01-15-2009, 04:56 PM
BK Wrote:Speaking as a law professor and lawyer myself, I can tell you that there is one group of people who are watching the situation with big smiles: lawyers! The legal questions involved are facinating at multiple levels as is the prospect of thousands and thousands of lawsuits for everything from breach of contract to wrongful death. Perhaps international lawfirms will begin hiring again!
On a more serious note. The question is not when the crisis will end --the answer to that is that it will end soon --the real question is HOW it will end because the answer to that will affect Russia and Ukraine for years to come. My hope is that the EU accepts Ukraine's request for an international consortium to manage Ukraines gas transit lines.
Law professor! How wonderful!
Your hope will never be fulfilled, I'm afraid. For a number of reasons. First of all, so called old (continental - sorry!) Europe will not conflict with Russia for any ex-soviet territory. After Georgia. Baltic states were the last limit. Second- there are contradictions withtin EU, which Moscow has learned to play on. Third - The demand for resources will only grow, experts from all over keep saying, despite the crisis. And Russia in toerms of aggregated resources is the reachest country. Fourth - the crisis will come to its logial end - collapse of the US domination in the world (though they will remain dominating in the western semisphere) - and quite soon, most likely this year. And fifth - Uncle Sam being behind the curtains is driving the ukrainian crisis will provoke another war with Russia. For the pipe this time, which Russia will have to take. As a result disintegration of the Ukraine as a separate state (I cannot call it independent). Is that enough, professor?