Coming to a country near you soon.
How many children have starved to death since the US imposed sanctions? Obama has blood on his hands...
This isn’t any news!! USSR operated this way for multiple years! Pretend to work - pretend to get paid economy.
He took Crimea, now he has to care for it.
Economies don't fare well under tyrannies...that's both East and now West.
The Ukraine is its path to European exports.
Russia tried to make an end run around Ukraine with the South Stream project, but costs have ballooned to $75B by some estimates.
Running roughshod over Ukraine is cheaper than building an expensive pipeline to nowhere.
Ukraine had three main points of access to the Black Sea: the Crimean peninsula, the mouth of the Dnieper and the mouth of the Dniester.
Russia now has Crimea. It is threatening the Dnieper in the east by massing troops, and it is threatening the Dniester in the west with its troops in Transnistria.
If it executes a pincers movement, the Ukraine will effectively be a landlocked country.
If the Ukraine tries to nationalize the Russian pipelines running through its territory in retaliation for aggression, they will hurt Russia, themselves and Europe.
Putin is playing a dangerous game and is betting that he can outlast any retaliation.
Like America, eh?
Sounds like Red Dawn version 2.
Reports are that Putin is worth $70 Billion dollars. If so, I’m pretty sure Russia will stay the course and not worry about the downside to Russian people. Remember that Putin worked for a many years in an organization that waged relentless war on the citizens of Russia. He’s immune to sympathy and pity for his fellow Russians. He’s as phony as Obama and as queer as his man boobs.
Finally a thread for all the Freepers who think Russia is a superpower and a major threat to Amerika.
Why would Putin and his cronies care about the Russian economy? It’s working for them. Look at any Democrat-run city in America.