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"New Russia" - Is This What East Ukraine Will Soon Look Like?
As "The Russian Spring" spreads across various sub-regions of current non-Russian sovereign nations, Russian historian Sergey Lebedev warns that Transdniestria is “the first liberated part of Novorossiya,” Putin’s term for what he sees as a new state spreading across Ukraine into Moldova and perhaps beyond... here is what that region will look like... welcome to Novorossiya, or as one would translate it... New Russia.
Lebedev’s article highlights two directions of Putin’s policies, both of which should be of concern not only in the region but in Europe and the West more generally.
On the one hand, to the extent that Transdniestria is a model for some putative Novorossiya, it presents a very ugly picture.
Transdniestria under its breakaway government has been one of the most repressive places in the former Soviet space and has a thoroughly criminalized government that has been prepared to sell off the enormous arms cache there left over from USSR times to all and sundry, including terrorist groups.
And on the other, it underscores that Putin’s plans are far broader than Ukraine and involve a thrust into the Balkans. Were Transdniestria to be taken from Moldova and annexed to Russia, that would almost certainly lead to the collapse of the Moldovan state, the unification of part of it with Romania, the federalization of that country, and the extension of a Moscow-sponsored arc of instability into the Balkans.
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Sanctions are not enough to “change Putin’s calculus,” as even American officials are beginning to acknowledge. And given the dangers that allowing him to move even further west into Moldova and beyond would inevitably entail, the time to contain and then reverse what he is doing is now.
Meanwhile Victoria Nuland, giving testimony in the house... was not backing down...
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Meanwhile Victoria Nuland, giving testimony in the house... was not backing down...
Somebody needs to ask Victoria why WTC7 fell down.
“If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls."
Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938.”
Jan didn't know about psychopathy.... though outside of real esoteric groups, not many did until Political Ponerology got published fairly recently based on events from behind the Iron Curtain.. private psychological studies done on the situation as it was happening, to those observing themselves and their collegues et al.... no need to mention how the Church and American politicos like Zig tried to make it disappear, right? That is a given.
For psychos have no souls... not as the concept is known... they are more like a human predator... groupthink, who will do or say anything to get want they want, and what they want is control and if they can't control it, create so much chaos that no one else can. See the pattern? Needless to say, psychos don't make good allies, as history demonstrates over and over again, but the SG loves them like a torturer loves a strong whip.
What do you mean EAST Ukraine? What is Obama and Merkel going to do any differently is Putin takes over the whole country versus half?
NO DIFFERENCE.
Thanks for that. Truly bizarre article. Someone has been smoking alot of crack!
If Ukraine is going to be split, it should be done along the Dnieper which flows through Kiev. Dividing Ukraine strictly on the basis of ethnicity, as the map here suggests, won't work as there are enclaves of different groups in every section. The river would good natural boundary that would keep the most violent ones apart. Once Ukraine is split, the violence will subside as both sides will have less fear of domination by the other in their respective regions. Neither side will fear an election that puts them in the minority.
Buying less luxury goods is a good thing.
it kind of looks like a mis-shapen cock'n'balls if you tilt your head enough to the right . ha!.
so yea!
yea that is what ukraine will be soon.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_p...