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- MBTI
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That's it?
What are you looking for?
That's it?
How their population, those that lived in Crimea, has been tossed around by Russia. Many were sent away in a type diaspora. They don't have a say any longer in Crimea. Maybe the population has been cultivated for this.
Maybe the US could request that Russia pay compensation for any people who were displaced and then maybe the US government could pay compensation to all the native americans who were displaced by the US government?
It would sound so much better if:
Maybe Russia could allow voting by those they willfully displaced and are now displacing.
Geronimo!
Voices heard not in the streets.
Nobody ever told you voting under duress is not palpable?
Referenda don't mean much when the question is "Do we move towards Russia, or declare independence?" It will be a vote designed to strengthen the Russian position with Crimea no matter what.
If they were interested in not-obviously-rigged voting they would remove their troops (the ones they still deny are there) and allow OSCE observers access to parliament.
Do you think those in Crimea understand their safe haven is about to become another Cuba?
Observors can only work if they are totaly impartial otherwise they will go in with one task in mind: to undermine the result
We owe enough money to feed the poor of the world. Reagan said we had 15 billion in gold in the federal reserve, and not a cent of it was owned by the US.
The fall of Russia was not a fall at all. You may see something similar.
So what exactly are you implying that the OSCE (members of which include Russia and every former SSR as well as a few Asian nations) wants to do by sending observers?
a whole bunch of shit
So, again, what are you implying neutral international organizations sought to accomplish in sending observers to see the vote?
I expect the Ukraine to split
The Russians have secured the crimea whilst a referendum is arranged to see if the people there want to join the russian federation or the EU; the crimean politicians have already voted to join the russian federation
I also said the Ukrainians would take a loan from the IMF which in the future they will fail to pay back. They will default on the loan because their economy is in tatters and in return the IMF will do what it has done elsewhere and it will insist that the government privatise its assets and sell them off in firesales; the global oligarchs will then buy up everything in Ukraine. Meanwhile the ukrainian economy will nosedive so badly from the austerity that it will see an exodus of its young going to seek work elsewhere
Putin had offered them billions of euros of debt relief but they have refused that because their leaders who have created this coup and who have now put themselves in power are part of the global oligarchy (who are trying to centralise their power more and more and they use debt as a weapon to enslave people)
So in brief:
- a split in the ukraine
- an IMF loan
- a default on the loan
- a nosedive in ukrainian economy seeing an exodus of workers out of the country