Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 11:01am On Mar 22, 2022 |
Svlla: If you're talking about the Kuril island then it's occupied by Russia by right of military conquest and treaties dating back to the late 19th century and post wwII It's obvious the guy still think Japan occupied the islands. How funny. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 10:52am On Mar 22, 2022 |
babajero: For your mind you think Japan is Ukraine right? Japan does not even have a fighting force as Ukraine. Stop being deceived. The country is more of a US colony now. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 10:51am On Mar 22, 2022 |
Bluffly: Better stop deceiving yourself. Japan is the most earthquaked country in the world, and they are still standing. Do you think Japan still build concrete mixed buildings and infrastructures? Their infrastructure is more intelligent than yourself. Tsunami ko tsunami ni. Do you think Japan is Ukraine ba? Japan is used to such disasters and is still standing 27 raise to power 7 far better than your country. I'm sure you are not aware of the seawalls Japan has been investing in. It's obvious you did not watch footage of the 2011 disaster. The artificial tsunami a Russian Poisiedon nuclear torpedo can cause is 20 times amplified than that, mixed with radiation, even mammy water and pappy water can not survive the impact and chaos it would cause. What's the use of a standing infrastructure without life in it? Let's pray it never come to pass. Today's Japan is a shadow of it formal self. That's a fact. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 10:41am On Mar 22, 2022 |
obynzo: You know that Russia wouldn't want to risk fighting a war on Multiple fronts. North Korea may want to be careful because of China, so it is still a stalemate for Russia. That is why Japan is fuming in the talks and not begging or appealing to Russia Actually, Japan feels cornered already. If Russia militarised those island, is a great strategic lost, one that also makes N.Korea to feel somehow reinforced while S.Korea would look completely surrounded from its own angle. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Fun Facts You Never Knew About Ukraine Prior To Russian Invasiin by Appleyard(m): 7:17am On Mar 22, 2022 |
The Azov battalion is the reason the Russians don't want to reopen another humanitarian corridor. They must be exterminated at all cost. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: German Producer Prices Jump By Record 25.9% by Appleyard(m): 7:05am On Mar 22, 2022 |
seunny4lif: Everybody is on the list List of inflation List of Sanctions
Germany stopped NS2 and now everyone in EU is facing high cost of living and high gas bills expect Hungary which got a good deal from Russia and have refused to sanction Russia. He said Hungary citizens come first and he will surely win in April as the oppositions shoot themselves in the legs by saying the want to supplies Ukraine with weapons if they win the election and Orban has used as an advance to himself by saying " LOOK THEY WANT TO US DRAG INTO A WAR. He have refused to allow NATO supply Ukraine through Hungary Wisdom they say is profitable to direct. Hungary is one of the few nations in Europe left with sane thinking and realistic leaders. Viktor Orban will forever be a legend that refused to use his country as an economic cannon folder to please western interest, unlike Ukraine whose leader was so happy to make the country a testing ground for all sorts of Russian weaponry. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 6:51am On Mar 22, 2022 |
chronique: How do you people confidently make unintelligent comments on global issues like this? Are you typing based on your emotions or based on reality? I don't know what the Japanese were thinking when they were sanctioning Russia. Were they expecting Russia to give them a round of applause for a job well done? Every nation should put her personal interests first, before making any global decision. That is what wise people do. A rare sensible comment spotted.  Allow the kids to elucidate their emotional stupidity.  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 6:44am On Mar 22, 2022 |
Aufbauh: Let Russia try it, Japan will ground those munitions within an hour. Putin is desperately trying to ignite a world war, but others are careful not to acede to his antics. This is not because Russia is more powerful than the rest of the world but they know that Putin has nothing other than Nuclear power which might cause the entire world collateral damage. Lmao. Russia don't need soldiers to destroy Japan. One Hypersonic Poseidon underwater nuclear-tipped glide vehicle will create an artificial tsunami with unprecedented effect worst than the 2011 tsunami that devastated the country. Japan is like a clay pot floating on top of water. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 6:29am On Mar 22, 2022 |
Oddfinder: Make uncle sam come help them collect the island This is wat we've been saying. Mind ur freaking bussiness but busy body de worry all dos US poppies they call allies..now Japan don prize market. U de sanction country wey u get security treaty wit. Wat were they expecting sef When God was blessing some countries with leaders that can reason geopolitically and strategically, the Devil came and baptized some with zombified leaders wired to make strategic mistakes in the guise of massaging the ego of their so-called ally. Pathetic. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 6:22am On Mar 22, 2022 |
Oddfinder: Ypu guys really underestimate Russia...this was how Ukraine was pushed..japan wey no get Army again Allow them to dream. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 6:21am On Mar 22, 2022 |
KaluwisxPRO: Japan is cleared to decimate Russia’s Air Force and their weak Navy.
