Saturday, April 3, 2021

Ukraine — 3 April 2021

India Punchline
Ukraine: Frozen conflict is hotting up
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service

The Vineyard of the Saker (longish)
Crucial interview of Foreign Minister Lavrov
The Saker

Economics as Classical Mechanics (short, read in relation to Lavrov interview)
EU as a new Nazi superstate
Ivan Kitov

Defend Democracy Press (cui bono?)
Who needs a war in Ukraine?
Dimitris Konstantakopoulos

4 comments:

lastgreek said...

Johanna Ross
@shottlandka
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Apr 1

Russian media reporting that retired US army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges has said that Russia should be made to feel 'uncomfortable' in the Black Sea and that Ukraine, Georgia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Moldova should all unite against Russia in the region.

World War 3 anyone?


And here I am foolishly, if not selfishly, worried about still being able to buy non-rancid olive oil.


Peter Pan said...

Obtaining non-rancid non-radioactive olive oil may be a challenge.

Matt Franko said...

Most olive oil comes from Spain that is far from the blast area...

lastgreek said...

"Obtaining non-rancid non-radioactive olive oil may be a challenge."

Only thing worse than U.S sanctions (see Syria) would be radioactive contamination... unless you're fungi, then you're happening!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus

Olive oil from Spain? OK, well, if it's not radioactive that would be an attribute in its favour wouldn't it?