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Russia prefers France pay refund instead of delivering warships it ordered
Liveleak,com ^ | December 21, 2014; 10 minutes ago | unknown

Posted on 12/21/2014 7:29:27 AM PST by Patriot777

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=132_1419174652

Mistral Deal In Doubt: France Either Delivers Warships Or Give Moscow Refund, Says Russian Official

Sounds like Russia realizes buying French warships is not a good idea, but France is now stuck in EU sanctions which prohibits it from delivering the warships.

Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov has told Interfax that France must decide by the end of the year if it will deliver two mistral class warships or give Moscow a refund. He also reportedly said that the second option of a refund "might even be preferable."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: france; refund; russia; warships
Another hook in the jaw of Gog.
1 posted on 12/21/2014 7:29:27 AM PST by Patriot777
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To: Patriot777

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=132_1419174652


2 posted on 12/21/2014 7:30:07 AM PST by Patriot777 (Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
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Fraawnce probabley already spent the rubles on cheese and white flags.


3 posted on 12/21/2014 7:36:24 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Patriot777

Because they’ve run out of money.


4 posted on 12/21/2014 7:37:05 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do)
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To: Patriot777

If they paid in Euros, I hope they can request back the value of the euros in gold.

Not that I like Russia but it would be hilarious.


5 posted on 12/21/2014 7:47:19 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Patriot777

You don’t realize it much now, since the Royal Navy gave France such a licking, but France built some fine warships in the 18th and 19th centuries.


6 posted on 12/21/2014 7:51:12 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Patriot777

No tickee, no washee.


7 posted on 12/21/2014 7:53:01 AM PST by moovova
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To: MUDDOG
This also isn't new.

At the Turn of the Last Century Many of Russia's Battleships were French Built.

Everything that is old is new again.

8 posted on 12/21/2014 7:57:53 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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You don’t realize it much now, since the Royal Navy gave France such a licking, but France built some fine warships in the 18th and 19th centuries.

And 20th and 21st centuries.

9 posted on 12/21/2014 8:12:29 AM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: MUDDOG

Rate for Rate, French built sailing naval vessels were slightly faster than their British counterparts.


10 posted on 12/21/2014 4:40:02 PM PST by X Fretensis (How)
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