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Moscow Furious After Both Belgium And France Freeze Russian State Assets

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Russia has summoned the Belgian ambassador to Moscow and threatened to “respond in kind” after bailiffs instructed nearly 50 Belgian companies to disclose Russian state assets, a move which reportedly sets the stage for the seizure of Russian property in connection with the disputed $50 billion Yukos verdict. Essentially, Russia was required to submit a plan for a €1.6 billion payment pursuant to the ECHR decision by June 15, and because Moscow did not do so, Belgium will attempt to extract the payment on its own.

As a refresher, here’s what we said last year regarding the arbitration:

The Hague is not Vladimir Putin's favorite place today. Following the "war crime" comments earlier, the arbitration court's decision to rule in favor of Yukos shareholders (and thus against the allegedly "politically motivated" confiscation of the firm's assets by the Russian government) with a $50 billion settlement (half what was sought) has prompted a quick and angry response from the Russian government. Blasting the "one-sided use of evidence," and re-iterating the massive tax evasion that the leadership were involved in, Russia slams "the puzzling unprecedented amount of damages" awarded, claiming the process is "becoming increasingly politicized."

Here’s RT on Belgium’s move to freeze Russian assets:

The bailiffs were reportedly acting at the behest of the Isle of Man-based Yukos Universal Limited, a subsidiary of the Russian energy giant, dismantled in 2007. They have given the target companies a fortnight to comply..

 

Russia will appeal the court’s arrest of Russian property, Russian presidential aide Andrey Belousov said. According to the official, “the situation with the arrest of the property is politicized, [and] Moscow hopes to avoid a new escalation in relations.”

 

A letter accompanying the notice, reportedly drafted by the law firm Marc Sacré, Stefan Sacré & Piet De Smet, accused Moscow of a “systematic failure to voluntarily follow”international legal judgments.

The addressees included not just local offices of Russian companies, but international banks, a local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, and even Eurocontrol, the European air traffic agency headquartered in Brussels. Only diplomatic assets, such as embassies, were exempt.

 

The situation was not unexpected, and Russia is considering a number of measures to deal with possible asset seizures both in Belgium and in other countries, said Andrey Belousov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

Yukos Universal Limited was awarded $1.8 billion in damages by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in July 2014, as part of a total settlement for approximately $50 billion, owed to its former shareholders and management. The court concluded that the corporation, once headed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent more than a decade in prison for embezzlement and tax evasion from 2003 to 2013, “was the object of a series of politically motivated attacks.”

 

Russia has not accepted the ruling, saying it disregards widespread tax fraud committed by Yukos, and constitutes a form of indirect retribution for Russia’s standoff with the West over Ukraine. 

And more, from Interfax (Google translated):

Russian institutions in Belgium, except for diplomatic missions, received on Wednesday by bailiffs arrest warrants in their possession of the State Property of the Russian Federation.

 

The document stated that the arrest is made on the basis of the decision of the Belgian Court of Arbitration of 18 July 2014 to the claim of "Yukos Universal Limited."

The specified amount of the claim in it - 1.6 billion euros.

 

Bailiffs indicate that the plaintiff has demanded such a measure, "because it has serious concerns about the possibility to receive the sum due, in particular, due to a systematic failure of the Russian Federation to fulfill handed down judgments against it and considering the attitude of the Russian Federation to the decision."

 

As explained by "Interfax" the representative offices of bailiffs' Marc Sacre - Stefan Sacré - Piet De Smet "listed in the organizations are obliged to declare within two weeks at their disposal cash, property of the Russian Federation and the debt to the Russian Federation.

 

The list covers almost all the major banks, registered in Belgium, and even organizations such as "Eurocontrol", which regulates air traffic over Europe. In it - all Russian representative, except for the protected diplomatic immunity until the Archbishopric of Brussels and Belgium ROC, including the representation of non-governmental organizations and the media.

But it's not just Belgium. France also froze the accounts of Russian companies on Thursday, targeting Russian firms run by a French subsidiary of the country's second largest lender, VTB. Here's RT again:

French law enforcement has frozen the accounts of Russian companies operated by the French subsidiary of VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank, CEO Andrey Kostin told RBC. Diplomatic accounts were briefly frozen as well, but have since been unlocked. “As of this morning [diplomatic accounts] were unfrozen… The sums are small, some dozens of thousands of euros, [but] Russian companies' accounts are still frozen,” the bank chief was cited as saying. “We are working on the problem with our lawyers now.”

