From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   ### - amongst growing rumours of shelling along the eastern russian   
   border, there's another perhaps even more scary development...   
      
   in that britain has just announced some kinda independent 'tri-lateral'   
   pact/partnership with poland and ukraine... one in which they would, of   
   course, all come to the aid of each other if they ever get into trouble,   
   'including' that of helping to defend each other should they ever come   
   under attack!   
      
   (sound familiar at all?? a mini-nato in-effect)   
      
   of course, any russian/rebel hits on the uk or poland element OF that   
   trio, immediately invoking nato's article 5 too because of the uk/poland   
   component! (they can't legally bring ukraine into nato but they CAN   
   incorporate nato elements INTO ukraine via ukraine's now special   
   relationship WITH 2 of nato's members) so if the rebels fight back (or   
   russia invades ukraine) having been invoked NATO can then technically   
   march in and deal with the problem directly!   
      
   iow: they've just made an effective nato member OF ukraine by... proxy!   
      
   damn!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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