Economist Intelligence What’s happened? On February 21st Russia unilaterally decided to recognise the independence of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and launched a “peacekeeping operation” under the guise of guaranteeing the security of the two breakaway republics. The announcement in effect put an end to the Minsk II peace […]
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Russia demands NATO pullout from Bulgaria, Romania Russia is calling for “withdrawal of foreign forces, hardware and arms” from countries that were not NATO members before 1997. Both Bulgaria and Romania were formerly part of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact that was created to rival NATO during the Cold War years. The two east European countries […]
Location, location, location As you can all see Romania is on the Black Sea. Sharing a border with Ukraine and Moldova. And other states that have been in the news lately. Curiously Moldova has just declared a ‘state of emergency’ Moldova is apparently delinquent in it’s gas payments. “[State energy company] Moldovagaz will pay Gazprom […]
Of course craziness abounds in all the 5 eyes nations. False flag potential? If one occurs look to the 5 eyes nations. That’s my opinion.Crimea is definitely a prized possession the west would like to repossess. Crimean’s voted in a referendum deciding to stay with Russia and separate themselves from Ukraine. An outcome that was […]
Truthfully, I can’t say with any certainty. Highly doubt anyone really can. But, we can share some thoughts on the subject, right? Seems to me the US and friends want to ( would like to) increase sanctions against Russia using the mechanism provided by the nominally (but not really) independent SWIFT. That is one possibility […]