And the response from the Kremlin:

  • RUSSIA SUMMONS BELGIAN AMBASSADOR OVER FREEZES OF RUSSIA ASSETS
  • RUSSIA: FREEZES OF ASSETS IN BELGIUM `UNFRIENDLY ACT'
  • RUSSIA MAY RESPOND IN KIND TARGETING BELGIAN ASSETS IN RUSSIA

“[Remove the violations], otherwise, the Russian side will be forced to consider taking adequate response measures against properties of the Kingdom of Belgium, including properties of the Belgian embassy in Moscow, as well as of its legal entities”

We imagine this will only serve to further inflame tensions between Russia and Europe amid escalating violence in Ukraine and an increasingly aggressive stance towards the Kremlin on the part of Washington and NATO. 

 

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Thu, 06/18/2015 - 11:59 | 6209773 JustObserving
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WTF?  Belgium and France feel suicidal suddenly?

Or NSA spying was very effective in those states.

How many women was Hollande cheating on? 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:01 | 6209788 HonkyShogun
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Clearly another example of "Russian Aggression" according to Hymie's media.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:06 | 6209814 y3maxx
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...This is definately an Act of War by Belgium and France...I mean the USA.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:06 | 6209817 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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Don't talk about it, be about it Putin. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:12 | 6209836 813kml
Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:19 | 6209868 BuddyEffed
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This article shows how the parasites will fight over the spoils, any way they can.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:22 | 6209881 tmosley
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Edging awfully close to an act of war with this one.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:27 | 6209911 Oh regional Indian
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Extremely dim bulbs running the "Show" world nowadays.

Frigging old playbook, well worn edges...

As a side note, I just redisovered Edith Piaf after decades.

And then I listen to what passes for Muzzik today....

It's all a nice, fractal tell...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:34 | 6209963 Creepy A. Cracker
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Accounts frozen... 

Thanks for the reminder.  Transfer out...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:42 | 6210016 Save_America1st
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NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:08 | 6210179 whotookmyalias
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Don't these people know that if you don't physically hold it in your possession, it it not yours?

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:11 | 6210192 Handful of Dust
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If Russia would stop sending troops, drones, arms, etc to fuel the ME wars maybe they'd leave 'm alone.

 

 

... oh ... wait a sec ....

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:15 | 6210221 0b1knob
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You forgot to include the mandatory "this is actually good for Russia" and "this is all part of Putin's master plan" memes.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:19 | 6210246 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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This is actually good: pushing Russia with China, a death combo against the malicious and manipulative West.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:21 | 6210260 eatthebanksters
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Interesting, after chastising Obummer for fucking up their relationship with Russia, the French do an about face.  It's all about the Benjamin's...we promised them more...what a corrupt world we live in...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:34 | 6210330 SoilMyselfRotten
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A nuke may create enough heat to unfreeze those accounts

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:43 | 6210369 Truthseeker2
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The war is just beginning ... and is likely to stay out of the domain of armed conflict ... except for the Ukraine. 

Russia calls investigation into whether US moon landings happened

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:06 | 6210464 0b1knob
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Russia isn't a real country.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:49 | 6210773 STP
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But you're a real troll...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 16:42 | 6211316 Publicus
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Stop all oil gas flow to Europe now! Raise the price 100%!

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 20:03 | 6212012 OC Sure
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ZH, 

What then is the latest from Rostislav Ishchenko?

 ...à la, http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-02/what-does-putin-want

Expect only pomp and circumstance from Putin, then acquiesce to buy more time?

(...it takes an anvil to break a hammer.)

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 02:14 | 6212925 old naughty
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so furious...

they inked MOU with Greece, and MOI with Shell, et al...

Fast!

