pb is US is threatening FR with that BNP scandal. such BS. they came after that bank only because we wouldnt back down regarding the mistral sales.
France should stay strong and be its own master. No one should say that it to jump into an alliance with Russia if it defies a US(NATO) order. If France decides to not finish building those ships, it must be done on the premise of what is good for France, not on what is good for the US.
While in Ukraine...
East, west Ukraine at odds over country’s future – Gallup pollhttp://rt.com/news/164076-ukraine-poll-east-west/“Only a slim majority of Ukrainians overall (51.2 percent) agree that the interim government in Kiev is the legitimate government of Ukraine. That figure rises only slightly to 53.5 percent when Crimeans are excluded from the results,” a poll issued by Gallup, an American research-based, global performance-management consulting company, finds.
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One of the questions in the poll, which was called ‘Favorability toward the United States’ Role in Crisis’, asked if the US has played a “mostly positive” role or a “mostly negative role” in the Ukrainian crisis. The results showed that 58.8 percent of residents in the west think that US interference with their country’ affairs is positive. However, southern and eastern Ukraine doesn’t trust ‘the US cookies’, with only 25.9 and 17.1 percent respectively showing support for Washington.
These are yet more maps that can be safely added to the collection in the "Two Ukraines" blog:
http://yablor.ru/blogs/dve-ukraini/3638493
