The Guardian: Ukraine closes its airspace to Russia as gas supply dispute erupts
Prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk claims Ukraine has stopped ordering Russian gas after banning its airlines as tensions rise
Relations between Russia and Ukraine have further deteriorated as the countries clashed over gas and Kiev banned all Russian airlines from entering Ukrainian airspace.
The gas dispute will raise concerns that European supplies could suffer, and comes after the annexed Crimean peninsula was left without electricity at the weekend after saboteurs blew up power cables in mainland Ukraine.
Russia’s Gazprom said it would not ship any gas to Ukraine until it received prepayment. Later on Wednesday, Ukraine’s prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, claimed that he had ordered the state gas company to stop purchasing Russian gas. “It is not that they are not delivering us gas, it is that we are not buying any,” he said.
WNU Editor: Here we go again.
More News On Ukraine Closing Its Airspace to Russia As Well As Stopping The Purchase Of Russian Gas
Ukraine stops buying Russian gas, closes airspace -- AP
Ukraine halts Russian gas purchases, closes its airspace -- AFP
Ukraine Closes Airspace to Russia, Stops Buying Russian Gas -- VOA
Ukraine closes airspace to all Russian planes -- BBC
Ukraine imposes total flight ban on Russia -- RT
Russia-Ukraine Feuding Worsens With Flight, Gas Stoppages -- WSJ
Russia just froze Ukraine's gas supply in what could be really bad news for Europe -- Business Insider
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Oh Editor!
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https://www.rt.com/uk/323438-mcdonnell-mao-red-book/
RRH .... The funny thing about Mao is that even the Chinese are embarrassed about him. He may have his face on their money and his portrait at Tienanmen Square .... but they all know about the Cultural revolution, the famines, the purges, the millions who needlessly died under his rule.
Mien Kampf, Red Book, Karl Marx .... all the same to me.
Well Editor,
I have worked with many Chinese who all held the Chairman in very high esteem. It seemed the ones who didnt tended to come from privilege, there were some notable exceptions.
I do tend to take your positions on most things here as well thought out products of experience combined with considerable intellect. On this score, except regards Mein Kampf, we can agree to disagree.
Additionally, on the Red Book in the British Parliament; I'd have paid an admission fee to see the looks on those b@$7@r&$' faces when McDonnell pulled that one and laughed out loud.
All the murder, chaos, confusion, drug pushing, slavery, you name it that British Empire has pulled makes Mao look angelic.
RRH. I was posted in China in the 1980s after Deng Xiaoping and his supporters took power and expelled the Mao fanatics. One of the debates at the time (mid 1980s) was on Mao, and would it be wise to do what Khrushchev did with Stalin .... but do it on Mao. They choose to keep it under wraps. They were worried about showing weakness and disunity if they were to suddenly condemn the man that the Party had always praised. Over the years I have met many Chinese who still revere Mao (just as there are many in Russia who still revere Stalin) .... but for the ones who know .... and more importantly .... for the ones who run the country .... they know who and what he was .... and in that club there are no Mao supporters or Red Books.
As to Karl Marx and Marxism/Communism .... if I may quote my father in the late 1990s who lived in the Soviet Union and (in his final years) in Canada .... "there are more Communists in Canada and the U.S. than in my entire history of living in the Soviet Union". And in my case .... being one who also grew up in the Soviet Union, worked in China for years, and has spent the past 20+ years in Canada .... I can say the same thing.
Editor,
sigh,
my Grandpa used to say a of of the same things about capitalism, Churchill, the Monarchy, a good many U.S. Presidents, and a whole lot of other people held high in our culture. He used to say "everythng they say about the 'evil Communists' is true about themselves...and then some."
I guess, sometimes, it's a matter of perspective. You lived there. I didn't, but I've lived here my whole life--minus a stint in the sandbox, that I will never forget-- and my family has been here for generations. This is not the place to write a history of the RRH clan, but if we were sitting at the table over scotch I'd have some notes to compare with you.
It is not my intention to demean, undermine, or make light of your experience of communism. Nor am I interested in changing yours, or anyone else's mind. Truly, it is interesting to hear from someone who experienced it not just in the USSR but in China too and at a fairly high level. All who visit here are very fortunate to have you as a resource. I don't have to subscribe to your belief system to admire and respect your person/ work.
This being said,
I don't have to believe Mao or Stalin were sent from heaven to guide us to the promised land of candy communism to find merit in some of their teachings and actions. I am aware of the "crimes"--- funny how I, to this day, have to dig a bit more to learn more about Churchill's among others'---I don't have to want a communist Canada to admire some of the accomplishments of those countries and societies. In my family people whose struggles had echoes in our history were heroes, albeit flawed ones, Mao, JS, along with Nkrumah, Nasser, Winnie Mandela, Mugabe, Col. Gaddafi, and a whole host of others while Hitler was known as a coddled anti Bolshevik racist who grew too big for his britches. Comparisons to Stalin were called "Reducio ad Hitlerum."
No one, ever, in my family, inclyding me, ever held a membership in the CPC or any any ML party by the way. And I ain't on a soap box for 'em.
When it comes to who knew Mao, I've read about what they wanted to do to him just like I know what they did to Stalin. I thank you for honestly writing about it. We would certainly have been on opposite ends of those "initiatives". I find Khruschev as repugnant as you find Stalin evil.
Despite our outlooks, those men are dead but, somehow, Editor, the killing, famine, economic disasters, wars---all the time war--misogyny, hunger and cruelty have managed to continue and grow --- and most of the world is capitalist. I don't need to be a Marxist to see that but he sure helps me to work through it as does Innis, Kamus, Fanon, Creighton, Robert Williams, Parenti, Said, Gindin, Panitch, even Trudeau --and a whole mess of others who are/were neither evil or stupid.
So, I hear you. It's your forum. I'm a guest but I noticed a picture from the USSR I like. Can I have it? 😉
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