Wow. Just wow.

Gee. There’s no Russian sponsored anything here. None at all. Nope.

Yes, he thinks only the superpowers have the right to exist as separate countries.

Nĭ hăo, how long do you think "The West´s" sanctions will hold when China takes up the slack. Don´t you think that the Kremlin has thought about this and not made contingency plans to get around anything "the west" throws at them? For instance: Do they really need the SWIFT or could they switch to the Digital renminbi?

Of course they can and they will. However, ask the few countries excluded from SWIFT at what discount they are selling their oil (30% to 50% discount). Moreover, the way it works with China is they get paid in their accounts in a Chinese banks and can use the funds only to procure Chinese good.

Hundreds of people detained in anti-war protests around Russia, according to independent monitors

(CNN)

As of Thursday evening Moscow time, at least 850 people have already been detained in at least 44 cities across Russia, independent monitoring group OVD-Info reported.

Russia bars demonstrations without a permit, but Russians may stage individual, single-person protests.

Authorities on Thursday warned citizens that participating in anti-war protests could lead to prosecution and criminal charges.

Unless the Digital renminbi gains traction in the international markets, as far as I am aware of it already has in Asia. Then currency based on the almighty dollar will lose value.
And at the end of the day all tech comes from China anyway these days.

IIRC the broken bit happened long before the bombed bit.

Yugoslavia broke up 1990-1992 depending on the bits. Serbia was bombed in 1999.

Regardless I've ignored the troll, please don't quote him.

Sounds a bit like Canada.

What an asshole you must be.

Biden just spoke. Unfortunately relatively mild sanctions. He confirmed during the q&a that there wasn't agreement for SWIFT exclusuon in Europe. They didn't go all the way, Unfortunately. No energy, no SWIFT, no sanctions on Putin.

Moral of the story: economy at home beats security abroad

It's pathetic, especially the EU.

The EU practically signed-off a blank cheque to Putin. Absolutely abhorrent and so shortsighted. Unofficially, SWIFT exclusion was blocked by Italy.

Courageous, brave people!

What a surprise, I thought everyone knows these examples. Yugoslavia of course was broken and bombed, Iraq invaded and Livia destroyed using fake charges, Ukrainian state turned into nationalist junta - all this against the wishes of their peoples.

Sounds like some people here call this "democracy"

Really? Much more like the UK if the new Police Bill become law, as planned.

''The new Police Bill legislation proposes to give police new powers to tackle any non-violent public assembly that may have a “relevant impact on persons in the vicinity” or that “may result in serious disruption to the activities of an organisation which are carried on in the vicinity of the assembly”. It can be used to shut down almost any peaceful protest, including peaceful vigils. The new police powers would also include setting conditions on the duration of protests, maximum noise levels, and locations. All this will, undoubtedly, have a chilling effect on British people’s freedom to peacefully assemble and thus participate in democracy.''

Funny, I was thinking the same thing as I was reading it

I guess suspending liberties for a vaccine protest is cool, but don’t do it during war bro

It's because they're hopelessly compromised, completely reliant on Russian oil and gas. Terrified of what their voters will do when prices continue to spiral.

Doing this on the back of the pandemic is playing straight into Putin's hands

Please stop bringing this back to the UK, you hate the country, it's OK!

Now compare the UKs sanctions to those of your beloved EU, then think again about smearing Brexit Britain as being under Russian influence

I suggest you and Father Frost try and exercise your liberties in Russia. Let us know how it goes. When you report back from a labor camp, let us revisit your Canada comparisons.

Weak responses from weak leaders.