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 02:40 | 6212966 the kings whore
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President Obama is really laying an ass-whipping on Putin.  Barry is schooling that cracker in the ways of politics.  The president is making me proud.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 02:40 | 6212967 the kings whore
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President Obama is really laying an ass-whipping on Putin.  Barry is schooling that cracker in the ways of politics.  The president is making me proud.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:23 | 6210969 Ayreos
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A country is a fraudolent construct based on violence and theft. Russia is a supernational entity. It is THE Federeation fighting the corrupt Empire.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:25 | 6210281 dontgoforit
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Now we know why "Belgium" about a year ago....hmmmm.  Where are the places the fingers do not reach?  Those are the places they wish to reach.  Russia and China are like pulling in a great white with 20-lb test.  Good luck, de Rothschilde.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:00 | 6210429 Bindar Dundat
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Now let's confiscate all their condos in Miami and Sunny Iles...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:06 | 6210880 Meat Hammer
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Wouldn't de Rothschild benefit from worldwide economic destruction?  

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 19:45 | 6211946 PhilofOz
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Not with the drone and missile technology available these days to turn them into lumps of charcoaled meat and bones.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:38 | 6210697 steelhead23
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Does anyone in Europe remember 1945 - or the 5 years prior to the Red Army sweeping across Germany?  Perhaps when Gazprom cuts off the flow next winter they'll remember.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 16:57 | 6211370 WhackoWarner
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Nobody remembers and educational system and Hollywood wizards have recreated history.  It is not to USA USA USA advantage to tell the truth regarding Russia's sacrifices in WW2.   Don't you know it was all winning, winning once USA got involved.  Don't you remember that Hollywood won the war?

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 17:21 | 6211457 Ladioss
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I'm more humiliated to see my country acting like the USA's little bitch but you have a point.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:48 | 6210004 MonetaryApostate
Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:50 | 6210068 knukles
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Methinks that just may be an act of war, is it not?
I know that closing one's access to international payment systems is codified as boa-fide act of war.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:32 | 6210321 Normalcy Bias
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Yep. Let's keep f'ing with this ruthless chess player and see what we get. Brilliant!

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:49 | 6210393 mtl4
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Cmon now, any billionaire knows that war is good for the economy and history is written by the winners........it's gonna be a COLD winter in Europe soon.

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:18 | 6210545 Normalcy Bias
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I know -It may all be theater for the masses at this point...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 17:01 | 6211382 WhackoWarner
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Actually war is not good for the economy.  Read up on that.

 

Was great for TEAM USA as they vultured in on supplying the Allied forces (and behind the scenes to Germany as well...)  played both sides.  What a concept.  Good for the economy?  Who exactly reaped the rewards?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 19:55 | 6211989 PhilofOz
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Again, none of these billionaires have that privilege of cleaning up with a war these days as they'll all have very visible targets on their backs in advance of any drone and missile strikes coming their way.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:11 | 6210473 Anusocracy
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Who do you imply is ruthless?

The one who is not the aggressor?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:22 | 6210567 Normalcy Bias
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What I was saying is that the US is continuing to mess with parties that you probably don't want to back into a corner...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:16 | 6210500 Paveway IV
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The original war was declared years ago - maybe around 1996. The daul-citizen mafias were at war raping the Russian people for every ruble they could get their hands on and any Soviet industry they could buy for pennies on the dollar. Putin had some hand in slowing the wholesale Jewish oligarch rape of Russia, but didnt' stop it by any means. Throwing Yukoil's head in prison was a warning to the others, it was not a purge.

Well, you can't throw the Jewish oligarch (Jewish in gang-affiliation only - nothing to do with the religion) Mikhail Khodorkovsky in prison and not expect that psychopath to go permanent full-retard. That's like pissing off a Rothschild and hoping they'll just go away mad and forget about it. Psychopaths like Khodorkovsky are easily consumed with revenge. He (and his mafia tribe) will bring down all of Russia without a second thought. He will employ the same tools every Jewish oligarch uses: banks and corrupt law.

The psychopath Khodorkovsky stole Yukoil from the Russian people - it's his personal posession. The Russian people exist to serve Jewish oligarchs like him, not the other way around. Khodorkovsky and the rest of the criminal Russian oligarchs only purpose on earth today is to punish 145 million Russians for having the audacity to take away the oligarch's spoils. If that means using Israel and the U.S. (and apparently France and Belgium) to do the heavy lifting for them, then all the better.

Take a Jewish oligarch's shit they legitimately stold from you, and you will pay the price. They never forgive and they never forget. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:23 | 6210575 YHC-FTSE
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This is all I needed to know about this whole story and what is happening now:

Control of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s shares in the Russian oil giant Yukos have passed to Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild upon his arrest.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 16:04 | 6210913 Lore
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Meanwhile, the Poop urges action on "climate change."  DAMN YOU, CLIMATE!  THOU SHALT NOT CHANGE! 

"Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it." 

The planet isn't warming anymore!  Silly Agenda 21 stooge.

WHAT ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE ON OTHER PLANETS?  WHAT ABOUT THE SUN?  Oh wait, that bunch actually worships Helios, right?  ...Never mind.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 20:57 | 6211059 Paveway IV
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Wait - when did the Russian people AGREE to let Khodorkovsky transfer stolen Russian assets to a Rothschild? Oh... Jewish law.

Belgium and France have confiscated Russain assets to satisfy a Swiss court ruling reguarding 1.6 billion euros to a Jewish oligarch (well, a Jewish banker, I guess).

News Flash: Israel stole the assets and all future operating profits of the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline in 1979 from Iran after Iran's revolution. Because if your puppet is thrown out by the natives, you can just keep all their stuff for free. Swiss courts last month (speedy legal process) awarded Iran $1.1 billion in compensation for the stolen pipeline. This was actually last month - it was kept out of the MSM so you anti-semites couldn't beat them over the head with the thirty-year-old theft.

So I'm eagerly awaiting Belgium and France's response to THIS:

Israel refuses to comply with Swiss judgement to pay Iran $1bln

Ruling follows long-standing legal battle linked to joint venture that occurred before Islamic Revolution

 

Israel's Finance ministry is refusing to comply with a Swiss ruling ordering the Jewish state to pay Iran $1.1 billion in compensation, a statement released Wednesday said.

"Under the laws of trade we cannot transfer funds to an enemy country," the statement read.

I won't even wait to see the response. There is none. The Swiss ruling against Israel isn't even disputed by Israel - it was outright theft. Israel just said they wouldn't pay anything to Iran. Uh.... France? Belgium? Why so silent? Where's all the Je Suis Ahmad

How can Israeli citizens ignore their liability for a $1.1 billion dollar theft while Russian citizens have their assets confiscated to pay their oligarch rapists compensation?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 21:42 | 6212334 conscious being
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Excellent find PaveWay.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 16:08 | 6211172 COSMOS
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There are Russian Natural Resources...It is up to Russian courts to decide their fate.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 22:29 | 6212495 Augustus
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Screw you and screw Puutie, your paymaster.

The assets are located in Russia with international ownership.

Puutie and his criminal oligarchs have now to face the consequences of theft from international owners in international courts. 

The courts in France and Belgium are deciding on the fate of assets located in those countries.  That should be just fine, using your logic.  Why should Puutie be upset?  Of course it is because he is a slav with brain illmess.

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 00:34 | 6212798 PhilofOz
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You truly are pathetic Augustus....and who is your paymaster, the Rothschild family? You can be sure you are at the bottom of the pile in their pecking order, taking orders as a troll. I'll bet the pay is shit too .....you have a tiny bag of tricks to play with and are getting less original by the day.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 17:42 | 6211521 WhackoWarner
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So.  The whole world has to die. suffer. for the greed and madness of the few?

Have I got it?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 18:46 | 6211744 847328_3527
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Bankers are praying for moar war to fill their pockets with moar Blood Money.

 

The little people [soliders] are simply their cannon fodder; very expendible.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 17:28 | 6211478 indygo55
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Didn't someone just turn 100? Yup and he wants to see his dream soon cuz he's not gonna be around THAT much longer. His last name starts with a R. Guess who? Hint: Its not Rothchild.

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 17:45 | 6211533 WhackoWarner
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C'mon  FU.  Do you think you are cute by being "guess who?".  What the Frig?

 

Problem is people are afraid to speak the truth.  Either that or you are a real pussie who thinks you are being coy here. Either way.  Get lost until you tell your truth.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 18:42 | 6211734 Theosebes Goodfellow
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~"Edging awfully close to an act of war with this one."~

Well I certainly hope Mr. Putin isn't talking suboxone.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:07 | 6210170 HungryPorkChop
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Greece, we just took all of Russia's $$$ in Belgium and France so we will now give you anotha' bailout. Please send a thank you note to Russia with love. 

