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Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 12:15am On Feb 22, 2022
olas24u:
its outdated information ,this was 2014 ,2017 , it currently has 1.17 trillion naira economy and it lowers its defence budget.so it does not attract,
of course the sanctions affected, but it took time to navigate and organise ,they will make more money without sanction and will still create alternatives with sanctions and make money .they are both losing .it is not a one way thing.
Ok
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 12:08am On Feb 22, 2022
olas24u:
That is not true ,bring the data here , how did you measure it ?china is ready to pay for its gas and oil in local currency
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405473916000039
Here you go read and educate yourself instead of arguing unnecessarily.. undecided

Once you are done get Back and tell me whether yve been wrong or not..

Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 12:01am On Feb 22, 2022
frog12:
of course i know, but an outcast to space ? grin

you are sounding like one. better go and fix ya country before lecturing another country that's far ahead of you.
You didn't contribute anything reasonable here.. grin
Look who's telling me nonsense that doesn't even know what pariah means..
cheesy
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 12:00am On Feb 22, 2022
olas24u:
they have their own phone company like
Yota (Russian: Йота) is a Russian mobile broadband company and smartphone manufacturer. Yota is a trademark of Skartel LLC. On 9 May 2012, Yota's WiMAX was replaced by its LTE network.

They have their own uber called yandex taxi,they have alternatives to everything
You ain't getting my point.. cheesy
Fine they have their all and all but their economy is depreciating bit by bit due to the sanction and you are still arguing...
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:59pm On Feb 21, 2022
CoronaVirusPro:
That one trillion dollar is in Putins account.


Russians are suffering and economy is in decline. Go to better forums and meet Russians. Nothing is happening in Russia as we speak. High level corruption with nothing for the populace.

The aWest has already successfully crippled Russias economy. With Nord going down again, it will only get worse. Investment gone down the drain.
That guy will never admit...he still keep on saying Russia's economy is doing fine..
CelebritiesRe: Davido Calls Out Molo (Show Promoter) For Claiming She Doesn’t Know Him by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:52pm On Feb 21, 2022
DavidKajo94:
You rest too. I guess you forgot to read this part as to why davido called her lame in the first place

"Davido initially called Molo out for shaming a male social media user who was in her inbox"

I guess in your own opinion, her publicly posting/shaming a guy that came to her dm privately is justifiable
Bring an evidence of that statement you made..
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:49pm On Feb 21, 2022
olas24u:
22


Not true ,its major export is gas and military hardware ,it produces its own food ,they can only tell some countries not to buy from them
And is it not limiting their economic growth?
I don't know why you are going back and forth..
So if you produce your own food won't you sell out to the big league?

The sanctions are what causes currency devaluation (among other things, but the sanctions have a huge role). In Russia the ruble has devalued to about half of what it was worth 6–7 years ago against most or all major currencies. Every Russian inside Russia inevitable uses the ruble and the vast majority get their pay in rubles.

When their currency devalues to half of what it was, everything they purchase from foreign nations (all imports) cost twice as much suddenly, not even taking inflation of the original foreign price of the import into account. Besides that, as soon as they leave their borders (like on a vacation to Thailand) their money is suddenly worth half as much.

Middle class and poor Russians inevitably rely on imports for a lot of things, and some of them also travel. (Samsung appliances, German cars, Apple or Korean smartphones, Chinese computer parts, and countless other things). They also like to go vacation to Thailand, Europe, etc. sometimes.

When the price of imports go up, often domestic manufacturers follow suit, because since imports are no longer competitive, they can raise the price too — just because they can.

So Putin is butchering middle class and poor Russians, but to distract from that he keeps them amused with stories of national greatness and international escapades.
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:45pm On Feb 21, 2022
frog12:
you sound like a pariah. perhaps you can explain to us, what that means ? hahahaha.

these people like to bully russia a lot. even that boris wey dey talk nonsense fit throw punch ?
Pariah is like an outcast..
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:44pm On Feb 21, 2022
AstraDroid:
She does not know the full scope of the mRNA programs and has been programmed into marketing drugs for |Big Pharma. |Technically, Biden is reactionary, and that is not great for America Company.

