Avoiding War in Europe

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Re: Avoiding War in Europe

#21 Post by 500N » Fri Oct 02, 2015 1:49 am

Putin is too busy with Syria to worry about Europe.

And why invade Europe when they are destroying it themselves
plus he makes too much money out it energy supply.

He has them by the short and curlies anyway !

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Re: Avoiding War in Europe

#22 Post by Rwy in Sight » Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:40 pm

Putin knows very well how to be useful to whom ever he thinks needs is useful. Also is a lucky man to have the commodities prices high enough for a long of time to help his country's economy.

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Re: Avoiding War in Europe

#23 Post by OFSO » Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:10 am

You avoid war in Europe by moving it somewhere else - see Putin's comments yesterday about the US and Russia fighting a proxy war in Syria.

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Re: Avoiding War in Europe

#24 Post by 500N » Sat Oct 31, 2015 7:50 pm

Rwy in Sight wrote:Putin knows very well how to be useful to whom ever he thinks needs is useful. Also is a lucky man to have the commodities prices high enough for a long of time to help his country's economy.


He is not the only one.

Aus benefited and IMHO is one reason China's goes about things the way it does, it can't afford
to become the world's Pariah and have sanctions on it because it needs the raw materials.

Russia can afford to piss people off, as can the US.

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Re: Avoiding War in Europe

#25 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Nov 22, 2015 11:33 am

Thought it had gone a bit quiet...

All four power lines to Crimea blown up last night. Ukraine has been supplying power since the annexation last year, but now cannot.
Hospitals and parts of 3 cities on emergency generators, rest of the place in darkness. Ukrainian flags reportedly found at the bomb sites.
Crimean Ukranians?
Ukrainian rebels?
Ukrainian Government using deniables?
Putin 'false flag'?
Man with the pylon-building monopoly?

Take your pick.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34893493

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Re: Avoiding War in Europe

#26 Post by 500N » Sun Nov 22, 2015 11:37 am

Interesting. Power lines always a good target, easy to cut, hard to defend.

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#27 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Nov 22, 2015 11:39 am

Crimean Tartars getting most of the blame by Russia, it seems

https://www.rt.com/news/323012-crimea-b ... -blown-up/

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#28 Post by OFSO » Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:57 pm

Power lines always a good target

If you live in Spain, they come down with no human intervention*. All yesterday afternoon no power here - a force eight gale was blowing so I guess a pylon went down or a flashover.

* Except of course the incompetent expletive-deleteds from Endesa who install the power lines in the first place.

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Re: Avoiding War in Europe

#29 Post by 500N » Tue Nov 24, 2015 2:00 am

It seems one of the Paris attackers just wasn't quite ready to meet the 72 Virgins :D

I have a feeling that if the French get to him first, he might well end up leaking like a sieve
and rightly so. I think his "Human Rights" were discarded a few days ago.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... caped.html

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Re: Avoiding War in Europe

#30 Post by Lon » Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:06 am

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Re: Avoiding War in Europe

#31 Post by A Lutra Continua » Wed Nov 25, 2015 5:49 am

...And right there is where the meme departs reality.

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Re: Avoiding War in Europe

#32 Post by rgbrock1 » Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:30 pm

Lon wrote:Image


Nice to see you here Lon. Indeed. :YMHUG:
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