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.

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.

I did not agree with the American way of doing things out there.....though they got rid of one of the most evil dictatorships the world has ever seen..

true, Soddem was a bastard, but what have they replaced him with?

And as for afghanland, what a mess.

Haze,

I was eavesdropping on a Cobra!

Something like namedropping!

Keep your ears opennnnn and you will guess what I was referring to and expecting.

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RF.

How many do you want to be "butchered", before you can say "THEY" lost?

But it was right for "THEM" to stand up for themselves.

Of course if you were a younger man you would volunteer to be in the front line.

Remember how many were "murdered" a day in Iraq and how many "murdered" in one day when the Belgrano was sunk.

Look at the logistics of having a "scrap" over the Crimea.

Look at the geography.

Look at the Naval Bases.

Look at supply routes.

Unless you want to unleash missiles.

Have a look at the alternative in Syria.

UMMMMM

I think Kieve is playing the only game open to it. Mind I wouldn't mind too much somebody putting a lethal bullet, or two into Putin.

Putin's political career should be ended.....I hope a war does not start but what are you supposed to do ?...shades of 1939...

Crude is up......if there is a flashpoint : add a few dollars to today's price...

There are many players in the Crimea game rf.

Why should it escalate to world war, when the main players in the "west" side hold no cards...

What exactly can any of them do?

Well...economic pressure and sanctions can do a lot of damage....the world soccer body will not take it lightly that the Ukraine is being invaded....the world cup in 2018 is very much in jeopardy...I presume that Fifa will probably have to find another organiser if things remain the way they are...Russian gas.....well it takes two to stop that...if they want to close the valves there is nothing we can do.....there is always Bahrain and Kuwait....after that the military options might come....but a good move might be that the legitimate government of Ukraine invites the UN in early...very early...