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:07 | 6209823 Bumpo
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Don't get mad, get even. THEN shut off European gas.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:28 | 6209918 tmosley
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Probably won't do that before they finish their Chinese pipelines.  Should be done by 2017, IIRC.  This is probably why the West is pushing so hard now.  They have a hard deadline, after which Putin wins and Europe freezes.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:21 | 6210259 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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Like your avatar, it's from Full Metal Alchemist ?l

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 18:54 | 6211766 YuShun
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Odilon Redon, n'est-ce pas?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 20:14 | 6212043 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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More like Father homonculus from FMA...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:38 | 6209988 Consuelo
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None of those vassal States dare fart without the expressed consent of the State Department.   Until the house Frau is displaced by an angry uprising of Germans who prefer not to have Iskanders aimed directly at them, will this situation change. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:17 | 6210229 Wolferl
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There are nukes aimed at us Germans since 1945. Nothing new here. True, Germany is a vassal state of the US, but not a colony. As long as we think it in our best interest we march side by side with the `Muricans. So, if anybody wants to change that he´ll have to make a better offer than the US. And that´s what the Russians don´t really understand.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:29 | 6210295 dontgoforit
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I think Putin understands that.  It's just such a bitter pill given the history.  I think he'd sooner go slant-eyed, which is what he is doing.  He kind of looks like he's got some oriental blood in those eyes of his anyway.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:30 | 6210635 froze25
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Don't forget that the Bilderberg meeting just finished so the nut jobs now have a consensus. I expect many plans regarding Russia to be put in motion. More to come in short order. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:29 | 6210298 Sages wife
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Clearly no more sovereign than canada or australia or japan etc.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:31 | 6210312 dontgoforit
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Used to be some good reasons we walked in lock-step with all those allies.  Now, under this administration, shit.....

Can you blame any of them for questioning the U.S.?  We have an effn' maniac at the helm and the ship keeps running into sand banks.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:51 | 6210405 Anunnaki
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Couldn't find the article I read that goes into this:

German military would engage a coup d'etat if its troops/tanks are ordered to invade Russia

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:44 | 6210738 X_Weatherman
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Sold like a whore.  Nothing like replacing principled honesty decency and integrity with marketability.

The French and Belgium governments are also whores to U.S.fascism.

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 17:55 | 6211568 RevIdahoSpud3
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Germany is not a vassal state of the US, they are and have been an "occupied" state since the end of the war. To this day you have US troops still stationed in Germany to make sure Germans do not get out of line. There is no "better" offer to it. You are occupied, you are POW's. Since 1945.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:48 | 6210059 Kirk2NCC1701
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Well, it sure as hell ain't an act of Chess.

I told ya that instead of playing chess, the Yanks/Ziocons play Poker, Boxing (feint, jab, feint, uppercut, feint...) and Litigation.  Ain't Nobody who can prosecute/sue better than the Ziocons. 

Instead of just saddling up to China and accusing hid Western "Partners" (he still calls them that) of being "unfriendly", they actually need to apply some of that Asymmetric Warfare. 

I'll bet they'll make the Greeks a deal they won't want to refuse.  For starters. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:52 | 6210080 knukles
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Unintended Consequences are a Bitch.
I see pipelines, alternative transfer systems and port leasing in Greece's future

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:23 | 6210582 MansaMusa
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And they still haven't received their 2 helicopter transport ships???  Putin just lost 1 !

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:09 | 6209827 nuubee
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Being part of the west now kind of feels like being Eddard Stark in the throne room, just before Littlefinger betrays him.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:25 | 6209863 two hoots
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An EU distraction.

My distracton:  I like a good hamburger from the grill.   93% mixed with a little Worcestershire/Lawry's season salt, 1/4+ lb each.  Grill at 400 then 3 minutes each side (not more).  Turn once only.  You can press a small dimple in the middle of each pattie to prevent it from swelling in the middle before grilling.

Think France/Beligum/Russia should share one with a dark ale....soon. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 18:25 | 6211676 Lumberjack
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I take a couple of nice rib eye steaks, lightly sprinkle each side with Himalayan pink salt from the grinder (you can add a little pepper too if you like), and get grill up to 475. I get some fresh lemon thyme sprigs from the garden and then throw the steaks on the grill placing thyme sprigs on the up side of each steak. Close grill hood and wait 5 to 6 minutes. Open grill and flip steak over adding more sprigs to the top. Close grill and wait 5 minues...

