Only one European country has said they would pay for gas in Roubles, that was Hungary.
When Putin demanded that Europe pays for gas in Roubles, every other country told Russia to go chew rocks. At that point, Russia had two options.
They chose to accept Euro rather than turn off the gas.
Putin was afraid. He blinked and stood down from his demands.
Bit of fighting taking place on what to do. Some countries are considering it and others are refusing it. Some countries outside of the EU are already paying Russia with rubbles, which undermines the Petrodollar. Putin did something not thought possible. Countries start using rubles to buy energy/fuel this has a negative impact on the United States economy.
Article is only a few days old.
That's not what happened. Putin demanded that Europe pay for Russian gas with roubles. European leaders met, came to an agreement, and turned him down. Putin restructured the deal so that Europe would continue to pay in Euro, but the Moscow Stock Exchange would perform the conversion of Euro to Rouble, after Europe had made the payment.
In other words, Putin made a demand that was rejected, in order to safe face he proposed a ridiculous scheme of Euro conversion to Rouble in order to save face.
About 40 percent of gas supplied to Europe comes from Russia. What country going to replace that percentage? Got an answer, let's have it.. Russia has other countries it sells it to like India and China just to name two, account for almost 30 percent of the world population.Really cant destroy Russian economy when other nations buy their products and goods,
Only two countries in Europe are significantly dependant on Russia for gas - that does not equate to the EU
Those two and rest of the countries that even use it are moving away from Russian gas and now moving from the winter months the dependence is massively removed
Like I said be part of the real world.
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If Russian cut off gas Germany would be in a severe economic recession and so would the rest of Europe. When people start losing jobs and income its not good. EU well aware they need Russia and there years away from cutting them off., they need a new source of supply and that takes time.
Like I said conspiracy forum ---->
Sure the Russian ruble was supposed to crash according to the predictions. Of course, all the predictions have never materialised. It was one of the strongest performing currencies in the world. You know why because Europe needs fuel and so those the rest of the world. Cant source from other countries, there going to buy in deals done in the background.
Russian propaganda forums are over there to the east, conspiracy forum round the corner
Russia showed its power here to resist western economic warfare. Cant bully a big nation like you can do with a small one. Fascinating here is Russia turned the tables around and asked countries to pay for fuel with rubbles. Undermines the petrodollar, which keeps the United States afloat.
Many US commentators (not just this guy) are strongly pushing for more action, I would say it's intended to get the US public onside
https://youtu.be/lX4NZpqybA8
You're going to have to look it up and figure out where the conflict is between our Constitution and the rules where these battlegroups were formed. As I said, I'm not aware of them. But I assume that, if we participate, that they are not included in whatever in under the EU Article 42.
Ireland always sent plenty of soldiers off on UN missions.
russian tank explodes
I'm inclined to agree. I think a good case could be made that he should go on trial but realistically....
EU Battlegroup (EU BG)[1] is a military unit adhering to the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) of the European Union (EU). Often based on contributions from a coalition of member states, each of the eighteen Battlegroups consists of a battalion-sized force reinforced with combat support elements (1,500 troops).[2][3] Two of the battlegroups were declared to be capable of being assembled for operational deployment at any one time.
Have we all missed something ?
I don't know anything about EU battlegroups. But I would have to guess that they weren't set up via a common defence treaty under whatever Article 42 of the EU rules say.
We can still send soldiers anywhere. Once the Dail agrees. We just can't declare war unilaterally on another nation.
How does our involvement in the EU battlegroups come into it ?
I mean it's not the only reason. It seems unlikely that the citizens of the country would want to join, that is reason enough.
In the intervening time, there has been a specific Article inserted to prohibit us from accepting an EU common defence treaty. It is likely that we would need a referendum then to smooth that over or else there would be plenty of Constitutional challenges
The state shall not adopt a decision taken by the European council to establish a common defence pursuant to article 42 of the treaty on European Union where that common defence would include the State.
Even though that Article only specifies European Council.
I think that Article was put in to assuage fears for one of the European Treaties such as Lisbon or Maastrict when people were claiming it was to set up an EU army
Clearly genuine.
Compare it to this photo of the Moskva. Look at the distinctive radar station and helipad, it's the same ship.
Ireland does not have a constitutional claim to the north now, so why can't we join NATO?
Are you talking about why we didn't join NATO back after WW2 as if it is still a reason/restriction joining now?
I asked why we can't join NATO in 2022, you use a reason from 1949 as a reason why.
The Republic had a constitutional claim over Northern Ireland in its Constitution until 1998. It therefore refused, as a matter of policy, to sign up to any common agreement on defence until that was sorted. When NATO was being contemplated, Ireland always kinda half indicated that it would be otherwise amenable in principle to joining.
Why would you join up with a country which was, from your perspective, illegally occupying part of your territory?
Read this is you are interested:
Ah you're right.
I kinda fear all those kidnapped/moved to literally concentration camps, if they don't fall in line.... what happens to them?
Seems the Russian propaganda is getting public to see Ukrainian citizens as sub-human, we've seen this before with the Nazis.
If the photos of the moskva are legit then it might explain the delay in the US saying it had sank? Everyone else was declaring it sank during the darkness of night during the storm
How does the north stop us? I would have thought it would have restricted the UK joining as they were joining NATO with a conflict zone (the north)
But Ireland can't joint NATO because we had a conflict with a current member and constitutionally decided to give up our claim to the north?
**** makes no sense.
The original tweet does
He should have mentioned his sons name in the tweet. Every little helps.
The reason we are not in NATO is because of British occupation of the North. Nothing to do with the Constitution. That is a historical thing pre-GFA and Articles 2&3 changing
So could Ireland join NATO without needing a referendum? If not why?
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