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| Europe's Nightmare Could Still Come True: A NATO-Russia War over Ukraine | |
| 2014-10-08 | |
| [The National Interest] Despite numerous violations, the cease-fire in Ukraine's Donbass region is largely holding. For very different reasons, President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin of Russia have come to lead the parties of peace in their respective capitals. Economic issues clearly top the agenda in both Ukraine and Russia. Yet, the cease-fire remains very brittle. The Donetsk airport and the city of Donetsk itself have seen some heavy fighting, with many civilian casualties. The parties of war on both sides of the front line have not given up their ambitious goals. Should the cease-fire be allowed to break down completely, the danger of a big war in Ukraine will immediately reappear. This scenario must be absolutely barred, as it risks escalation to a full-scale military confrontation between Russia and NATO. However, mere avoidance of war is not good enough. The perilous political dynamics in Eastern Europe need to be reversed.
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Any ISIS-destabilized/controlled NUCLEAR TURKEY + NUCLEAR IRAN makes the creation of a unified Western + Eastern JudeoChristian or Christian Bloc = MilPol barrier in the Ukraine + Black Sea region more important. THE TIME TO DO SO IS N-O-W, NOT CIRCA 2030-2040/2050 AFTER THE GLOBAL [Nukulaar?] JIHADIS ARE RAMPAGING THROUGHOUT EUROPE + THREATENING THE OWG AMERIKAS FROM THEIR BASE(S) OR STAGING AREAS IN TURKEY + OTHER. To paraph THE SEARCHERS' late great WARD BOND > "D *** NG IT - NOW, NOW - spelled N-O-U-U-E - NOW!" |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-10-08 20:39 |
| #3 Still, there was to be Sarajavo and Europe would committed suicide on a grand scale in 1914 and (after a pause) 1939. That was back when European nations had actualfighting armies, instead of a few special forces units and some peacekeeping forces. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-08 19:00 |
| #2 "The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier." - Otto von Bismark Still, there was to be Sarajavo and Europe would committed suicide on a grand scale in 1914 and (after a pause) 1939. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-10-08 17:33 |
| #1 Who the hell would go to war over some Donbass region of the Ukraine? |
| Posted by: Anice Nim 2014-10-08 16:50 |