Kalk
Excellent commentary. Rational and well thought out. Thanks.
Who are the Players in the Ukraine crisis
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DJS
Kalk
Excellent commentary. Rational and well thought out. Thanks.
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kaik
Welcome DJS. I was born in country that used to border with Ukraine, so I watch the events there with a lot of worries. I think the war is innevitable and will escalate into major European conflict as did Balkan wars in 1990's.
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prologos
It is a pity to watch the captured & scared European observers paraded by the 'rebel donetz protesters'
Putin is on the roll and military force can be savage while the country is economically weak.
Ukraine and KALK's country men& WOMEN fear a unrevelling of the entente, and reassignment of territory westward after ww2.
alliances can be changed, shifting.
PauL: the scene of the world is changing.
American planes, tanks, even 'air-force-one' flying ,operating with chinese-made parts.
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transhuman68
IDK, I don't think Putin wants a war really. He will have to retire one day (eventually!), and he will want to be remembered as a hero; not a tyrant. Plus, if it all went wrong for him, and he was ousted in a coup, he wouldn't be happy facing the ICJ like Milosevic. He might just take what he can get easily, which might eventually be eastern Ukraine. But who knows- war has it's own logic.. once it starts. LOL, that's my guess anyway.
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kaik
I disagree transhuman, because it was numerous wars that shoot up Putin's popularity in Russia. Russia is heavily militarized society, it always was since the time of Tzars. 70% of Russians support military intervention in Ukraine. In period of economic uncertainity and isolation, Russia prefered war as a diversion from internal problems. Putin does not care to by tyrant. Russians do no care either. They still consider Stalin as one of their greatest ruler, something imaginable in other Eastern Block countries. Germans are ashamed for A. Hitler, Czechoslovaks for Gottwald, and Romanians for Ceaucescu.
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prologos
according to news, BBC?, Aljezeera?, Ukraine [Kiev]has introduced compulsory draft for military service. calliing up 18+ year olds for training