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Ex-Soviet states bicker as Putin tries to unite them
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/10/uk-ukraine-crisis-cis-idUKKCN0HZ1JR20141010 ^
| 10 Oct 14
| Ex-Soviet states bicker as Putin tries to unite them
Posted on 10/10/2014 10:50:43 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
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Blowhard superman, former KGB Colonel, and president-for-life Putin gets a dose of reality when he cannot prevent honest criticism of his idiotic ideas. Read and weep fawning Putinistas.
To: elhombrelibre
Belarus never stopped being USSR
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posted on
10/10/2014 10:52:06 AM PDT
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: elhombrelibre
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posted on
10/10/2014 10:54:43 AM PDT
by
StoneWall Brigade
(Howard Phillips Conservative)
To: elhombrelibre
The Eurasian Economic Union is a reality. Armenia just acceded.
It has a long way to go but a unified common market of 170 million people is nothing to sneer at.
Only the European Union is more populous and has been around for over half a century.
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posted on
10/10/2014 10:59:13 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: molson209
Yet it was in Belarus that the chants were.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:00:20 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
To: goldstategop
The Soviet Union was a reality too. Do you miss it?
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:01:06 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
To: elhombrelibre
If by unite, the author means conquer, they have a point.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:02:31 AM PDT
by
Ingtar
(The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
To: elhombrelibre
A minority of Belarusians want looser ties with Russia. For most of them though, Russia is a fraternal country, not surprising that Russian is the dominant language there.
The ties between the two countries are complicated somewhat like the special relationship between the UK and the US; between them, its embodied in the Union State.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:03:16 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Yeah, “complicated.” That’s one way to put the slave/master relationship that your KGB buddies enforced on the neighbors of Russia.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:05:18 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
To: elhombrelibre
The Soviet Union will not return. No one is talking about political integration and creating anything like the EU’s supranational political institutions.
This is purely an economic union, which is what the European Common Market originally was when it was founded in 1950.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:05:46 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: elhombrelibre
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:08:39 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
To: elhombrelibre
Ex-Soviet states bicker as Putin tries to unite them Re-assembling the old USSR with the aid of the commie in the white hut.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:09:47 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(I want a Speaker who'll stick that pen and phone where no one but Reggie Love can find it!)
To: goldstategop
Then you and Putin won’t mind if Russia’s neighbors choose not to enter this so-called economic union. Right? LOL. Yeah, right, ask the Ukrainians.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:10:58 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
To: The Sons of Liberty
That’s a tall order. Ukraine is gone and the rest of them jealously defend their national independence and sovereignty.
No one wants the Russians to assume the role of the Elder Brother. Putin’s vision has clear limits.
No body is joining the Eurasian Economic Union because they love Russia.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:12:21 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: elhombrelibre
They are not joining.
That’s exactly the point. Whether to be in the post-Soviet space is for each country to decide for themselves.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:13:41 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Yeah, right. Ask the Ukrainians.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:15:01 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
To: molson209
Lukashenko wanted to be where Putin is now.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:15:56 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
To: elhombrelibre
If you note, Poroshenko was not forced at gunpoint to travel to Minsk.
His country is free to do what it wants. Ask him if he’s in Brussels.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:16:56 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: dfwgator
He wanted to be President Of Russia but the Russians were cool to the idea.
The Union State has never had a presidency or unified Parliament.
Unity between Russia and Belarus is an elusive prospect partly because no one can agree on who should lead a unified country or what its policies are going to be.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:19:07 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Of course, the Russian troops in Ukraine are not a gun pointed at the Ukrainian people.
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posted on
10/10/2014 11:19:40 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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