Re: Russia / Ukraine Watch
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:18 pm
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I agree . One way or another Ukraine won’t be joining NATO . If they had stayed neutral this war might have been avoided . Now Putin has his excuse to invade the rest of UkraineMax B Gold wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:11 pmThey could have left the clause prohibiting them joining NATO in their constitution. Really upset Mad Vlad that one.
Not much the ordinary people of Russia could do either to be honest. Nevalny proves that , the Babushkas would have suffered the same feat . Again though lets not focus on those ordinaries .
It's always been his goal to establish a Russian Empire.Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:06 am News making me queasy. Putin has gone full bond villain, implicitly threatening nuclear war if any other country gets involved and talking about 'denazifying' Ukraine. He's become the sort of unhinged that makes it easy to imagine things escalating in a very dark way.
The west needs to make Russia a complete economic pariah.
Yep. I reckon it was around 2004 when he fully made his mind up about the future direction.Max B Gold wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:19 amIt's always been his goal to establish a Russian Empire.Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:06 am News making me queasy. Putin has gone full bond villain, implicitly threatening nuclear war if any other country gets involved and talking about 'denazifying' Ukraine. He's become the sort of unhinged that makes it easy to imagine things escalating in a very dark way.
The west needs to make Russia a complete economic pariah.
Sanctions have to be meaningful but he wouldn't have gone into this without believing he could deal with them.
The key to that belief is that the Western capitalists will always seek profit and ignore or work around sanctions. Its what the banks and energy companies did as he acquired assets for the Russian state, himself and his associates.
He also has Cold War experience of circumventing sanctions that was his old job and that of his ex KGB mobsters who are now in charge. Much of the groundwork will have been done over the last 20 years.
Poland and the Baltic states have now called for NATO Article 4 consultation. Also Article 51 focus on right to self defence, which gives every member the right to help a non-member when it has been invaded. All of this does, of course, bring us closer to Article 5 territory, especially given Putin's very pointed comments.Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:06 am News making me queasy. Putin has gone full bond villain, implicitly threatening nuclear war if any other country gets involved and talking about 'denazifying' Ukraine. He's become the sort of unhinged that makes it easy to imagine things escalating in a very dark way.
We are trying to help by sending weapons and sanctions along with the rest of the West. Incidentally if I was the leader of Finland or Sweden I would be applying to join NATO as soon as possible.Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:43 amYep. I reckon it was around 2004 when he fully made his mind up about the future direction.Max B Gold wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:19 amIt's always been his goal to establish a Russian Empire.Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:06 am News making me queasy. Putin has gone full bond villain, implicitly threatening nuclear war if any other country gets involved and talking about 'denazifying' Ukraine. He's become the sort of unhinged that makes it easy to imagine things escalating in a very dark way.
The west needs to make Russia a complete economic pariah.
Sanctions have to be meaningful but he wouldn't have gone into this without believing he could deal with them.
The key to that belief is that the Western capitalists will always seek profit and ignore or work around sanctions. Its what the banks and energy companies did as he acquired assets for the Russian state, himself and his associates.
He also has Cold War experience of circumventing sanctions that was his old job and that of his ex KGB mobsters who are now in charge. Much of the groundwork will have been done over the last 20 years.
Since the 2014 invasion (although, you could also argue 2008), by continuing to enable him through corruption, energy supply agreements and other assorted deals, the West (and the UK in particular) has enabled him to prepare and build his military. He will now use that to slaughter innocent civilians. We have a moral duty help Ukraine.
Don't worry Ron the USA will be along in a minute to issue orders to the mop headed w*nk£r soon enoughRonnie Hotdogs wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 9:01 am Don’t worry, we’re going to enforce our sanctions to 2 other oligarchs today.
It certainly is .
I wouldn't be surprised. I think this might be the start of a very long and very drawn out world war 3. Russia and China will gradually start encroaching on other countries sovereign territory. I'm not sure the rest of the world has the stomach to stand up to them. China and Russia don't really have matching ideologies though, so they'll end up fighting each other once there's no one left.RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 9:21 amThat's why he doesn't care too much about Western sanctions. I wonder if this will now embloden China to strike at Taiwan.
Times like these really show up the trade deals we rely on that have been built on the most tenuous of relationships.Adz wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 9:31 amI wouldn't be surprised. I think this might be the start of a very long and very drawn out world war 3. Russia and China will gradually start encroaching on other countries sovereign territory. I'm not sure the rest of the world has the stomach to stand up to them. China and Russia don't really have matching ideologies though, so they'll end up fighting each other once there's no one left.RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 9:21 amThat's why he doesn't care too much about Western sanctions. I wonder if this will now embloden China to strike at Taiwan.
This should really prompt the rest of the world to create their own energy independence using renewables, as that's the first thing that will disappear if existing global alliances fall.