Russian ground troop is zero, that’s gonna be a big blow to Russian military if Putin miscalculate again. It's good to dream. You don't pay for them, even if you dream for others.  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 6:18am On Mar 22, 2022*. Modified: 6:34am On Mar 22, 2022 |
MangekyoAlt: E don finish. I am reading now that the thing really pain the Japanese people  I'm sure we will start seeing some hypersonic missiles stationed in that island soon  Russia is way too big by itself to further consider adding additional territories. But anytime you see Russia holding on to any territory, know that such is very strategic, and that's what the two Islands are. The straight between these islands does not freeze at all during winter, which is crucial to Russia's defence because it gives the Russian Pacific fleet all-round access to the Pacific ocean without having to rely on permission from other straights controlled by foreign countries. Japan just sanctioned itself from these crucial islands. It is a sad goodbye.  The fuming Japanese leader should have thought this through before hunching its pygmyfied shoulders to join the western driven sanction train. This just shows how some nations are blessed with unintelligent leaders who commit strategic mistakes that impact their nations negatively while serving the interest of others. May the Japanese anime and martyred Samurai rise from the dust of Hiroshima to behead each of the Japanese high ranking officers that contributed to this strategic mistake.  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Japan Criticize Russian Withdrawal From WW2 Peace Treaty Talks Over Sanctions by Appleyard(m): 5:55am On Mar 22, 2022 |
Gradually, Japan is kissing the islands final goodbye. The Russians will now heavily militarised them and turn them into their backyard footrest just as they plan to nationalize the more than 500 western leased commercial planes now stranded in Russia after the west introduced sanctions. Sanctions are a two-edged sword that hurts both sides in a brawl. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Further Proof Of Civilians Used As "Human Shields" By Ukraine Soldiers by Appleyard(m): 12:52am On Mar 22, 2022 |
The wickedness of the human heart is appalling. Truly, man is a failed project.  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukraine Rejects Russia's Demand For Surrender In Besieged Mariupol City by Appleyard(m): 9:30pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
Bellerophon: Lol!!! I am so tired of this forum! Grown men talking about war like it is a fisticuff! Lol the war is not going to Putin’s plan and that is the honest truth! The overhyped modernization of his army has only being a smokescreen for a false projection of strength! Russia quite rightly is a superpower but this war has been Putin’s greatest miscalculation! There has been nothing strategic about spending ridiculous sums to continue to fight a war according to you and the rest of the numbskulls glorifying Russia’s tomfoolery on here that can be won in 48 hours deploying the full extent and might of their conventional weapons!!
