That's a bit harsh.
storker's posts are not that bad
Craggy island is infested with nazis.
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.
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.
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. 😉
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
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.
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
The Pope's observation that NATO was partly to blame for the invasion is timely and overdue. Posters on this site making a similar observation were 'devoured'. He only stated the obvious.
If a person doesn’t like their neighbour because the neighbour refuse to be pressured into being a slave, and then call them Nazis, take their land, burn down their house, rape them, murder them….is that the neighbours fault too?
The pope can go take is Co*ck out of his gang of peadophiles a*sholes, punish and remove them from his organisation before commenting on anything.
why that fella has any standing in any context is beyond me.
the Pope lol.
No idea. If I could predict the future accurately, I'd be a very rich man though...
I went to make a meme but this one was already there
I was going to go with
I hope the Pope can sleep happy with expressing opinions like that, which just seek to justify the mad Russian dogs of war. He might just have lost whatever credibility he has managed to scrape together for his beleaguered institution.
Same here, it's so full of contradictions and impulsive decisions etc it's so hard to keep up with it.
People leaving on mass, politicians and celebs going in it's very strange.
I didn't read of him justifying anything.
Meanwhile, a $7.5 billion contract with Rosatom to build a nuclear power plant was also terminated.
Pretty big financial losses for the Russian state nuclear energy company. The plan included building a reactor pressure vessel, but the factory that can build those is located in Kramatorsk, Ukraine - and it was damaged by Russian attacks. So the Russians shelled their own supplier.
Regardless of whether nato expansion has anything to do with this, this is not the time for the pope to go into politics. Russia is committing atrocities in plain view of the whole world and the pope should focus on this. Leave the politics till after the war. No 1. on the agenda is the welfare of the Ukrainian people and anything that compromises this is to be frowned upon.
Obviously eliminating EU imports of Russian oil is the big part of today's announcement, so I missed that Sberbank has also been kicked off SWIFT.
That's one that will hit ordinary Russians hard. Sberbank is by far the biggest retail bank in Russia.
As these successive waves of sanctions build up, it becomes harder and harder for the Russian state to ameliorate their effects. They will become crippling.
He's not a patch on JP.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-francis-nato-cause-ukraine-invasion-russia/
JP was a way better soccer player to boot.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Francis reflected on Russia’s lethal aggression toward its neighbor and said while he might not go as far as saying NATO’s presence in nearby countries “provoked” Moscow, it “perhaps facilitated” the invasion.
Would you disagree with any of that?
If you look at the people cheering for Wallace on that tweet, and then look at the other stuff they are posting on their own accounts, it tells a little story.
Clicked on one there and other stories they appear to be retweeting include stories about 1000 Ukrainian Nazis burning 48 people to death in Odessa
Oh, and anti-vaxx stuff too
Why have they set two different time limits? The end of the year is only 7 months away, so why specify a seperate 6 month limit for one type of import?
Anyone have any concrete truth to the whole "Putin going for surgery" rumour.
Must be global warming - https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1521779058878689282?s=20&t=Gfo5oDarVZWyCWOBZEjFUw
And more here https://twitter.com/kiranjoshi235/status/1521739489177001984?s=20&t=ZQuhX9RFyRXR4iml-v3WYQ
8 months away (May is only 4 days in), unless you have speeded up time mysteriously. I imagine there are different usage patterns and complexities around supply chain switching but you usually get a more detailed readout from the actual Energy commissariat. So wait for that - this is just the headline.
What part of countries "expand" into NATO by exercising their democratic right to free association is so difficult for people to comprehend? When was anyone ever forced to join NATO? Other than forced through their knowledge that they live next door to a deranged regime which at any moment could invade to re-assert Russian imperialism
I can relate. My daughter has no interest in current affairs*, but she also keeps her thoughts to herself, so when she expresses a concern like that, we know it's something that's really worrying her. Her ability to keep her own counsel and stand up to questioning, combined with a relentless ability to ferret out information herself has led us to conclude that she'd be a natural as a secret service analyst. 😁 I had know idea she was so aware of the Ukraine situation, apart from me telling her to expect some new classmates in September. She must have locked on to something that filtered through.
*Neither of them is a chip off either parental block that way, but I sometimes think they may have right idea. Maybe life is nicer like that.
I am sure a large country like Russia has a certain number of fires, but would love to know if the current number of them is out of the ordinary
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