Looks like the Jews will once again have to register...

[Farbin Kaiber]

I'm in Kiev right now and there's no imminent threat of war here. People here see the eastern region as undereducated farm people that all think joining Russia will have them moved to Moscow to dine with Putin.

Sounds like Eastern Idaho.

[mkcman17]

Race and language aren't on the Russian political agenda. They need the region's industry and are taking advantage of an encumbered and bureaucratic 'soft' West.

[einhander]

Obvious false flag op to discredit the eastern/pro-Russian side. Meanwhile... the western/EU-USA "nationalist" side is actually full of real live neo nazis.


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[Rustyduktape]

and since Russia supplies a huge chunk of Europe's natural gas

This. I don't know all the details, or even most of them, but it's very interesting... Something like 80% of the natural gas supplied to Europe from Russia is piped through Ukraine? That and the proposed trans-saharan pipeline for an alternative source for Europe... interesting. I don't know what all the connections are exactly, but there's gotta be something there.

[Q5Quint]

Because gas, unlike oil, is dependent on construction of costly pipelines or LNG tankers and LNG port terminals, it tends to have a price fixed by bilateral long-term agreements between buyer and seller. That gives Moscow a degree of protection against events such as the brazen Wall Street manipulation of oil prices in 2008-2009 from a record high of $147 a barrel down to below $30 only months later, manipulations which devastated Moscow’s oil earnings at just the time the global financial crisis cut off credit to Russian banks and companies.

At this point it seems a stable settlement has been reached between the Russian and Ukrainian governments on pricing for imported Russian gas. As of January 2010 Ukraine has agreed to pay prices close to western European levels for its gas, and at the same time she will get significantly higher transit fees from Russia’s state-owned Gazprom for transporting Russian gas through to western Europe. Some 80% of Russian gas exports went through Ukraine up until now. [4]

That’s about to change dramatically however, with the implementation of Russia’s long-term pipeline strategy, a strategy designed to make Russia less vulnerable to future political shifts such as the 2004 Ukraine Orange Revolution.

Apparently this happened before. The gas thing and the Ukrainian revolution thing. Also the jew thing, but I think it is unrelated to the $$ thing. Insert tasteless joke about gas here.

[ST1G]

Sounds like Eastern Idaho.

Eastern Idaho trying to join Utah?

[Farbin Kaiber]

Eastern Idaho trying to join Deseret?

FTFY. But I meant the undereducated farm people assumption.

[ST1G]

FTFY. But I meant the undereducated farm people assumption.

The entire analogy works so well.