So it is wisdom spending scare resources on a war that you can easily win but rather you decide to draw it out depleting your armory and stockpile of military hardware, incurring personnel loss as well as financial loss? The truth is Putin grossly miscalculated else he wouldn’t be needing Mercenaries to fight “small Ukraine” according to his lapdogs on here which you foolishly just made yourself a part of! Fighters from Chechnya, Syria, and the wastelands of the world are crawling from their terrorist caves enroute to your Mother Russia! Even in war there are ethical redlines, Putin has none! You sound so intelligently foolish whenever you rant. It's easy for you to point out the 'flaws' of Putin's Russia while ignoring the reality that even the best fighting force sometimes don't have things it ways easily as planned, and that include your loving United Snakes of Amerika. It took the US military SIX MONTHS to prepare for invasion during “Desert Shield” – in spite of huge prepositioned stores and a totally supportive KSA – and another MONTH to invade Bagdad which was basically undefended, and close to a MONTH to overwhelm it despite been aided by allies like Britain. You think wars are so easy so long a big power with big guns are involved. On your myopic premise, one can safely dedduced that the US is overrated and and it's advanced military was just a smokescreen, right? In fact, the US has not won a single war since WWII and never waged an existential war in its entire history. Do you REALLY think that you are competent to teach Russians how to fight? At least, next time you prepare to give Russians lessons, try to remember this factoid: during WWII the Soviet Army liberated one thousand two hundered (1’200!!!) cities from Nazi occupation forces. As for civilians casualties, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden and “500’000 dead Iraqi children as “worth it” – that all you. As is the vicious and genocidal bombing of the DPRK and Vietnam. So, remind me, who are you again to give us lessons about how Russia should fight? Every nation musnt achieve victory the usual American way--carpet bomb the enemy cities and kill thousands of children, women, goats, chickens and sheeps. So keep your myopic criticism to thyself and let the Russians do what is right in their eyes. You should be ashamed that even the west so-called evil Putin's Russia is asking the besieged enemy to surrender and even opening humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave, unlike your cursed United Snakes of Annihilation that would simply destroy everything to the ground. Why wouldn't you call Ukraine small since your ignorance didn't tell you it's the second biggest country in Europe with a large fighting force that has been receiving training from western military instructors and has consistently been given advanced military weapons plus a well stocked weaponry of their own, plus the Intel they have been receiving from NATO. It's convenient for you to accuse Russia for bringing in mercenaries when that is a trademark of the US in Iraq, Syria, and in Afghanistan. Where was your puerile ethical redline talk for the US? And you didn't know that Chechnya is part of Russia and Syria is an ally. It's weak and foolish of Russia to call them in but it isn't weak and foolish of the US to use Blackwater or NATO allies to fight a riff-ragged, airforceless and AK-wielding Afghan Taliban and weak Iraqis. Your jingoism is blinding. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ukraine Rejects Russia's Demand For Surrender In Besieged Mariupol City by Appleyard(m): 8:11pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
MangekyoAlt: The city is already surrounded. The russians have them at their mercy  For them to even ask them to consider surrendering is an art of generosity on their part. Now that the "Brave" Ukrainian troops have refused to, I hope snowflakes from the west and their silly bots on this forum wouldn't come here to scream foul or war crime when russia starts leveling the city to the ground. Hundreds, thousands will die. This is the realities of war. And according to Thanos "Reality is often disappointing". Ukrainian troops should wake up to the fact that mariopul has been cut off from the rest of Ukraine and do as they're told else, I hope them no go start to dey post on their medias say Russia bombard their city into rubbles The Russians have refused to open new humanitarian corridor in Mariupol because it turns out that some of the ultra nationalists criminal units were withdrawing and leaving the city dressed as civilians. Meanwhile, the complete blockade it's to make sure that the bunch of those nationalists are gathered together and completely annihilated. Let's wait and see what comes next as the 5.pm deadline to surrender has elapsed. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Supplies Ukraine Army With Hundreds Of Switch Blade Suicide Attack Drones by Appleyard(m): 7:36pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
Drenimarcus: Late news, they sent this last week. Guess what, Russia tracked the plane, as soon as it came into Ukraine, they bombed it. The mall they bombed yesterday was a ammunition depot. Now, Germany is saying they cant send any more weapons to Ukraine. No more sanctions.
These westerners allowed their emotions becloud them. So many of them don't even know that the Russians have deeply infiltrated the Ukrainian forces. They knew of all main shipment, plus the Russian highly secretive military satellites orbiting the Ukrainian airspace, which make them to detect all weapon movements and shipments of the Uki forces. You need to see the huge underground weapon storage Depot seized by Chechen columns recently in Ukraine. This is why Zelensky is so agitated and frustrated recently. Instead of him to arrive at a compromise, he is just hanging on straws thinking he can actually win against a formidable force like Russia. It is only an ediot who will hope to win with drones against a fighting force with the best missile technology on the planet. It's a pity how that man thinks. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Supplies Ukraine Army With Hundreds Of Switch Blade Suicide Attack Drones by Appleyard(m): 7:26pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
NigeriaNawa: The USA also has hypersonic missiles and guess what ? Over 5000 thermonuclear war heads. So, just as Russia can destroy US cities, the US can destroy Russian cities. And besides, when you add NATO, Russia is up against circa 7000 thermonuclear war heads.
