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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (106083)5/16/2014 10:20:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 219963
 
Russia is likely to want China to help protect a pipeline to China. <Am guessing that Ukraine troops would love to go toe to toe now against China soldiers basing out of Crimea and all around Ukraine. Do you not agree?> Americans/NATO are perhaps a bit light on historical understanding, or perhaps sensitive appreciation, or possibly faulty reality creation.

So far the 21st century adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan were not rewarding for Team America. Tony Blair doesn't come out of it smelling of roses. Perhaps they'll do better in a Dr Strangelove confrontation with Russia. Unlikely. My cheese principle* says the Crimean cheese is too close to the Russian ant nest to be annexed by Team America, even with some reluctant "help" from the cheese-eating surrender monkeys and the Germans who are still smarting from the carnage of WWII and WWI. Angela Merkel is unlikely to want to get too worked up about Ukraine, in whole or part.

Mqurice

* In similar vein, the islands of the South China Sea are quite close to China, so continuous logistics to maintain supply lines from distant shores are expensive. But doable as in Falkland Islands. Crimea is far less separate from Russia and has large military needs too, being a pleasant warm water port in a storm. It's not clear that the brokest nation in history can fund for many years distant adventures of too grand a scale.

The early decades of the 21st century could turn out to be more interesting than those of the 20th, the way they are going.
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