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1000 Ukrainian "soldiers" offed. The Kiev juntas plan to get rid of their minions worked well with this one. From what I understand these troops were the likes of Azov Aidar and Donbass battalions. Mercs and Naziguard types.
1000 Ukrainian "soldiers" offed. The Kiev juntas plan to get rid of their minions worked well with this one. From what I understand these troops were the likes of Azov Aidar and Donbass battalions. Mercs and Naziguard types.
No. I'm a concerned US citizen living in Seattle Wa watching my country slowly slide into the third world. I've traveled to almost every continent on earth unlike some Americans who have never left the state they were born in let alone the continent. I've seen hungry kids in Nigeria and Nairobi Kenya and I've walked on walls that Roman soldiers marched down 4 abreast 2000 years ago. I hiked to the top of Massada and down again, I spent 2 nights in an old bus trying to keep warm in the wilderness of Yamalia in Siberia. I've sat on the Dneiper river bank across from the wall of the old city in Smolensk and drank beer where Viking traders pulled their boats ashore centuries ago. I've stood on the same bridge Hitler had a photo op on in Brest. I went to Kiev and arrived at Victory Park in the Arsenal district with just one goddamn picture left in my camera.
I've seen more in my time and done more than you most likely can even imagine.
Am I a fan of Putin? Hell. I think America needs him. All we have is a bunch of corrupt self serving chitweezles in DC who collectively couldn't agree on a decision to **** their own pants if they were on fire. I'll go you one better. There's only one person I can think of that Americas needs more than Putin and that's Joseph Stalin. Just to clean up the mess in DC.
I'll ask you a question now.
Who are you to even ask such a stupid question of me?
1000 Ukrainian "soldiers" offed. The Kiev juntas plan to get rid of their minions worked well with this one. From what I understand these troops were the likes of Azov Aidar and Donbass battalions. Mercs and Naziguard types.
This particular DNR commander, who became well-known after Ilovaisk ( nick-name "Givi" has been christened in US media as "Abkhasian" (i.e. Russian mercenary. Well he does look Georgian after all, but in this interview he is talking about his family - he is actually a local, from Ilovaisk.)
...and then what ? he is a politician, not an historian. Politicians say a lot of things...I remember the French foreign minister said during the Yugoslav wars that Serbs were "gour-legged beasts" ... how is it for a "diplomatic" language ?
The karma bites the bear in the butt thanks to the red dragon
Central Asia hates China more than anyone else; this is just the typical "frenemy" trade, pretty minor at that. It is well known throughout the Central Asian region what China thinks of them, and what it would mean to come under any Chinese grip, just the treatment of Muslims in China alone has been enough to convince everyone of this.
This is actually a long term issue China has been trying to push, which is part of China's goal to develop further its west. The border areas over there are so under developed, it is difficult for any exchange to take place, as it does in China's east. China wants to invest in more infrastructure in its west, but can only do so if there is matching infrastructure in the bordering states, because without that, the investment in China's west is rather pointless.
All the BusinessWeek article was is a bunch of hype over typical deals that have always gone on, anyone who lives there and/or does business there (like I do), knows that China has been involved in the area since USSR times, this is nothing new, it is just BusinessWeek decided to hype up a mediocre foreign investment deal to get people to purchase its products.
The US trades way more than that with China, yet at the same time the US invests heavily in its defense to counter China's military, a military in which the US is funding; how insane is that?
Central Asia hates China more than anyone else; this is just the typical "frenemy" trade, pretty minor at that. It is well known throughout the Central Asian region what China thinks of them, and what it would mean to come under any Chinese grip, just the treatment of Muslims in China alone has been enough to convince everyone of this.
This is actually a long term issue China has been trying to push, which is part of China's goal to develop further its west. The border areas over there are so under developed, it is difficult for any exchange to take place, as it does in China's east. China wants to invest in more infrastructure in its west, but can only do so if there is matching infrastructure in the bordering states, because without that, the investment in China's west is rather pointless.
All the BusinessWeek article was is a bunch of hype over typical deals that have always gone on, anyone who lives there and/or does business there (like I do), knows that China has been involved in the area since USSR times, this is nothing new, it is just BusinessWeek decided to hype up a mediocre foreign investment deal to get people to purchase its products.
The US trades way more than that with China, yet at the same time the US invests heavily in its defense to counter China's military, a military in which the US is funding; how insane is that?
When gazillion of Tadjics will start moving to China looking for jobs instead of major Russian cities, than I'll believe in "close ties of Central Asia with China" instead of Russia.
Who are you to even ask such a stupid question of me?
I don't care where you've been. You just answer my questions! And don't you dare question me!
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And don't you dare question me!
