If the war ends at a peaceful agreement, will they go through the process of buying Russian oil and gas again,or will Russia become self sufficient and just grow their own food,use their Fossil fuels for their own comforts etc
Well at the end of the day they will have to be a middle man if its the Pope, Macron, Erdogan or any world status person to have lines open to end this horrific war. Because so many Country's of closed the door in communications with Russia. Because if a scenario may happen like Putin be dead in the morning fingers crossed lines of communication need to be open.
I don't have twitter but anyone who does is free to steal my response to that and tweet it back to him:
NATO provoked the Russian invasion in the same way that the woman down the road with two black eyes provoked her husband by spending time on her phone talking to her friends instead of having his dinner ready on time
That (leaving the EU) was something that was very subtly insinuated to them when the first round of sanctions was being proposed.
It was nowhere near as blunt as 'you're either with us or against us' but the underlying message was very clear. And was received. 😉
The latest is that they get a derogation until the end of 2023, along with Slovakia. Everyone else is done with Russian oil in 2022 (and these imports have already fallen very sharply).
In the greater scheme of things, this derogation is pretty minor given the size of both countries.
And, right on cue, per VDL:
This will be a complete import ban on all Russian oil, seaborne and pipeline, crude and refined. We will make sure that we phase out Russian oil in an orderly fashion, in a way that allows us and our partners to secure alternative supply routes and minimises the impact on global markets. This is why we will phase out Russian supply of crude oil within six months and refined products by the end of the year.
Now I know lots of people think that this was something that could literally have been done overnight but this is truly a massive, massive shift in EU energy policy that has happened, by the standards of such things, at warp speed. Expect some noises by Hungary but they will be brought into line sharpish.
Craggy island is infested with nazis.
That's a bit harsh.
storker's posts are not that bad
Mick Wallace enjoying seeing the pope back his anti-nato stance...
https://twitter.com/wallacemick/status/1521551205683634180?cxt=HHwWiIC5pdKw0Z0qAAAA
For the sake of the rest of humanity, this pox of a man needs to be removed from this world right now.
Yeah, good old LBJ comment/story. To correct my earlier post he didn't say it about McGovern but the strategy was used in spades against McGovern in 1972.
Was that the pig fucker accusation?
There's always some fu^ker from Cork causing trouble
Yeah, plenty of versions of it out there. It tends to be attributed to him, very much his direct style!
The biggest war news today will emanate from Brussels.
I thought it was apocryphal but definitely one of the many forms of Texas tale LBJ liked to recount.
e.g. the first paragraph in this
It was LBJ and said about McGovern.
This isn't a new thing. Churchill noted in the aftermath of the Yalta conference that their definition of 'fascist' was sufficiently broad to include 'those I disagree with'.
As Nixon might say ‘ I know it’s not true but let’s see them denying it anyway’
Still nowhere near as crazy as the War of the Triple Alliance. When, eh, Paraguay declared war on pretty much everybody. With predictable results that they still haven't recovered from.
There was a lady from Cork in the middle of it too.
A good twitter thread on the deficiencies of the t72 and on the Russian army in general.
Good man yourself, another idea for the Ru to exploit - irrespective of whether it is true or not . At least it is a change from the American supported ‘ chemical labs’!!!!!
When I was a small kid in late sixties, it was a histeria on polish TV about nuclear war. They were showing footages about results of such a strike. And only shadows of people left on walls. So I was keeping all the time close to my mum, literally clutching her skirt to be one spot with my mum in case of nuclear strike. It was an awful time for me back then, so must be awful for kids now as well. I don't remember much from my childhood, but I remember this. My parents probably thought I was too young to understand what was on TV...
He says lots of things but is fully backing the EU stance on sanctions. That's all that matters.
Re employment policy and hiring someone , there are a whole list of things that one cannot use to refuse a person a job eg religion, sexual orientation, etc, etc, etc, etc.
one can be before the court if they certain things to another person in public - have witnesses to prove it. The same with other offensive situations re incitement to hatred, offensive posters, articles, etc.
COULD THE SAME NOT BE DONE by outlawing specific emblems, signs, etc like the current ‘z’ thing?
I've got this one....
Finally!.........Yes!.....
...ahem..
Nuclear weapons need highly enriched Uranium. ( H.E.U.). There was some left, for experiments in physics, at the Institute of Physics in Kharkiv, but guess what...Russia shelled it. Ukraine has no way of turning their Uranium deposits into U. Hexafloride gas, used in enrichment plants. ( Thank you Scott Manley). Natural Uranium is U-238. Nuclear weapons need U-235.
It would take years to build the facilities needed for enrichment. (99.99% of the Manhattan Project facilities was for enrichment only, covering thousands of acres to produce around 1kg of material. It ain't easy!)
However, they've got plutonium. It's buried in their reactors. Full of nasty isotopes. Perfect for a dirty bomb. I shudder to think what Russia would do, however, if they discovered Ukraine was fiddling about with one of their reactors.
To recap- Ukraine will never be able to manufacture their own nuclear bombs. They can produce "dirty bombs". ( a conventional explosive head packed with radioactive material. All the fallout with none of the bang.
My years of watching Plainly Difficult and Scott Manley videos have finally paid off!!
Whether it's true or not, I reckon the Russians are rubbing their hands in glee to see this rumour doing the rounds, spreading mistrust within the EU. And the OP is helping them.
If you go back my original point was that a poster was comparing russian behaviour to that of the nazi Germans in how they looted and plundered. In fact everything here seems to be brought back to a comparison to the Nazis, it's as if they invented plundering behaviour during conquest.
I was pointing out (and certainly not excusing in any way shape or form) that plundering sadly has been a part of conquest since the dawn of humanity. And the Russians won't be the last.
What a truly beautiful and intelligent lady
" We are witnessing the mass killings of civilians"...
"We have no right to remain silent otherwise we become accomplices to this killing"
And that is true of all of us.
To the presenter Vira Hyrych who was killed in the Russian bombing of her home and who broadcast this ladies account of the attack on Mariupol ~ RIP
A big scroll back in the timeline to find the video clip which is in Orc, hence my not linking: https://t.me/operativnoZSU
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