Small reminder - Nobody wins in a nulcear war. The US doesn't have Hypersonic missiles. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Supplies Ukraine Army With Hundreds Of Switch Blade Suicide Attack Drones by Appleyard(m): 7:25pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
Hanibbal: Russia will soon bomb where those drones are housed. And Zelensky still thinks "Let us keep resisting I know that NATO will come and defend us one day"  Khinzal and Dagger Hypersonic missiles already doing press-up awaiting the location where this shipment would be delivered. They will be wiped out with high precision missiles, just like the first batch and much of the second batch of Turkish supplied Bayrakter drones were completely wiped out by Russian cruise missiles. I really feel sorry for Ukraine, the prize it has to pay for being led by a comedian. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Court Bans Facebook & Instagram, Calls Them 'extremist Organisations' by Appleyard(m): 7:18pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
seanwilliam: Just shut up if you can’t stop using it totally .
And you will find alternatives to google , andriod/iOS and windows too? Most of you depend on western products to live normal life and make money to feed your families yet you still use your dirty mouth to say rubbish about them .?? Tell me a successful run black nation in the world.. because i know for sure you will blame Nigeria leaders , who are you going to blame for the other black nations?
Tell me 10 Russia products without looking up to google and tell me how it’s been a use to you . Idiot koromiwe Oh, so because he is using western product he has no right to critic them for whatever wrong they do?  It's this type of thinking that made Bob Marley to cry 'Emancipate yourself from mental slavery'. Your logic presupposes that if your landlord is sexually abusing your daughter, you shouldn't say anything about it because you're living in his compound and he might give you quit notice. You're not making sense bro. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Court Bans Facebook & Instagram, Calls Them 'extremist Organisations' by Appleyard(m): 7:11pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
NOETHNICITY: Whenever I reflect on the level of damage done to africa by those western countries hiding under democracy to inflict imperialist damages, I weep. Particularly, What they did to Libya. A country that was working beyond imagination. With living standard better than those obtainable in the west. Suddenly the West came with all sorts of contrived invectives against gadafi. We foolish, dumb and brainless Africans thought the West wanted us to better. We supported them to destroy Libya and killed gadafi. Alas the once most prosperous country in Africa is nothing to write home about now. Oh, why are you reminding me of this now? I feel bitter each time someone tells me this things, knowing that our African leaders acquiesce to the destruction of Libya out of pure envy and wicked jealousy. God will punish the west for what they did to Libya, Iraq and Syria, for all the innocent lives lost and society destroyed. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Court Bans Facebook & Instagram, Calls Them 'extremist Organisations' by Appleyard(m): 7:04pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
Jeromejnr: Why can't you build your own country instead of always looking for somewhere else to live? What an epic answer....Bless your soul.  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Court Bans Facebook & Instagram, Calls Them 'extremist Organisations' by Appleyard(m): 7:00pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
descartes400: You see that Gaddafi own eh, e still dey pain till today. You dey learn. Na me vex pass. And wetin even con make am pain me well well na because say our useless Nigerian government support am.  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Israel Cancels Visa-Free Travel For Ukrainians, Accepts Russians Without Visa by Appleyard(m): 12:54pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
AirFireEarthH20: Israeli PM went to Russia and then Ukraine to meditate on the crisis so the war can end. Unfortunately, he found that the Ukraine President is more interested in requesting for more weapons and volunteers rather than immediate dialogue. Bennett wasn't impressed and he left. How can a reasonable leader, instead of asking world leaders to meditate to end the war, instead continue to ask for weapons to fight war he's clearly loosing, his people dying and infrastructure destroyed? I just don't understand Mr Zelensky's motive. The Israeli Prime minister found out that Zelensky is just a puppet who can't say no to those urging him not to give in to Russia's demand that would just end the war. He is being controlled, and that's why he never gets tired going from one televised appeal for more weapons to another to continue fighting the war that he has lost already. It's high time this man's comedic madness is addressed before he ruin Ukraine completely. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Israel Cancels Visa-Free Travel For Ukrainians, Accepts Russians Without Visa by Appleyard(m): 12:47pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
