Geo Political Risk

**mcdongle** · 25-02-2022, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by Davexl

I am taking a break from helping to maintain this blog which I have loved doing for the last several years. Medical tests to attend to. Sorry...

Hope everything is ok.... All the best to you

**alokdhir** · 25-02-2022, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by Bjauck

How are both sides equally responsible? Poland is a Nato country with no buffer abutting Russia. Simply, Russia wishes to put an independent country within its orbit, to rewind the clock to the Soviet era when Ukraine was controlled by Moscow.

Here both sides did not mean Ukraine and Russia ...but meant USA and Russia in creating troubles for the helpless people of Iraq , Lebanon , Syria, Afghanistan and latest is Ukraine ... I meant Power games of these countries at the cost of innocent people of many countries .

**mcdongle** · 25-02-2022, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by LEMON

Control of Chernobyl is back and forth, back in the hands of Ukraine, very unsettling due to nuclear reactors based here, so a very key location

Also would you fire shells at it??

**Davexl** · 25-02-2022, 10:19 AM

Well maybe one last one - for now...! NYT

Feb. 24, 2022, 3:31 a.m. ETFeb. 24, 2022
Feb. 24, 2022 Carlotta Gall

Ukraine asks Turkey to close the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits to warships.

A Russian Navy ship traveling through the Bosporus en route to the Black Sea this month.Credit...Emrah Gurel/Associated Press

ISTANBUL — Ukraine’s ambassador to Ankara called for Turkey to close its airspace and to forbid passage through the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits to warships.
The straits are the only way for ships to transit from the Black Sea, where Russia maintains a naval fleet, to the Mediterranean.

In a live televised news conference from the Ukrainian embassy in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, Ambassador Vasyl Bodnar said Ukraine had made an official request to the Turkish government. He also called for support from Turkey for sanctions against Russia, and for military and humanitarian assistance and help for Ukrainian citizens in Turkey.

“Right now all the masks are off,” he said. “Right now we are at war. We call all the world to take up and prevent that aggression. Today Ukraine is protecting your safety too.”

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who visited Ukraine earlier this month, began a security meeting with senior security officials Thursday morning, the presidential palace announced in a statement.

Turkey is a member of NATO but also maintains economic and military industry ties with Russia. The two countries are on opposing sides in two Middle Eastern wars, in Syria and Libya, and in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the South Caucasus.

**Davexl** · 25-02-2022, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by mcdongle

Hope everything is ok.... All the best to you

Cheers McDongal, here's hoping...

**Bjauck** · 25-02-2022, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by alokdhir

Here both sides did not mean Ukraine and Russia ...but meant USA and Russia in creating troubles for the helpless people of Iraq , Lebanon , Syria, Afghanistan and latest is Ukraine ... I meant Power games of these countries at the cost of innocent people of many countries .

Ok. Power flexing is not confined to Russia and the USA and is as old as humanity.

**Bjauck** · 25-02-2022, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by Davexl

Cheers McDongal, here's hoping...

Best of luck. You can always post if you need and feel up to a distraction!

**alokdhir** · 25-02-2022, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Bjauck

Ok. Power flexing is not confined to Russia and the USA and is as old as humanity.

Thats what I am most against ...Power full bullying weak ...These countries play their power games in the homes of innocent people ...never on their own ground ...Reason most resources are wasted on weapons in this world ...as there is no peace if u not powerful yourself ....Maybe now people can understand why North Korea pursues Missiles rather then social development ....