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Originally posted by G:
I do like Vlad's style - he's not messing around. We have no play here (do what? Kerry yammering is about it) and the EU isn't going to do anything - we're all just looking at each other to do something. Meanwhile, France is building them a nice battleship.

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I do like Vlad's style - he's not messing around. We have no play here (do what? Kerry yammering is about it) and the EU isn't going to do anything - we're all just looking at each other to do something. Meanwhile, France is building them a nice battleship.

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I do like Vlad's style - he's not messing around. We have no play here (do what? Kerry yammering is about it) and the EU isn't going to do anything - we're all just looking at each other to do something. Meanwhile, France is building them a nice battleship.

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Two destroyers I thought. Also training them how to use them. Not to worry because someday they will see them again. At their surrender.

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I read the French say they would back out on the second one, but were going to follow through on the first. Then I goggled to see what the latest news was - things have gone up and down depending on who you read, "yes, both" "no, neither" "depends on what Russia does."

Most recently from a French news site you can see that (like here) it's gotten down to squabbling and bickering.

http://www.france24.com/en/20140723-france-russia-mistral-sale-fabius-
cameron-uk/

Latest update : 2014-07-23
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius responded with a strong dose of sarcasm to British criticism of France’s planned sale of two warships to Russia, saying the UK should put its own house in order before criticising others.

"British Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that Paris’s plan to press ahead with the €1.2 billion ($1.7 billion) order of two French warships following the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine would be “unthinkable” in Britain.

“The English, in particular, were very pleasant so to speak, saying, 'We would never do that'. But I told my dear British friends, let’s talk about the financial sector,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told TF1 television after returning from a European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels.

“I am led to believe that there are quite a few Russian oligarchs in London,” he said.

When asked if that meant Britain should take care of its own business first, Fabius said: “Exactly.”

Hollande said on Monday that Paris would go ahead with delivery of the first carrier by the end of this year but was ready to review the second delivery, due by 2016.
“It’s a contract that was signed in 2011. There is an international rule that is worth the same nationally. Contracts that are signed and paid should be honoured,” Fabius said."

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Originally posted by WHOZIT: I wonder if Barry knows that Vlad makes him look like a whiney wuss.

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