General Sir Richard Shirreff, top British banana -- sorry, NATO "commander" until last March -- said a "strong message" should be sent to Putin if MAINLAND EUROPE (!!!) was to avoid "total war."
Fogh of War Rasmussen -- the Return of the Living Dead! -- said that Putin could expand "Soviet revisionism" to NATO and the EU. In the Baltics, he said Putin would go for a little exercise in "hybrid warfare."
There will be more (minor) EU sanctions on Monday. The hardcore economic sanctions against Russian banks and companies lapse only in July. Italy and Greece may torpedo them for good when that happens.
Even EU bureaucrats admit -- off the record -- sanctions are ridiculous, sanctioning in fact the EU for least 15% of exports to Russia. The Brits, predictably -- shades of the Great Game never vanish -- lead the pro-sanction crowd.
Some idiot in the Grauniad passing as "Europe editor" (where do they find these people? Getting pissed in a pub after an Arsenal match ?) wrote that "Putin is increasingly seen as a reckless gambler who calls bluffs and takes risks, and is inscrutable, paranoid and unpredictable." Looks like this was ghostwritten by a State Department hack.
And other rags go on the same road: the real nightmare for Europe is not Ukraine, but Evil Vlad. NO ONE dares to criticize the Empire of Chaos.
And now back to...
RUSSIAN AGGRESSION, RUSSIAN AGGRESSION, RUSSIAN AGGRESSION, RUSSIAN AGGRESSION, RUSSIAN AGGRESSION, RUSSIAN AGGRESSION, RUSSIAN AGGRESSION...
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