I got some response on my post about the shoot down of MH17 in the Ukraine. I wish to correct a fact . 6 Aids experts from Holland are confirmed to have died in the crash. There are varying reports claiming that up to 100 Aids experts died and that is still open to confirmation.
A careful investigation is required to find out who was responsible for the shooting down of this airline. President Pu...tin is blaming the Ukraine government. They will fully cooperate in any investigation. I have a good feeling that all of their missile launchers and missiles are accounted for.
The SA-11 anti aircraft missile is a very complex weapons system. Many years ago I considered becoming part of the US Army anti aircraft missile forces. At least a year of training was required to make me a competent team member. The same can be said of a complex Russian anti-aircraft missile system. I doubt that the pro-Russian separatists had the time to undergo this training. So Russian officers and specialists are at every battery of SA-11 missiles inside the Ukraine.
Most disturbing at this point it appears that Putin will not allow outside people to recover the bodies and send them back for burial. These bodies may never be returned to their relatives.
Thanks to Facebook I am able to talk to several highly-educated and English-speaking Russians. They support President Putin. In their mind the Ukraine is to Russia what Mexico is to the United States. They feel that the Ukraine has a history with Russia going back for centuries. They feel that the Ukraine was attacked by Europe and the United States. They feel that they are defending their interests there.
Europe is frightened to resist Putin and be part of some really tough sanctions. The reason is simple. Putin supplies most of their natural gas. If he cut off the supply, Europe would literally "freeze to death" during the winter. Energy experts say it will be 2020 before the US can replace Russia as the prime supplier of natural gas to Europe.
What is needed is the kind of courage that President Harry Truman showed in 1948 when Josef Stalin blockaded Berlin. Truman organized relief with US Air Force transport planes providing all the supplies that the people of West Berlin needed to survive. A crash program needs to be organized in the US, Canada, and the Middle East to provide Europe with their natural gas needs this winter. Then Europe can tell Putin they no longer need his natural gas and stand up to him as the US is.
A careful investigation is required to find out who was responsible for the shooting down of this airline. President Pu...tin is blaming the Ukraine government. They will fully cooperate in any investigation. I have a good feeling that all of their missile launchers and missiles are accounted for.
The SA-11 anti aircraft missile is a very complex weapons system. Many years ago I considered becoming part of the US Army anti aircraft missile forces. At least a year of training was required to make me a competent team member. The same can be said of a complex Russian anti-aircraft missile system. I doubt that the pro-Russian separatists had the time to undergo this training. So Russian officers and specialists are at every battery of SA-11 missiles inside the Ukraine.
Most disturbing at this point it appears that Putin will not allow outside people to recover the bodies and send them back for burial. These bodies may never be returned to their relatives.
Thanks to Facebook I am able to talk to several highly-educated and English-speaking Russians. They support President Putin. In their mind the Ukraine is to Russia what Mexico is to the United States. They feel that the Ukraine has a history with Russia going back for centuries. They feel that the Ukraine was attacked by Europe and the United States. They feel that they are defending their interests there.
Europe is frightened to resist Putin and be part of some really tough sanctions. The reason is simple. Putin supplies most of their natural gas. If he cut off the supply, Europe would literally "freeze to death" during the winter. Energy experts say it will be 2020 before the US can replace Russia as the prime supplier of natural gas to Europe.
What is needed is the kind of courage that President Harry Truman showed in 1948 when Josef Stalin blockaded Berlin. Truman organized relief with US Air Force transport planes providing all the supplies that the people of West Berlin needed to survive. A crash program needs to be organized in the US, Canada, and the Middle East to provide Europe with their natural gas needs this winter. Then Europe can tell Putin they no longer need his natural gas and stand up to him as the US is.
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