It is best for a leader to know that the world has a roadmap and there are stages of evolution of the processes leading to the completion of the agenda as designed. China and Russia leaders know the roadmap and have 100 yrs goal as to re-uniting the old bloc that United States Company had destroyed during the last wars.

Russia's goal under Putin is to restore the Soviet Union, China's Goal under Xi is to bring together all of the Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Mongolians etc under the leadership of Xi.

America and NATO wants otherwise, and it is naturally difficult to separate a people connected by DNA.

United States is a great place, and a great country, but no world power will be there forever, there was a time for Egypt, Rome, United Kingdom and now United States, and they can tarry as long as they want. There will new world power, but it will be multipolar.

I love the United States. But it is time to understand that you cant be King for ever.
Aptly put.. kudos.. kiss
CelebritiesRe: Davido Calls Out Molo (Show Promoter) For Claiming She Doesn’t Know Him by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:43pm On Feb 21, 2022
Jostoman:
go and sit down bad belle people.
grin
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:39pm On Feb 21, 2022
olas24u:
where is the money coming from ?they have the chinese alternative and that is what America wants,it does not want partnership between Europe and Russia
Still it limits Russia's economic growth.. undecided
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:38pm On Feb 21, 2022
FreeStuffsNG:
Russia will still lose again like the military conflict of the Crimean war fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of the west.
cheesy
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:36pm On Feb 21, 2022
aribisala0:
What happened to oil prices between 2013 and 2015


The decline in GDP was largely driven by the crash in oil prices which affected Nigeria and
other oil exporters

You are not well informed

What sanctions exactly are you talking about?
The sanctions mainly target individuals and not the Russian economy stop lying just to win a pointless argument

The US still imports more oil from Russia than from Nigeria and Russia does good business with the EU
Your knowledge of the "sanctions" is very superficial
In 2019 the US imported over $30 billion from Russia
How much did they buy from Nigeria which is not under sanction?
Canada already ships lots of to the US..
The price of oil is dropping steadily as it's uses are declining. That's not to say that oil does not have a use anymore, because I'm pretty sure it does, but the oil companies themselves seem to be recognizing that oil has reached its peak and is a product in decline...

The United States is starting to produce its own oil and can therefore buy the oil and refine it much cheaper domestically.
If it needs to buy oil, why would it incur the expenses of shipping in from malevolent or hostile countries, when it can bring it in from Canada much cheaper in transportation costs and from a friendlier nation that it shares a border with?

Considering the fact that many governments at a municipal level in the United States are switching to Green energy, why would it buy oil at all?

Considering the fact that commuter air travel is fast turning to electricity and electric powered airplanes, why would they want to go back in time for something more expensive and more polluting?
I wasn't even talking about oil..you missed y point..I was trying to let you know how the sanction is affecting Russia's economy..
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:29pm On Feb 21, 2022
olas24u:
Russia as an alliance with Eurasia and has partnership with china ,Iran, and the rest that will easily cushion effects ,the most powerful economies are in Asia not Europe.
No one is talking about most powerful..
The sanctions imposed so far? — Of course, it might survive. The sanctions do not try to destroy Russia’s economy. They limit its growth. So, while other economies grow through trade, investment, technology transfer, etc, Russia’s economy will miss on some trade, much of foreign investment, a good deal of technology transfer, and so on. While in the 1960s, Russia (via the USSR) controlled a huge fraction of world industrial production and money flows (40% if I am not mistaken), it now controls around 2% (which is comparable to its population as a fraction of the world's population). This drastic change is largely due to fast economic growth in China and India, as well as to the loss of Russia's influence in Eastern Europe and ex-USSR republics. In the next 10-20 years, Russia won't be able to significantly exceed the 2% mark, and may even lose ground..

That's what sanction does reduce you bit by bit..
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:22pm On Feb 21, 2022
AstraDroid:
We are heading into a multipolar planet, America is being distracted with COVID and Cold War antics. Putin simply needed to define the future of America by redirecting Biden's focus from Development into promoting Pharma products and waging wars.

It is a distraction, and nothing more.

