The Brink of War?

[StevieWonders]

Yeah, true enough. I don't know what the hell Putin is doing. Seems like this little adventure of his is only going to result in really two things:

1. Ukraine's weapons stockpiles will grow immensely.
2. Sweden and Finland will swiftly join NATO.

With your strategic understanding and your IT skills I’m surprised the CSIS hasn’t snapped you up

[arsenal]

The security council is meeting this week. The UK foreign secretary is going to Ukraine and Moscow while the defence secretary is heading to Ukraine. My goodness, this 'propaganda' that Moses believes is certainly gaining momentum.



https://news.sky.com/story/putins-ol...g-out-12528608

[StevieWonders]

The security council is meeting this week.

This would be the self-same Security Council before which Colin Powell solemnly laid out his incontrovertible evidence for Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass distraction (WMD) is it?

Apposite

[latintopxxx]

...wish u wouold stop talking about crimea...it was only ikraine's by a whim of the ussr pressie...vast majority of the people are Russian...

[arsenal]

"This would be the self-same Security Council before which Colin Powell solemnly laid out his incontrovertible evidence for Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass distraction (WMD) is it?

Apposite"

The relevance to my point?

[Moses]

1. Ukraine's weapons stockpiles will grow immensely.

It will be not for long time: they will sell it to some "regime" with which other countries have no trade. Like they sold at past ballistic missiles to Iran or draws of rocket engines to North Korea at past. Ukraine is one of the most corrupted countries in the World.

[Moses]

...wish u wouold stop talking about crimea...it was only ikraine's by a whim of the ussr pressie...vast majority of the people are Russian...

And most important: Crimea was Ukrainian only for 50 years and it was only because of more comfortable logistic without crossing of republican borders with corresponding formalities. So in 1960s it was moved to Ukraine.

USSR map 1950

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By the way: main Crimean city Sevastopol - the base of USSR/Russia navy never been Ukrainian - it always stand Russian.

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[arsenal]

I've always blamed Jeremy Clarkson for the annexation of Crimea. In February 2014 he and his fellow Top Gear presenters drove around the former Soviet submarine base like they owned it. I'm convinced this angered Putin so much that a week or two later he invaded out of fury.

[Moses]

I've always blamed Jeremy Clarkson for the annexation of Crimea. In February 2014 he and his fellow Top Gear presenters drove around the former Soviet submarine base like they owned it. I'm convinced this angered Putin so much that a week or two later he invaded out of fury.

Balaklava - formerly base and now museum is free to visit to everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_...plex_Balaklava

[StevieWonders]

Balaklava - formerly base and now museum is free to visit to everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_...plex_Balaklava

Is there any quarantine or prior testing requirements to visit the area?