |