Ukraine and Russia event discussion

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vladimir-putin-wants-regain-finland-says-close-adviser-1442466

literally lol'd

[spoiler]

illarionov may be a nutcase, but putin said himself years ago he'd be "interested" in having finnistan "join" the neosoviet eurasian union

good luck with that russia lmao[/spoiler]

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/03/29/world/europe/29reuters-ukraine-crisis-un.html?ref=reuters

i giggled

what a non-surprise

and yet even with that, they still only managed to get the dregs of the world on their side rofl (though i'm sure it managed to sway a few would-be yea votes to abstentions)

Looks like there's a limit to Russia's bullshittery even among its closest puppets.

[Commander Fuckass]

http://bbc.com/news/world-asia-26815041#TWEET1086222


Wooooooooo

[PLEASEHELP1991]

http://bbc.com/news/world-asia-26815041#TWEET1086222


Wooooooooo

wrong thread

[ME##]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/31/ukraine-darth-vader-president-internet-party

please let him win.  this would make this even more amazing

[Kalahari Inkantation]

lolukraine

[ME##]

lolukraine

do you think they'd have to pay jorge lucas royalty fees?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i'm not sure they could afford it

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/21/us-ukraine-crisis-lithuania-idUSBREA2K1HP20140321

oh shit OH SHIT

Sounds like Russian Lithuanians could use a bit of Putinistic liberation.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140401/ukraine-agrees-host-nato-war-games

WOOOOOOOOOO

i never thought i'd see anything like this outside of my dreams

[spoiler]

now, like putin has been saying all along (note the dates on the sources below), we wait for him to tear this beautiful relationship apart

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin allegedly declared at a NATO-Russia summit in 2008 that if Ukraine joined NATO his country could contend to annex the Ukrainian East and Crimea.

President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia could aim nuclear missiles at Ukraine if its neighbor and former fraternal republic in the Soviet Union joins the NATO alliance [...]

[/spoiler]

[spoiler]http://boyah.net/forums/index.php/topic,62947.msg1392619.html#msg1392619
http://boyah.net/forums/index.php/topic,62737.msg1390586.html#msg1390586[/spoiler]

[ncba93ivyase]

can't wait for russia to take over the world

i'll have a head start in speaking the language

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/03/numbers-vladimir-putin-doesnt-want-you-to-see

life expectancy now stands at 64 for males and 76 for women [...] the life expectancy for a 15-year-old boy in Haiti is three years higher than for a Russian boy the same age.

The syphilis rate among girls 10 to 14â€"a statistical category that boggles the mindâ€"had gone up 40 times the previous decade, and only 30 percent of boys between the ages of 15 and 17 were considered healthy.

Russia’s working-age population is also declining by a million people a year, a faster rate than the decline of the overall population

Twenty-five percent of Russian men still die before the age of 55, many from alcoholism and the violent deaths, plus other diseases it fosters.

Russia, meanwhile, has more heroin addicts than any other country.

A thriving needle culture inevitably means H.I.V., and between 2000 and 2012 the number of new cases of H.I.V. increased six fold.

50 percent of Russia’s water is not potable.

tl;dr a few examples of reasons why russia has no choice but to resort to force to keep its neighbors in its sphere of influence, as no sane country wants this miserable lifestyle exported to it en masse (again) and those who are now free (or so they thought) of russian/soviet influence are actively seeking to eradicate it

[spoiler]

it's actually really tragic

ugh if only russia could tone down its megalomania a bit and make legitimate attempts to fix its internal problems instead of using the evil west and western sympathizers as a scapegoat for all its failures

so much wasted potential

but if russia insists on behaving like a spoiled child, the least we could do is limit russia's wasted potential to russia and russia alone[/spoiler]

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://euromaidanpr.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/interfax-ukraine-kyiv-offers-moscow-a-plan-to-transform-Russia-into-a-confederation/



oh ukraine, you so funny

[spoiler]

this comes as a tongue-in-cheek response to Russia's push for a federalized ukraine (with the hope that that would ((further)) weaken and decentralize it and thus make it easier to eventually absorb):

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/02/356845/Russia-wants-to-see-federalization-in-ukraine/[/spoiler]

[spoiler]

i like how ukraine took a few south western and caucasian oblasts for itself and gave finnistan long-desired karelia lol [/spoiler]

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140401/ukraine-agrees-host-nato-war-games

WOOOOOOOOOO

i never thought i'd see anything like this outside of my dreams

[spoiler]

now, like putin has been saying all along (note the dates on the sources below), we wait for him to tear this beautiful relationship apart

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin allegedly declared at a NATO-Russia summit in 2008 that if Ukraine joined NATO his country could contend to annex the Ukrainian East and Crimea.

President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia could aim nuclear missiles at Ukraine if its neighbor and former fraternal republic in the Soviet Union joins the NATO alliance [...]

[/spoiler]

[spoiler]http://boyah.net/forums/index.php/topic,62947.msg1392619.html#msg1392619
http://boyah.net/forums/index.php/topic,62737.msg1390586.html#msg1390586[/spoiler]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/01/ukraine-crisis-Russia-nato-idUKL5N0MT2P120140401

aaand there it is

[ncba93ivyase]

The syphilis rate among girls 10 to 14â€"a statistical category that boggles the mindâ€"had gone up 40 times the previous decade, and only 30 percent of girls between the ages of 15 and 17 were considered healthy.

this is what feminists want

russia needs some true conservatives