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[Rods2]

Whatever happened to Rods1, I wonder?

Same thing that took Chrisgixer possibly

I could say it's tough being a time lord, where we have to keep morphing into the next one or take STMO's advice of the day (did I just say that  ) and come clean. When I originally registered on the website I never got a successful registration email, Rods was then taken on the system and I was then caught in an OOF parallel universe, space time-warp continuum. Ie without being able to confirm the account and login you can't post or pm an admin, doh. So, I re-registered as Rods2. Never bothered complaining as there was a danger of catching an overworked admin at an inopportune moment, then who knows what would have happened to my account or two!

So beware, somewhere out there in the ghostly OOF anti-matter either there is lurking a Rods account.

Far from me to spread conspiracy theories, but there is a rumour, its haunting the hypervisor firmware!

[Varche]

I half seriously sugested on a forum (maybe this one) ages ago that the Russians could use Cyprus or Greece as a port. I was laughed down.

Well shiver me timbers they have signed a deal for the Russian Navy to use ports in Cyprus . What were they thinking?

Further the Russians are wanting to use an air base on Cyprus for humanitarian relief missions.   

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31632259

[Sir Tigger KC]

It just shows what a disjointed mess the EU is.  We have France and Germany going down the diplomatic route with Russia, Britain standing off, but sending troops to Ukraine and then the Cypriots welcome the Russians with open arms. 

We don't even know what the Greeks are up to yet! 

[Gaffers]

Cyprus is well-known as a conduit for investment in Russia if you want to circumvent the embargos in place.  I think officially Cyprus is the 3rd or 4th largest investor in Russia, yet the amount of money it invests is far larger than actually possible given it's GDP.

So if Russia has a new deal for use of the ports it would not come as a shocker to me.  The Russian emabassy in Cyprus is one of the biggest they have outside of USA/UK with "trade missions" and "analysts" making up huge numbers

Dont forget that these kind of deals go on all the time.  Fed up with the fact that the UK limited arms sales to Sri Lanka, their government got in to bed with the Chinese who gave them the means with which to smash the LTTE.  Just after China was granted permission to build a huge military port on the Sri Lankan East Coast, in effect giving them huge influence over the Indian Ocean and in to the Arabian Sea.

[Kevin Wood]

It just shows what a disjointed mess the EU is.  We have France and Germany going down the diplomatic route with Russia, Britain standing off, but sending troops to Ukraine and then the Cypriots welcome the Russians with open arms. 

Yes, but at least nobody can buy a conventional pearl light bulb* or a vacuum cleaner of greater than 1600 watts.

*- Except in Bridport, it seems, where "proper light bulbs" are advertised widely. Is it not part of the EU, or do they wear tin foil hats around there?

[Sir Tigger KC]

Not just Bridport. I've seen them elsewhere and more often recently.  Maybe it's the start of a revolt!   

[The Sheriff]

If we let Russia invade all of the Eastern European countries, it would help Dave's immigration target. And Cyprus, don't need any more Cypriots either.

[Rods2]

Cyprus is very popular as Russia and Cyprus still have a Soviet era reciprocal tax agreement where no tax is due on gains in Cyprus and it is a very easy conduit for getting hot money out of Russia.

Russian mafia were apparently very unhappy at the German insistence that savers with over €100k took a haircut or were wiped out to save the collapsing Cypriot banks a few years a go where they were loaded with big losses from sovereign Greek bonds.

There is one common link with the latest very left wing / right wing coalition government in Greece they both have very close ties with Putin and other Russian institutions. Putin is the godfather of a very corrupt mafia state which has and is continuing to weave it's corrupt tentacles into many Western democracies. Gazprom has been allegedly allowed to flout EU law by buying gas companies in Eastern Europe to create local monopolies. Action is now been taken by the EU competition commission on this, so expect court cases and political fireworks over the next year or two.

With Russia creating a naval and airbase in Cyprus, this suggests that they think Assad will lose and Russia will lose the military bases in Syria, so they are preempting this with Cypriot replacements, which along with their base in Crimea will keep as strong a military presence as possible in the Eastern Mediterranean. Well as strong as their obsolete clapped fleet of ships will allow anyway, where they normally take several tugs on any excursion out of port, so they can tow some of them back when they breakdown!

[ckz]

Whatever happend and Russia decides to do, not one country around is cpapble of stopping them.
who would?
Germany / Merkel ? she is a lying little two faced Bitch which change her ways with the wind.
UK / Cameron ? not any better, he only creates laws for his Business friends and Company owners
                      and he piss his self on his own leg by trouble because he is to scared standing up for his own country
Austria ? what a joke
Poland ? is still under Russias Influence, same as Rumania
France and Spain? there Army is crippled by the EU
Greece ? as said they are there Friends
and so on.

All County's joined the EU to help the poor Country's to get what the rich had due to hard work and investment.
everyone got rid of Army's, Weapon Tec just for the Sake of helping the others and loving the poor in this World, but also every Govt likes to forgets about there own poor people. hmmmmm

maybe a little War is what all them EU joining sad little shit themselves Govt need to clear there Head and see the real Problems before helping other potential threats?