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Infamous Snake Island—Symbol Of Ukrainian Resistance—Recaptured From Russia
Forbes ^ | 30 June 2022 | Brian Bushard

Posted on 06/30/2022 8:48:09 AM PDT by BeauBo

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To: BenLurkin; Ezekiel
Compare and contrast:

Block Island:

Snake Island:


21 posted on 06/30/2022 9:42:22 AM PDT by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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To: Daffynition

War is so stupid.


22 posted on 06/30/2022 9:44:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: central_va
End NATO. It is no longer serving any useful function.

Funny, Finland & Sweden suddenly find it 'useful'.

23 posted on 06/30/2022 9:44:25 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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Funny, Finland & Sweden suddenly find it 'useful'.

Good. Let the Euro trash make their own alliances. US out of NATO

24 posted on 06/30/2022 9:46:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Daffynition
But Snake Island has far more than a symbolic importance. Allow the Russians to establish facts-on-the-rocks there, and Ukraine would no longer be able to guarantee the freedom of sea lanes between the port of Odesa and the rest of the world. It's through Odesa that much of Ukraine's agricultural wealth travels to global markets. Ukraine's defense intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, said Friday that whoever holds Snake Island controls "the surface and to some extent the air situation in southern Ukraine."

"Whoever controls the island can block the movement of civilian vessels in all directions to the south of Ukraine at any time," Budanov added.

Snake Island has actually been fought over before, but only in the courts. Romania and Ukraine had a long-running territorial dispute over the island and the surrounding seabed, which may contain hydrocarbon potential.


25 posted on 06/30/2022 9:49:09 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: BenLurkin

“blowing up Russian islands”

There are only 3 “Russian islands” in the Black Sea and none of them have been “blown up”.


26 posted on 06/30/2022 9:52:18 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It’s hard to sink an island, true, but the Ukraine sure has blasted this one from stem to stern.


27 posted on 06/30/2022 9:53:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

“Which is why the shutting down of NATO has been a long term strategy of international communism for decades, even till today.”

It’s also been the long-term goal of many American leftists, as well as pro-Russia bots.


28 posted on 06/30/2022 10:37:16 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: central_va

“End NATO. It is no longer serving any useful function.”

I respectfully disagree. NATO was created in 1949 because the USSR was gobbling up Eastern European countries and forcing them into the Soviet sphere under Soviet domination, ala the “Iron Curtain.”

A lot of people think the creation of NATO was the reason the Soviets began taking over the Eastern European countries. However, the Soviet “Iron Curtain” began months before Nazi Germany’s final surrender in May, 1945; for instance, Romania surrendered to the USSR in August, 1944 and was wholly and uncontrollably occupied by the USSR and was absorbed into the Soviet orbit.

Today Russia is back to aggressively pursuing its territorial ambitions, and has been doing so for at least twenty years.


29 posted on 06/30/2022 10:57:53 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Not a Russian Island, and it’s recapture only means that Putin no longer expects to mount seaborne invasions. Not that big a deal.

"Yeah, those grapes were probably sour anyway," said the Fox.

Regards,

30 posted on 06/30/2022 11:05:16 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: BenLurkin

Because it was a Ukrainian island.


31 posted on 06/30/2022 11:45:05 AM PDT by grwcfl537
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To: tlozo; PIF; MercyFlush; dennisw; Zhang Fei; ought-six; UMCRevMom@aol.com; All

And I think Lithuania is expecially concerned since Russia is now trying to transport who knows what across it to that little Russian enclave on the Baltic sea. What mischief might Putin planning with a port of call on the Baltic and who knows what military measures secretly going there. My mother’s parents came from there in the 1890s when it was called East Prussia, so I am especially interested.


32 posted on 07/01/2022 3:12:40 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority)
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To: BeauBo

What a bunch of BS! SnakeI Island is just some stupid rock in the black sea. Good for nothing. Putin said why are we spending any money on that place? So he left. Ukraine didn’t have a damn thing to do about it. You lie so much…
.Snake Island has no strategic value. One well-placed missile would make it into gravel.
The best thing that ever happened to Ukraine was the Russian invasion. Get your facts straight before you lie to the public..


33 posted on 07/01/2022 3:59:57 PM PDT by rusureitflies? (Not much to say, yet..)
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To: rusureitflies?

“Putin said why are we spending any money on that place?”

Did he actually?

Or are you just imagining that?

“The best thing that ever happened to Ukraine was the Russian invasion.”

How about winning Eurovision?


34 posted on 07/02/2022 8:14:21 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

What the hell is Eurovision?


35 posted on 07/02/2022 11:38:49 AM PDT by rusureitflies? (Not much to say, yet..)
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To: rusureitflies?

“What the hell is Eurovision?”

A singing contest, like American Idol. That’s how the members of ABBA got together. The Ukrainian group won this year...


36 posted on 07/02/2022 1:03:37 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

R U serious? WW lll is around the corner and I am in some damp basement doing “bee-bop?”
I am appalled by the loss of life in Ukraine because our American government is greedy and extremely corrupt. Biden wants this war.
When millions of $$$ are sent to Ukraine and it comes back by”rat lines” to our corrupt government officials.
Check out Duran Duran, Patrick Lancaster, Moon of Alabama,, to find out what’s really happening.
Gas is cheaper in Russia.


37 posted on 07/03/2022 6:35:08 AM PDT by rusureitflies? (Not much to say, yet..)
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To: rusureitflies?

“R U serious?”

“The best thing that ever happened to Ukraine was the Russian invasion.”

You were unserious first…


38 posted on 07/03/2022 2:43:00 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

I apologize for saying you lie. What you read is otherwise. I do believe you think for yourself. And are skeptical when people tell you things.
HAPPY 4th of JULY 2022!


39 posted on 07/04/2022 5:46:34 PM PDT by rusureitflies? (Not much to say, yet..)
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To: rusureitflies?

“I apologize for saying you lie... HAPPY 4th of JULY”

That was kind of you - thanks.

A lot of people would not do it, but it is a wonderful thing to see.


40 posted on 07/05/2022 8:04:24 AM PDT by BeauBo
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