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To: GPS Info who wrote (106870)	8/5/2014 3:55:52 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By bruiser98 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219602

With some luck, if the sanctions war develops as these things do, we'll be able to re-enact Operation Barbarossa while playing the 1812 Overture, even as politicians commemorate the carnage of World War 1 and the lights going out across Europe. Russians in general and Putin in particular no doubt have institutional and personal memory and attitudes towards conquest from the "free" world. Just as they probably are aware of Genghis Khan's depredations from the east. It should all be on live tv showing dead people by the million. The ratings should be excellent. It would seem a simpler and more genteel matter to hold a Scottish, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, or Quebecois referendum in the disputed part of Ukraine to determine what the residents there would like to do. David Cameron is all pious about Russian but neglects to notice his equivalencies. Heck, in Hong Kong, they didn't even ask the local yokels, but just handed it over to China. Not just the leased part but the rest too. For all the cant about democracy and whatnot, they seem very reluctant to think in terms of democratic solutions. One could confuse them with lying hypocrites. When governments do things, they are ipso facto legal. So when Yukos assets were taken by Russia's government and sold off, it's not for the buyers to determine the legality of it. Just as governments confiscating houses for unpaid taxes or cars for some trumped up reason sell them to somebody else and the buyers just accept that because governments do it, it's legal. When they conscript young men and force them into the firing line to kill and be killed, that's legal though actually it's slavery. Even in the "free" world it's considered legitimate and legal. Mqurice