Ukraine / Russia - Actions and Reactions

Gilligan

Gilligan

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GURPS said:

Sanctions on Russia Will Create a Monster​


Over the past week, friends in Russia have described to me how storefronts in vibrant shopping districts are being shuttered and there are long queues of people trying to buy goods before they become permanently unavailable. The price of modern necessities like children’s nappies increased threefold in the space of a few days. The sticker price of many other consumer products is no longer the real price when you bring them to the cash register. Police are questioning groups of young people in the subway on suspicion of being part of illegal gatherings. State employees are having their social media accounts scrutinised for evidence of sedition. People with a history of left-wing activism are fleeing the country while they still can, and those who remain behind risk long jail terms.

They say the result will not be what the West hopes for, however. The austerities resulting from sanctions will be felt most acutely by the middle-class metropolitan intelligentsia who represent about 20 per cent of the Russian population, and have become used to Italian shoes, French cheese, and the international news media. The problem for NATO is that most Russians don’t travel abroad and they get their news from state media. As far as they’re concerned, their government is protecting them against NATO’s weapons of mass destruction. Russian Telegram channels are full of stories like the one that says the Ukrainians hurriedly shut down a Pentagon-backed biological weapons program just before the Russian army moved in. These people are not turning against their leader but are closing ranks against the West.

In a Russian-language social media post that has been viewed millions of times across various platforms, writer Alexander Tsypkin gives a list of reasons why the West is creating a monster by trying to isolate Russia. He says it’s economically impossible to smother a country where 30 per cent of the population still uses an outside toilet. As a friend whose parents belong in this category puts it, their Urals village is not connected to public sanitation services but they go to church each Sunday where they light a candle for Putin. The idea that they can be bludgeoned into submission by pulling Louis Vuitton or Marks & Spencer out of Russia, and by cutting off the SWIFT international payment system, is risible. Tsypkin says this population has contempt for the tranquillity and risk-averseness of petty-bourgeois life and is not amenable to what Western powers might think of as rational appeals.
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Very important observations.
 
Gilligan

Gilligan

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PJay

PJay

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Natasha has a message for us and.. wow..does she look healthy...




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GURPS

GURPS

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☕️ Coffee & Covid ☙ Saturday, March 12, 2022 ☙ RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION 🦠​



🔥 The Ukraine narrative is already starting to crack. The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Kim Strassel yesterday headlined, “Biden Is Failing the Sanctions Test.” She reports that, despite the rhetoric, Biden’s sanctions package against Russia doesn’t really amount to much.

First, Strassel noted that the administration was slow in applying sanctions in the first place. Initially, Biden completely refused to impose sanctions in the lead-up to the invasion, citing ‘multilateralism’ and blaming European allies’ reluctance. On Friday, the Treasury Department quietly clarified that the new sanctions won’t even start applying to most energy transactions until June 24th — meaning Wall Street can keep buying and selling Russian oil and gas for now.

June 24th. Wait, what month are we in today? Oh, that’s right. MARCH. Nice sanctions. That ought to scare ‘em.

Next, the sanctions that have been passed lack real teeth anyway. The fine print on the Treasury Department’s website explains, “The energy sector of the Russian Federation economy itself is not subject to comprehensive sanctions” — a minor point to Treasury but one that Strassel describes as “a scandalous caveat the media largely ignored.” When asked about it, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland admitted that the Administration “did agree to a phase-in” because of energy-dependent “European allies.”

In other words, the sanctions are not very burdensome, but it’s not Biden’s fault. Again. It’s our allies’ fault.

Finally, Strassel also points out that the White House is actively WORKING AGAINST any real sanctions. This week, Biden demanded congressional Democrats stand down on a bipartisan bill that would have suspended Russia’s preferential U.S. trading status. Strassel further notes that the White House is also blocking a Republican bill that would impose tough sanctions on Russia’s oil, gas, mining and mineral sectors.

She ends the piece with this comment: “Mr. Biden can talk all he wants about his plans to cripple Mr. Putin’s economy. He has yet to take the steps that might actually do it.”

Let me ask you a question. I’m not saying that Biden is really working WITH Russia because the sanctions are trivially light and are not even in force for about four more months. I’m not even asking whether this whole war is just a pretext to setup a massive transfer of wealth from the U.S. to Russia and Ukraine. What I’m wondering is whether this thing is going to end with Russia and Ukraine getting huge U.S. aid packages that just enrich a bunch of bad guys. That could never happen, right? Somebody tell me I’m crazy.
 
LightRoasted

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herb749 said:
You would think if possible that they'd remove pregnant women from a war zone, and this woman with her means would be long gone.
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Now if they did that, how could they blame all the heart tugging, and how dare he, propaganda on Putin? Jeez.
 
PJay

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herb749

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LightRoasted said:
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Now if they did that, how could they blame all the heart tugging, and how dare he, propaganda on Putin? Jeez.
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Its like when Israel gets tired of rockets coming in and retaliates to where the rockets are coming from. Then they are condemned for hitting a school.
 
GURPS

GURPS

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‘Hitler Didn’t Kill Ethnic Germans’​






The Maddow Blog tweeted out a video clip of the remarks, adding: “One difference between Putin and Hitler is that Hitler didn’t kill ethnic Germans, German-speaking people. Putin slaughters the very people he said he has come to liberate.”

The Auschwitz Memorial slammed the segment writing on Twitter: “On a factual note: Hitler did kill ethnic Germans & German-speaking people: those who opposed the Nazi regime, those who resisted, those who did not fit into the ‘Weltanschauung’. He ordered the murder of people with different disabilities & finally the murder of German Jewry.”


 
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