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• Guest 1224

  • Registered: 9 Mar 2014
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  17 March 2014     18:03262431
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   Vic Matcham wrote:

  Nothing to do with us we can not get our own house in order let alone any others so the UK should keep out of not only this one but others around the world to.

  
  
  Got to agree with you there Mr Matcham..... Crimea was only on loan whatever the west claims; much like Hong Kong which the British gave back hastily, when asked!
  
  As for sanctions.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  17 March 2014     20:01262442
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  non monsieur hong kong was leased by us and went back to china on the previously agreed date, completely different to ukraine.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  18 March 2014     17:34262478
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  i still can't work what is going on here, the crimeans voted to join with russia but putin has issued a decree giving them sovereignty and full independence.
• Guest 649

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  19 March 2014     05:01262484
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  They run it all just like the EU just using the name Federation.
  The West is very wrong in getting mixed up in this one the Crimeans voted to go with Russia by 95% so let them do it.
  How would we fill if Russia backed Scotland and told us so or other parts of the UK, we have a lot more to lose then Russia by getting mixed up in this one.
  If the USA want to stop trading with Russia let them go ahead with it, and we will take over by giving Russia the goods the USA have stoped.
  In doing that we will be better of by millions in the bank also it will mean we keep our oil line open at no ex cost and not upset a very big nation.
• Guest 1224

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  19 March 2014     10:19262500
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  Very good Mr Matcham, they should make you maire of Dover. You say a lot of good things to do . Could be when Scotland are free that the Russians block the Trident navy and move in like in Crimea.
  
  They supply us with much cheap gas. The EU is also good for everyone I believe.
• Guest 649

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  19 March 2014     13:02262511
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  Thank you sir,also if and I say if because I do not think it will ever happen we come out of the EU we will need to trade more with all in the open market and Russia is one of the big boys out there so the very last thing the UK needs now is to upset them and any of the others.My Family have outlets that deal in China last thing they need to see is a cold war again.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  30 March 2014     12:18263153
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  if true this will be a serious problem if putin has designs on finland.
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-putin-wants-to-regain-finland-for-russia-adviser-says-9224273.html
• Guest 745

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  30 March 2014     12:46263158
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  When the wall came down, the west guaranteed the Russians a neutral buffers zone would exist .
  
  The EU expansion into this zone is a problem for the Russians.
  
  what we see now is the red line. We need to stay out
• Guest 698

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  30 March 2014     13:23263159
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  Finland is not a NATO member and the EU is not a military alliance so Finland is still militarily neutral. But what is the point of a neutral buffer zone if Russia is able to annex it by force with impunity? Keith, you sound just like Mr Chamberlain in 1938.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 745

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  30 March 2014     14:15263166
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  Peter .
  Neutral in neutral not the west not the soviet
  
  That was the agreement to end the cold war, we now have missals in Poland, and the EU sponsoring a revolution in Ukraine.
  
  I am no lover of the Russians ,,but if you push them, don't be surprised if they start to push back .
• howard mcsweeney1

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  31 March 2014     10:40263220
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  this will now add to the tension.
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ukraine-crisis-british-troops-to-mobilise-in-nato-eastern-europe-military-exercises-9225477.html
• Brian Dixon

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  15 April 2014     15:04264239
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  here is an update.
  
  http://home.bt.com/news/worldnews/ukrainian-tanks-take-up-positions-11363893461089
• Guest 649

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  15 April 2014     15:19264241
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  I think we should stay well clear of it even knowing we are a member of NATO let the two very big Nations sort it out.
• Brian Dixon

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  15 April 2014     17:22264245
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  another update.
  
  
  http://home.bt.com/news/worldnews/gunfire-at-east-ukraine-airport-11363893461089
• howard mcsweeney1

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  16 April 2014     12:08264279
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  heading towards civil war, no-one benefits.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27045534
• howard mcsweeney1

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  31 July 2014     08:49270105
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  Merkel taking the initiative in her own style, pre-empting other countries.
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/land-for-gas-secret-german-deal-could-end-ukraine-crisis-9638764.html
• howard mcsweeney1

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  18 January 2018     20:21338476
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  Does anyone remember the good old days of the cold war when we all knew where everyone stood?
  
  
  
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-new-war-aggresssor-border-moscow-militia-kiev-prepare-military-a8166481.html
• Captain Haddock

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  19 January 2018     13:01338516
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  Lest we forget:- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/world/asia/malaysia-air-flight-mh17-russia-ukraine-missile.html
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Weird Granny Slater

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  19 March 2018     12:32341321
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  Captain Vladyslav Voloshyn who (according to your allegiances, or ability to disperse smokescreens, or to untangle evidential knots, or to find someone in a hall of mirrors) either did or did not shoot down MH17 from his Su-25 jet, has put an end to his side of the story:
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43457694
  'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus

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