I taught that to a fine restaurant in Texas and they f-ing loved it. ENJOY!

 

Note: Be certain the grill is clean and the fat catch pan below is empty or else it will flare up...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:03 | 6210863 Meat Hammer
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Officer, that guy hit me in the fist with his face!!

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:07 | 6209816 thunderchief
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Sooner or later Moscow is going to tell the EU that their airlines can't fly over Russia. 

That will stick a fork in their economies when Air france, lufhansa,  BA and few others cannot compete.

Go for it Putin, they deserve it!

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:50 | 6210071 HenryHall
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Tell them that foreign aircraft must be equipped with GLONASS to fly over Russia.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:01 | 6210443 post turtle saver
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fucking whatever... my fucking phone already does GLONASS, let alone any modern avionics system available today... try again

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:05 | 6210158 Kirk2NCC1701
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And stop selling (frikkin) Titanium to the West -- especially to the USAF, you morons!

Did you know that some Ruskies were/are so corrupted by US Dollars, that they were selling Titanium to the US even during the height of the Cold War 1.0?  They did it via intermediates (e.g., S. Africa) and cutouts.  I suspect that this is still going on.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:10 | 6210475 post turtle saver
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titanium is everywhere... USAF is wholly unconcerned w/ any titanium embargo that Russia could cook up, lol

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:45 | 6210748 Freddie
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LOL!  Who needs titanium when you have that piece of shit F-35 that cannot fly.  What a pile of crap. 

Even Pierre Sprey said the F-35 is total shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:01 | 6210852 Max Steel
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wrong again they will get titanium from other nations via russia but they will end up paying high prices .

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:47 | 6211075 post turtle saver
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you have no idea where titanium comes from these days, do you... don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question, I already know you're wrong

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 17:23 | 6211463 Not My Real Name
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You're correct, PTS. The Russians don't have a monopoly on titanium:

http://metalpedia.asianmetal.com/metal/titanium/resources&production.shtml

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:41 | 6210712 palmereldritch
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The Cold War was an NWO theatre construct

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WYChWg5gqI0J:http:/...

hence their obsession with removing Putin as part of its resurrection

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:06 | 6209818 fascismlover
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I wonder what newks do to fresh pastry.  I suppose if it is far enough away it would bake them to perfection. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:43 | 6210372 Freddie
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Meanwhile - the USSA CON-Gress sells out the American people yet again with TPP and TPA.  Evil scum.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:13 | 6209841 caconhma
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Looks like Prostitutin and his rotten regime is in deep shit. Looks like Russian Saddam will meet his maker very soon (the sooner the better). 

Putin, this low-life POS, betrayed this country, his people. As for Russian people it is not new. The similar events took place 98 years ago when Russians betrayed their Tsar and allowed Jewish Bolsheviks execute a genocide of the country.

Where are Putin's RT and Sputnik agents to tell us about another great Putin victory?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:44 | 6210025 Consuelo
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Sniffle, sniffle - they're fighting -- for --- our (sobbing ensues...), 'Freedoms'....

 

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:12 | 6210201 whotookmyalias
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That's only slightly more recent news than Moscow boycotting the Los Angeles Olympics.  Unless they have Christopher Lloyd building flux capacitors for them, they can't exactly react to news from today via actions in the past.  But hey, thanks for playing.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:32 | 6210322 oddjob
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Just yesterday Janet Yellin claimed to be willing to raise rates 10 years ago in an attempt to move markets today. But hey, thanks for the feeble effort at humor.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:56 | 6210813 Freddie
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Amerikun Freedums.

The endless daily enslavement of the American people by CON-Gress and the Kenyan usurper and their z-puppetmasters.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:28 | 6209919 Billy the Poet
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Russian Saddam

 

Yes, the US lied about Saddam's desire to attack America when in reality it was America that wanted to attack Iraq, throw the country into chaos with indiscriminate killing and then loot anything of value.  It's quite similar to US vilification of Putin and US aggression in the Ukraine.

So you're right about that.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:31 | 6209938 BullyBearish
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Spoken like a charter member of the synogogue of satan crew...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:40 | 6210006 The Delicate Genius
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Obvious troll is, how you say... obvious.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:04 | 6210147 caconhma
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Read official Russian news release: " We intend to appeal the court decision".

