China is the one to watch, they have an EU summit coming up soon and would be eager to resolve the issues surrounding Lithuania, the Uyghurs, the anti-coercion instrument, the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment and the various sanctions between the two. That asides China seems to be very vocal against the US over bio labs now.
People won't stop buying from China, most people only care about themselves and their pocket. It's cheap = it's good, worry about the consequences another day.
See climate change for more evidence of this short-term thinking
Info on Ukrainian refugees will be shared with UK: Ryan
http://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0308/1285069-ukrainian-refugees/
So it seems not only is the UK unwilling to take in any Ukrainian refugees, they are now concerned about the fact that we are taking in so many, they have expressed security concerns due to the CTA.
I mean I know many here have praised the UK in its response to sending military equipment, and so it should be.
But that was a relatively easy decision for them to take. But they have painted themselves into such an anti immigration position with brexit that they now seem more concerned with that than trying to help with the impending humanitarian disaster coming from Ukraine.
Russia is a large market for Chinese consumer goods. I don’t think it greatly benefits them if Russians don’t have money to spend.
How will Putin ever recover from junking his countries economy:
Ratings agency Fitch downgraded Russia’s sovereign debt rating farther into junk territory from “B” to “C,” saying the decision reflects the view that a default is “imminent.”
The agency said “the further ratcheting up of sanctions, and proposals that could limit trade in energy, increase the probability of a policy response by Russia that includes at least selective non-payment of its sovereign debt obligations.”
Presumably these "bio-research facilities" are in the basement of a pizza restaurant? Posobiec is a troll/fuckwit and can safely be ignored.
They know many of their supporters are rabid xenophobes who voted for Brexit to get rid of all the foreigners. They can't be seen to be letting them in easily. The tories are walking a really fine line between keeping Russian money happy in London, keeping the public happy who want to help Ukraine and keeping their core public support happy who want all the foreigners to stay out of the UK unless they're doing something they can't do for themselves.
Why? Those regions are gone, even the most optimistic person can see that.
300,000 troops is not far off what they had when this started.
And you get Putin to recognize a country he wouldn't do only 3 weeks ago.
This has to end before it gets any worse.
The cross party foreign affairs committee have no problem in ‘ordering to appear before it for example any TD , senior official, gov minister for even minor ‘slip ups, so why has it not encores the Russian ambasator to appear before it . There are plenty of preciseness internationally where this happens - . I wonder if this could be a coordinated practice internationally?
Thanks. I felt it was a fantastic explanation on why escalation is to be avoided, and why NATO/TheWest is actively avoiding such. Lots of hearts in the right places here, but also lots of 'accusation of appeasement' - which is wrong. it can seem all to easy to accuse someone of being a keyboard coward.. which is ridiculous. There seems to be a great number of Keyboard Von Clausewitz type talk. Without full understanding of what that could lead to.
So yes, the video seemed apt.
Again..... UK and the US can intervene directly as is stated in the Budapest memorandum .. They don't need the NATO umbrella to do this. I'm open to correction though
Thing that amazes me is how someone could find the Russian embassy, drive to it, break down the gate, and still somehow confuse the Russians with the Poles?
There is no recovery from this for Putin. He may end up dying from old age in some palace type thing in Moscow and thinking that he's done great, but he's never getting back into having any place at the international heads of state meetings. Meanwhile, even if he closes his eyes and blocks his ears so as not to notice, Russia will be heading back 30+ years in time around him.
Best option for Russia is a coup and then the new person can try to get Russia back into the international stage, but that is going to take decades, and a coup is currently unlikely.
3 Russian billionaires have resigned from the board of investment firm LetterOne after it locked out 2 Russian oligarchs over the invasion of Ukraine.
Well wages and pensions account for about 25% of the budget and this costs the Chinese far less.
The definition of an unreliable source. He is a well known alt right conspiracy theorist (e.g. pizzagate)
Why would Ukraine care if Russia recognised them as a country? The rest of the planet does, and Russia has been trying to destroy them.
It's not much of a bargaining chip for the current situation.
The message is true though.
Here's a link to his Telegram channel:
Perhaps, it's the relentless flow of information we are receiving by the hour - new sanctions, Ukrainian gains and so on, but you have to think something has got to give soon. The analysts and experts told us to dig in for a long campaign but the Kremlin must be under extraordinary pressure at the moment trying to put out fires which seem to be increasingly exponentially by the day. I dunno if the likes of McDonalds shutting up shop is included in Putin's daily briefing, but I'd say the man must be bewildered at this stage.
And we will also do our utmost to help in calling off the ‘rothweillers - ie sanctions- when u agree to the above
A "biological research facility" could be something like the Wuhan Institute of Virology, it doesn't necessarily mean it is a biological weapons research facility.
Or a University department that had been carrying out something with another international university or biological research centre that they don't want Russia to get their hands on.
Are u suggesting that one should not believe what you see and hear read from the media don’t believe a bit of it . What u need to do is to find out where this place they are referring to - called Ukraine- and go there to see for yourself what is happening and not happening there . ONlY THEN YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO POST ON BOARDS
Glenn Greenwald is....shall we say, very "friendly" to the Russian position. He's always been a shill for Iran, Russia, Assad etc. That video is cut nicely, but Biological research labs does not mean bio weapons. You could have a lab studying AIDS vaccine for example and it would be "Biological Research Facilities"
I would imagine there are very few countries who don't have Bio research labs.
The way it is phrased could encourage the conspiracy nuts in the US, they might think the democrats were funding adrenochrome harvesting experiments or some other rubbish. That plays right into the hands of russians.
This post refers to post no 23390. I find things still jumping all over the place since Boards reorganised
You claimed 'an aircraft carrier with same tech ain’t gonna be cheaper to build in China'.
It absolutely would be.
A lot of emotion and very little information in your posting.
It's also of note that Marco Rubio is one of the individuals that was reported to have received political donations from Russian oligarchs a few years ago.
There are definitely Pentagon-controlled biolabs in Ukraine but I don't think it has any bearing/relevance on the current conflict.
Both sides are using it as a distraction.
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