They may not have to if Putin follows through with his threats of economic sanctions on the West. The only thing which stopping him atm is the need for foreign currency. Though If he can get China to play enough ball with him, he just might.
Yea...I don't think this is happening.
India maybe, but China looks to be doing another rolling zero COVID cycle and locking stuff down, including industry. Putin can only put a few EU countries under pressure temporarily. There is a lot of background stuff happening to address energy shortfalls and by year end he'll have very little economic sway over the EU on that front.
Lunacy to go shutting down their nuclear power industry when they did. Total pandering to short term hysteria (of which Ireland seems to revel in)
It's only lunacy now that a real lunatic has shown his true face.
What they say after the meeting is very important for markets, confidence, strategy etc. But what they do after the meeting, away from the cameras, may be very different.
If The Global Times is a measure of Chinese sentiment and focus the omens aren't good; the biolabs are more important to China than the invasion and the US is "fanning the flames" of conflict by sending arms and money while Russia [sic], the EU and Ukraine only want peace.
At Monday's routine news conference of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the spokesperson for the ministry rebutted the US' inconsistent and flawed responses regarding its biological laboratories in Ukraine, urging a full clarification of its bio-military activities within and outside its borders.
When a BBC reporter asked that the US claims seem to suggest that its secret research involving viruses in Ukraine has nothing to do with the military, Zhao directly pointed out that the US' response to the issue so far has been contradictory and confusing.
Always be aware that behind the green flag of environmentalism, is the red flag.
I'm into the environment as much as tree huggers. But I can't accept that my country will be reliant on windmills and butterfly farts as a means to power the energy sector. I think it was last winter when Texas had power outages for almost a week because they'd relied too heavily on renewables and didn't have as much wind as predicted that year. Then had a winter cold snap and lost power in the middle of it.
If Europe stopped adopting policies of teenage girls from Sweden, they'd have been in a much stronger position.
The greenies don't want fossil fuels. I can get on board with that - but no nuclear either? GTFO
There was supposed to be a new gas pipelines from Israel & Cyprus into Europe. Biden comes into office and squashes the project because muh environment.
China, Russia and India aren't playing the same games that western middle class quinoa munchers play.
I thought they had a huge outage cos they deregulated the grid and split it from the rest of the country
New toys. Will probably go through Russian military junk like a knife through butter.
Yes, the long term implications of this invasion will be interesting to watch. It's very unlikely the sanctions against the regime will ever be lifted whilst the dictator / tyrant remains in power. And as you say, they may well have to pay massive reparations after attacking and invading a neutral country that posed them no threat whatsoever.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/salgilbertie/2021/02/15/texas-outages-put-reliability-of-renewable-energy-in-the-spotlight/?sh=1bc0d7b63d32
Actually, I'd add that Russia should be made to pay reparations for all those years of communism that it inflicted on the rest of the world. We could be talking €trillions
Another large Russian convoy on the move with heavy artillery
But they have provided the world with some amazing looking women, so I think that balances things out a bit.
yeah that's a great idea, make the Bear less dangerous while making the Panda Bear even more powerful and wealthy.
It appears Gazprom had a significant hand in influencing/funding the Green movement in Germany and they were likely instrumental in getting the anti-nuclear stance pushed hard. Germany's energy policy is corrupt and significantly influenced from Moscow.
I agree, but Russia would probably drag its heels on doing just that. If they can't have Ukraine, they don't want it rebuilt just so it can achieve its aspirations of NATO/EU membership.
But it really depends on what the bargaining positions of the sides are whenever this ends. Hopefully Russia is not in much of a position to force much of anything by that point.
yes some NGO organization Im sure is keeping a tally of the human and other cost of every missile, bomb, bullet hitting its target in Ukraine, every kopek should be tallied and the Russian people should be able to see the tally, then once Putin is gone the RF should be brought to book on that tally
The estimated damage cost about 5 or 6 days ago was $100b
If there's any Russian aircraft which can take a bit of damage and return home, it's the Su-25. It's the modern Sturmovik and designed to take some hits and keep going. That may well be the aircraft which was witnessed taking a direct hit from a missile and still continuing its rocket attack earlier in the war.
CV90 is also a lot heavier and on tracks, plus it seems this BTR was firing to the side, so if the vehicle's going to rock, that's when it's going to do it. The Russian 30mm is not as accurate as the Bushmaster on CV9030s, but is serviceable enough and makes up for it in rate of fire.
A few months into the future view of Aeroflot fleet after no maintenance.
You are correct. The big key was they had separated themselves from the rest of the country in terms of their grid.
The Russian public are so immersed in the state propaganda and lies that they probably have even no awareness at the moment that the international sanctions will never be lifted whilst their dictator remains in the Kremlin and that their country will have to pay hundreds of billions of Euros in compensation to Ukraine. It's a bit of a tragedy that they don't even understand the fullness of what has happened but it will become evident to them in time.
They already previously they would not allow foreign peacekeepers to be deployed in Ukraine,they will only allow Russian forces to be deployed in Ukraine
While this may be true, it does not stop the war criminals from shelling the city into obliteration.
And they didn't cold-weather prepare the infrastructure (mostly thermal plants and all the other gubbins a grid requires) which ended up failing.
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