Good luck Prostitutin gang. The EU legal system, after all, is so fair and independent...

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:07 | 6210465 Urban Redneck
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It would be more cost effective to simply extraordinarily render some Rothschild children, pump them full of polonium and send them back to their parents with a message to file a motion to vacate or face the same fate.  Despite the reptilian jokes, history demonstrates that when you actually put a gun to a Rothschild head and say jump, the untermenschen will ask "How high?"

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:39 | 6210706 froze25
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It is the only way to deal with people like that. You must remind them they are only mere mortals and show then you will prove that fact. Death is the only thing that scares ultra greedy people.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:04 | 6210148 caconhma
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Read official Russian news release: " We intend to appeal the court decision".

Good luck Prostitutin gang. The EU legal system, after all, is so fair and independent...

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:12 | 6210196 Kirk2NCC1701
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You're a clever one, aren;t you?  As clever as the Anagram of your username?

caconhma = coachman.  Or is it Man-Coach?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:53 | 6210087 chiswickcat
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More poking the bear to make it growl, then have an excuse to shoot at it. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:16 | 6210516 sam i am
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Russia’s assets arrested in Belgium and France and Austria

Here some background for Yukos story story and

updates

http://thesaker.is/ukraine-sitrep-june-18th-2015-by-scott/

 

Reaction of Vise-President of Rosneft Mikhail Leontyev is priceless...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 14:32 | 6210643 JLee2027
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This is exactly why the US refused to sign up for the International Court of ""Justice"", aka whatever the EuroTrash want.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:39 | 6211042 SUNKNIGHT2010
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Agreed !!! Russia could easily crush both countries like a bug !
This attempt to provoke war with Russia is insane & TPTB are NOT in as much control of events as they think .

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 18:19 | 6211667 Black Rifle
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our leaders won't be happy until the icbm's are lobbed this way. Sleep on America. Sleep on!!

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 11:59 | 6209783 This is it
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Wack 'em! Wack 'em hard! Do it redneck hillbilly style!

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:01 | 6209789 Edward Quince
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It is Russia's fault for having any assets in the western financial system. I can assure that I would not leave any of ours in the Russian system.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:01 | 6209791 lolmao500
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This will totally end well. And since when do Europe care about corruption and rule in favor of people?? Ah yes, only when it hurts the enemies of the 4th reich.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:02 | 6209792 lolmao500
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Double post bug

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:02 | 6209803 pitterrier
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This is like pissing in your pants to get warm.  Works short-term, terrible long-term.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:11 | 6209832 Gazooks
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quite frankly

 

 

never tried that

 

 

it sounds vaguely French

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:30 | 6209927 gaoptimize
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I remember surfing in California, at El Capitan north of Santa Barbara, and pissing in my wet suit to get warm.  It would last several minutes at least.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:35 | 6209953 The Steaksmith
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Aah yes, the old UreAthane wetsuit. (Ethel 'Ammonium' Carbamate)

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:09 | 6210896 Freddie
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Now that Fuki MOX water keeps things "warm" in Callie-Porn-e-ah.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:02 | 6209804 harrybrown
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Zionist interests, as always keeping peace & harmony around the globe. Yukos another Rothschild outfit "outed"

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:20 | 6210235 Kirk2NCC1701
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Yukos, eh?

Trivia:  In most non-English languages (including Yiddish, Hebrew, German and Russian) the "J" in Jerusalem or Judah is pronounced like a "Y".  So these are pronounced as Yeh-ruh-sah-lem, or Youdah.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:04 | 6209809 lawyer4anarchists
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All of this international intrigue really is just such a farce.  The idea that we are free and they are not and we must fight them to protect "our freedom" is so absurd.  We haven't been free to choose for more than 150 years.  http://www.thetruthaboutthelaw.com/they-tell-big-lies-about-our-supposed...

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:04 | 6209812 saints51
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Well guess they showed Putin and the rest of the world their hand. Fucking idiots. It gets comical more and more each day.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:13 | 6209840 Winston Churchill
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I'm glad you can laugh about the prospect of WWIII.You sure as hell won't be laughing after.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:24 | 6209890 saints51
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Winston you know my comments better than that. I find nothing funny about war. What I find comical is the ganging up on 1 person in the schoolyard who is still holding his ground.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:12 | 6210915 Freddie
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White Christian in charge of some very highly effective ICBMs and other missiles.  We cannot have that.

