Punishing Russia With Sanctions
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Comrade Signym, can_you_see_me_laughing?
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How Russia could collapse (again)
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The "East Med" gas fields are small and not developed. They can't replace a major gas supplier in the next ten years or...ever.
Meanwhile, Russia is selling its gas to China and India. I don't know what EU bureaucrats are smoking, but they're disconnected from reality. As the near future will show.
You can put this prediction along with "Russia will win in Ukraine" and "The EU economy will collapse".
Oh,also - "Russia's economy will come out stronger bc of sanctions".
ETA: I'm not happy about my predictions bc I'm living in the same clusterfuck as most of the posters here. But you can't fix a problem unless you acknowledge that it exists, and one of MANY of our fundamental problems is our incredibly warped foreign policy, which has nothing to do with Americans' interests and fuck-all to do with reality.
We're NOT the world's most powerful military. Our DoD is all about procuring high-cost shit that falls apart in service but makes a lot of $ for the MIC.
We're NOT the world's most powerful economy, that belongs to China.
And our ginormous stack of made-out-of-thin-air currency is about to revert to the thin air from which it came. The only bloc in worse shape than us is the EU.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Germany says it supports Poland and Romania in adapting their railways to enable the export of millions of tonnes of grain stuck in Ukraine due to a Russian sea blockade. European Union foreign ministers will discuss ways to free the millions of tonnes of grain stuck in Ukraine at today’s meeting.
Russia’s blockade of the export of millions of tonnes of Ukrainian grain is a war crime, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said. “We call on Russia to deblockade the ports … It is inconceivable, one cannot imagine that millions of tonnes of wheat remain blocked in Ukraine while in the rest of the world people are suffering hunger,” he told the media as he arrived at a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/20/russia-ukraine-war-what-
we-know-on-day-117-of-the-invasion
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Russia is not "blockading" Ukrainian seaports.
HOW are they doing this, supposedly?
Is Russia threatending to sink grain ships?
No.
Have they mined the waters out of Odessa?
er.no.
That would be Ukraine.
Russia and Turkey came up with a proposal to de-mine the waters, it was UKRAINE that refused to allow it.
Next time you post that, SECOND, please be specific and describe IN DETAIL "HOW". WITH EVIDENCE.
That should prevent you from posting more bullshit.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:Signym, you are simply a liar. There is no doubt. Rather than the endless back-and-forth, where you lie, then lie again and again, here is very simple story where Russia can't blame anybody but itself for what it is doing:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia is not "blockading" Ukrainian seaports.
HOW are they doing this, supposedly?
Is Russia threatending to sink grain ships?
No.
Have they mined the waters out of Odessa?
er.no.
That would be Ukraine.
Russia and Turkey came up with a proposal to de-mine the waters, it was UKRAINE that refused to allow it.
Next time you post that, SECOND, please be specific and describe IN DETAIL "HOW". WITH EVIDENCE.
That should prevent you from posting more bullshit.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Western sanctions against Moscow must be lifted before Russian grain could be delivered to international markets. "President (Vladimir) Putin said that in order for Russian grain volumes to be delivered to international markets, direct and indirect sanctions against Russia must be lifted," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/kremlin-says-sanctions-mus
t-be-lifted-russian-grain-reach-markets-2022-06-08/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Oh, you must have missed that word: RUSSIAN grain!
SIGNYM:
Russia is not "blockading" Ukrainian seaports.
HOW are they doing this, supposedly?
Is Russia threatending to sink grain ships?
No.
Have they mined the waters out of Odessa?
er.no.
That would be Ukraine.
Russia and Turkey came up with a proposal to de-mine the waters, it was UKRAINE that refused to allow it.
Next time you post that, SECOND, please be specific and describe IN DETAIL "HOW". WITH EVIDENCE.
That should prevent you from posting more bullshit.
SECOND: Signym, you are simply a liar. There is no doubt. Rather than the endless back-and-forth, where you lie, then lie again and again, here is very simple story where Russia can't blame anybody but itself for what it is doing:
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Western sanctions against Moscow must be lifted before Russian grain ...
Russia is not "blockading" UKRAINIAN grain.
But since there are sanctions on Russian banks, which would be the recipients for payment for RUSSIAN grain, how can Russia get paid for its grain? You think that they should ship grain for free?
/snicker
You're such a tool. And so, so stupid.
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Quote:Signym, do you remember this tagline you have used for 7 months? "I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. SECOND: I am so very sorry I libelled you by labelling you a Russian Troll. I apologize for this. http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64646&p=2 "
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You're such a tool. And so, so stupid.
It was originally from http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64646&mid=1
146636#1146636
That comment was for a free comic book about Jayne and a Firefly Christmas Special.
Funny, but you attached my fake apology as the tagline to every post of yours for the last 7 months. Here is the shocking reveal: I was never sincere and you were too stupid to get it. Now go and edit your tagline, Signym.
As a test of Signym's intelligence, do you understand this? The free comic book is real and continues to be available: https://getcomics.info/other-comics/firefly-holiday-special-1-2021/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Why grain can’t get out of Ukraine
Exporters are struggling to get what’s left out, because Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea, like the key city of Odesa, are under blockade. Russian fleets are blocking the route, and the area is heavily mined.
The full story, which contradicts everything Russians and Signym write about grain, is at https://www.vox.com/23171151/ukraine-grain-wheat-russia-black-sea-odes
a-food-crisis
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Russia Begins to Pay the Price for Sanctions
Imports in the auto parts market compose 95%; games and toys 92%; shoes 87%; telecommunications equipment 86%; clothing 82%; perfumes, cosmetics and detergents 57%, and so on. In April, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko admitted that she was surprised to discover that Russia does not even produce its own nails.
Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels have now begun to periodically publish expert opinions indicating the true situation in the Russian economy. Thus, the head of the Politgen analytical center, Yaroslav Ignatovsky, admitted that no import substitution has been carried out in the last eight years, and that the main sectors of the economy are seriously dependent on Western products, including equipment for the oil and gas sector. In the technological sectors (manufacturing of microchips and software), experts state that the country is lagging 10–15 years behind the West.
Even representatives of one of the leading think tanks, the Valdai Discussion Club, in its latest publication, cautiously note that Russia should not abandon all Western economic practices, and that a return to the Soviet model “can only increase the difficulties that Russia faces in present time.” The report is unusually blunt. In particular, its author admits that “Moscow . . . was clearly losing to the European Union and other Western players in the very model of economic integration,” did not accept its defeat and then “overturned the chessboard”, destroying all previously existing rules.
“It’s not clear how the new project related to the production of liquefied natural gas Arktika LNG2 will be completed. The ban on exports of ferrous metals to Europe and the United States caused Severstal and Magnitogorsk to announce a reduction in metal production by 20-40% in June . . . Most likely, the reduction will be around 50%,” says Zubarevich.
In June, the business newspaper Vzglyad also acknowledged that the Russian car market was in serious trouble, with “a collapse in sales of new cars in Russia such as has never happened before, even in the crisis year of 1998.” A third of dealerships are expected to close.
While experts, regardless of their views, agree that these difficulties will primarily affect the well-being of ordinary Russians, it is precisely this that worries the Russian authorities least of all. They have for a very long time been low on the list of the Kremlin’s concerns.
https://cepa.org/russia-begins-to-pay-the-price-for-sanctions/
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