So, Vlad, It's Rook to k6, Check - Your Move!

By Davidduff

Oh dear, just when 'Vlad the Impaler' thought he had it in the bag, up pop those scruffy oiks and spoil the game!  His favorite pawn turns out to be a 'prawn' who has 'done a runner' but now insists, from a safe distance, that he's still in charge.  In the meantime, his Nemesis, the 'awsome' - yeah, I know but, well, I can't think of a better word to describe her - Yulia Tymoshenko is released from jail.

Vlad's glove-puppet, the Russian Foreign Minister, has just let it be known that the whole thing has been an illegal revolution.  Well, he's Russian so he should know!  Now, of course, everyone, but especially Vlad, I guess, is looking at those very important gas/oil pipe lines - well it would be a bit of a catastrophe for everyone including Germany and western Europe if they were to suffer a nasty accident.  Mind you, Vlad's not the only one with some big decisions to take.  Russian money desperately needed by Ukraine will have stopped and now the EU has to decide whether or not to 'invest'(!) several zillion euros into the Ukraine to keep them going.  Be a bit a of a choker if they did that and then 'Vlad' whips up some excuse like defending the Russian ethnics in the country and invades, ooops, sorry, I mean "goes to the aid of the civil power", you know, the sort of thing the Yanks do so often - and usually so badly!

Goodness me, what a great big cauldron of borscht it all is, and so many different spoons to keep it stirred!