Only people like USAF General Jack Weinstein are qualified to be in charge of nukes.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:57 | 6211117 saints51
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Freddie only certain luciferian tribes are allowed to have control. I agree that they hate a White Christian. Whether people belive it or not, that Christ sure is calling the plays out before they happen.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 19:10 | 6211820 Winston Churchill
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Yeah sorry.

I'm a little grumpy today. The Hartlington rods in my back are reminding me they are there.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:44 | 6211063 SUNKNIGHT2010
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You're not exaggerating either in how serious this all is ! War with Russia will go nuclear & VERY few will survive !

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:15 | 6210219 Anunnaki
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Their hand? More like their middle finger

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:06 | 6209820 KnuckleDragger-X
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Russia would have to go through Germany first to get to France. This is not a good idea since the EU has very little in the way of a functional military and Obozo has pretty much strangled ours. Russian military forces aren't that great but the have an actual working army. The butt clowns running the show have failed to remember, to play power politics, first thing is to have power.....

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:31 | 6210311 sam i am
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Not at all. In case of a WWIII, Russia is planning its military advancement from the Arctic. This way Germany won't protect France.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:06 | 6209821 youngman
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Probably got one of Putins hidden accounts there

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:12 | 6209835 franzpick
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I hope gas transmission is stopped and they freeze their assets off.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:42 | 6210017 JuliaS
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That's why they shut up every winter and grow their inflatable balls back every summer. Gas.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:13 | 6209837 buzzsaw99
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you fucked up. you trusted us. [/otter]

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:14 | 6209844 papaswamp
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Someone needs to pop off a nuke and get this show on the road.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 22:00 | 6212397 conscious being
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Typical zino-comment. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on world peace with the rest of us.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:14 | 6209845 CHC
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Yeah - go ahead and keep poking and prodding the Bear and see where that will get you.  Talk about hubris and arrogance.  Whew.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:15 | 6209848 Able Ape
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If you continue to "monkey around" with Mother Russia, you will, indeed, pay a steep price!

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:16 | 6209852 roadhazard
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The problem is Russia has invaded Ukraine. I don't remember Ukraine invading Russia. There is the basic problem. Politics are another thing.

 

Bring on the down votes Pootin Louvers.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:18 | 6209860 Bill of Rights
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The US invaded first....but we got the Gold so let Russia clean up the scraps.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:52 | 6211095 Volkodav
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it will not be first time grind the enemy bones for fertilizer

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:21 | 6209877 wow thats crazy
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Have you've not learned anything

The West ( US ) pushes first in everything and people are responding to it

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:33 | 6209954 Toolshed
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And now we all know that roadhazard is a complete idiot.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 19:07 | 6211809 Titus
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Or Hasabara troll?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 22:05 | 6212409 conscious being
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Knew that some time ago. We need some kiNd of ZH score sheet. You can't tell the players without a program.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:34 | 6209961 tmosley
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Convenient that you forget that the West installed a literal Neo-Nazi regime through a coup.

Bet you still watch TV.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:36 | 6209975 The Delicate Genius
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when did Russia invade Ukraine?

 

You can not mean Crimea, which voted to leave Ukraine, at the Provincial level, then held a referendum to {re}join russia.

 

1] Are you contending that the Crimeans do not wish to be part of Russia actually, or

2] are you contending that doesn't matter, and as corollary that russia should let the US puppet regime in Kiev oust the Russian fleet from Crimea and let American/NATO ships dock there, because naturally we should expect Russia to allow itself be further surrounded by NATO and it is "aggression" to not let itself be so surrounded?

 

Which is it?

 

And if you do not mean Crimea, but the separatist self-declared republics, can you provide proof that Russian regular forces have "invaded"?  Note that a small handful of individual Russians is not the same thing at all as a "Russian invasion"

 

 

I look forward, in earnest, to your considerate reply.

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:56 | 6210098 HenryHall
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Unlike East Germany, whose people never had a chance to vote for or against annexation by West Germany.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 13:43 | 6210375 Winston of Oceania
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What the russians planted in East Germany didn't want to reunify? Even if a vote were held mein herr the result would have been the same.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:07 | 6210883 Max Steel
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just like ussa presidential elections .

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