RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:GENM TSX March 4 (some missing info 11:28AM-12:04PM)Well you just proved my point. The trade balance for the EU is negative so Russia loses more than Europe when there is no trade. EU is also an exporter of wheat so I don't think they are going to be starving although price rises are coming. Times were much harder in WWII and I think that Europeans will be willing to pay that price for democracy.
Ugg writes:
Russia doesn't want to take over the Ukraine they want to disarm it & they don't want NATO missiles on their border. That has been the dispute for years.
I find this last statement to be rather naive. What he probably wants (not that anyone can know for sure) is to install a undemocratic puppet government that is more aligned with Russia or maybe to integrate the rest of Ukraine as he did with Crimea. It is just nonsense to claim that the Ukraine was any threat to Russia or that it is led by neo-nazis. You certainly should not believe that there was some agreement keep NATO away from Russian borders. It does not exist. That might be the motivation, but we will never know because Putin lies consistently.