Crisis Oekra�ne - Rusland #189 Waar we niet geloven in wat niet past

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Op donderdag 26 februari 2015 20:50 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Hij komt zo.

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Op donderdag 26 februari 2015 20:46 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Schiet met instemming van TS even een modje aan voor titelwijziging

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MarQs__ twitterde op donderdag 26-02-2015 om 19:36:27 BREAKING: #Zakharchenko to #Ukraine: Withdraw heavy weapons by 18:00 February 27th or we return troops to front linehttp://t.co/yDn9lmyr3J reageer retweet

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This time around, Russia-Ukraine gas feud is mostly hot air

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Nowadays, Kiev pays for any Russian gas it receives with cash up front. If Russia does halt gas to Ukraine in coming days as Putin threatened, it won't be because Moscow has decided to cut Kiev off; it will be because Kiev hasn't ordered any.

In public, Ukraine says it is not buying more Russian gas because Moscow violated delivery terms and may have sent some gas that Kiev had paid for to separatist areas without its permission.

The issue which smelled to Putin like "genocide" is political dynamite for both sides. But in practice, the volumes for rebel areas are small and Kiev couldn't cut them off if it tried, because rebels and Russians control pipes at the border.

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He estimated Ukraine would consume about 35 billion cubic meters of gas in 2015. That is not far out of line with what it produces itself and imports from Europe, although it will be important to build up reserves for next winter's peak.

Ukraine did need gas from Russia to get through the past winter, but the actual amount of gas it says it ended up buying under the EU-brokered deal was comparatively small.

Ukraine's Naftogaz says it spent $830 million buying 2.39 billion cubic meters of Russian gas in total over the three winter months of peak demand. That works out to around 26 million cubic meters per day, less than it produces itself and less than it receives in reverse flow from Europe.

Ukraine may still need to buy gas this year to replenish its reserve tanks before next winter, but with global energy prices falling and warm weather coming, there is little rush. Ukrainian gas officials believe there is still capacity to increase the reverse flow from Europe.

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Op donderdag 26 februari 2015 21:03 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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Op donderdag 26 februari 2015 21:49 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Goed artikel over het gevaar van een nieuwe oorlog tussen het reguliere leger en de 'vrijwilligers' Azov/Aydar en seperatisten groepen

http://www.vox.com/2015/2/26/8114367/ukraine-war-warlords

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rConflictNews twitterde op donderdag 26-02-2015 om 22:04:47 UKRAINE: Loud shelling heard in #Donetsk now, despite ceasefire generally holding for last few days. - @MarQs__ reageer retweet

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Kuchma: Putin delivers ultimatum to Ukraine.

"We were actually given an ultimatum: If we don’t accept its terms and stop any resistance, we’ll cease to exist as an independent state,” Kuchma said.

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Op donderdag 26 februari 2015 22:43 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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Op donderdag 26 februari 2015 22:52 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Word je zelf nou ook niet moe van dit soort quotes/refferals? Serieus?

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Op donderdag 26 februari 2015 23:54 schreef crashbangboom het volgende:

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Mijj ontgaat ter zoveelste maal hoe dit ook maar iets met Oekraine te maken heeft, maar ach, spijkers op laag water begreep ik.

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Im Verteidigungsministerium wird angesichts des Ukraine-Konflikts nachgedacht

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Is Nato looking the right way?
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The other day I was sitting with a senior US Nato diplomat talking about the question of arming government forces in Ukraine. He accepted that there were some divisions between advocates of such a policy on Capitol Hill and some of America's key allies - with the Germans in the vanguard of the opposition.

But his key point was that any decision to go ahead with weapons supplies must look at not just their immediate impact but at the second and third-order consequences of such a step.

Was this done seriously in London and Paris before the decision to intervene in Libya? Officials and ministers will no doubt say "of course it was". But then wasn't the chaos that has ensued entirely predictable?

These are big questions. They point to the experience, capabilities and expertise of our foreign policymakers - a theme highlighted by the Lords report. Most of the UK experts I speak to on the Russian military, for example, used to work in one way or another for the Ministry of Defence but were dispensed with as a saving after the Cold War.

Where were the experts on the Middle East to advise against the naive and frothy assessments of the Arab Spring that saw it simply as an upsurge of the Twitter generation destined to bring democracy and to overthrow tyrants?

There are fundamental questions too about the way in which policymakers relate to their political masters.

Have they perhaps imbibed the same short-termism and focus on presentation of the wider political class?

In short, where is the "strategic" vision to guide policy through these tumultuous times?

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SputnikNewsUS twitterde op vrijdag 27-02-2015 om 00:42:27 #US Paratroopers Conduct Large-Scale Exercise in #Alaska http://t.co/8jjTDl3Gul http://t.co/ulRgcOqNRi reageer retweet

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AFP twitterde op vrijdag 27-02-2015 om 01:05:18 UN Security Council to meet on #Ukraine Friday http://t.co/XhXYzTOzk9 reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 27 februari 2015 01:01 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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SputnikNewsUS twitterde op vrijdag 27-02-2015 om 00:42:27 #US Paratroopers Conduct Large-Scale Exercise in #Alaska http://t.co/8jjTDl3Gul http://t.co/ulRgcOqNRi reageer retweet

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U.S. Army Alaska paratroopers conducted the largest U.S. airborne operation north of the Arctic Circle in over a decade
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Approximately 180 paratroopers, two support vehicles and two arctic sustainment packages parachuted from two Alaska National Guard C-130 and two C-17 aircraft during the exercise, called Spartan Pegasus.

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Op vrijdag 27 februari 2015 01:06 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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AFP twitterde op vrijdag 27-02-2015 om 01:05:18 UN Security Council to meet on #Ukraine Friday http://t.co/XhXYzTOzk9 reageer retweet