I think you are referring to various companies deciding not to do business in Russia? Some is symbolic, others will have an impact, e.g. the key shipping companies boycotting Russia, likewise Boeing and Airbus.
The financial sanctions are very serious. Hundreds of billions of dollars of Russia's foreign reserves are locked, which limits them from protecting the slide in the rouble, the value of which is plummeting and destroying Russian savings. Likewise the value of Russian companies on the stock market. Russia will be near default rating, credit will be very hard to get, the country will probably go into recession shortly.
Europe doesn't buy much grain from Russia/Ukraine. Gas is the key component, but it's obvious the writing is on the wall for that, EU will have to accelerate away from Russian gas and onto alternative sources.
Make no mistake, economically and tradewise this war is going to hurt Europe and the West (and the world), but it's going to hurt Russia much more.
I couldn’t agree more! WMDs offer no benefit to society on a global level. In fact, they run the risk of our imminent extinction. Why one country can detonate in isolation is beyond me. It should only be possible to activate WMDs if every country in the world is in accordance. Any country in breach of a global accordance and working on WMDs in isolation should face the utter wrath of all other nations. But you will never get certain countries to agree to this. Instead, we will let ourselves be held to ransom by every asshole despot. I despair
As the lads on The Last Leg pointed out Zelensky is still a comedian.
He said the wanted to sit down and talk with Putin, just not 30 metres away like Maron.
Sleeping in a fox hole is preferable to being in a Kamaz or Ural truck, BMP armoured vehicle or even T80 tank which are a target of an anti tank missile and a sitting duck.
Watch the spill over if Russia gets bogged down and losing serious casualties.
The two free Chechen brigades are hoping most of Putin's stooge Kadyrov's fighters get slaughtered in Ukraine.
They already lost one of their so called generals, known to the rest of the world as scumbag thug who persecuted gays in Chechnya.
If they take a hmmering watch Chechnya erupt again.
Georgia could be temptd to move against South Ossetia, because I think Putin would have moved against Georgia if Ukraine had capitulated and the West done nothing.
BTW the only ones that have to worry about the Serbs are the Aussies, they want payback for Novax treatment. 😶
That fooking bi* was on News at 1.
The interviewer played interview of a few weeks back where she claimed Putin was doing nothing.
She is stil excusing him and immediately launches into cr** about US and NATO.
She claims the Ukrainians shoudl surrender and expect to lose territory.
Total appeaser.
I’m more intrigued by the fact that the story takes place in 2025, “one year after the end of the war with Russia”. I really hope the war doesn’t last as long in reality!
Those wars weren't against civilians though, this war is very much against the Ukrainian people and their democracy . US very invaded anyone to take over that country and rule it.
The smart ones will be using Samsung's secure folder in hidden mode and be doing all sus messaging from inside that. I doubt anyone but the hyper paranoid would be doing that, though.
Probably a very stupid question, but imagine if there was by a nuclear warfare… There are several nuclear bunkers in preparation of the Nuclear War… Who decides who shall occupy these… Will these people be responsible for repopulating the Earth?
(I have probably been watching too much SciFi)
The situation at Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv looks pretty bad
I’d go as far as existential classification soon
That can never happen as one country will quietly develop a nuke and have supremacy over everyone. It would be best if we disbanded all armies but that won't happen either.
so now we have an axis of 3/4 disconnected territories who are not collaborating together very tightly firing non precision missiles into a country with approx ten nuclear plants and storage facilities, this is not going to end well
Ceasefire is yet again breached by the Russians. Surprise, surprise. The regime does not want peace. It just wants to take at all costs… And you will have the sickening sympathisers such as Clare Daly and Mick Wallace
Over a million people marched against the Irag war in a major western country, The UK.
Just pointing out that protests won't work in this case. The war is already happening and it will escalate day by day until one or all are killed.
And also, if Nukes ended, it would just become a battle of the best weaponry and the best technology - Russia is way behind on that as we’ve seen - so there’s no way a country with poor weaponry but a great arsenal of nukes, is going to give them up- same for North Korea and any other despot nation
Russian banks have their own internal card payment system and don't rely on it for completely domestic transactions
i guess it's something like the laser system we used to have here for years.
This happened earlier today. They have an experimental reactor on site.
No.
A regional conflict is not a world war.
It may end up as a world with a lot of war as revolution and riots explode across the world as the reality of Russian fertilizer and the food they Now control being removed from the market place.
That's not a world war. Military Russia haven't the capability to take on a modern Army. They are making a hard job of taking the Ukraine.
Whether it was fair or not, isn't it credited with creating such hardship in Germany that it created a niche for the Nazi Party and Hitler?
I don't know if people talked about ut at the time. I presume anyone who considered it was told to shut up. Similar to now when someone mentions nato expansion as a contributing factor to the Ukrane invasion.
The really sad thing is the ones that will be saved in bunkers will be much the ruling elites.
So we would restart human civilisation often with moronic leeching greedy political types.
Maybe he started working out all the loot he had in the West that suddenly was going to be confiscated?
Yep, nukes are far and away the biggest force multiplier in any arsenal. If Putin didn't have the threat of nukes I'd be surprised if NATO wouldn't have gone into Ukraine already and Putin's misadventure would be over in under a week. His convoys would be smouldering wrecks within 48 hours, his airforce(such as it is) would be stains in the ground or grounded, his missile crews gone and his army running for the border.
I think they do offer a real, tangible benefit to the world, so long as they're not let off ever. They essentially prevent the large military powers of the world from facing off in open hostilities, knowing what that could escalate to, and instead limit things to diplomacy, subterfuge and localised conflicts where the big powers back the sides involved. Wouldn't it be lovely to live in a world where we could do away with the nukes and all just agree to get along anyway? Certainly yes. I'm a bit pessimistic, though, given, eh, the entirety of recorded human history to think it would happen on any timescale I'd ever live to see.
Would you be sympathetic to the US if it invaded countries on its southern border after they suggested possible Russian co-operation, or is it just Russia who can legitimately limit what sovereign nations can do? Would be quite a turnaround for hard lefties and socialists to say now that the US had a legitimate interest in toppling the Sandinistas. I'm struggling to remember the same excuses being trotted out by the left, it all seemed cut and dried back then, and now.
Why have you Serbia on that list? Serbia is massively pro Ukraine. Jebi Putin.
there is a special place in Hell for people like these
Their ability to prosecute this war will be tested by lack of money as sanctions bite very hard, plus they seem to be more of a war enactment club than an international army to be feared at present.
Dominic Raab is stating that the Russian occupation of Ukraine will last for years. How?!? War is an extremely costly venture. The sanctions are crippling the Russian economy. There are only a finite number of soldiers. As soon as the military leave, Russia will lose its stranglehold on Ukraine.
How could this last for years?
Why would Russian fertilizer and grain not be making it for export? That isn't under threat.
RuSSian "peacekeeping" in action..
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