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In reply to the discussion: Peskov: Russia cannot persuade self-defense forces in east Ukraine to disarm [View all]ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)13. No, that won't work anymore. Never was going to work, or it actually was
the plan. Maybe, Putin is exactly where he wants to be. He was the one that called the meeting of the Security Council (maybe another should have done that). The sanctions upon Russia will be approximately useless. Because of NSA spying you having NATO stalwarts, like Germany, whose people favor Putin by 80 per cent. That was just posted here yesterday. A deal has to be reached soon, however, or there will be only one outcome. And preventing that outcome will cost a hell of a lot more than 17 billion from the IDF, plus whatever they can get from the "cash-rich" NATO countries.
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dipsydoodle
May 2014
OP
Since most of them are actually Russian, they should try ordering them back to their base.
7962
May 2014
#1
Yep, he's thinking like the past all right. But until someone stops him, it doesnt matter
7962
May 2014
#52
"Shooting back "Never said that." at a journalist isn't going to save you."
awoke_in_2003
May 2014
#57
Kremlin says it is weighing response to ‘thousands’ of pleas for help from Ukraine
muriel_volestrangler
May 2014
#6
One thing I would agree with Russia about is that elections in the next month can't mean anything
muriel_volestrangler
May 2014
#40
Russia should tell them "You're Ukrainian, and we're not going to annex you, so
TwilightGardener
May 2014
#7
Well, that's the interesting question: to what extent has the unrest in E. Ukraine been spontaneous?
bemildred
May 2014
#12
I think both sides are bluffing, though Putin is better placed to be doing that.
bemildred
May 2014
#33
Crossing the Border, Sir, Remains a Bigger Thing Than Deploying Troops Within One's Country
The Magistrate
May 2014
#58
Well, if you remember, Sir, that's what I said should happen after the Geneva agreement.
bemildred
May 2014
#59
What nonsense. You also insult the 8.7 million Red Army dead and their families.
stevenleser
May 2014
#61
"will run away just as their Nazi ally forebearers did when they encountered the Red Army."
EX500rider
May 2014
#62
Even Stalin's post war propaganda of the time didn't describe things that way
stevenleser
May 2014
#63
Keeping Bandera and other fascists leadership out of Soviet hands was not essential?
King_Rat
May 2014
#80
Did any of the responders to the OP actually read it, in the context of Ukrainian mobs burning
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#18
There is plenty of proof to show that both sides were violent and both sides lost people
davidpdx
May 2014
#56
It's pretty sad how blinded even so called liberals are by state propaganda.
SolutionisSolidarity
May 2014
#44
I thought it was funny. I think it's funny how all these folks showed up or reappeared at DU
okaawhatever
May 2014
#76
Nope. Advising and encouraging is not equivalent to armed invasion & annexation
stevenleser
May 2014
#67
Right, and after invading and annexing 3-5 territories in the last 15 years, if you believe that
stevenleser
May 2014
#68