Oh, Frack!

It has been. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/volpe/meet-the-1-behind-the-anti-fracking-hysteria/

There is no USSR, hasn't been for over a generation.

...which is why he said "and now Russia".

Ahh, I didn't look closely enough at his repeat post.
Thanks.

No USSR, and they are no longer actively Communist. But they are still Russian: paranoid, devious, and imperialist. I don't blame Putin for his efforts to advance Russian interests. That's his job. I blame our government (and society as a whole) for being too trusting, too idealist, and failing to look for the puppet masters working the tree-huggers' strings.

Disagree Oz, when you look at history. Putin is simply using the most direct method ... and responding to a serious threat from the EU and USSA.

There used to be a tacit agreement between Uncle Sam and Uncle Samovich with regard to their respective backyards.

Yep.
Domestic enemies are much more dangerous, as they don't have to invest much in warfare.

Misspelled incomprehensible blather.

Leave Sputering Blower alone, wood U, he makes my posts look good, and that's hard to do:-)))

What " serious threat "? The criminal fears the policeman, and his efforts to negate the threat are just another aspect of his criminality. In other words his persecution is just.

The West has bent over backwards to integrate Russia into all the advantages of Western institutions; the only persecution he has received was over his assault on Ukraine. The West values a peaceful Europe, and Russia has chosen war. It should be stopped.

Pretend the world is a typical western neighborhood for a moment. Your neighbor on one side is a crack shack, the other side are a pedarast couple. The rich pedarasts are quiet and mostly leave you alone except for constantly trying to trade merchandise and bugger your son. The crack shack occupants, on the other hand, having decided that they want your house, have kicked down the back fence, kidnapped your daughter and are camped out on your deck. The cops keep promising to do something, but have so far only given you a 30% discount coupon on a home alarm. But you don't have much confidence in police anyway, since they took away your guns 20 years ago and are a full hour away if they decided to help, which they haven't. Oh and the pedarasts are biggest customers of the crack shack. That is Ukraine.

This is Canada. Don't be confused.

Canada lets crack houses run for 3 months before busting them.

You are a fool, and probably a wannabe killer.

"The cognitive dissonance will be palpable."

Won't happen. You have to have more than two working brain cells for that to occur.

"Disagree Oz, when you look at history." "There used to be a tacit agreement between Uncle Sam and Uncle Samovich with regard to their respective backyards."

Oh, you mean like Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba 90 some miles off the coast of Florida in 1962. Like that history? Or did you mean Russian nuclear armed bombers using Cuban airfields in 2009.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/14/russia.cuba.bombers/index.html

The Cubans publically announced their agreement with Russia to use their airfields in December 2014.
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/cuba-russia-agreement-Lourdes/2014/12/18/id/613810/

But as you can see from the 2009 link, the Russians could have had a non-public agreement with Cuba since 2009 or even earlier.
Our press is on the other side so who knows. Hope this information helps you.

Green-heads exploding in the UK. Parliament soundly defeated an anti-fracking bill.