Ukraine and Russia event discussion

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i do know that poor taiwan would love to reclaim some territory since lost to russia

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lol

[Daddy]

I like how Taiwan claims a random part of a province in North Korea that The PRC does not itself claim.


also taiwan should shut up they belong to china 

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://live.aljazeera.com/Event/Ukraine_liveblog/110118340

ah, good old russian pseudodemocracy

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26680250

Finally.

if yanukovych had only signed this way back in november like he was supposed to, none of this would have ever happened

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then again, we probably would have found him buried in a ditch somewhere with polonium in his system some time later[/spoiler]

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also the irony here is that russia's annexation of crimea only made it even more likely for ukraine to crawl away from russia and seek closer ties with the west, because

1. putin removed 1.5 million pro-russian ukrainians from ukraine's voter base
2. ukraine now knows exactly to what lengths russia is willing to go to maintain its interests and is terrified it might strike again in the future (and it will), thus they ~need~ the support of the west asap to keep russia from destroying them (again) lol[/spoiler]

[Daddy]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26680250

Finally.

if yanukovych had only signed this way back in november like he was supposed to, none of this would have ever happened

[spoiler]

then again, we probably would have found him buried in a ditch somewhere with polonium in his system some time later[/spoiler]

[spoiler]

also the irony here is that russia's annexation of crimea only made it even more likely for ukraine to crawl away from russia and seek closer ties with the west, because

1. putin removed 1.5 million pro-russian ukrainians from ukraine's voter base
2. ukraine now knows exactly to what lengths russia is willing to go to maintain its interests and is terrified it might strike again in the future (and it will), thus they ~need~ the support of the west asap to keep russia from destroying them (again) lol[/spoiler]

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

Map updated.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0321/Moscow-rattles-Estonia-with-talk-of-concern-for-its-Russian-population

They really are ramping up the rhetoric on Estonia, huh...

[YPrrrr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

Map updated.

Unupdated? Russia doesn't have Crimea in link

[Kalahari Inkantation]

russia and ukraine's articles are possibly in the middle of an edit war as a result of recent events

but right at the very moment, russia's map has crimea shaded in light green and its total reported area has been increased

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.tvp.info/14506221/duma-do-polskiego-msz-podzielmy-ukraine

lol oh my god

tl;dr vladimir zhirinovsky, who according to sources is

[...]  a servant of Kremlin policy, used to float radical opinions to test public reaction.

sent a letter to the polish government proposing splitting ukraine between it, russia, and hungry hungary

Much like the clandestine Nazi German-Soviet collusion to jointly invade Poland and split it between the two of them just prior to WWII.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

[Kalahari Inkantation]

a fun read summarizing putin's ambitions: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/23/putin-s-dream-of-empire-doesn-t-stop-at-crimea-or-even-ukraine.html

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I told you guys.

IT'S HAPPENING[/spoiler]

[Kalahari Inkantation]

[spoiler][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq8U2doKyzI[/youtube][/spoiler]

literally retarded

this is exactly the type of behavior putin is hoping to provoke so that he can justify a full-on invasion

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/24/uk-russia-economy-idUKBREA2N13S20140324

[PLEASEHELP1991]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/24/politics/obama-europe-trip/index.html
G8 is now G7 lmao

[Kalahari Inkantation]

russia was always the outlier in the g8 anyway

it was only ever allowed to join the club when boris yeltsin was making some promising strides towards westernized democracy, but putin has been happily erasing all his valiant efforts since 2005