Yup. To quote Hans Solo: “I have a bad feeling about this.”
Russia is feeling very threatened. Countries have gone to war over lesser provocations.
Whether we believe it to be true or not - Russians believe the West, lead by the USA, are waging economic warfare on them.
to think they will fold quickly is a fantasy.
my spidey senses are tingling. Consider SHTF on a nation scale. You need food, can't afford to buy it, your neighbor has plenty.
Whachu gonna do, starve ?
Not much room in the market for more fiat money; China and India grabbed all the gold.
What's left ? Land. Other People's land.
“Russia is feeling very threatened. Countries have gone to war over lesser provocations.”
More accurately, the people who rule Russia are feeling very threatened. Making war to keep power is the danger.
We have a wounded wolf in Russia, a US Muslim sympathizor for Pres. welding power via post-it -notes, and a Eu teeting itself to find footing....all is good. /sarc.
That’s what they get for their lack of diversification.
Screw them!
“Yup. To quote Hans Solo: “I have a bad feeling about this.”
Russia is feeling very threatened. Countries have gone to war over lesser provocations.”
We live in a dangerous world. Evil is afoot; but I guess it always has been throughout history.
Amazing how a drop in energy prices back to levels of just 4 or 5 years ago can cause such disruption.
Will have to see. It seems like the news cycle goes pretty fast. Remember Ebola?
We were all going to die back in October; the media induced panic from that passed pretty quickly.
Hopefully Pooti poot can be back to just a curiosity ( a relatively harmless one)soon.
Russia has always felt threatened. They use it as an excuse.
If there is a war, it will come at a very inopportune moment with Obama as our warlord.
Whose side will he choose?
Russia annexed the Crimea in March when the price of a barrel of oil was over $100.
Who exactly again provoked whom?
Could it be that Vlad simply miscalculated?