The pipelines, this is about the pipelines, 36% of Germany's gas is from these pipelines 23% of Italy's, huge hard dollars to Putin. Yes the ports are an issue but he will not give up control of his cash cow.
I miss Has Blix, he could send a really scary note to Vlad to stop.
Putin playing chess Bambi playing checkers
63 posted on 02/28/2014 2:18:32 PM PST by crosslink
(Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)