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2014-11-17 Europe

Ukraine 'ready for total war' says Poroshenko

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Posted by Fred 2014-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 And, I suspect, so is Russia.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-17 02:48|| 2014-11-17 02:48|| Front Page Top

#2 So does this mean they have assembled the cores?

Posted by 3dc 2014-11-17 10:57|| 2014-11-17 10:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-11-17 11:18|| Front Page Top

#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|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-11-17 16:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-11-17 16:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-11-17 18:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-11-17 21:24|| Front Page Top

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