Exactly, with the way things are going it wouldn't be surprising to see Russia expelled from the World Cup either, FIFA can't afford to just have every team refusing to play them.
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Exactly, with the way things are going it wouldn't be surprising to see Russia expelled from the World Cup either, FIFA can't afford to just have every team refusing to play them.
Easier said than done, when germany has a stigma, because of their history. Germany helps ukraine, just not with weapons right now. This can change however, because even with the principle to not deliver weapons in warzone in place, germany did make exceptions in the past.
I hope germany does deliver weapons, since the time to talk seems to be over. The political party needs to realize that and not hold onto their principle, approach or dream that everything can be discussed.
Russia holds no major cities.
Which is frankly god damn amazing.
Short term it will hurt, but I don't think it's the "nuclear option" the media are playing it up as, except in the sense that everyone gets hurt by it. They'd still be able to conduct international transfers, just not as effectively.
Surely sanctions on Russian banks would be more effective?
I guess the rumors yesterday have been verified and that Putin is sending in Chechens to Ukraine to fight. I know the US can't openly intervene militarily in the war but I hope someone in the west is getting top rated gear to the people in Ukraine before the war crimes start happening due to this deployment.
I've been watching a few Twitch streams where people are effectively blaming the US/NATO for this invasion, for forcing Russia's hand, as it were, after decades of ostracisation.
I'm trying to be measured in my response to these assertions; does anyone have any good readings/sources on the topic?
I'm trying to be measured in my response to these assertions; does anyone have any good readings/sources on the topic?
Dude, in theory you can just switch to a different messaging service, but can you actually clear the transaction is the important part? If I can't settle, it doesn't matter how I communicate, I can't get money where it needs to be, Swift doesn't stop you from clearing. You need to choke out their ability for dollars, and they've kind of done that, you can't do shit internationally without NY Fed putting their finger in the pie. If you don't have access to a bank with dollars you're going to struggle, and bans in place are doing that, although there are some exemptions due to energy, so in theory if they ban Swift it still leaves those exemptions for energy but it will make it harder to communicate the need to move funds, although it's still very much possible.
A More Normal Bird had a good post last night about it, check it out
If the Russian government wants to ban or filter Twitter, it would be pretty fair and reciprocal to ban official Russian accounts from Twitter.
Via a third country? So what, paying another EU member to supply them so it's not technically coming from Germany?
Germany has no problems arming Saudi Arabia who commits war crimes in Yemen or Turkey who are aggressors both in the Middle East and harass other EU countries in the Eastern Mediterranean. So, all of this reluctance is super hypocritical, they are just thinking about their pockets and don't want to challenge the status quo, which is typical of German governments in the last 10 years at least.
No way to tell.
Evaluating the thoughts of a megalomaniac, brooding in his sealed off, shielded environment for years. Not allowing other people to make contact, let alone somebody questioning his thoughts and ideas.
It is impossible.
It's been far from the walkover Putin was evidently expecting. Still, this war is only been ongoing for three days, things could change.
I misread it, thought it said they will block swift ban.
Hopefully by putting a bullet in Putins head, and then (in the subsequent chaos) they themselves get a bullet in their heads. :)
This is the only scenario that makes sense to me. They wanted it to happen overnight, install a new government, and put out some bullshit right-wing digestible justification that would cause more division when governments were deciding to react or not.
I don't know anything about anything but this can't be going how they expected it to.
My 19 year old cousin posted the same kind of bullshit on Facebook about how the US and Biden are responsible for this and that our government not doing anything to help proves how shitty the democrats are.
No just means Germany not directly supplying them to Ukraine. It's impossible for a German transport plane to fly to Ukraine now. Will probably be transferred to trucks in Poland and moved across the land border.
It's a nuclear option.
When I send money ir get money from European partners I use swift. I'm a tiny business.
This will basically shut down international financial transactions for normal Russians. Yes, at the state level they can transact through other means but not efficiently.
The only nation currently sanctioned from swift is Iran and they aren't doing great.
That's more like it. Do it!
Iran and Russia aren't really comparable. Iran is a much smaller economy with less ties to the global economy. Russia is larger and will feel it more in the short term, granted, but they do have alternatives, albeit less efficient ones. They have been preparing for this since 2014 when the idea was floated originally.
Like all the proposed sanctions so far, SWIFT sanctions will inordinately impact ordinary folk more than the top brass, and it's the latter that need squeezing to have a hope of stopping this thing. That means bank sanctions.
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Other countries are using Germany equipment. Normally when you have military equipment from another country you arent allowed to send them without approval of the first country. In this case, it is Germany allowing that to happen (I assume).
Germany army in general is quite underequipped so I doubt they have storage full of modern equipment to give away.
I was reading up on this last night. Apparently the last NATO vessel left the Black Sea in January. Turkey were really nervous about provoking Russia so pushed to keep NATO away from the region. I would hope that is changing and naval escorts will start moving into the area, if only to give Russia pause when 'accidently' attacking merchant vessels.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...ea-exposed-russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24/
can they also block their bot farms? make twitter fun again
It is a nuclear option though. The Russian banks will have almost no possibility to transfer money from and to Russia (combined with the sanctions on the corresponding banks). That will create a big issue for them in terms of financing and trade. It will most likely create also a secondary problem in terms of a bank run. Being connected to the Chinese system helps them only in connection to Chinese banks, which will not help too much.
That's inline with what the anon Twitter account was posting.
GOOD.
Possible, simplified explanation for the extra step with the other country:
They are technically not allowed to send weapons to a party already in conflict. At least not without asking the parliament first, debates etc.
It could be that the government is simply using this as a loophole.
Not saying this is the explanation. Just saying it could be the reason.
In a hypothetical scenario where Putin actually uses a dirty bomb, what's to stop NATO from immediately admitting Ukraine to NATO and flooding the country with troops?
I admit I'm a little unlcear why NATO has declined Ukraine admission other than "makes papa Putin angry". My husband said something about Ukraine's government being historically corrupt, but a) what government isn't and b) Zelensky is the guy who refused to be blackmailed by Trump.
I admit I'm a little unlcear why NATO has declined Ukraine admission other than "makes papa Putin angry". My husband said something about Ukraine's government being historically corrupt, but a) what government isn't and b) Zelensky is the guy who refused to be blackmailed by Trump.
They used social media for years to drive their agenda and now that it backfires and they can't control it they move to shut it down
Mélenchon? Quelle surprise ! Now I wonder what my friend who fervently follows him might be thinking.
Their policy is not to accept new members who are engaged in active conflicts, apparently being invaded twice constitutes as being engaged in an active conflict.
Russian armor about to take even more pain once these arrive on the field.
Pornhub hasn't confirmed this, FWIW. I suspect that it's not true.
Technically you have to fullfill a bunch of requirements which ukraine probably doesn't meet. I think there is also something that prohibits you from join while you're in a conflict
Part of the charter specifies there can't be a civil war (Donbas contention thus blocks admittance to nato) and corruption be minimal (previous Ukrainian government that was a Russian puppet state was highly corrupt)
It's Ukraine. Not The Ukraine. The former is seen as a Russian term to negate their sovereignty.
It seems to be a general consensus in the West that Ukraine joining NATO would effectively be the US "going to war" with Russia, and thus amounting to starting a nuclear war.
And that kind of thinking is exactly why Putin is emboldened to seize Ukraine, knowing the West can and will do comparatively very little.
But that's ironic to me, because Putin doesn't want to reduce his cities to nuclear rubble just as much as anyone else does.
Just don't respond. It is a clear sign someone is too entrenched in his stupidity.