SmartProf: World politics is deep...the brave and smart nations are skilled in the chess game, while the nations with weak leaders who seek for loans and visit London hospitals are the spectators. saner words have never been said. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Israel Cancels Visa-Free Travel For Ukrainians, Accepts Russians Without Visa by Appleyard(m): 12:46pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
Prosperous111: What a strong thing 
The whole world is filled with hipocrisy. Not even the west alone but now the Israelites against their fellow Jewish nation's Since when did Ukraine become a Jewish nation? |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Mcdonald's Closed 847 Restaurants In Russia. Russians Turned The Logo 90 Degrees by Appleyard(m): 11:21am On Mar 21, 2022 |
princeeze1: You are even more ignorant with your last statement, please between the west and Russia who has more in the other’s territory? Do you know the collective value of the multinational cooperations that invested in Russian oil, gas and steel? Over 300 companies pulled out or suspended operations without pulling out their capital and fixed investments as there is an embargo on that. Do you know the collective value worth of over 300 foreign companies? We should be looking at over a trillion dollars. If they choose to swap seizures, the western loses would be colossal. So many people are clueless about what is really happening. Right now, if Russia chose to nationalize the assets of those companies that stops doing business in Russia, many of them would find it difficult balance the books for the rest part of the financial year. The amount they will lose is just too huge compared to what Russia would lose. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: 200 Ukranian Special Forces, Soldiers Killed By Russian Air Strikes (Graphic) by Appleyard(m): 7:40pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
seunny4lif: Those foreign fighters are already crying on Reddit. They were told lies about Ukraine war according to those that posted. Ukraine was winning was what they saw on MSM and then they joined the Ukraine troops only to be getting missiles from air. They thought it was like Iraq and Afghanistan were no airstrikes can happen to them It's such unfortunate that Russia has turned these Foreign mercenaries and soldiers of Ukraine into testing toys for it's hypersonic missiles. This latest attack was yet again carried out by cruise missiles and the Khinzal and Dagger hypersonic missiles that can also carry nuclear warheads. While I hate this war, the blood of those Ukrainian soldiers will forever be upon the head of Zelensky. This is a war he could have avoided from the first day Russia started the operation, but he foolishly went on boasting from one social media to another of how he is winning the war. This is really painful.  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Invasion: Scores Protest In Spain Over Soaring Cost Of Food, Light, Fuel by Appleyard(m): 5:24pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
BKayy: They haven't seen anything yet. I told them that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if she haven't figured out a way to deal with US sanctions.
I warned that at the end, the poor will end up eating the rich in the Western devilish countries and they thought I was joking. Now they are battling a little hunger. Its not yet serious.
By the time the hunger reaches stage two, they will be forced to consider importing wheat in Rubles and Yuan.
Welcome to the new world order. The fall of Dollar and the American Empire. Worst is if Putin decides to take undue advantage of this situation: turn off the gas tap and imagine the chaos that would follow.  Many European leaders would be burnt alive. The average western European have no stomach and stamina to tolerate hardship for one month, let alone on such a large scale. If Russia should turn off the taps, it would be hell on many European capitals. It will look like a coordinated rebellion. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Invasion: Scores Protest In Spain Over Soaring Cost Of Food, Light, Fuel by Appleyard(m): 5:19pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
Kingpin1000: Una never see something. Na only mumu dey throw stone for market. Joe Biden is already seen as a Dullard in America, He should pray this doesn't get to the U.S. That pit your enemy dig for you, may they fall into it. Amen |
Foreign Affairs › Re: India Buys 3 Million Barrels Of Russian Oil At A Discount by Appleyard(m): 8:11pm On Mar 19, 2022 |
grandstar: What online troll rubbish? Why do you people want to bury your heads in the sand?
