The Crimea gets all if its potable water from Ukraine through the North Crimean channel. Getting water to the Crimea is a complex operation which requires a large group of specialists tending to the channel 24-7.
Now that the Crimea has been annexed, groups of criminals have been expropriating businesses and beating up or kidnapping their owners while the Russian authorities abstain from interfering.
Finally, the criminals got their hands on the channel. They threw out the Ukrainian engineers who were servicing it. Of course, the water immediately stopped flowing through the channel. As I said, it’s a very complex system, and when there are no engineers to make it work, the people of the Crimea are left without water.
When it was pointed out to the Russian authorities that the channel couldn’t function without the engineers, the response was, “Well, people could always drink bottled water.”
I don’t even want to think what the Russians will say when Ukrainians stop supplying the peninsula with food.
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I’m conflicted. If the people there truly voted for ‘reunification’ with Russia then they deserve every bit of bad fortune they’re getting and I’d simply laugh at their suffering.
OTOH I don’t really believe they did vote since the whole referendum was as crooked as a dog’s hind leg.
Still, they’re going to be a shining example of what absorption into Russia means which might serve as a lesson elsewhere.
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I have a strong suspicion that the expulsion of the engineers as done at the behest of the person who sells bottled water and has seen a good business opportunity in the interruption of the water service.
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I saw a reference to this on a Polish site:
http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_04_24/Ukrainian-territories-used-to-belong-to-Poland-turned-into-base-for-the-nationalistic-movement-7324/
Needless to say this is all fabricated nonsense. There is zero public opinion here in favor of carving up Ukraine (the very few blowhards that used to talk about ‘reclaiming’ Lwów (and Wilno – Vilnius) have had the decency to shut up in the present situation).
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I just read that the “mayor” of the government Russia is trying to install in Kharkiv was shot.
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