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To: dangus

Surely in the next few months, (before Obama is Impeached), there is bound to be a “civil disturbance” in Odessa, Ukraine that will spread all along the Black Sea coastline of Ukraine- - - .


5 posted on 03/12/2014 9:07:35 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf

Surely not.

Whereas the Crimea has been Russian for 400 years, Odessa was part of the anti-communist Ukrainian Republic (c. 1920), independent from Russia, and was badly hit by the Russian-induced famines (c.1930) when it was forcibly subsumed. Contrarily, Crimea was Russian through it all. So the difference between Crimea and Odessa is like the difference between German and German Jew.

Yes, Yanokovich won Odessa. But then, there’s a reason he feigned support for the European Union and opposition to the Eurasian Union. If Russia were to take more than Crimea and take that which was historically the Ukraine, he’d be much more likely to take Donetsk and Luhansk, two pro-Russian oblasts directly bordering Russia, that (unlike Odessa) are majority-Russian, not just largely Russian-speaking.


6 posted on 03/12/2014 10:16:46 PM PDT by dangus
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