Posted on 03/19/2014 12:30:30 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Ukraine will sign an agreement on closer political cooperation with the European Union on Friday, leaving the signature of a more far-reaching trade accord for later, the EU said on Monday.
EU foreign ministers said in a statement after meeting in Brussels that they looked forward to the signing of the political provisions of the so-called association agreement that Ukraine had negotiated with the 28-nation EU, on March 21.
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And he is correct. He did not say it in a mean way however. The speech itself was quite beautiful. Would that we had a president who was eloquent.In his speech today, Putin invoked his favored tactic for criticizing the Kiev government, calling them "fascists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites."
He said he would not instigate the annexing of Crimea.I'm not taking you seriously - LoL!
That would be our leader who willy wags.
Anyway it has been fairly widely reported that the translation was reported incorrectly. You can find it with google if you care about the truth.
What he said, and I still have a pretty decent amount of Russian on board too - is that he would not do it unless they asked him to come.
Problem most people have is that they think Obama is representing the US and it’s interests.
He isn’t. He is playing with the globalists. What is best for America itself isn’t going to happen. Victoria Nuland was over there installing another puppet government. Yes, the previous guy was no good, but the decision should have been made by the people, not the US State Dept under Obama. Poor Ukraine, neither side will be free.
Look, he is giving away the internet. Just yesterday he told latinos signing up for Obamacare to sign up themselves and their relatives and nobody would be deported. Weren’t we all told that illegals were not eligible?
This Crimean thing works well for Obama because it reignites some kind of fear and fools people into thinking he acts in US interests.
He doesn’t, and when he is supposed to be done in three years, it will be clear the US is nothing more than a weak sister in the Global community.
Our only hope would be for Americans to see what we are in for and react. Truth is Dinesh D’Souza was pretty spot on in his assessment of America’s future. We will be a land mass that used to have a name that meant something.
The EU will sign part of the Association Agreement tomorrow, but the Trade Agreement that was ready to be signed in November is suddenly off the table. Why?
For some reason Barroso, van Rompuy and Ashton decided to hand over the decision to the Russians: EU blamed for mishandling Ukraine trade pact agreement
This is really embarrassing for EU and therefore they have agreed to unilaterally lift tariffs on Ukrainian goods. However, this needs the approval of the Euro-"parliament" and the Council. It is not certain the EP will have time to deal with this before going into recess. Anyway, the toll-reductions are not thought to come in force until June and not last longer than until November.
Sadly, when doing business with EU never listen to their speeches, just read the bottom line.
(When doing business with the Russians, bring some heavy weaponry, just in case.)
PS: The Eu promises a loan of €1.6bn - but only if and when the new government signs a deal with the IMF; a deal that contains a clause that all energy subsidies must be cancelled - a sure vote winner if there ever was one. Why can't the West do anything right these days?
Russian Threat Re-Energizes Sweden's Push To Join NATO, Boost Spending
HELSINKI — Sweden’s government is examining a proposal to boost military spending to defend its own territories and the strategic Baltic Sea area in the face of renewed Russian aggression in Ukraine. There is also a movement among high government officials to re-examine the long-running issue of joining NATO.
Any movement for Sweden to join NATO is significant. After all, they remained neutral during WWII and remained so during the Cold War.
Regarding Swedish NATO membership: No, that's off the table. The last poll, taken after the start of the Crimean crisis, showed a declining support for a Swedish membership (≈30%). No politician is going to start negotiations with NATO without a previous concensus in our Parliament or a popular referendum - which will result in a no.
Poor Swedes, no one is standing up for them, not the US nor the EU.
The Swedish, Baltic bilateral loan to Ukraine is also dependent on a deal with IMF. IMF has been soooo succesful in Greece, in former Yugoslavia, in Kosovo etc.
What could possibly go wrong?
No, that’s why we need a good defence. But it up to us to chose our politicans wisely. Can’t blame anyone else.
Sweden has a formidable and modern military, which is much more than a lot of the NATO members have. For too long, most of the other members of NATO have short-changed defense and relied on the US. I hate to be the one to break it to them, but under the current regime, I wouldn’t bet my life that 0bama would/could respond as expected.
Crimea was the low-hanging fruit for Russia.
Actually, it was speculated that some of them did it so that Sweden would be forced to join NATO. But then we would have been just like some of the other members you alluded to.
Sweden is a PfP-ntion and we still have troops in Afghanistan, though we have been much luckier in our choice of area (northern Afghanistan) than the Danes for instance.
Watching the goings on in Kiev the past months , it's possible Putin is right.
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