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Originally Posted by Zulu29
Canada would be a third world country if not for our abundance of oil and gas and raw materials. If you pancake their economy (which I'm not certain would be so easy), they react by turning off the energy taps to the rest of Europe and plunge the region into recession again, possibly dragging the world with it.
Crimea is gone, there is nothing anyone can do about it and frankly it seems that it wanted it join Russia anyway. It was Russian for centuries before being handed over ceremoniously in the 50's after all.
The main thing now is to strengthen NATO presence in the region and wait. Personally I think Putin is done with his land grabs. He wanted the Black Sea naval base secured. He's got that now, he can now brag up national pride to his citizens. He may be crazy, but I don't think he's crazy enough to start a war with NATO. He'll ride out the sanctions(they'll end eventually), he'll miss out on the G-8 for a year or so bad then everything will return if the status quo.
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Is Russia going to hand over Königsberg?
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Thank you for everything CP. Good memories and thankful for everything that has been done to help me out. I will no longer take part on these boards. Take care, Go Flames Go.
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