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for Steve: More on obama"s Ukraine screwup

hypocritexposer

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I was going to add Steve, about the NG that you mentioned in the other thread. Russia ships about 85%? of their oil and 80%? of their NG to Europe.

they can't afford to shut it off...for long anyway. It's going to take a few yrs to get up and running with Ukraine's own NG, so once again, IMO, it would be best to come up with some sort of "tripartite" agreement.

Subsidized NG from Russia, until the shale fields are developed, with a Western company buying the pipelines from Russia. Russia is building more pipelines around Ukraine at present and there is still enough pipeline capacity to allow them to retain ownership on a few in Ukraine...

...now, how to keep obama's nose out of there for 3 more yrs? He's a rabble rouser, or I guess he calls himself a community disorganizer


And it is Obama's State Department, principally in the person of Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, that fatally overplayed its hand in the run-up to last month's second Ukraine revolution. Nuland's infamous "f**k the EU" comment revealed the extent to which Washington was recklessly maneuvering to undermine Ukraine's elected pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, by backing the Kiev street protesters' demands.

The EU had wanted to take things more gradually, for fear of provoking the very Russian reaction to which the U.S. now so strongly objects. When the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland, acting for the EU, negotiated a compromise agreement on February 22 that envisaged early elections, the crisis appeared to have been defused. Russia did not like the deal, but seemed ready to go along.

But within 24 hours, the opposition had torn up the agreement. It forced Yanukovych from power and sacked the government. To alarm in Moscow, where nightmarish World War II memories linger, Ukrainian neo-fascists were among those who seized control. They are now part of the new government in Kiev.

The U.S. almost immediately gave its blessing to what the Kremlin later described as a "coup d'etat" while the EU, knowing this was what Washington wanted, just looked on. Little wonder the Russians were furious at what they saw as a western double cross.
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Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, reflected these worries when he voiced "most serious concern" over Ukraine in phone calls to the French, German and Polish foreign ministers. "The opposition not only has failed to fulfil a single one of its obligations but is already presenting new demands all the time, following the lead of armed extremists and pogromists whose actions pose a direct threat to Ukraine's sovereignty and constitutional order,'' Lavrov said. But it was already too late.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/opinion/putin-western-hypocrosy/index.html
 

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