What will happen will be a cyber war, and it will be worldwide. That is what is on the blueprint as I see it here
How is America being distracted with covid?
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:20pm On Feb 21, 2022
olas24u:
Russia supplies gas to Europe including ukraine ,they depend on the gas and they have a pipe line ,that supplies gas and they are currently building the second pipe line call nord stream2 .Does sanctions wont work
Can they survive on supplying gas within Europe only?can their economy grow big that way?
Or don't you understand how sanction works?
CelebritiesRe: Okon Lagos: Why A Man Shouldn’t Brag About Sleeping With A Woman by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:18pm On Feb 21, 2022
OyeofIkoTuN:
Huh...I'm supposed to sleep with dj cuppy or Rita Dominic and not tell my friends. I must be running mad
Most guys do so? cheesy
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:14pm On Feb 21, 2022
olas24u:
They all depend on Russian gas ,or they will freeze ,Lugansk donesk are Russian speaking areas of ukraine
What do you mean they all depends on Russian gas? undecided
PoliticsRe: 4 Policemen And A Soldier Killed In Ihiala, Anambra by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:14pm On Feb 21, 2022
Elvisgolden:
Talk to your brothers to stop causing the violence.......................
undecided
CelebritiesRe: Okon Lagos: Why A Man Shouldn’t Brag About Sleeping With A Woman by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:13pm On Feb 21, 2022
tydi:
This girl eehh!!
I thought we y’all agreed to be calming down. grin
I am calming down oo.. kiss
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:13pm On Feb 21, 2022
D1official:
Russia is up against EU and US... Crippling Russian meagre economy of just a little above a trillion dollars wouldn't be a problem trust me.
A problem is a problem no matter how little.. wink
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:12pm On Feb 21, 2022
aribisala0:
Do you have any data to back up your claim that the Russian economy is in decline?

Sanctions can be said to be working if they achieve their objective. That is not happening Russia is escalating the behaviour that triggered the sanctions s
THEY ARE NOT WORKING
The Russian economy by all accounts (both domestic and external) show that since sanctions began in 2014 has not exactly struggled as been forced to find compromise.

When sanctions began, the Russian Federation had strong industrial, technological and agricultural interests in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary in particular. Russian grain and produce flowed into Germany and German engineering products flowed into Russia. Russia relied on France for night-vision systems for its military, and the large Mistral ship project was scrapped, forcing Russia to more than likely ditch France for future deals. US directed sanctions forced EU countries to deal with Russia at their peril; interestingly enough Russian rocket engines were never initially affected and were allowed to continue on their way to NASA.

Russian companies were hit hard, but all it forced them to do was look Eastwards; China. The Russians essentially were forced away from their traditional market in Europe and pushed into the Chinese markets, to which they in turn became a market for Chinese goods too..

The EU has effectively lost the traditional Russian market to China, and in return the US has begun sanctioning European states that try and deal with Russia, and China, and Iran, and anyone else the US doesnt like...

The Economic Expert Group (EEG), an independent Russian company, estimated the total losses from the sanctions in the period 2014-17 at $600 billion. Bloomberg says that sanctions may have knocked as much as 6 percent off Russia's economy over 2014–18..

The Russian economy went from $2.2 trillion nominal in 2013, before the sanction, to $1.3 trillion in 2015, after the sanctions. That is a $900 billion dent, or more importantly in terms of percentage - it killed 40 percent of the Russian economy. The US had an $16 trillion economy in 2013...
You can argue as much as you want but the fact remains the same the Russian economy is feeling the heat no doubt..
CelebritiesRe: Okon Lagos: Why A Man Shouldn’t Brag About Sleeping With A Woman by FERNANDEZISBACK: 11:02pm On Feb 21, 2022
Wannabe redpillers don't understand..let them keep clowning around..
Most can't reason beyond s*x..they think they are fooling women.. shocked let me keep smiling..
But guess what women are smarter than that..i don't think any woman will start bragging about that tho..

Most men are in women's palm so no need to shout..after coming online to wail and form hard guy they go behind to beg women for s*x and the rest..so you see the game.. wink cheesy
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 10:56pm On Feb 21, 2022
aribisala0:
Even God does not have that kind of power


It is illusory



Russia has effectively been under sanctions for decades and is already inured to them

Can the US stop Russia selling oil and gas? NO

The main things Russia sells are Energy and weapons and Russia has been moving away from dollars to the Euro for years
Also Russia has a very large land mass , plenty of Natural resources and is very self sufficient making most of what it needs.
The EU does not have the same appetite for conflict that The US and UK have . The reality is just like Putin grabbed Crimea he will grab Ukraine and Nothing the West can do about it
The bolded gave me a good laugh.. cheesy
The aim of the sanctions is to prevent cooperation between russia an the EU to keep the EU firmly under US control. So yes sanctions are working as intended..

