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Re: The Global community has become more "tranquil"
By: rapids_60 Date: July 23, 2014, 8:13 pm
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[quote author=trollslayer link=topic=1133.msg14604#msg14604
date=1406128323]
The US needs to step up oil and natural gas production and make
Putin a smaller player on the world stage.
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N. Gas is the big problem for Europe. Oil can be tankered in
from anywhere. Nat. Gas needs pipelines, doesn't travel
efficiently by ship, and we can't do a trans-oceanic pipeline
just yet.
I'm curious as to what sanctions we can apply that would be
effective? We're not going to start WWIII over it and Putin
knows that. Anything lesser is just an annoyance to him.
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Re: The Global community has become more "tranquil"
By: trollslayer Date: July 23, 2014, 8:33 pm
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[quote author=rapids_60 link=topic=1133.msg14609#msg14609
date=1406164413]
N. Gas is the big problem for Europe. Oil can be tankered in
from anywhere. Nat. Gas needs pipelines, doesn't travel
efficiently by ship, and we can't do a trans-oceanic pipeline
just yet.
I'm curious as to what sanctions we can apply that would be
effective? We're not going to start WWIII over it and Putin
knows that. Anything lesser is just an annoyance to him.
[/quote]
Sanctioning them from using dollars as a currency is one way.
Freezing their assets and the assets of the oligarchs is
another. Arming and supporting the Ukrainian army is another.
That would be an act Putin and his country would fully
understand. If we can send "advisers" to Iraq why not there?
Right now the Ukrainian army is using old Soviet era circa
1970's hardware. A little upgrade to more current armaments
would give them a little more of a fighting chance.
Of coure if he would fly overseas and run a campaign to end the
war that may help. Obama is a very good campaigner as members
of his own party are finding out. Not much of a president but a
hell of a campaigner.
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Re: The Global community has become more "tranquil"
By: trollslayer Date: August 8, 2014, 7:48 am
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More signs the world is becoming a more tranquil place.
[quote]Russian strategic nuclear bombers and other military
aircraft entered US air defense identification zones (ADIZs) at
least 16 times over the past ten days, American defense
officials confirmed on Thursday.
“Over the past week, NORAD has visually identified Russian
aircraft operating in and around the US air defense
identification zones,” said Maj. Beth Smith, spokeswoman for US
Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense
Command (NORAD).
Smith sought to downplay the incursions that she called “a spike
in activity,” telling the Washington Free Beacon’s Bill Gertz
that the flights were assessed as routine training missions and
exercises.
But an unnamed defense official familiar with the incursion
reports disagreed with Smith’s assessment. “These are not just
training missions,” the official told Gertz, saying that Russian
strategic nuclear forces appear to be “trying to test our air
defense reactions, or our command and control systems.”
NORAD scrambled fighter jets several times when Russian
strategic aircraft flew along US ADIZs. The planes included a
mix of Tu-95 Bear H heavy bombers and Tu-142 Bear F maritime
reconnaissance aircraft, as well as one IL-20 intelligence
collection aircraft, Smith said.
The bomber flights took place mainly along the Alaskan air
defense identification zone that covers the Aleutian Islands and
the continental part of the state, and one incursion involved
entry into Canada’s air defense zone, she added.
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