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What it all means is the Germans will take their Euros to Gazprombank and buy Rubles, then pay for the gas in Rubles. No more paper accounts but hard currency transfers.

Scholz describing Russia’s energy as “essential” for the survival of Germany’s economy.
https://www.rt.com/russia/553009-putin-and-scholz-talk-gas/

paafin:
Can't find this news anywhere else or this seems to be German wishful thinking

Larry C. Johnson: "The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What's Left Is Mop-Up"

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Question 1– Can you explain to me why you think Russia is winning the war in Ukraine?

Larry C. Johnson– Within the first 24 hours of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, all Ukrainian Ground Radar Intercept capabilities were wiped out. Without those radars, the Ukrainian Air Force lost its ability to do air to air intercept. In the intervening three weeks, Russia has established a de facto No Fly Zone over Ukraine. While still vulnerable to shoulder fired Surface to Air Missiles supplied by the U.S. and NATO to the Ukrainians, there is no evidence that Russia has had to curtail Combat Air Operations.

Russia’s arrival in Kiev within three days of the invasion also caught my attention. I recalled that the Nazi’s in Operation Barbarossa took seven weeks to reach Kiev and the required 7 more weeks to subdue the city. The Nazis had the advantage of not pulling punches to avoid civilian casualties and were eager to destroy critical infrastructure. Yet many so-called American military experts claimed that Russia was bogged down. When a 24 mile (or 40 mile, depends on the news source) was positioned north of Kiev for more than a week, it was clear that Ukraine’s ability to launch significant military operations had been eliminated. If their artillery was intact, then that column was easy pickings for massive destruction. That did not happen. Alternatively, if the Ukrainian’s had a viable fixed wing or rotary wing capability they should have destroyed that column from the air. That did not happen. Or, if they had a viable cruise missile capability they should have rained down hell on the supposedly stalled Russian column. That did not happen. The Ukrainians did not even mount a significant infantry ambush of the column with their newly supplied U.S. Javelins.

The scale and scope of the Russian attack is remarkable. They captured territory in three weeks that is larger than the land mass of the United Kingdom. They then proceeded to carry out targeted attacks on key cities and military installations. We have not seen a single instance of a Ukrainian regiment or brigade size unit attacking and defeating a comparable Russian unit. Instead, the Russians have split the Ukrainian Army into fragments and cut their lines of communication. The Russians are consolidating their control of Mariupol and have secured all approaches on the Black Sea. Ukraine is now cut off in the South and the North.

I would note that the U.S. had a tougher time capturing this much territory in Iraq in 2003 while fighting against a far inferior, less capable military force. If anything, this Russian operation should scare the hell out of U.S. military and political leaders.

The really big news came this week with the Russian missile strikes on what are de facto NATO bases in Yavoriv and Zhytomyr. NATO conducted cyber security training at Zhytomyr in September 2018 and described Ukraine as a “NATO partner.” Zhytomyr was destroyed with hypersonic missiles on Saturday. Yavoriv suffered a similar fate last Sunday. It was the primary training and logistics center that NATO and EUCOM used to supply fighters and weapons to Ukraine. A large number of the military and civilian personnel at that base became casualties.

Not only is Russia striking and destroying bases used by NATO regularly since 2015, but there was no air raid warning and there was no shutdown of the attacking missiles.
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https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/larry-c-johnson-the-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up/

Bio– Larry C Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and the left, which means he must be doing something right. His analysis and commentary can be found at his blog, https://sonar21.com/

This guy is, very up to date with global geo-politics.

The time the russians opted to join nato before President Putin's second term in 2004, nato described the russian military as "rust and metal", President Putin's said in one of his interviews.

Now consider this excerpt as part of the ukraine conflict, from Andrei Martyanov's Blog

https://smoothiex12..com/2022/03/it-may-seem-premature-but.html?m=1

...And here comes this second part about which I write books and speak into the camera for many years. NATO (and US) simply has nothing to defend against previous generation of Russia's stand off weapons, especially of such variety as Iskander of P-800 capable to strike to operational depth (500-700 kilometers) and it will not have anything for many years to come to deal with hyper-sonic weapons, which saw 2000-kilometer range Kinzhal doing its thing to the deep underground facility, which used to be a storage of the Soviet tactical nukes near Ivano-Frankovsk, and then repeating the performance in other places with a devastating result for VSU.


Now the big question is, why would russia with a superior military technology join nato, which is basically a british and american alliance, the other 28 countries are not on the world military map, yes we know, france has nuclear weapons.

seunny4lif:
Yeltsin and Putin tried to join NATO with the help of Germany and France but USA and UK rejected it because if Russia joined NATO then NATO will become irrelevant.

NATO need any enemy like Russia to stay relevant.

General de Gaulle that kicked USA and Nato troops out of France was called an enemy of democracy by USA government because Gaulle said USA should not be telling Europeans what to do.

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tipsieoladj:
Honestly he is the only leader who stood up against the bastards called USA. I used to like USA govt nad had issues with those who spoke the truth about USA until i realized supporting USA is like supporting my own suffering. Those sons of bitches in White house re just liars, manipulators and thieves i just pray more of our people will wake up and stop believing anything the west says..