Foreign Correspondence

[CoalTrain]

Moscow will remove the bases by 2008? LOL!!! For all the noise and hoopla in the western press both Georgia and the U.S. losing the battle in Georgia to Moscow. The S will have most likely hit the fan either economically or militarily by then. This is pretty much the kind of scenario I imagine playing out in Ukraine. Moscow will draw a line with the Black Sea naval bases and other military installations. I think Moscow would gladly let the far western part of Ukraine go to the EU but no way they give up the Naval bases. I think EU and certainly Hungary, SLovakia and Poland would see ceding of Western Ukraine an economic weapon in the short term and longer term they may view it as a military threat. The Ukrainian mafia in the west already causes lots of problems for its bordering "EU" countries. Georgia can't even keep grenades away form Bush. Jeeez!