Originally Posted by
Stephanie
Lest you remind me lol ??
So to put it in simpler terms :
Let's say you have a happy trading relationship with your neighbor , and then your neighbor discovers that he could
also trade with the bloke down the street. And so your response is to attack your neighbor in order to prevent him
from trading with the bloke down the street ??
That's what it boils down to , and I think it is wrong and there is no conceivable excuse for it.
Lest I remind you .
I agree it is wrong, but i can understand why hes doing it. ukraine imports and exports to russian and is a big trade partner. What happens when europe comes along is ukraine starts importing/exporting from them and the russian trade takes a hit. But thats not the big thing. Financially russia controls ukraine. 25% of ukrainian exports are to russia. 31% of imports are from russia. That is financial clout, in the same way that germany controls ireland, because when you control someones currency, you control the country. Then the european trade plan with ukraine would reduce that % considerable and russia would have less financial control over ukraine.
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
"The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation" - Henry David Thoreau.