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Putin Eyes Full Merger with Belarus
The Christian Science Monitor ^
| December 10, 2007
| Fred Weir
Posted on 12/09/2007 6:15:26 PM PST by kc8ukw
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin may be about to unveil a political bombshell: a full-scale union between Russia and its smaller Slavic neighbor Belarus.
It's a plan that not only would expand Russia's territory and national prestige; it could also give Mr. Putin, required to step down when his second term ends in March, a new lease on power by producing a fresh Constitution.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: anschluss; belarus; merger; powergrab; putin; russia
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Important news, if true.
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:15:27 PM PST
by
kc8ukw
To: kc8ukw
Isn't this like a "merger" between Microsoft and Acme Software of Podunk, Iowa?
No disrepect for Belarus intended.
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:19:55 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: kc8ukw
Yeah this is big if true.
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:20:33 PM PST
by
MassachusettsGOP
(May the West and Republicans Always Win...)
To: kc8ukw
I hope Vlad at least has the common courtesy to offer the Belarusians a reacharound.
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:21:33 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(...R. Lee Ermey, a role model for us all.)
To: kc8ukw
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the sequel.
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:23:14 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Your "dirt" on Fred is about as persuasive as a Nancy Pelosi Veteran's Day Speech)
To: kc8ukw
And ya’ll thought the Soviet Union was dead........
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:24:01 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: kc8ukw
Seeing how the ruling dictator of Belarus is propped up by the Russian regime, such a marriage is only logical.
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:24:16 PM PST
by
Red6
(Come and take it.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder if this is the Revelation prophecy about the beast with the mortal head wound that everybody thought was dead, but came back to life?..........
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:25:31 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Red Badger
LOL
Some thought so.
And because it’s dead and buried and we don’t want a return to the “Cold War” like scenario we will just all ignore the reality today.
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:26:25 PM PST
by
Red6
(Come and take it.)
To: Red6
Russia's Mini Me.......
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:26:31 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Red6
...we will just all ignore the reality today.>/I> Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.........
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:28:31 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: kc8ukw
Hmm... Eerily similar to Hitler’s plan, what with the Czechs, Austrians, etc.. Not saying Putin=Hitler, but is sort of disturbing.
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:29:58 PM PST
by
onja
("The government of England is a limited mockery.") (France is a complete mockery.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:31:53 PM PST
by
onja
("The government of England is a limited mockery.") (France is a complete mockery.)
To: onja
Life imitates art..........
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posted on
12/09/2007 6:34:09 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: kc8ukw
Sorry to learn this. I know a couple from Belarus. They are ex-communists who came to this country right after the old USSR dissolved....the wife needed brain surgery and received it free of charge by some excellent American doctors. She fully recovered.
He spoke to my church .... I asked him how did communism take over in the USSR - he said, “We forgot God.”
I said is it possible the USSR could happen again, that communism could made a “comeback”....
He said, “There are fools in every country.”.
I pray he gets OUT of Belarus while he still can.
To: Red Badger
And ya’ll thought the Soviet Union was dead........This was all so foreseeable. It's horrible but if it finally put down the globalist fantasy of "The New World Order," that would at least be a silver lining.
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posted on
12/09/2007 7:14:57 PM PST
by
E. Cartman
(Huckabubba will never be president.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; Red Badger
How did that “merger” with Afghanistan work out back in ‘79?
To: RichInOC
I hope Vlad at least has the common courtesy to offer the Belarusians a reacharound. Actually if the Belarus people are smart they would jump on the deal considering that they are under a dictatorship right now.
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posted on
12/09/2007 7:56:39 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(False modesty is as great a sin as false pride.)
To: kc8ukw
First Belarus, can Ukraine be next?
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posted on
12/09/2007 8:04:52 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
To: kc8ukw
What’s this Czar Putin thing that CNN is pushing?
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