Russia - threadbanned users in OP

He's like the brat in kindergarten who can't accept that some other stroppy kid is suddenly getting all the attention

Sanctions can have varying impacts and it depends to large degree on how open a country is, how much it trades and what resources it has to hand.

For instance sanctions on Ireland would destroy it.

You can lob all the sanctions you want on North Korea and it doesn't matter that much as it is so insular already.

It also depends on how despotic the country's leadership is as a dictator who has absolute control couldn't give a toss if ordinary people can't get medicine or access to a new Western electronic device.

What they care about is access to electronics that keep them in power or access to military equipment.

South Africa were in position that they could use large coal deposits to turn into synthetic oil/synthetic rubber, much like Germany had done in WW2.

Sasol were huge. (Anyone remember them sponsoring Jordan F1 ??)

They already had an arms industry so they just expanded it.

They circumvented sanctions and embargoes by doing deals with some of the lesser ethical regimes out there like, Pinochet’s Chile, Saddam Iraq and Argentina’s Junta.

They also had links to Israel.

Actually they were very innovative and led the way in some systems. They had due to involvement in Angola and Namibia.

For 4 hours and lots of restrictions in place

Conspiracy theories thread ,

More nonsense about Biden while cheering trump,

Source on these 3 claims that isnt the Kyiv Independent or a rando on twitter claiming to have seen an "unconfirmed but realistic looking report"?

The 'other side' claims they haven't invaded Ukraine. 🤣

Anyway I haven't seen anything that contradicts US or UK intelligence assessments so far.

IF you have by all means, post them up if it is indeed a sincere debate on balance you crave.

That might be because half the ones in the Legion after WW2 were from the problematic German organisation.

A lot of those lads that perished in That Khe, Coc Xa and Dien Bien Phu probably deserved their fate after what they had done in WW2.

There is even story of an Eastern European Jewish lad that joined the Foreign Legion to ultimately track down his family's killer in Indochina.

He used the guy's real name when he saw him, and when the guy turned round he blew his head off.

Nothing was done to lad by the French officers as they knew the story.

Adulation for a dementia stricken president with chaos all around him created by him and his incompetent department. We haven't even seen the last of it.

The noose around Mariupol is growing tighter every day. The city is almost cut in half

As to the encircling of Russians, that is as of yet unconfirmed. Also quite unlikely, because if it did happen, then the Ukrainians to the north flank would be exposed and routed by Russian forces coming from Chernobyl direction across Belarussian border.

This is the kind of misinformation that spreads all over, then in a few days time we realise it was all BS and is swept under the rug. Everyone is too taken with the latest report of Russians on the brink of surrender, or supplies running out in the next 14 days . For every 10 news stories on Ukraine conflict, 7 later turn out to be complete BS.

If there is even a limited nuclear conflict there goes your world economy.