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Aren't you forgetting about Kaliningrad, it is ice free all year round.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad
Opposing Putin Is Like Pleading For Poison
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Aren't you forgetting about Kaliningrad, it is ice free all year round.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad
Comrade, every time you post everyone can smell the borscht on your breath....if that's what it is.
In a crisis it would be cut off from Russia.
Your link: "Due to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Kaliningrad Oblast became an exclave, geographically separated from the rest of Russia. This isolation from the rest of Russia became even more pronounced politically when Poland and Lithuania became members of NATO and subsequently the European Union in 2004."
BattleofHodow
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Real Ukrainians aren't pro-Russian, these Russian colonists should get the fck out of Ukraine.
You say this, as someone who resents undocumented Mexicans being here.
Just imagine if Mexican colonists in America had killed millions of Americans in the past.
You clearly have a low IQ.
I confess not to have your xenophobia -so no point in bashing eastern Ukraine for me
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so class what have we learned?
That Putin is a rational actor (demonize him all you like) and responds to realpolitik interactions
I did. It's a long steam around the north Atlantic - but ya.
Darth Omar
Russian asset
Why is this so hard to learn lol?
Carp has to carp about nothing
answer I always give i guess -but the so called foreign experts who should know better do the same demonization
Darth Omar
Russian asset
Well, the names do fit lol.
But the most important adjective is *rational actor*. The goofy Russia phobes need to consider the fact we are lucky Russia isn’t led by a dictator with The Crazy.
In foreign policy terms, all you need to know is that Putin is in it for Putin and his oligarch buddies. The rest is fluff. We’re in it for our own interests
Foreign Policy 101.
amend the bolded to RATIONAL Foreign Policy - like Trump practices as well- except Russia he cant
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It's what they had to do when getting their wheezy old aircraft carrier to Syria.
Did they ever finish the Tartus upgrades? lemme see
Russia plans to invest $500 million in its only navy base outside the former Soviet Union — here's what it's like therehttps://www.businessinsider.com/base-in-syria-helps-russia-expand-presence-in-mediterranean-2019-9
Now Russia plans to invest $500 million in the Syrian port and build a grain hub there, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on October 17.
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The naval base in Tartus is the only such facility Russia has outside the former Soviet Union. In 2017, Moscow struck a deal with Syrian President Bashar Assad to extend its lease on Tartus for 49 years. The agreement allows Russia to keep up to 11 warships there, including nuclear-powered ones.
An air base in the nearby province of Latakia has been the main hub for the Russian military campaign, while the commercial ports in Latakia and Tartus have served as top supply hubs, handling ships with fuel and military equipment in a massive supply effort dubbed the "Syrian Express."
Russian navy missile ship Veliky Ustyug prepare to sail from the Russian naval facility in Tartus, Syria
to patrol in the eastern Mediterranean, September 26, 2019.
Now Russia plans to invest $500 million in the Syrian port and build a grain hub there, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on October 17.
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The naval base in Tartus is the only such facility Russia has outside the former Soviet Union. In 2017, Moscow struck a deal with Syrian President Bashar Assad to extend its lease on Tartus for 49 years. The agreement allows Russia to keep up to 11 warships there, including nuclear-powered ones.
An air base in the nearby province of Latakia has been the main hub for the Russian military campaign, while the commercial ports in Latakia and Tartus have served as top supply hubs, handling ships with fuel and military equipment in a massive supply effort dubbed the "Syrian Express."
Russian navy missile ship Veliky Ustyug prepare to sail from the Russian naval facility in Tartus, Syria
to patrol in the eastern Mediterranean, September 26, 2019.
As part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to beef up the Russian military amid tensions with the West, the Russian navy in recent years has revived the Soviet-era practice of constantly rotating its warships in the Mediterranean.
Next month, the Russian navy plans to open a maintenance shop in Tartus that will further bolster the base's capability.
Next month, the Russian navy plans to open a maintenance shop in Tartus that will further bolster the base's capability.
Darth Omar
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If Trump thinks that there’s a part of Putin that wants to be accepted by the West—he’s not the first president to think that lol.
That’s EXACTLY the way Putin has been looked at since going back to Clinton. Bush ‘looked into Putin’s soul’ or whatever, and what did Bush think he saw? A misunderstood dictator that wants accepted into the club.
Ditto Obama. He sent Hillary over with her goofy Reset Button. And nobody much cared in either instance.
Then 2016 happened and it changed everything—on the left. The rest of us are meh, Putin lol.
We still don’t get it.
true. The whole cult of personality Putin analysis thing is bogus.
Putin is the ultimate player for self interests. Deal with him to the advantage of the USA
Darth Omar
Russian asset
I’m rather bored with the whole topic.
What you said is perfectly true—and should be perfectly obvious, but all you get in return is ‘Putin stole the election!’ ‘Russia attacked us’ lol.
You have more patience than I do.
BattleofHodow
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You Hicks & Russians have a lot in common, you love, love, aggressive leaders, bombs, wars, killing things.