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Journal WillAffleckUW's Journal: Thoghts on Ukraine and Crimea 14

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If I were the Ukraine, I'd sink my ships and block the Russian port right now.

Better than surrendering and there's nothing the Russians can do after that. The port becomes disabled for months.

Just ask the Japanese.

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  • Not a totally bad idea, but it's just a one-shot deal.
    Times are grim for Ukraine. I'd go underground, do the asymmetric thing, and seek to build alliances in a post-Obama era that might actually matter.

    • You can always get a new navy and make it out of high speed drone-carrying speedboats. Flexibility and reaction make these almost impossible to stop for even the largest warships when you swarm them, and they're dirt cheap and easy to bring in.

      • Yeah, but restoring capability above the RHIB level isn't easy.

        • Not really, those are fairly small boats that the Ukraine has. We used to roll those out in a few months during WW II. In massive quantities.

          • Not even the U.S. today could match its WWII production. But I don't think the Ukraine even comes close in terms of materials, industrial capacity, and workforce. Furthermore, that's sunk costs in yards, mines and railroads that take years to build up. In summary, I'm unhappy with your comparison.

            • See, this is why the US entered late into WW II, while Canada was cranking out warships for many years before the US even got involved.

              You see it as a problem, so you give up.

              I see it as something that you can do, so I do it.

              Smaller, faster, better. Able do things because stuff happens.

  • I'd know which side my bread was buttered on, and make sure that I had a natural gas supply from my historical crown and trade partner.

    This is all about US covert interference in internal politics and throwing a spanner into the Russian works - then crying "Opression!" when the bear wards off the jackals.

    • It would also please the US endlessly, to use a provoked Ukraine crisis in the effort to ultimately deprive Russia of Black Sea ports.

      This is a game of Empires. If you think you work for "the Good Guys" then you lack historical perspective and introspective insight.

    • In Russia there is no Butter if you are not a serf of Putin, Comrade.

      All computers are belong to Bear!

      • Do you really buy that? That Russia is an autocrat state, led solely by the personality cult of an individual, who enriches those he wishes - as favours for supporting his autocracy?

        You make me glad to infer that USA Today still has university readership.

        The Ukraine crisis is manufactured, by the wish to control energy transport to Germany (mainly), the financial engine of Europe. All transport of oil and gas transits Ukraine.

        Russia is the natural energy and economic partner of Germany and most of EU, by

        • LOL. And you wonder why there are no jobs in the EU.

          • There are jobs in EU. Same as US and UK. In insulated, self-congratulatory bubbles, situated in large urban centers and connected with technology or government-funded technology research - or the elite speculative banking sector that finances the whole boondoggle, chasing rents without means of production.

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