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Georgia: [Ukraine] blockade threat risks escalating conflict
The Times ^ | 8/14/2008 | Tony Halpin

Posted on 08/13/2008 8:29:59 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

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To: bruinbirdman

sounds like Yushchenko plans to go down swinging...can’t blame him after they poisoned him during the election a while back


101 posted on 08/14/2008 2:05:37 PM PDT by AprilfromTexas
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To: rjp2005

...never hurts to be prepared...it’s why I carry a firearm


102 posted on 08/14/2008 2:07:27 PM PDT by AprilfromTexas
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I think it has to do with freedom. These people and those in Iraq have now tasted freedom and a bit of the good life. WHen you take it away from them, they will fight to the death to maintain it.

I think if the peoople of Iran once again regain this, the same will happen there too. People will rise up against the Mullahs.

This really came as something good in a way. Russia was threatening to put strategic bombers in Cuba. NO FRIGGIN WAY NOW. Not one American, except Obama, will allow that to happen and in fact would probably be all for us taking control of that country.

This whole thing is over Georgian oil. Pure and simple...


103 posted on 08/14/2008 2:25:06 PM PDT by nikos1121 (The first black president of the US should be at least a "Jackie Robinson.")
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

I’m wondering if Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are the goal, then they have the land bridge to connect with Iran (their politicl ally for the last decade) and control of huge oil and natural gas reserves/pipelines etc all the way into the middle east to the Strait of Hormuz...pretty easy to have the world by the balls if you control that much of the worlds energy sources.

As for the before mentioned nuclear capacity...I suspect they would have their minions in Iran deliver the nukes so as not to leave that footprint for repercussions (along the lines of mutually assured destruction)...just a thought


104 posted on 08/14/2008 2:38:18 PM PDT by AprilfromTexas
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To: bruinbirdman
This with Musharaff (sp) being forced out of Pakistan, and we are heading for one heck of a war.
105 posted on 08/14/2008 4:31:52 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: kc8ukw
At least with European help.

I wouldn't even bet the gum under my desk on that proposition.
106 posted on 08/14/2008 5:38:23 PM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: BurbankKarl
She said she persuaded the soldier not to touch her daughter Nino (pictured in front with her face covered).

My God, I hope that is true.....but it sounds (and looks) like they are hiding ugly facts and they are in shock.

Amid promise of peace, Georgians live in terror (Russian Militia Accused of Rape and Looting)


107 posted on 08/14/2008 6:12:23 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")
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To: bruinbirdman

Intersting Article(can’t trust soviets though):

Ukraine began military training against Russia in the Crimea

http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://evrazia.org/n.php%3Fid%3D3089&usg=ALkJrhgDNuGA5quy-QNcWaovNZT9qLmOLw


108 posted on 08/14/2008 7:17:50 PM PDT by Tramonto (Regime change in Russia)
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To: SkyPilot

I thought the same thing.


109 posted on 08/14/2008 8:42:37 PM PDT by redstateconfidential (A man who lets his friends down, is no man at all.)
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To: Tramonto

The Ministry of Propaganda and Truth seems to be in full swing over in Moscow..


110 posted on 08/14/2008 8:45:04 PM PDT by redstateconfidential (A man who lets his friends down, is no man at all.)
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To: Tramonto
Interesting "Eurasia" source. In Russian?

yitbos

111 posted on 08/14/2008 10:21:17 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
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To: bruinbirdman

I translated it with google from Russian. I haven’t seen any articles about Ukraine preparing for war with Russia. It could be that the soviets are preparing the ground work to claim that Ukraine started a conflict in Crimea. Hopefully not though.


112 posted on 08/14/2008 10:46:07 PM PDT by Tramonto (Regime change in Russia)
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To: bruinbirdman

There is a recurring problem with alliances though. The junior partner tends to be more reckless and tends to pull the big players into conflict with each other. Serbia is the reason Russia got into WWI and subsequently descended into a 70-year communist nightmare.


113 posted on 08/15/2008 8:26:15 AM PDT by dr_who
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To: bruinbirdman

Putin's Kremlin is a direct threat to global freedom & economic stability.

114 posted on 08/16/2008 3:40:33 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is not 'free'.)
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To: inkling

Thanks for the great map.


115 posted on 08/16/2008 8:13:20 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Nope. cover organizaion of code Pink. Cindy sheehan is running on their ticket.


116 posted on 08/16/2008 8:17:06 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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To: gaijin

How very interesting. I had not noticed the NATO Black Sea exercises just so recently. hmmmm.


117 posted on 08/16/2008 8:17:41 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: PanzerKardinal

Great quote from Theodore Roosevelt. Thanks. I will share it with my peace-loving friends.


118 posted on 08/16/2008 8:22:41 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: PanzerKardinal

WOW, what a great speech by Churchill. We just got the 4-part DVD series on him. It is so inspiring. I highly recommend it.


119 posted on 08/16/2008 8:27:11 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: pankot
For what it’s worth, Kiev was the Capitol of Old Russia.
No. It was the capitol of the Kievan Rus, which was a collection of feudal cities. Most of these were ruled by members of the Rurikid dynasty. Ukraine and what would become Russia when their seperate ways after the Mongol invasion. in the 15th century, Moscow began to dominate the former Rus cities under the Mongol yoke. Knyaz (Grand Prince) Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) unified and took over areas dominated by the Golden Horde like the Khanate of Kazan. This is when Ivan the Terrible became the first Czar. Ironically, the brutal and deranged tyrant killed his healthy son Ivan Ivanovich, in a fit of paranoid rage. This left Feodor, the quiet retarded one. Czar Feodor 1 was ineffective and was the second and last of the Rurikid dynasty. The Rus is the predecessor of Russia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia. Kiev, not Moscow is it heart.
120 posted on 08/16/2008 9:03:39 AM PDT by rmlew (I stand with Georgia against the Kremlin's Russian irredentism and Soviet revanchism.)
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