Posted on 03/08/2014 9:28:41 AM PST by varmintman
On the off chance you might encounter people who don't understand why George Soros and Monsanto might want the Ukraine....
The official title of the tsars was "Tsar of all the Russias", meaning primarily 'Great Russia' (Russia), 'White Russia' (Belorus), and 'Little Russia' (Ukraine). That is the heart of the Slavic Orthodox world and Ukraine is the breadbasket of that world. The Ukraine could feed everybody from the Volga to the Atlantic and that in fact was Hitler's plan; the idea was to build a super-gauge train to haul foodstuffs from Ukraine to Europe and, as I read it at least, to get Western Europe pretty much out of the food business altogether.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitspurbahn
Early plans for routes considered India and Vladivostok as the ultimate goals of the railways, but by 1943 the planning was focused exclusively on European cities.[1] Ukraine and the Volga Basin were seen as especially important targets, as these areas were viewed as the future granaries of the Nazi empire,[1] potentially through the "settlement strings". orSiedlungsperlen of the proposed Wehrbauer settlements within the conquered Lebensraum territories, which would also be linked by the planned easternmost reaches of theReichsautobahn freeway network.[5]
I was watching a recent episode of the TOP GEAR TV series (the BBC version) and the hosts were driving through the Ukraine. They were making fun of how boring the terrain is. I spent my boyhood Summers on my Aunt and Uncle’s wheat farm. I watched that show and thought, “Wow! You could really grow some grain on that land!” To me, it looked like it could really be a breadbasket. Oil is important and so are warm-water ports, but people have to eat.
STOP
Way to spice up the conversation.
Are we being a pain in your anise? If we don’t stop, are you going to pepper us with your mace?
I give up.
The idea of ANYBODY wanting any sort of a global monopoly on food makes me nervous. In fact pretty much the only person I could feel halfway good about having such a monopoly would be Jesus and he hasn’t come back yet...
His rocket program went on to great success.
What’s that one about (hadn’t heard of it)?
Ah, “Supertrain”! I remember that one from my childhood.
It got the axe pretty quickly, as I recall. And it was pretty expensive to produce as well, if my memory serves correct.
I agree...spice puns are the cause of far too much saffron in this world. We need to make a dill to put an end to them.
No, because he was a socialist. What private businesses were allowed to build any autobahns of their own volition? Even before Adolf came on the scene, all the railroads in Germany were nationalized into one entity.
Obama’s fond of Monsanto, for the record, even signing legislation on their behalf. Crony corporatism is kinda antithetical to capitalism.
Takes one to build a railroad like that. Today's Republicans are the exact opposite, which is why took 23 years to rebuild the Bay Bridge, 13-and-counting to replace the World Trade Center, and the Keystone Pipeline is receding far into the future.
Odd. The first character is not the Russian ‘h’ sound (they actually don’t QUITE have an ‘h’, more like the Greek semi-vocalized ‘h’.) I wonder how it got changed in translation. I think that first letter is ‘g’.
That's because it's a Ukrainian г, not a Russian one. From Wikipedia:
The letter 〈г〉 represents voiced glottal fricative /ɦ/, often transliterated as Latin h. It is the voiced equivalent of English /h/. Russian speakers from Ukraine often use the soft Ukrainian /ɦ/ in place of Russian /ɡ/, which comes from northern dialects of Old East Slavic. The Ukrainian alphabet has the additional letter 〈ґ〉 for /ɡ/, which appears in a few native words such as ґринджоли gryndžoly 'sleigh' and ґудзик gudzyk 'button'. However, /ɡ/ appears almost exclusively in loan words, and is usually simply written 〈г〉. For example, loanwords from English on public signs usually use 〈г〉 for both English g and h.
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