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Common Ground In Ukraine

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 what all people who share what is in common, than what sets us apart. We all want safety, security, opportunity and a semblance of a healthy life style. I am perhaps an outlier, I made many random , apparently non advantageous visits to Ukraine, had bad situations incur upon myself , yet also had amazing, stupendous situations unravel that outweighed the disadvantageous situations. Many losses and few wins, yet the situations that seemed inadvertent became a sub narrative that was irreplaceable. Nadia Savchenko relating her personal experience perspective about Ukraine's participation in Iraq amongst the "Coalition of the Willing" And herself as a soldier of a Nation that surrendered the world's third largest Nuclear Arsenal in History , and she asked me who I was, an American who speaks basic Russian in Ukraine and who doesn't speak basic Ukrainian much at all. I am just me. I have , had been to Crimea, have, had been to Donetsk , Zaporizhia, Eastern Ukraine, Dn...

A Black Sea Swan Song?

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Everyone knows that the CIA with-held evidence in the Russia Probe, most likely to protect sources   There has been some speculation that Russian Military buildups would result in an attempt to take a land bridge to Crimea and potentially that includes opening the Crimea Irrigation  canal. Yet such a move would stop Nordstream 2 and result in potentially worse economic and political ramifications for the Russian Leadership. It would be an ugly bloody battle. Possibly involving a feint breakout move towards Kharkiv that looks half serious as a  distraction, and then a blitz from the South , as there really aren't very substantial defensive elements between Crimea and Berdiansk, it's mostly flat and level with no fast roads to get there from Central Ukraine. Make no mistake my fellow American friends , readers that the Crimea annexation, green Men Invasion involved years of planning. The possibility of Russian forces taking control of Crimea by force inflamed debates i...