Eh, if they try or will do the same to China, how are they gonna buy/pay chinese products lol.
That's gonna create an even worse logistics nightmare for basically ALL industries and also civil life
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That's gonna create an even worse logistics nightmare for basically ALL industries and also civil life
They are in the fight of their lives for their hegemony ... and the window closes by 2025-2027
Its "all in" and "now or never"
Obviously. I have been calling for drastically higher per GDP military spending since 10 years ago. And btw we need a lot more landing ships, planes, helicopters, missiles, nuclear warheads etc
Unfortunately the per GDP military spending has more or less remained the same.
Katie Halper interviews Chris Hedges on the current situation in Ukraine, in addition to propaganda and lack of true journalism. Good interview.
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True journalism was gone the moment people werent sure if an article titled Bing Dwen Dwen genocides 200000 ughyers was real story or photoshopped.... To me that was the litmus test that settled the matter
How dare you
Ukraine is 'civilized' there's news reports and everything...Seriously, Putin didn't pick that 'de-Nazification' phrase out of thin air............
The U.S. and its proxies in the EU and elsewhere have put up very harsh sanctions on Russia to damage its economy.
The final intent of this economic war is regime change in Russia.
The likely consequence will be regime change in many OTHER countries.
This war is waged at a financial size that is unprecedented. The consequences in all markets will be very significant to extreme. But experience from Iran shows that such financial wars have their limits as the targeted country learns to survive. Moreover Russia is in a much stronger position than Iran ever was and is better prepared for the consequences.
The rubel fell some 30% today but Russia's central bank immediately more than doubled its interest rate to 20%. It is willing to fight inflation before it is really sets in.
How much of Russia's investment and consumption depends on imports from the 'west'? Can't most of it not be replaced by imports from China?
All energy consumption in the U.S. and EU will now come at a premium price. This will push the EU and the U.S. into a recession. As Russia will increase the prices for exports of goods in which it has market power - gas, oil, wheat, potassium, titanium, aluminum, palladium, neon etc - the rise in inflation all around the world will become significant.
'Western' central banks are still at practical 0% interest rates and will be reluctant to increase those as that will cause a deeper recession. This makes it likely that inflation in the 'western' world will increase at a higher rate than Russia's.
Germany's crazy move to add $120 billion to defense spending (up from some $40 billion p.a.) will within a few years create a strong military imbalance in Europe as Germany will then dominate all its neighbors. This is unnecessary and historically very dangerous. The shunning of economic relations with Russia and China means that Germany and its newbie chancellor Olaf Scholz have fallen for the U.S. scheme of creating a new Cold War. Germany's economy will now become one of its victims.
On February 4 Russia and China declared a multipolar world in which they are two partnering poles that will counter the American one. Russia's move into the Ukraine is a demonstration of that.
It also shows that the U.S. is unwilling to give up its supremacist urges without a large fight. But while the U.S. over the last 20 years has spent its money to mess up the Middle East, Russia and China have used the time to prepare for the larger conflict. They have spent more brain time on the issue than the U.S. has.
The Europeans should have acknowledged that instead of helping the U.S. to keep up its self-image of a unipolar power.
It will take some time for the new economic realities to settle in. They will likely change the current view of Europe's real strategic interests.
( . . . ) The Moon of Alabama, 28 February 2022
The final intent of this economic war is regime change in Russia.
The likely consequence will be regime change in many OTHER countries.
This war is waged at a financial size that is unprecedented. The consequences in all markets will be very significant to extreme. But experience from Iran shows that such financial wars have their limits as the targeted country learns to survive. Moreover Russia is in a much stronger position than Iran ever was and is better prepared for the consequences.
The rubel fell some 30% today but Russia's central bank immediately more than doubled its interest rate to 20%. It is willing to fight inflation before it is really sets in.
How much of Russia's investment and consumption depends on imports from the 'west'? Can't most of it not be replaced by imports from China?
All energy consumption in the U.S. and EU will now come at a premium price. This will push the EU and the U.S. into a recession. As Russia will increase the prices for exports of goods in which it has market power - gas, oil, wheat, potassium, titanium, aluminum, palladium, neon etc - the rise in inflation all around the world will become significant.
'Western' central banks are still at practical 0% interest rates and will be reluctant to increase those as that will cause a deeper recession. This makes it likely that inflation in the 'western' world will increase at a higher rate than Russia's.
Germany's crazy move to add $120 billion to defense spending (up from some $40 billion p.a.) will within a few years create a strong military imbalance in Europe as Germany will then dominate all its neighbors. This is unnecessary and historically very dangerous. The shunning of economic relations with Russia and China means that Germany and its newbie chancellor Olaf Scholz have fallen for the U.S. scheme of creating a new Cold War. Germany's economy will now become one of its victims.
On February 4 Russia and China declared a multipolar world in which they are two partnering poles that will counter the American one. Russia's move into the Ukraine is a demonstration of that.
It also shows that the U.S. is unwilling to give up its supremacist urges without a large fight. But while the U.S. over the last 20 years has spent its money to mess up the Middle East, Russia and China have used the time to prepare for the larger conflict. They have spent more brain time on the issue than the U.S. has.
The Europeans should have acknowledged that instead of helping the U.S. to keep up its self-image of a unipolar power.
It will take some time for the new economic realities to settle in. They will likely change the current view of Europe's real strategic interests.
( . . . ) The Moon of Alabama, 28 February 2022
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I missed the important graphic furnished by the author, DMITRY ORLOV, earlier.
LANGUAGE MAP in Ukraine
The areas in RED and ORANGE -- is Russian-speaking and is naturally part of the Russian zone. The only two exceptions will be a Carpatho-Russian enclave (in purple) which will need to be administered separately and a Hungarian enclave (in green) that might as well be absorbed into Hungary.
Roughly speaking, the YELLOW AREA is Ukrainian-speaking and is an all-you-can-eat (please don’t choke) buffet for the West. It has relatively POOR SOIL and high incidence of iodine deficiency and IMBECILITY in the general population. It is also where Ukrainian NATIONALISM comes from and where the CURRENT UKRAINIAN NAZI PLAGUE ORIGINATED.
The result of the sanctions on : Gas price increased by 36% and reached $1454 notwithstanding the confirmation from that it won't weaponise the energy supply. What I am trying to say is: we impose sanctions on Russia and we, consumers, pay the price. Clever.
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