I can't really conceive of the circumstances in which it would happen (and really don't want to) but treaty or no, a couple of submarines at the Dardanelles would surely stop any aggressive fleet leaving the Black Sea. Istanbul is a great city.
And Yes I have been to Istanbul and the Turks are not going to Stop any ships passing thrrouugh. Beside, even though T urkey is a member of Nato, the Ukraine is not.
Have never been unfortunately but hope to later this year finances permitting. As for the Bosphorus/Black Sea etc we are now paying the inevitable and tragic consequences for the destabilisation and break up of the Soviet Union. Surely you SB, as a long term resident of Italy, must have spent some happy times in a Casa del Popolo? Casa del Popolo Yuri Gagarin perhaps? ;-) My own family played football and skated for the Party although personally I was never blessed with such an honour.
I didn't phrase that very well. I don't think your lot, probably supported by our lot, would be happy with an aggressive Russian fleet entering the Med, and the Dardanelles is the obvious place to stop it happening. But I can't really envisage the circumstances where this would happen without some big missiles going off first. The history of Russia's quest for a warm water port is a long and for them frustrating one. PCI was broken up during my time in Italy, never got a chance to socialise much with the faithful. I don't think people over here understand what a big deal the Party was in Italy, and what a great job they did in local government, Bologna in particular. What's your take on Renzi?
Why does this remind you of Adolf Hitler and those "Germans" in neighboring countries that he "invaded" to SAVE? Part of Ukraine wants to be associated with Pukin and his Russians and the other part want to be free to associate with the West. It's Kosovo all over again.Most Kosovans are "Albanian" in all things and Language.Some,near the Serbian border consider themselves Serbs. During the war in Kosovo,the Serbs massacred the Albanian speaking peoples and also stole machinery out of all factories taking it all back to Serbia.Leaving most Kosovans out of work. There are many family graveyards along roadsides who were butchered by those bastards. I hope this does not occur in Kiev.It's up to Hitler's successor ,Czar Pukin!
Renzi? Can't stand him or that other idiot, Grillo. Did you see their ridiculous meeting with Grillo not letting the other speak and coming out with: "Io non democratico"? His words, not a grammatical mistake by myself. From the death of Berlinguer onwards it's been disaster after disaster. Natta got sick and then Achille Occhetto dealt the death blow to the PCI. Of course as always with Italy the true blame lies with the puppet masters in Washington which takes us nicely back to the Ukraine... The Great Satan as ever relentless,
I suspected you wouldn't be impressed. Neither am I to be honest, though I know a couple of his advisors in Firenze and they are at least sincere. Its been a tough world for you since Thatcher, Reagan, Gorbachov and the Ayatollah inadvertently changed all the old rules of class politics hasn't it mate? Keep going though, its good to be reminded of when politics meant something and there were clear positions to be taken. That's what's striking me about Russia's position now, its so 20th Century. Territory? Naval bases? Mean little in the virtual world, where self determination (and selfishness) is moving towards the most basic level - the individual. Everybody has rights but no obligations by the look of it. That's why the collective action seen in Kiev struck a chord and why most of us support the unarmed people being shot by snipers rather than Putin.
The rules of class politics are immutable, Marx was right, nothing has changed in reality: "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." And so it continues here in 2014. As for Imam Khomeini read his last will and testament before putting him alongside those other three wretched criminals. That said Ali Shariati is a far more intersting figure imho or going way back even Abu Dhar al-Ghifari. Renzi summed up nicely in less than a minute: http://video.repubblica.it/spettaco...non-sei-mio-figlio/158069/156562?ref=HRESS-11
