Russia can leave them high and dry whenever they please, due to Ukraines dependance on Russia's oil and gas. Good news.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eki
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Russia can leave them high and dry whenever they please, due to Ukraines dependance on Russia's oil and gas. Good news.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eki
Ukrainians have only themselves to blame, I agree. I visit Ukraine about four times a year and their country is totally disfunctional. We are not talking Ukraine, though. We are talking Russia and Russians' willingness to screw everybody given half a chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
On the gas maybe, the oil they can buy from everywhere else too, but im not sure enyone else would give it for free either.Quote:
Originally Posted by theugsquirrel
Though some are using case Ukraine as a proof of Russia screwing others when as you say Ukrainians have only themselves to blame.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz
That is something I won't argue with you I've been dealing with them enough to have noticed that as well :dozey:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz
I've not been to the Ukraine but from my week in Poland earlier this year Eastern Europe does seem a little like the Wild West :mark: I gather Poland is one of the better ones in the East as well.
Been to Poland many times, i think like you its one of the better, right behind Czech and Hungary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
That's why you shouldn't give them half a chance (just like you shouldn't give half a chance to the Americans). The Soviet Union owed Finland so much when it collapsed that it took the Russians until last year or so before they had paid all their debt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz
OMG we are going to lose Sarah Palin !! Well its ok if Cal AZ NM unite and we become Mexifornia
MOSCOW — For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media, who are interviewing him twice a day.
A polite and cheerful man with a buzz cut, Professor Panarin insists he does not dislike Americans. But he warns that the outlook for them is dire.
"There's a 55-45 percent chance right now that disintegration will occur," says Panarin. "One could rejoice in that process," he adds, poker-faced. "But if we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario — for Russia."
Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations.
Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces — with Alaska reverting to Russian control.
Me thinks the Russians will wait a while yet for the US to fall apart. America only looks confusing to those who refuse to see that that constant turmoil on the surface is America's strength. Of course...it is great fun for you guys to comment on...
If I look back in history I see that Europe took into account Russia's point of view even when oil wasn't an important resource. :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by gloomyDAY