WTF?
Skybird, get yourself a blog!
I don't say "get a life" because the stuff you write is good, so you don't have to get a life
Writing such essays here is pearls cast before swine!
Not even I could bring myself to read all of it.
You can easily piss off Subman with 3 line posts, so why write three frackin pages???
:rotfl:
Re the gas "argument", I (expectedly) think the ukrainian government, namely the President Yushenko is using this to stir up **** in their own country, try to get financial support in the west and secure votes for his party and himself in the upcoming elections.
Russia, on the other hand, is not in the position to curry out favors, especially not to nations that pursue a hostile policy.
The EU is trying to diversify its gas sources to such utterly stable muster democracies as Iran or Algeria.
Actually this whole thing is one big argument for the nord stream pipeline, even though the poles will not like it.