solarz
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It says the French want to suspend the delivery of two Mistral frigates to Russia.
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It says the French want to suspend the delivery of two Mistral frigates to Russia.
I don't think so.
A French member of parliament for the opposition UMP party, Bruno Le Maire, previously minister for European affairs, doesn't want France to deliver the Mistral frigates ( sic ) to Russia."very funny" France considers not arming the Russians:
the headline here says something like
Using the Mistrals, France Wants to Lure Putin to Negotiations
but the article doesn't say much, quotes this:
Anybody who knows the French language please tell me what I need to know
Write a letter to Mr Putin! If you're living in Europe you might get a watch or something!
It says nothing about benefits. It only mentions that Russians already pumped billions in South Osetia and it was like a blood in the sand... But few quotes were funny
those bandits were from Russia mainly he forgot to mention
And this is pure gold
People like that are widely known and called 'homo sovieticus' who remember the times when no one had anything.
solarz
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That conclusion is an opinion expressed by the writer of that article. It doesn't change the FACT that Russia promised billions to the Crimeans.
Your original argument was that the numbers given in the referendum were not credible on a mathematical basis. I have since pointed out that you were making the problematic assumption that the votes were going to be split along ethnic lines.
Really, it doesn't matter what you think of Russia's efforts to woo the Crimeans. The only relevant factors are that Russia *did* woo the Crimeans. Whether or not they were sucessful, and whether or not the referendum numbers are suspect, can only be conjectures at this point, having no evidence to back it up either way.
However, you cannot just point to the numbers and claim it proves something.
Jura The idiot
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oh that's just great, it's the opposition saying this?! (then there's a mistake in the Russian article, as that Le Maire person is referred to as Госсекретарь which would be the Secretary of State
as you can see, I know nothing about current French politics)Anyway, correct me if I'm wrong, but from the opposition, it's probably a hypocrisy (they don't care about a couple of billion euros) ... but from the government, it'd probably be a stupidity to arm the Russian Navy at times like this!
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Jura The idiot
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oh :-( about one hour ago the first soldier (Ukrainian) was KIA, at a parking lot of the military base in Simferopol (now even Russian servers and BBC inform about this; it hit Central European media about half an hour ago) ... hope it's not a hoax, but I'd prefer if it was ...
Ukrainian solder in Russia's Simferopol ? What was he doing there ? I think it's a hoax.
Russia can buy frigates from China. I think China would be more than happy to sell frigates to Russia.
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