Ref Ukraine

[Tartar Horde]

[NorthernRaider]

History is repeating itself Replace Sudatenland with Georgia, Alsace with Crimea, Putin instead of Hitler and both main western leaders following a doctrine of weak appeasement.

I bet Latvia and Estonia and Poland are shitting themselves.

[ErikEst]

History is repeating itself Replace Sudatenland with Georgia, Alsace with Crimea, Putin instead of Hitler and both main western leaders following a doctrine of weak appeasement.

I bet Latvia and Estonia and Poland are shitting themselves.

i bet britain and germany will be shitting themselves next when baltic states and poland will be annexed again into empire of evil...

you guys need to learn from the past. when german troops advanced in russia in 1941 they actually found the red army railroad carts full of military maps not only poland and germany, but also of france and spain. and red army had a battle units composed of french, spanish, german and all the rest of "soon to be revolutionised europe" speaking soldiers.

i bet you did not see this on the discovery channel. it is just shows who pays for the music...
it only takes to turn the gas tap close...

[Steve]

[NorthernRaider]

National Socialism, Soviet Socialism, Labour Socialism all the same evil

[Mortblanc]

[iaaems]

I did read somewhere recently that if fracking/shale gas becomes a volume reality in this country any time soon that we (the UK) would be somewhat independent of the Russian gas pipe system for a good number of years. This would have the effect of holding our energy prices or possibly reducing them (?).
Hopefully it would be better managed this time than North Sea Oil - I am an optimist, possibly.

[bigpaul]

yep this Ukraine business has made it sound like fracking could be a good thing for the UK, it isn't and the politicians are lying to us as per usual.

[iaaems]

From an economic standpoint shale gas is 'good'. However there are a few issues that have to be debated calmly and rationally. Personally I am on the fence - for now - on this one.
With regard to the Ukraine thing - I just hope these people can stop their constant squabbling eventually and do something constructive for a change.

[bigpaul]

unfortunately economics dosent take into account people or the environment, its all about the profit margin. as for Ukraine I think there is more to it than meets the eye and our govt should mind its own business.