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To: TobagoJack who wrote (105695)	4/20/2014 11:09:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217573

That's a good summary you wrote. Item X is doubtful as there are probably not going to be BIG movements. Just little ones. The biggest most monster movement of them all is the all-time most phenomenal Cyberspace revolution. Not just since the industrial revolution, and before, and back all the way past the invention of sexual reproduction and back past that to the invention of twisted pair DNA. All those inventions combined [maybe leaving out the invention of DNA] are small beer compared with the invention of wireless and wired Cyberspace. The current shenanigans in and around Ukraine are just silly repeats of 19th century geopolitics. It should be embarrassing to be somebody taking it all seriously. The drivers of pre-20th century geopolitics were the fact that people were hunter-gatherer/agriculturalists, with a Malthusian birth rate of about 10 babies per woman. That era has finished. Birth rates are down to non sustainable and wealth does not now come from hunter-gathering or even agriculture, which are minor in the overall economic context these days. If Ukraine is the worst we have to worry about, we have got it pretty easy. Despite the absurd claims by various hysterics, Vladimir Putin and Russia are not planning much at all other than to keep the peace in their immediate vicinity. They will certainly not be explaining to Angela Merkel that East Germany should be handed back to Russia. That wouldn't have crossed his mind. Of course they have to tidy up the mess Victoria Nuland and gangsters have caused, but that is well under way, though Obama/Kerry/Biden and co whine like a fleet of Koreans [who whine like a fleet of 747s about QCOM royalties] about Russia having troops on their own border inside their own country. Hilarious!! USA has bases all over the world and they drool like Pavlov's dogs because Russia is concerned about barbarians just over their border, with USA's Victoria Nuland causing big problems and a coup by overthrowing the elected president. Hawk says a coup has to be by way of military force, not revolution. Okay, maybe "coup" is not precise, but it's near enough for government work considering the process of Victoria Nuland backing one militaristic violent faction against the duly incorporated government. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (105695)	4/21/2014 3:41:11 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	1 Recommendation Recommended By Hawkmoon Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217573

TJ one major point is lost on you - Russia is a raw material country with a failed industrial economy the whole thing started due to 1. sliding raw material prices 2. inability to build a independent industrial economy to process those raw materials in widgets in demand 3.Ample new discoveries of other deposits of it s main export items 4. Deepening corruption beyond anyone's imagination 5. substantial brain drain further weakening its development 6. Inability to form a new coherent economic alliance within the former Soviet Union 7. wrongly placed sense of power and resurrection based on past abundance of cash from exports of raw materials 8 Successful inducement of Western Power that this time is different and I can bring more points - IMHO the titanic is sinking and to divert attention and out of fear the present situation. Now the main problem is the fact that you deal with a wounded aggressive entity and there must be a coherent policy to slowly calm it down and heal it. Unfortunate the Western leadership with all their high paid clerical force do not have the requested smarts or talent to do it, not to mention that their big corporation are totally blinded by greed. In addition they where "sleeping at the wheel" being concerned with listening (actually snooping) to the wrong audience / population. The most outrageous part is that no one got fired or will pay for the consequences. Best example is Rusal is it an aluminium company? What do they export? Aluminium the metal? The answer is neither they own hydroelectric plants on Russian big rivers, that use the Russian natural resources to generate electricity and refine bauxite into aluminium. Therefore Rusal is another energy exporting enterprise in the form of processed bauxite into aluminium