First, Russia might be the largest country in the world based on land size, However, it is not the largest economy in the world. It is not even amongst the 10 largest economies in the world. In Europe alone, Germany, Britain, France, and Italy have economies much larger than that of Russia. The United Kingdom's economy is double that of Russia, despite having less than half its population. The German economy triple that of Russia.
Russia will feel the sting of their sanctions far greater than what it imposes on. Which country had its currency collapsing about 2 weeks ag0- was it Germany or Russia? The drastic collapse of a country's economy is usually signalled by the collapse of its currency.
Yes, these countries will feel some pain,. but the pain on the Russian economy has been horrendous and it has been all over the news unless you lived in denial and did not want to hear it.
You stated that other countries apart from the EU and US trade normally with Russia. That is not accurate. Japan and Taiwan haveplaced sanctions on Russia. You can't blame Taiwan as it too is petrified that China, which has its eyes on the island may be tempted to follow Russia's bad example.
Now, let's focus on the real problem. Considering that there were agreements that certain countries were not to join NATO after the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s, Russia has a right to be upset.
However, Putin too was part of the problem. His constant nefarious interference in the affairs of many former Soviet countries was what encouraged many of them to seek NATO membership. You just wrote a whole epistle without making much sense. I ask you again is it every country in the world that ban flights from going to Russia. It's a simple question, answer it. I said most other countries in the world, and you came up with just Japan and Taiwan. How many countries are there in Asia alone? How many are there in Africa? South/North Latin America? Many countries still do business with Russia and none give a dime about anything. Heck, even the sheepish EU still buys Russian gas and oil as we speak. Who is fooling who? The world is changing and a new dawn of multipolarism is breaking gradually. China and India alone dwarf the EU, the US, put together in terms of population which drives market share. This is why India and China still doing business with Russia matters so much. Add that to other Asian countries, Africa and Latin America and you will understand. Whatever effect the sanctions is having is but for the short-term, and to be frank, it's not even sustainable for glaring reasons.  Horrendous you say? The Rubble have plunged to it's lowest in a decade against the Dollar, but if that is what you called horrendous, then I'm afraid you need to do some fact check. Iran, North Korea, Venezuela have been in worst sanction but they still thrive and even emerge stronger in some cases. Russia has a far more dynamic economy than the aforementioned countries, and have emerged from similar worst situations in time past. Watch and see who blinks first. Sanctions are a two edged sword that hurt both sides in a brawl. Prices of commodities are already up across Europe. The UK is already advising workers not to drive their vehicles all the time to save on the cost of rising gas/oil prices. German Chancellor who ignorantly boasted that Germany would simply replace Russia with UAE should Russia turn off the pipes have gotten his delusion shattered. The UAE have said they lack the capacity and the capability to replace RUSSIA in the European market.  The US Federal Reserve has already raised interest rates to cushion the rising inflation made worse by the Russian brouhaha. Biden is still looking for replacement for the ban Russian oil import even as prices continue to soar. UAE and Saudi Arabia are refusing his calls. Some European countries are already changing from ouright aggressive tone to a 'let's be careful' rhetorics. Because the reality is hitting gradually. It is only a myopic ediot who thinks that a country like Russia can be crippled with economic sanctions. The recent geopolitical play by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, India, and Pakistan has sent signals to those who think they hold all the aces when it comes to bullying nations. A new era is unfolding before our very eyes. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: India Buys 3 Million Barrels Of Russian Oil At A Discount by Appleyard(m): 5:40pm On Mar 19, 2022 |
grandstar: Whether India buys or does not buy Russian oil, the Russian economy is already in trouble. Half of those sanctions are enough to cripple any country. Do you know what it means when commercial airlines can not fly to your country?
Biden has said the sanctions will not be permanent but will depend on Russia putting an end to its invasion of Ukraine. That, however, won't stop Putin. You speak like a typical troll. Is it every country that aren't flying planes to Russia? With the exception of the EU and US, most other countries of the world are dealing with Russia normally. Besides, the sanctioners have more to lose from the ban than Russia has to lose. The size of Russia alone means that most of the nations in Europe and beyond that sanctioned it would have to fly longer hours to get to their destinations as the Russian counter ban forbids them from using it's airspace, which is far costly for Europeans compared to the effect Russia would face. |