Very mild set of sanctions.
The same china who have claimed the whole south China sea based off a map found in a school book ,and directly support north Korea ,and wamt to take Taiwan by force.
Putin ,jinping,kim Jon un , Lukashenko,Ali Khamenei ,assad
It's puzzling to me that Russia has gone to this type of openly aggressive rhetoric when the sly approach has been working so well for them the last 15 years or so.
It's very easy to use the boiling frog psychology on the West, their multi channel 24 hour news cycles mean that the people get fed up of a story after weeks if not days.
So Putin signs this recognition of the 2 states. After a week the hyperbole dies down. In a month the states call for Russian aid, Russia goes in to help keep them 'secure', another 2 weeks of frantic media coverage. Then it goes away. Discredit Zelenski with a scandal. Maybe in a year they make an excuse to invade a little further.
Hi Vladimir!
Hope the Black Sea palace is working out.
Putin has just ordered the Russian military into Donbass as peacekeepers
It seems like a mild next two weeks so better to cut/reduce gas supplies now rather than if it had happened in November.
Official statement from the White House, the US sanctions are only applicable to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine and not Russia in general.
Donetsk is in a state of war preparation for years against the Ukraine armed forces. People who are against Putin and the Russian state are clueless about facts on the ground. The people living there want to be independent of Ukraine and the west simply don’t understand self-determination. Putin only gives want the people living there want Russian recognition. In this climate is a bold move though by Putin. Looks like Putin had enough of the West crap arming Ukraine with Nato weapons on its border. When playing dumb and blind you'll get a reaction.
Deranged. And the circus preceding it would have been laughed out of an Austin Powers script for being too ludicrous.
Theyre going into Luhansk and Donetsk. Putin has just announced. "Peacekeeping"
They also need to hit the Oligarchs hard. They'll happily let their own citizens suffer but they won't like losing access to their own non-ruble assets. That's not easy though - a lot of people, western politicians included, benefit from them.
Why don't you go away and compile a spreadsheet of Russia exports and who import them. Then do a case study for where these imports would be sourced alternatively and the increased cost. After that you can give us your report of where exporters to Russia can sell their products. I'm sure bankers, idustrialists, professors, governments will e lining up to hear your next brainfart.
An invasion of peacekeepers!
How bad was Putin’s speech? Do people actually think he’s losing it? Surely not.
True. Time to get tough send weapons to Ukraine and let Germany rearm.
Ugh. Apparently Putin has ordered a 'peacekeeping' operation in E. Ukraine.
China biding its time for Tiawan
Not sure why people think the Chinese will want anything to do with delusional Putin. They'll try stay as far away from that as possible.
I told you....although looking at today's performance I think he's well past Tricky Dicky levels.
The MC130J are usually special forces tankers in support of infiltration or extraction of forces
Has he gone mad or what?
USA should ban all flights from Russia to US, and all Russians from entering into the US, UK should do the same.
Hard for EU to do it with the gas on off switch in Putin's hands
Attention;
2 x USAF C-130's circling for the last hour just over the border from Lviv for the last hour...
Ukrainian Airspace has ominously cleared of aircraft.
I think the body language of his security council members was very telling today in this context, in particular the spy chief who was absolutely bricking himself as Putin made a show of him. Most of them seemed fearful.
The sanctions had better be so immense that the economy of Russia is looking at total annihilation. That is about the only thing which will avoid a messy war because E.U., Europe and NATO can't let this one slide.
The US now joining the EU in imposing those much talked about sanctions according to Sky News.
"As a result of Bolshevik policy, Soviet Ukraine arose, which even today can with good reason be called 'Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's Ukraine'. He is its author and architect. This is fully confirmed by archive documents ... And now grateful descendants have demolished monuments to Lenin in Ukraine. This is what they call decommunisation. Do you want decommunisation? Well, that suits us just fine. But it is unnecessary, as they say, to stop halfway. We are ready to show you what real decommunisation means for Ukraine."
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/extracts-putins-speech-ukraine-2022-02-21/
Says it all really.
And for those that might want a little more information on how this was all written down back in the 90's look no further.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
You are the one trolling this thread for the past several threads.
You will still be defending them if they invade Ukraine and saying how it is the West’s fault
Would you ever go and take a valium.
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