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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #100 on: May 28, 2014, 04:02:39 PM »
#44 View from the morgue.



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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #101 on: June 07, 2014, 08:35:06 PM »
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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #102 on: June 16, 2014, 09:01:57 AM »
Uncle Vova at the Lviv Chocolate Factory on 3 Serbskaya Boulevard

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Re: Crater Tour of Slavyansk
« Reply #103 on: June 27, 2014, 07:27:44 PM »
Crater Tour of Slavyansk

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #104 on: June 27, 2014, 09:25:35 PM »
I wonder if she is even alive

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #105 on: July 09, 2014, 08:03:32 AM »
Simon in the cellar again



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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #107 on: July 16, 2014, 07:49:38 PM »
on the hunt with the little black men



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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #108 on: July 17, 2014, 01:14:17 AM »
The fat policeman reminds me of Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons!

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #109 on: August 23, 2014, 06:28:45 PM »

Born: February 8 , 1995 age 19


Russian soldier captured in Ukraine:

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The titled on his VK page: I want to marry



Where is the win win?  Tell us now this is not an invasion

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #110 on: September 02, 2014, 04:31:24 PM »
View from Novoazovsk


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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #111 on: September 02, 2014, 08:10:10 PM »
Escape from Ilovaiskaya


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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #112 on: September 06, 2014, 08:31:11 PM »
Working the night watch out of Mariupol



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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #113 on: September 06, 2014, 08:56:30 PM »
You have an active 5th column in the government, corruption and unreliable allies.  It is a miracle things have held up this long.

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #114 on: September 17, 2014, 09:20:30 PM »
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Russia could go even further in Ukraine with the "frozen conflict" strategy it has tried and tested in other countries, and may even end up annexing around half of Ukrainian territory, analysts say.

Kiev has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to "take the entire Ukraine", a scenario that several experts can picture, believing that the Kremlin is set on a military solution.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Saturday that Putin's aim was not just to annex the separatist regions of Donetsk and Lugansk but to eliminate Ukraine as an independent country.

Western countries accuse Russia of having sent more than 1,000 soldiers to fight in Ukraine alongside pro-Kremlin rebels, a charge which Moscow denies.

Since a ceasefire between Kiev and the rebels on September 5, a swathe of territory on the Russian border, from Lugansk to the Sea of Azov, remains outside Ukrainian government control.

Several analysts said Russia is already carving out a mini-state which would allow it to keep up the pressure on Kiev, as it has done in Georgia, where Moscow backed two separatist republics in the conflict there in 2008, and in Transdniestr, the Moldovan region where the Kremlin has also backed separatists.

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Monday that the "long-term ambition of Russia is to establish a zone of influence in its near neighbourhood" and stop bordering countries from joining alliances such as the EU or NATO.

And some analysts believe Putin -- who has taken to using the tsarist-era term Novorossiya, or New Russia, to describe parts of Ukraine -- has ambitions that go much further still.

"How far Russia will go in southern Ukraine depends mainly on calculations in the Kremlin: How many casualties are acceptable? How much damage to relations with the West can be sustained?" said Ulrich Speck, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Europe think-tank in Brussels.

"And can territory that has been conquered actually be administered under Russian control, or will it be subject to an endless partisan war?"

Researchers from the Warsaw-based Polish Institute of International Affairs expect Ukraine's pro-Russian rebels to mount a new offensive against government forces this winter and have been war-gaming the most likely scenarios.

The most probable outcome, they say, is Russian intervention in late October to ensure a land corridor 300 kilometres long and 50 kilometres wide (180 miles long by 30 miles wide) to guarantee energy and food supplies for Russian-annexed Crimea.

A second scenario that is "30 percent likely" is that Russia could proclaim the creation of "Novorossiya" in the southern half of Ukraine, supported by 50,000 to 70,000 Russian soldiers, and linking Moldova's Transdniestr to Crimea, they say.

The Ukranian economy would be devastated by any such move, which would cost the country seven seaports including Odessa as well as two nuclear power stations, with an estimated loss of 27 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

Around one million people live in the region in question.

