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Merkel: Ukraine can go to Eurasian Union (i.e. Putin’s new USSR)
EU Observer ^ | 25.08.14 @ 13:25 | Valentina Pop and Andrew Rettman

Posted on 08/25/2014 1:26:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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1 posted on 08/25/2014 1:26:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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Sounds a lot like throwing Ukraine under the bus.


2 posted on 08/25/2014 1:32:50 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Olog-hai

Sometimes it’s best to keep your yap shut Merkel.

The Ukraine doesn’t need comments from the peanut gallery.


3 posted on 08/25/2014 1:33:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s easy for her to say because she knows it will never happen.


4 posted on 08/25/2014 1:34:39 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Olog-hai

Germany is the last nation on earth to be giving other nations permission to do this or that.The Soviet Union is the next to last.


5 posted on 08/25/2014 1:36:00 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party policy;Lie,deny,refuse to comply)
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To: SES1066

Paging Neville. chamberlain


6 posted on 08/25/2014 1:37:35 PM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s more of a choice than Van Rompuy offered when he said they would be EU whether they want it or not.


7 posted on 08/25/2014 1:38:50 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: SES1066
Up, von Ribbentrop-Molotov all over again.

She's essentially giving Putin everything he wants:

a) 'Decentralization' means phony 'republics' that will just be annexed to Russia like Ossetia was from Georgia;

b) a 'truce' means Russia will simply move troops directly into eastern Ukraine without opposition.

The Ukrainians may just say, 'screw you', but more politely. Or even better, get together with the Poles and suddenly find 'technical' difficulties delivering gas to Germany.

8 posted on 08/25/2014 1:39:52 PM PDT by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: DoughtyOne

Listen to this interview and you will get what is happening.

This guy worked inside Reagan White House.

You can check his creds at linked in.

http://www.wibc.com/blogs/garrison/segments-interviews/bruce-alan-johnson-saudis-are-backing-isis

He also talks about Ukraine. You could be shocked.


9 posted on 08/25/2014 1:42:15 PM PDT by dforest
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Bkmrk


10 posted on 08/25/2014 2:02:21 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: Olog-hai

btt


11 posted on 08/25/2014 2:10:26 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SES1066
Sounds a lot like throwing Ukraine under the bus.

That's certainly what the headline sounded like, but her actual statement sounded perfectly reasonable.

“And if Ukraine says ‘we are going to the Eurasian Union now’, the European Union would never make a big conflict out of it, but would insist on a voluntary decision,”

12 posted on 08/25/2014 3:13:05 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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Ukrainians have spoken decisively with their blood they favor Europe over Russia. Who in their right mind would want any connection with Russia who kills you...invades you, when they don’t get what they want?


13 posted on 08/25/2014 3:37:21 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: SES1066

Ukrainian people would rather join Europe, they see Russia as enemies and bullies and occupiers now. Hard to believe Merkel would be pushing them to subjugate themselves to Tsar Putin


14 posted on 08/25/2014 3:41:49 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: pierrem15

Maybe some of these countries between EUSSR and Soviet Russia should create their own union, Ukraine and Georgia can be the launchpad.


15 posted on 08/25/2014 3:43:05 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: free_life

I was under the impression that they favored independence over being subjugated by either “Europe” or Russia.


16 posted on 08/25/2014 4:03:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: free_life

If it was so decisive the Crimean succession would not have worked. Apparently Ukrainians hold the ethnic Russians are at odds.


17 posted on 08/25/2014 4:11:02 PM PDT by IDFbunny
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To: Olog-hai

Ukraine sees being aligned with Europe not Russia as the way to have independence. Ukrainian hatred of Russians goes back hundreds of years and is well deserved. Who have Russians ever treated well? Where have Russians ever promoted freedom? No one and no where! Russians are curse on the earth.


18 posted on 08/25/2014 4:55:36 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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Crimea was taken by military strength and lies.


19 posted on 08/25/2014 4:56:46 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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If that’s how they see it, then they’ve been had. The EUSSR is not about independence; that’s why their constitution (in the form of the Treaty of Lisbon) insists on “ever closer union between the peoples of Europe”, which means surrendering national sovereignty and national identity (in an echo of the USSR’s attempt to create a “Soviet people”).


20 posted on 08/25/2014 5:12:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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