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reformist2

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14. It's not too late to puke up the Kool Aid you drank.

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Thu Mar 13, 2014, 05:37 PM

Mar 2014

This new government of the Ukraine that Obama & Kerry & Merkel & the EU & the IMF are endorsing is not as fair and democratic as advertised....

Don't fall into the trap of either/or - you don't have to be a fan of what Russia is doing to despise what the "West" is doing to the Ukraine!

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"Ukraine's government mulling privatization of energy sector - Yatseniuk" [View all] grahamhgreen Mar 2014 OP

You'd best believe it. dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #1

The brazen ways in which we see the wholsesale theft of oil and other valuable resources malaise Mar 2014 #3

Ukraine is catching up to Greece in a hurry. Downwinder Mar 2014 #2

yeah, those gas reserves belonged to RUSSIA. geek tragedy Mar 2014 #4

The energy companies and the reserves are two different subjects. dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #9

presumably the energy sector includes both the companies geek tragedy Mar 2014 #10

Thats the bit which doesn't follow dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #12

it's also responsible for extraction geek tragedy Mar 2014 #13

Surprise! It's Shock doctrine time. pa28 Mar 2014 #5

xenophobia? Wanting Russian force out of Crimea is not xenophobic? Language? functioning_cog Mar 2014 #6

"The new Ukraine�s first law revokes Russian language rights" grahamhgreen Mar 2014 #7

and was vetoed. law not in effect. next? functioning_cog Mar 2014 #8

Right after they did that, 2) Looting of public assets 3) Austerity for the majority. War for oil, & grahamhgreen Mar 2014 #11

It's not too late to puke up the Kool Aid you drank. reformist2 Mar 2014 #14

Its odd this wasn't picked up before. dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #15