A global recession is on the horizon - please read OP for mod warning

How is winning being sat in trenches with your hands over your head hoping one of those 50K shells a day being launched does not land next to you.

My guess is a new form of 'Democracy' will be formed. A totalitarianism democracy that involves debt forgiveness, basic income payments, central bank digital currencies and food production control. This will be all needed in order to save our planet and as we are selfish human beings who need to be controlled in order to do the right thing in order to save ourselves. All out of the playbook as written by the WEF.

And by me even mentioning this I am a right wing extremist and a conspiracy theorist.

Nah, multiple polls have consistently shown support for UK to remain...

Nah, multiple polls have consistently shown Hillary will be the president...

Yeah, them polls...

Polls have margins of error, depending on quality. Sometimes that will be a few percent, so when you have an issue that is very 50/50 then there can be results on either side. There are many factors that can affect result including sample size, how it was conducted, where it was conducted, etc. There's a whole science behind it.

However you have multiple polls consistently showing e.g. 80%+ in favor of something, then you can be pretty sure.

There are a lot of conflicts in the world. Fringe individuals are only concerned about a very selective group of conflicts. They don't give a damn what's happening in e.g. Ethiopia. If victims in the conflict aren't inflicted by Western or a Western-aligned country, they don't give a toss about them. It's been difficult for them to blame the current invasion of Ukraine by Russia on the West, not for lack of trying, but the potential for a recession gives them a new angle to attack "the West" with. The sanctions are to blame! (Except that Putin's decision to invade Ukraine is to blame)

As for the sanctions against Russia, a majority support them. Are they hurting Russia? sure, although not as much as we'd like. Are we hurting? Yup, but cutting off a key energy supplier was always going to be painful, whether we did it in the past or now. Has to be done though.

Ask the people in winter would they be in favour of removing sanctions on energy and that poll will be a resounding YES.

If you disagree I have a boat to sell you.

when people are cold and hungry all social conventions go out the window and we become more in touch with our primal instincts to survive...ever since the french revolution where heads were being lopped off left, right and centre, every government has known to keep the people fed, watered and warm...will be intriguing to watch how they turn this around this winter...as said earlier, zelensky will probably be pulled up by his boot straps and told to get to the negotiating table

Fuel allowance introduced in 1988.

Exactly- farmers, energy companies etc treated like adolf hitlers by our supposed moral superiors and the Greta loving cheerleaders - but guess what we all need food and energy.

Euro countries and Turkey stocking up on Russian oil. Looks like Turkey is stocking up also to start it's new commodity reselling business also.

Imagine putting a ban on oil and everyone just buys the same stuff at a premium from someone else instead. It just makes all those hundreds of products that is made from oil more expensive at the end of the day.

As gas prices keep rising it is almost certain that countries start burning oil for energy, then global demand shoots up and off goes the price of oil.Then because everyone is burning oil to stay warm there is shortages of things like diesel and a mad scramble takes place so trucks keep on the road.

No doubt then Russia will announce they have to cut production of oil by half because some pumping station in Siberia are waiting in limbo to receive a turbine or something, then the price trebles and he sells 50% less for 3 times more. Deja Vu