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Related: About this forumUnderstanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context
vlogbrothers · Published on Mar 4, 2014
In which John discusses the crisis in Ukraine, and how the influence of Russia and Europe have shaped Ukrainian politics for centuries. REMINDER: Educational videos are allowed to be more than four minutes long.
Thanks to Rosianna for image-gathering: http://www.youtube.com/rosianna
The BBC's Ukraine hub: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26270866
CIA Factbook on Ukraine: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html
The wikipedia article about the Crimean War is quite good, especially in contemporary context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War
- There will be a pop quiz on this and other possible ''Putin Poisonings'' next week. And remember to show your work! {Stick drawings are acceptable}.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)But...Peter Lavelle's panels are also fascinating in that there is diversification.
's DEFINITELY A GREAT WEEKEND WATCH!
(excuse the shouting..if you can)
delrem
(9,688 posts)Thanks.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)and putting it together in their "Own Heads..with Their Own frames of Reference"...but We Seek far from CNN and Faux News and others. We SEEK.....
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)pam4water
(2,916 posts)Austerity almost never fixes anything. Russia has a strangle hold on the Ukraine via gas pipeline. If Putnam doesn't like the elected leader of Ukraine Russia can just up the gas prices and crush the Ukrainian economy. It has nothing to do with Yushchenko abilities as an economist.
Most rest of the info was good though.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...for a few people.
Sure, businesses would like lots of purchases. But the only way to deal with a depressed economy would be to tax the rich, who are hoarding their money, and move it into the hands of the middle and lower classes, because theyre in a situation where theyll spend it as fast as they get it. That would solve the problem of demand, but only at the expense of the rich and corporations.
Theyve made a choice: Theyd rather tough it outstick it to the mass of people, even at the cost of losing customersthan be the one who gets hit with the tab for boosting the masses purchasing power. ~Richard Wolff