Post by Benjamin on Mar 1, 2014 4:34:23 GMT
I've been talking about this on Facebook today.
I can see the potential for these events to be far more significant than they appear on the surface. Russia has a significant investment in Ukraine. In energy terms, over 80% of Russia's natural gas exports pass through Crimea on their way to Europe. In military terms, Russia has a naval base at Sevastopol that hosts their Black Sea Fleet... while Russian Oligarchs have a significant financial investment in business throughout the Ukraine.
Russia has long seen Ukraine as something of a 'prodigal son' in political terms, and this current crisis has afforded them the opportunity to bring those assets back into the fold. We've seen plenty of posing and posturing from Russia in the past couple of years, along with significant amounts of covert or explicit action in places like Syria and Iran - but this... this is different. This is the first time in a long time that Russia has flexed her military muscle outside her own borders. If this is the first few steps of Russian Imperialism returning, we could be on the threshold of a very, very important time prophetically. Magog is rising, and Ukraine could be the first to fall under her spell.
www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=16898
I can see the potential for these events to be far more significant than they appear on the surface. Russia has a significant investment in Ukraine. In energy terms, over 80% of Russia's natural gas exports pass through Crimea on their way to Europe. In military terms, Russia has a naval base at Sevastopol that hosts their Black Sea Fleet... while Russian Oligarchs have a significant financial investment in business throughout the Ukraine.
Russia has long seen Ukraine as something of a 'prodigal son' in political terms, and this current crisis has afforded them the opportunity to bring those assets back into the fold. We've seen plenty of posing and posturing from Russia in the past couple of years, along with significant amounts of covert or explicit action in places like Syria and Iran - but this... this is different. This is the first time in a long time that Russia has flexed her military muscle outside her own borders. If this is the first few steps of Russian Imperialism returning, we could be on the threshold of a very, very important time prophetically. Magog is rising, and Ukraine could be the first to fall under her spell.
www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=16898
