Posted on 07/19/2023 12:30:09 PM PDT by AAABEST
The three ports that ring Odesa are Ukraine’s largest and include the only deepwater port in the country. Before the war, about 70 percent of Ukraine’s total imports and exports were carried out by sea, and nearly two-thirds of that trade moved through the ports of Odesa.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Good thing we sent all that money and gear, and are doubling down.
Doesn’t Ukraine mean borderland?
FAAFO, Ukies.
Odessa is gorgeous. I’d hate for it to be destroyed. I was fortunate to go there for three summers from 2008-2010. It was awesome.
“With Russia’s withdrawal this week from an internationally backed wartime agreement that allowed for Ukraine to ship grain across the Black Sea, much of it from Odesa, the city’s importance has again come into focus.”
The “world community” expects Ukraine to have unencumbered access to world grain and other commodity markets, but also to boycott everything Russian.
The dumb, rotten bastards want their cake, and to eat it too.
I’m surprised Russia ever agreed to begin with. And I encourage them to destroy all port facilities and to put every ship transiting to/from Odessa at risk.
Things started when Ukraine messed with the water supply to Crimea in 2014, cutting of 85% of their water supply.
Russia’s Crimean naval base is strategically vital to them.
Before the Maidan coup in 2013, Ukraine already had all it could have - a whole, united country, Crimea, trade with the whole world, open borders, independence
They had nothing to gain from confronting Russia - and the Ukraine people recognized that.
Regardless, NATO, DC Globohomo and their Ukraine cronies gambled Ukraine’s existence on the notion that they could expand to Russia’s borders, or even set-up Russia for color-revolution.
That bet was lost, and now Ukraine will be left with nothing.
Your prediction sucks, vatnik.
By the time NATO and DC are finished Ukraine will be the desolate, bankrupt ground zero of the new multi trillion dollar, generational Cold War arms race. Another North Korea. Under those circumstances the MIC and globalist oligarchs will be grifting more than ever. At least the Ukes will still have the sex trafficking trade.
Was that before or after Russia invaded Crimea? Asking for a friend.
Why was “The Odessa File” spelled with two ‘s’ and Odesa only one?
By the way “The Odessa File” is a good book if you haven’t read it or seen the movie. The book much better than the movie.
Given that Ukraine still maintains as a matter of policy that Crimea belongs to them, it casts them in an even worse light that they built a dam specifically designed to restrict water flow to their own people.
Ukrainian: Оде́са, romanized: Odesa
Russian: Оде́сса, romanized: Odessa
They spelled Odessa wrong.
That Russian naval base was there since 1783
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol_Naval_Base
In the dissolution of the USSR , Crimea was given to Ukraine, but Russia kept the base. Then Ukraine started playing games with the base water supply.
The headline is a gigantic “duh.”
It’s the only cheap way for them to ship grain.
More likely, Odessa will be in a demilitarized neutral buffer zone. Hopefully it will evolve into a free international port city-state like Singapore.
Russia could not invade Crimea since it has been Russian for hundreds of years, vatnik.
Friend must be as ignorant as you.
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