Huge blow, and more immediate than most of the sanctions to date. With the banning of Russian flights through European airspace it’s massively isolating Moscow now.
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[Politics] Russia invades Ukraine (24/02/2022)
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Huge blow, and more immediate than most of the sanctions to date. With the banning of Russian flights through European airspace it’s massively isolating Moscow now.
I believe Russia were well aware that could happen and have some plan to deal with it.
I do read RT every now and then but I rarely smoke these days; was a good suggestion though.
GrizzlingGammon
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It could disable the Russian economy, provided all Russian banks are covered, and provided Russia hasn't developed an alternative system.
I understand they have been working on one, for instance to pay the Kazakh workers who work across the border in Russia. I don't know if it is up and running.
ManOfSussex
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What's that secret war in Jordan you mentioned a few days back that the 'MSM' refuse to talk about incidentally?
There is none afaik. That was supposed to be Yemen.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Fair enough. Do you have a Swedish Nadine Dorries wanting to ban RT in Sweden too incidentally, or are you not as blessed to have cabinet ministers of her calibre like that over there?
Surport Local Team
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Just wondering, the German offer of 1000 anti tank weapons and 500 missles. How long will it take to get to where it needs to be. Do u think it could have been done so they have it tonight, or r we talking a few days or weeks?
Washie
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ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Logistics + problems + Russian army.....= good news.
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'Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said the allies would stop Russia from "using its war chest," by paralysing the assets of its central bank. They also agreed to freezing its transactions and prevent the central bank from liquidating its assets.
You thought the Swift thing was big?
Putin's 600 billion dollar war chest has just been seized and deposited in Fort Knox for safekeeping.
Oooooh, they're not going to be happy......
You thought the Swift thing was big?
Putin's 600 billion dollar war chest has just been seized and deposited in Fort Knox for safekeeping.
Oooooh, they're not going to be happy......
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I'm guessing it's the ones that matter !
Solid at the back
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Wow
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That's a biggie.
When you try to con a whole country of 144 million people, that's always the danger.
Nope nothing like that. United Kingdom, Russia and Belarus are the only countries (according to Reporters without borders) in Europe to censor news and information and I think we're very unlikely to join in on that.
RT is interesting. I pretty much ignore anything they say about Russia but they often bring up dirt on the West that our media... avoid. Gives a good balance: if you want to understand the dirty nature of Russia, read Western media, and if you want to understand the dirty nature of the West, read Russian media. Also find their neutral articles on topics like environment and culture often very well-written but I'm guessing it will be less of that for a while now...
Overall media wise I find it hard to trust anyone right now. So much mixed and contradicting information. One moment it sounds like the Russian army is demoralised and suffering losses, the next it sounds like they are bulldozering the entire Ukraine in a rapid pace. Difficult to really get a grasp of how things are developing because everyone has good reasons to both lie and tell the truth.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The PPF is a parody account so you’ve been whooshed.
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
...but totally unacceptable on this thread so needs to be "banned" nonetheless.