They slowly make Russian economy bleed..
Investments escape fast and grow seriously.
Sanctions are not meant to be instant but slow..pressing and depressive..

Who said sanctions don't work? Russian economy is in constant decline since the sanctions have been introduced. Russian currency is in decline..even their military budget..sanctions work economically but they also hamper Putin's cronies since they can't leave country to visit exotic locations and they also feel the pain because their assets in US and EU were ceased...So again sanctions work very well.. cheesy wink
Christianity EtcRe: Catholic Are Permitted To Drink Beer Rev Father Oluoma Never Said Anything Wrong by FERNANDEZISBACK: 10:43pm On Feb 21, 2022
Who takes Christians and their confusion serious tho? cheesy
RomanceRe: How Many Of You Did This In Secondary School? (PHOTO) by FERNANDEZISBACK: 10:39pm On Feb 21, 2022
soundOsonic:
Na it wouldn't if you are careful.
It is easy you push your trousers up, and use your belt to hold the erected dick firmly.
You just have to make sure the cap of your dick is not trying to peep.
But anyway if anyone touches your lower stomach, he will touch a rock hard dick.
In secondary school when our dick they rise for no just reason (hormones) any guy you see perfectly tucking and he is going to the front of the class, just no say erection don hold am lol
Next level weirdness..the pain tho.. cry
You folks are something else.. cheesy
Tightening your d**k with a belt.. haha grin
CrimeRe: Don`t Be Presumptuous by FERNANDEZISBACK: 10:35pm On Feb 21, 2022
Which clown are you calling lord?
The one that doesn't exist or which one? undecided
Who's your imaginary lord to judge or punish others for living their life..

The same one that watch people die on a daily basis or is there any other clown apart from that one..? undecided
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 10:33pm On Feb 21, 2022
BloomingDale:
So you are a Nigerian? What do you mean Nigerian British? Are you not a black man?
So if he's a black man he shouldn't support eu? undecided
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 10:29pm On Feb 21, 2022
IhateYouMan:
EU is about to impose sanctions from tomorrow. France is part of the EU.
This is gonna be splendid..sit back..grab some fries and observe.. cheesy
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 10:27pm On Feb 21, 2022
aribisala0:
This is the problem with impunity .
If US can do it why can's others?

Syria, Venezuela, Iraq, Libya, Cuba, Panama
US is the biggest economy..yes most world trade happens in US dollars but to make the sanctions effective it need to threaten to sanction third parties...

So for US sanctions to be effective unless US has monopoly on something they will threaten to sanctions not only the country.. but also companies trading with that country...So for example if US sanction Nigeria and BMW export cars there US will sanction BMW and refuse to import from BMW or export anything to that company. Since US is a huge market and most companies of some value have some connection to US this makes the sanctions effective.

For sanctions on Iran big oil companies are reluctant to invest in the oil business in Iran because it can hurt more than they will earn...

Without these third party sanctions, US sanctions wouldn't be effective and companies outside US would get a competitive edges in that region...
What other country has this kinda power?
RomanceRe: I Need Me A Nymph by FERNANDEZISBACK: 10:20pm On Feb 21, 2022
IvarDboneless:
You better Just keep smiling grin
grin
Foreign AffairsRe: USA, EU & UK Impose First Stage Sanctions On Russia by FERNANDEZISBACK: 10:10pm On Feb 21, 2022
This might have an effect on Russia to be sincere..
To my knowledge there isn't really any precedent since 1945 for a great power annexing another country to both gain land and intimidate another superpower...
Right now there's a spectrum for what what could happen..

On the one end Russia could invade and something could go horrifically wrong and we end up in a Europe wide NATO - Russia war. That would be disastrous to say the least.

In the middle of the spectrum is full sanctions and Russia becomes and economic pariah state. This however looks unlikely as only Britain and the US seem to see eye to eye in arguing for this outcome..
France and Germany seem a little bit less enthusiastic about this approach..
Let's see how it goes..

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