Unrest in the Crimea

[poddster]

This is starting out as a non political thread, try to keep it that way please.

What are your views on the unrest in The Crimea?

Do you think it may have an impact on Australia?

Do you know what the unrest is about?

[ca04]

By all reported events it looks like the Ruskies could get the ball.

The region is mostly Russians  and it was untill the mid 1950s Russan.

[amber-eyed-girl]

That is the case. So if the Crimea reverts to Russia, what happens to the non-Russians?

Do they stay as second class citizens, or do they have to move to the Ukraine proper?

Will it be, worst case scenario, another Yugoslavia? Who knows at this point.

[poddster]

As in any social conflict, all parties can not be equally pleased. The democratic process dictates that the majority rules but emotion has no such constraint.

[ca04]

I may be wrong but by the restraint showing from all parties in the Crimera  to date I feel that if the rest of the world but out there may not be any great concern regarding violence.

[poddster]

ca04 can you even imagine the US not butting in ?

That would go against their primary industry.

[silverfaun]

I read that it was mostly the EU interferring in Ukraine that started the unrest then Russia came in with a massive aid package so they would stay with them.

I should have found the article but it went something like "How the EU Brutalised Ukraine".

[lakeland27]

nobody out of Moscows control was ever going to host the black sea fleet. the  eu and others knew this. its a pantomime.

[amber-eyed-girl]

Subsequent to that, the Ukraine has asked the E.U. for a massive aid package.

It was a little like the spoilt child of estranged parents. Who is willing to give the most?

But it is beyond that now.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20140311-703598.html

Link to the financial figure in The Wall Street journal.

[ca04]

UK/US have always been keen to have a fleet access to this location.

[silverfaun]

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@ca04 wrote:

True The circumcised members of the money sector in the states has always done very well out of conflicts including wars.

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I'm sorry but what do you mean by the circumcised members.