Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Hague is just a headline grabber... Too indulged with his own self importance and speaking crap..

Yes indeed well said shortie. He talks through his bottom most of the time. A little similar to Cyners.

Cyners probably one of Hays mates who tipped SKY the wink.

Everybody here as a go at twitter but it gets its facts right and in a very speedy fashion too.

this sort of situation is always likely to produce rumour and counter-rumour due to the volatility of the situation

Shortie - he's a politician, they are all too indulged with their own self importance and that's one of the reasons we have this sort of stupid situation - just like we did last year with Iran. It's just a question of who blinks first, either that or some silly sod will decide to call a bluff one day and then we will be in a proper mess.

Yes well said doodles its all scare mongering and smearing these days.

Its getting out of hand.

sticky - the report on Sky - just seen the net - quotes both stories in the same article, so pays your money etc!

Seriously, what?! Kerry tells Russia 'you don't invade a country on completely phony pretexts'


Published time: March 03, 2014 11:10


The US Secretary of State spoke today of the unacceptability of invading a sovereign country on phony pretexts in order to assert one’s own interests in the 21st century. But no, he was not speaking about the United States, as one might have thought.

“You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests,” John Kerry said during an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press. “This is an act of aggression that is completely trumped up in terms of its pretext. It’s really 19th century behaviour in the 21st century.”

Kerry has also threatened to isolate Russia economically and politically and warned of potential asset freezes and visa bans, adding to media and political hype that followed Russia authorization of sending a stabilization force in Crimea on official request from the authorities.


More : http://rt.com/news/kerry-russia-us-pretext-494/

Well was looking forward to a full night of TV entertainment guess Ill just have to watch corrie and then later on Tory Boy and Kevin Maguire on SKY News slugging it out.

This looks interesting...........

Steven Russolillo ‏@srussolillo 10m
How stocks react to geopolitical risks: Usually doesn't take long to bounce back from selloffs..................

Rule by oligarchs: Kiev appoints billionaires to govern east


Published time: March 03, 2014 07:08


http://rt.com/news/ukraine-oligarch-rule-governors-512/

Reuters

http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKBREA221AI20140303?irpc=932

Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/03/russia-ukraine-surrender_n_4889893.html

CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/03/world/europe/ukraine-tensions/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Max.

It sounds a little like the Russian Mafia buying up London and moving into the Thames Valley.

I wonder if they getting grants to help them out.

Remember, Money is no object!

I see Cameron is saying one thing in public and another in private.

Renegading on promises made a few hours earlier like Chamberlain.

Wasn't the latter a tory?

Do we all condemn Russia's actions towards Ukraine by all the bloggers here on MoneyAm?...I presume so....from my point of view....it's a declaration of war !...towards that country and the rest of the world has to do something about it !....nobody can say that any Russian of any smaller ethnic group in the Ukraine was in danger of any kind....it does not give the Russians carte blanche to invade.....what it will do unless they move out will mean that the Ukrainians will have the right to bomb Moscow and Petersberg and other Russian cities.....this situation is intolerable.....there will always be some group of people that will do these things....the Russians are in selfdestruct mode the way I see it....(please feel free to disagree...that's what this thread is for, thanks...)...

fred
How would you know what he says in private?

Those public phonebooth darlings find out everything...

Why is Russia's (Ukraine) actions different to say, the USA (Iraq) ?

It looks like his advisors have run a few scenarios past him and they have concluded that he can get away with taking Crimea.

He thought that the signing of the agreement a couple of days before the President of Ukraine ran away would postpone anything serious. The agreement included elections, which I think Putin assumed could be fixed in favour of the President.

The President turned out to be weaker than Putin had hoped for. The result is that Putin has lost his puppet tyrant and his control of Ukraine.