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The United States and Nato have promised not to take any military action regardless of what military action Russia takes in Ukraine.
So if you are a great military power, and Ukraine is your oyster, what is worth taking?
Ukraine offers so much, let's consider just one thing - food.
Parts of Ukraine were the bread basket for the Soviet Empire, and for the Russian Empire before that.
Which parts of Ukraine should be on the top of a Great Power's shopping list ?
Ukraine's largest food crop: Wheat yield map: http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplo ... dity=Wheat
Ukraine's largest oil crop: Sun Flower Seed yield map: http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplo ... ty=Sunseed
Ukraine's second larges food crop: Barely yield map: Spring:http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplo ... ringbarley
.........................................Barely yield map: Winter:http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplo ... nterbarley
Ukraine Soil Map: http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/EuDASM/UA/russ_x76.jpg
Regions ( with maps ) and Crops Report: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~natashar ... kraine.pdf
Ukraine - Russia can take what it wants - so what to take?
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Re: Ukraine - Russia can take what it wants - so what to ta
So, according to these maps, Putin can just grab the east and
the south, and let the rest of the country starve.
the south, and let the rest of the country starve.
Re: Ukraine - Russia can take what it wants - so what to ta
One of the worst genocides in human history took place there beginning with the "dekulakization" practices in 1929, andJohn wrote:So, according to these maps, Putin can just grab the east and
the south, and let the rest of the country starve.
annihilation of the Ukrainian population in 1932-33
http://www.holodomorct.org/history.html
"By June, at the height of the famine, people in Ukraine are dying at the rate of 30,000 a day, nearly a third of them are children under 10. Between 1932-34, approximately 4 million deaths are attributed to starvation within the borders of Soviet Ukraine. This does not include deportations, executions, or deaths from ordinary causes. Stalin denies to the world that there is any famine in Ukraine, and continues to export millions of tons of grain, more than enough to have saved every starving man, woman and child."
I don't see Russia doing much more than they already have. Cost-benefit analysis is to much in the cost camp.
sy
Re: Ukraine - Russia can take what it wants - so what to take?
You made a very interesting observation. Why do you think so?
Re: Ukraine - Russia can take what it wants - so what to ta
Absolutely atrocious. And no one speaks about it nowadays.at99sy wrote:One of the worst genocides in human history took place there beginning with the "dekulakization" practices in 1929, andJohn wrote:So, according to these maps, Putin can just grab the east and
the south, and let the rest of the country starve.
annihilation of the Ukrainian population in 1932-33
http://www.holodomorct.org/history.html
"By June, at the height of the famine, people in Ukraine are dying at the rate of 30,000 a day, nearly a third of them are children under 10. Between 1932-34, approximately 4 million deaths are attributed to starvation within the borders of Soviet Ukraine. This does not include deportations, executions, or deaths from ordinary causes. Stalin denies to the world that there is any famine in Ukraine, and continues to export millions of tons of grain, more than enough to have saved every starving man, woman and child."
I don't see Russia doing much more than they already have. Cost-benefit analysis is to much in the cost camp.
sy
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