Quote Originally Posted by Suobig View Post
The Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and Nato must calm down and back off

That's a bit unexpected.
Yeah that's proper journalism.
Remember that this is the paper that Snowden used for his revelations. And Assange.
It's British and it used to be "old" labour, more or less social democrat. Not sure how to define it today. If you want a British paper that's trying to see the bigger picture, it's the Independent or Guardian, personally I prefer the Independent because they have less politically correct nonsense and is more international than the Guardian. Independent was bought by a Russian. Forgot the name but it's the same person who owns the Новая газета paper in Russia. Actually I think he's called Lebedev.

Obviously Russia should be scrutinized for this. Bu if you are realistic, there is certainly no reason to panic or over-react.

Saw in Swedish papers, they are adding emergency funds to the defense budget because of this. That's laughable, for goodness sakes! It's 20 years to late to build any kind of defense at all against Russia, plus it's not even needed for f-cks sake! What a ridiculous waste of money.

Since Sweden buys 60% of its oil from Russia, all that Russia would need to do, would be to turn off the pipeline or stop the tanker, and then they could dictate their terms.

The best "defense" against Russia is to do business with it, learn the language and stop thinking that Russia's internal affairs is our business. And try to snap out of propaganda mode. In the last 10 years, Russia has proven beyond doubts that it is loyal to it's allies, reasonable to negotiate with and not outwardly aggressive. Compare with the record of the USA. There is no need to increase any defense budget in Northern Europe because of events in Ukraine, that's a one-off unique situation!

Mark my words though - there is a new kind of Cold War on the horizon.
It's good for business - they want it.