The gloomiest scenario involves a complete partition of the country with 100,000 Russian troops controlling the industrial east.

"All of these are realistic. It depends on the timescales," Giles Keir of the Chatham House think-tank in London told AFP.

The Royal United Services Institute, a British military think-tank, has long warned of similar scenarios, saying that Russia's huge arms industry depends on Ukraine for 30 percent of its essential components, particularly for aircraft and missiles, which might tempt Moscow to intervene.

Keir said Putin held the advantage because of his "strategic patience" -- largely because Western democracies must worry more about domestic political cycles.

"Russia does things while people are looking away," for example the invasion of Georgia during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he said.

"The initiative is entirely in their hands."

http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/far-putin-prepared-ukraine-001327926.html
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After the fall of communism, the biggest mistake Boris Yeltsin's regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. Instead it changed its name to the FSB and, to many observers, morphed into a gangster organisation, eventually headed by master criminal Vladimir Putin. - Gerard Batten

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #115 on: September 17, 2014, 09:52:08 PM »
Without sufficient arms and other support from the West, how could this be stopped?

"A second scenario that is "30 percent likely" is that Russia could proclaim the creation of "Novorossiya" in the southern half of Ukraine, supported by 50,000 to 70,000 Russian soldiers, and linking Moldova's Transdniestr to Crimea, they say.

The Ukranian economy would be devastated by any such move, which would cost the country seven seaports including Odessa as well as two nuclear power stations, with an estimated loss of 27 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

Around one million people live in the region in question."

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #116 on: September 18, 2014, 08:20:20 AM »
Without sufficient arms and other support from the West, how could this be stopped?



Just minutes ago Poroshenko addressed Congress in D.C. He will meet then meet Obama, Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and House Speaker John Boehner. Since our government is giving Poroshenko this level of attention and time to see him, I think our support for Ukraine will increase.
Fund the audits, spread the word and educate people, write your politicians and other elected officials. Stay active in the fight to save our country. Over 220 generals and admirals say we are in a fight for our survival like no other time since 1776.

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #117 on: September 18, 2014, 10:06:43 AM »
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Kiev has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to "take the entire Ukraine", a scenario that several experts can picture, believing that the Kremlin is set on a military solution.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Saturday that Putin's aim was not just to annex the separatist regions of Donetsk and Lugansk but to eliminate Ukraine as an independent country.
BS and  Yatsenyuk  knows it. He is bluffing

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #118 on: September 18, 2014, 10:08:44 AM »
I believe what Yatseniuk means is Putin wants Ukraine to be aligned with Russia, rather than choosing its own course.  Events indicate that is accurate, down to Russia requesting a say in how Ukraine conducts its foreign relations.
After the fall of communism, the biggest mistake Boris Yeltsin's regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. Instead it changed its name to the FSB and, to many observers, morphed into a gangster organisation, eventually headed by master criminal Vladimir Putin. - Gerard Batten

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #119 on: September 18, 2014, 11:37:04 AM »

Just minutes ago Poroshenko addressed Congress in D.C. He will meet then meet Obama, Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and House Speaker John Boehner. Since our government is giving Poroshenko this level of attention and time to see him, I think our support for Ukraine will increase.

Too little too late.  Come late fall, early winter look for Putin to make his move.  I am sure he is delighted that the USA and other Western powers are deeply distracted by ISIS.
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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #120 on: September 18, 2014, 01:44:40 PM »

....I think our support for Ukraine will increase.



Yes, but we will not give Ukraine "lethal" aid.  Why?  The White House does not believe the conflict can be resolved by military force.

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #121 on: September 18, 2014, 02:18:22 PM »

Yes, but we will not give Ukraine "lethal" aid.  Why?  The White House does not believe the conflict can be resolved by military force.
If indeed they refrain from arming or getting involved they  would be making the right calculation as it pertains to this situation. 

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #123 on: November 07, 2014, 07:12:46 PM »
Donetsk

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Re: Putin Can't Stop
« Reply #124 on: November 07, 2014, 09:24:59 PM »
Thanks for posting again.  Our journalist hero has returned.     :clapping:
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