Putin has millions of dollars in reserve - a strong currency to have a lot of (and a lot of it likely stolen from cyber-attacks). Putin has been planning for economic sanctions. Economic sanctions won't immediately hurt as much because of this. India and China also are backing Russia and will continue to trade.Also another thought and again I don’t know much about it but if Russia are skint surely this war is very costly and can they afford to invade other countries and be able to maintain power in the Ukraine? I know that there is probably hidden money or whatever but I’ve heard quite a few things that Russia are skint.
Two awful dictatorship regimes.We can send them to Coventry, worldwide. We can refuse to deal with them utterly. We can cripple them economically.
China are liars. Their news was reporting this am that the war was over. The Chinese state is foul, rotten and corrupt.
I agree this has to be done but if NATO donate weapons and then Russia end up seizing Ukraine then those weapons will end up in Russian hands.NATO has some very high tech and advanced weaponry , the best thing we could do is donate some to them them to give them a fighting chance.
Not in Russia though. And they will get cut off from the SWIFT system so they are fucked.Putin has millions of dollars in reserve - a strong currency to have a lot of (and a lot of it likely stolen from cyber-attacks). Putin has been planning for economic sanctions. Economic sanctions won't immediately hurt as much because of this. India and China also are backing Russia and will continue to trade.
Any invasion there & NATO can steam in , Polands under NATO ProtectoratePoland have already starting to change road signs all across the country to give military tanks right of way on the motorways etc. The army has also taken over parts of airports. So they are also gearing up for an invasion I think
And they'll be protected because of the same. xxAlthough thankfully not in Ukraine, I worry for my family just over the border in Poland. We have spoken about their fears and the possibility of them coming to Ireland if things escalate, but many of my older relatives are too frail now to travel. The younger boys say they wish they could go to Ukraine and fight for them, but the border is only open one way right now.
Understandably the elders of my family feel an intense fear of history repeating itself. Though they were quite young during the war, they remember their older brothers who never returned from the camps.
As I understand it Poland has been sending some very high tech weaponry to Ukraine. Poland is one of the biggest spenders in Eastern Europe when it comes to defence, second only I believe to Russia! I think if Poland was not a NATO member they may well have come to the defence of Ukraine by now, but their hands are tied by NATO sadly.
Are they going to get kicked out of SWIFT though? Olaf Scholz won't agree. Neither will Hungary or Italy.Not in Russia though. And they will get cut off from the SWIFT system so they are fucked.
Shalom shabbat. I agree with you wholly.That's the problem. We are stuck because as soon as we make the wrong move (Wrong in Putin's eyes) we are in WW3 and he has already threatened nuclear weapons. I think this is why this is unsettling so many people. We seem stuck in between a rock and a hard place.
On a side note I hate hate HATE that Putin is saying this is to de-nazify Ukraine as his excuse. As a Jewish woman I find it so insulting he is using that to justify the needless killing for his own agenda.
US have a lot if troops in Poland etc. Would they dare?
Germany confirmed they will agree to it.Are they going to get kicked out of SWIFT though? Olaf Scholz won't agree. Neither will Hungary or Italy.
China will also come up against AUKUS (the recently created Australian, UK and US) military pact.I hope I’ve got this right, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. My understanding is that China want to seize Taiwan, Japan is likely to defend Taiwan with Australia as their ally so China are cosying up to Russia in the event they need their help.
They have used planes though - they dropped off thousands of troops by parachutes yesterday and I also thought I had seen a formation of approx 10 jets flying over Kyiv which someone posted - agree they are not dropping bombs but they would possibly use drones for that - didn’t we use Exocets in, was it Kuwait?,That wouldn’t stop them from using airports in Russia and Belarus close to the Ukrainian border
there will be a lot going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about, it makes sense that the UK are getting prepared. He probably also wants to ensure everything is organised now before everything gets worse xI don't want to worry about because I don't know what it means or if it's normal to talk about this when a war could be pending but my friends husband is in the British army & he said when he FaceTimes her tonight he needs to go over is life insurance with her.
I don’t believe they are skint.They are skint they have the GDP of less than Italy but act like a world superpower the average russian salary is like 350 pounds a month . They spend a lot of money on military they will want this war with Ukraine to be short feeding and supplying troops is very expensive. It truly depends on how mental he is China might be giving them money on the side.
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