Pompey-Cowboy
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Can we discuss this or does it breach 'politics' rules?
Thanks for the clarity.Given the severity of the issue, we will allow it on CowboysZone .. FOR NOW ..
If it becomes a problem, we may remove it though.
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It's a topic worthy of discussion and we can bend our rules a little to allow it as long as US politics stays out of it.Thanks for the clarity.
Of course the situation is political as all wars are, but there's a difference between discussing Ukraine-Russia politics versus US politics.I think this IS political because so much as every other country is pledging support and provision to the Ukraine, nobody is going to want to provide military intervention.
The Ukraine is in the top 5 producers of a huge array of agricultural produce and mined minerals. The whole country is essentially a huge business, it is responsible for feeding something like 10 percent of the World's population.the only real reason I can see is the ukraine produces a lot of grain, so putin may want control of that.
Otherwise he has to pay for it.
He wants the old USSR, the one he helped maintain back then. He will not stop with the Ukraine, he's been lining up his henchmen, like in Belarus, for just this move.the only real reason I can see is the ukraine produces a lot of grain, so putin may want control of that.
Otherwise he has to pay for it.
The parallel between Hitler and Putin is so close. Both saw their countries humiliated, Germany after WW1, and Russia after the fall of the USSR and the Berlin wall. And they both take that personally.
In the 30's, the world stood by and let Germany take Czechoslovakia thinking that was all they wanted. Putin wants it like it was in his good old KGB days and there is no one to stop him in in his own country. At least Khrushchev had the Politburo he had to deal with, Putin has an agenda and few to stand in his way. He is used to the old sword rattling on the Cold War days and is putting the Allies to the test. And he has already played the nuclear arsenal card.
He wants the old USSR, the one he helped maintain back then. He will not stop with the Ukraine, he's been lining up his henchmen, like in Belarus, for just this move.
Agreed. This has been building up for awhile.He wants the old USSR, the one he helped maintain back then. He will not stop with the Ukraine, he's been lining up his henchmen, like in Belarus, for just this move.
The critical part of this is can he keep the economic sanctions from affecting his people? If he can't, his risk is from within because I agree, most of those people just want to live their lives.The challenge for him is I have my doubts the citizenry over there (Russia/Belarus) has much of a stomach for this sort of thing. They're more like us than the starving peasants trying to throw back the Germans in WWII.
They and their friends getting killed... Their rather comfortable world unhinged. I don't think they want that.
The critical part of this is can he keep the economic sanctions from affecting his people? If he can't, his risk is from within because I agree, most of those people just want to live their lives.