News from Ukraine Conflict

[LongBlade]

only one thing for it then.

we need more global warming!

Pornographic statements like that should be banned on the internet.

Do you realize what Windy's going to do when he see you wrote that?

[GDS_Starfury]

the more he talks the C02 he releases.

[Windigo]

nothing will spur movement away from reliance on fossil fuels better than having to purchase it from your enemy ... unless you can buy it from a friend... Means more frakking in the US/Canada/UK.

[LongBlade]

This doesn't deal with Ukraine, but it does deal with Russia, and this seems to be the only active Russia thread ATM.

Vladimir Putin has been planning for the past decade a plan to spark a major war in the Baltic region, a former adviser to the Russian president said, with the invasion of Ukraine and capture of Crimea the first step.

Speaking at a conference in Lithuania, former presidential adviser Andrey Illarionov said Putin has been planning for a major war since at least 2003.

Illarionov referred to a 2008 article from Russian Journal that outlined a plan for Russia to attack Crimea, moving westward until the capital of Kiev was captured.

"As we see, not only were they preparing, they were publishing it," Illarionov said.

source: http://www.inquisitr.com/1501954/vladimir-putin-has-been-planning-world-war-3-for-the-last-decade-former-adviser-warns/

[Staggerwing]

Baltic Region? Last I checked Kiev was almost as far from the Baltic as Moscow or Sarajevo.

[BanzaiCat]

True, but I can see a renewed Russian interest in once again swallowing up the Baltic States. I pray NATO has the sense to start building now.

[GDS_Starfury]

The Brits voted yesterday mid day to bomb isil and theyre already running Tornados out of Cyprus as of this morning.  How fast would a NATO reaction be to a russian play on the Valyic states?

[Staggerwing]

The Brits voted yesterday mid day to bomb isil and theyre already running Tornados out of Cyprus as of this morning.  How fast would a NATO reaction be to a russian play on the Valyic states?

Valyic states? Is that some old-timey name for the place?

[GDS_Starfury]

Smart phone keyboard......  Baltic.   :P

[Gusington]

Would we here in the West care more about/have a more legit casus belli for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania than Ukraine? Sure they're NATO members but if the poo really hits the fan...are we going to defend the Baltics? I think Putin is betting that we won't.

[GDS_Starfury]

I think we will.  If we didnt Poland would go apeshit and theyve got Leopards.

[Barthheart]

We would have to or the alliance would fall apart and that would be too good fer them Ruskies.

[bob48]

This is some very uncomfortable reading for someone who lives on a little island just off the coast of France.

[bayonetbrant]

Smart phone keyboard......  Baltic.   :P

Aren't you the one that told me that a good craftsman never blames his tools?

[GDS_Starfury]

This is some very uncomfortable reading for someone who lives on a little island just off the coast of France.

Corsicans are a skittish lot.