46* (unofficial data so far) have been killed and about 200 injured yesterday in a fire in an official building in the city of Odessa in south-west Ukraine.
Things are getting worse in Ukraine. Early Friday, pro-Russian militants shot down two Ukrainian attack helicopters and a third one, carrying medics... with shoulder-fired missile launchers!
I would not have problem with pro-Russians, clashing, throwing homemade Molotovs, building barricades and protecting their point of view. Okay, let's throw few hunting guns in the mixture. But shoulder-fired missile launchers? I don't have any of that sort stored under my bed. And you?
Who will stop all this bedlam and when? Aren't you scared how fragile and vulnerable the peace of post-war Europe had been despite all the treaties, unions and agreements?
U.S. is waiting for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to persuade Europeans to take a firmer stand against Russia, but, as usual, EU is unable to make any decission. What's left? Only NATO.
NATO pledged in a 1997 cooperation agreement with Russia that it wouldn’t station “substantial combat forces” in central and eastern Europe. But now the crisis in Ukraine is pulling it back to the mission that led to its creation 65 years ago: defending Europe’s eastern rim against Kremlin expansionism.
Soo.... The Cold War is back? Or we shall see escalation, leading to something far worse?
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