Nord Stream Probe Faces Resistance From Poland
BERLIN—Polish officials have resisted cooperating with an international probe into the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural-gas pipelines and failed to disclose potentially crucial evidence, according to European investigators working on the case.
Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:11 am
Ukraine defense minister reports 500k dead in Ukraine conflict.
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/it-will-b ... n-war/amp/
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A Russian lawmaker and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested during a recent TV appearance that Moscow could target Poland next amid its ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
.Newsweek reports the complete failure of the West's sanctions policy towards Russia and conducts a small comparative analysis.
The agency notes that the supposed collapse of the Russian economy did not happen.
The country's GDP grew by 5.5% in the third quarter of 2023.
Final figures for the year have not yet been published, but Russia's GDP growth for the whole of 2023 should exceed 3 percent.
At the same time, those who imposed sanctions on Moscow are doing worse than Russia.
In 2023, the US economy grew by 2.4%, while the German economy contracted and the EU as a whole grew by less than 1%.
Instead of a proposed withdrawal from Ukraine, Russia has increased the size of its armed forces from 190,000 troops in February 2022 to more than 600,000 today.
The publication emphasizes that from February 2022 to February 2023, Western countries introduced sanctions against Russia that were unprecedented in scale since the Second World War.
However, this did not give the desired result and caused only a moderate recession in 2022, which the Russians quickly overcame.
According to the authors, this happened because Russia had too much gold, grain, oil and friends and they were able to effectively use this to circumvent sanctions.
Also, the West’s plan to turn the “ruble into ruins” by freezing the reserves of the Russian Central Bank in the amount of $300 billion, which at that time amounted to about half of the country’s foreign exchange reserves, was also unsuccessful.
The Central Bank immediately pegged the ruble to gold and backed it up with its huge reserves of this precious metal.
Production capacity was also increased, giving Moscow enough time to reorient its trade.
The final nail in the coffin of the failure of Western sanctions was the reorientation of Russian trade towards China and India, which is now bringing Moscow even more profit than from previous trade with Europe.
noddy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:04 am too many strawmen.
Russia has moved to a war time economy, which means massive GDP boost and industrial boost, no one disputes that.
some suspect its not going to be sustainable, I have no idea at this stage.
the only thing that is real is Russia is now in a full war time economy and Europe is starting to realize what that means, shame its 5 years too late.
Iran and Pakistan’s casual violations of one another's territorial sovereignty this week—lobbing missiles willy-nilly at “militants” who each alleges are hiding within the other country’s borders—shows that a nuclear deterrent (namely, Pakistan’s) doesn’t seem to make much of a difference in the aggressive relations between near-peer powers. (Something to consider seriously vis-a-vis China.) Dare we say, Powell, vindicated again?
The hope is these strikes will pressure the Iran-aligned Houthis to back down.
It won’t, however.
Short of a complete halt to Israel’s war in Gaza and a 180-degree shift in Western support for Israel’s approach, there is little that will dissuade the Houthis to change course in the foreseeable future.
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There are three main reasons for this, none of which are principally about Iran’s regional strategy.
The first, and most obvious, reason is the Houthi movement, whose political wing is known as Ansar Allah, has already withstood years of airstrikes in its war with a Saudi-led and Western-backed coalition from 2015–2022.
Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 4:07 pm The Pentagon has no more money for Ukraine.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pen ... -106588786?
You have lost the plot. Globalists and Fed have split into competing factions. Ukraine will launder EU money; Israel will launder Fed money.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:32 pmNonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 4:07 pm The Pentagon has no more money for Ukraine.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pen ... -106588786?
Come on
Pentagon gets "Dollars" .. and .. Pentagon will get Dollars, unless FED runs out of paper or inc
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Vladimir Putin continues to explore if the United States is prepared to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Jan. 25.
According to two individuals close to the Kremlin, Putin has "tested the waters" with the United States through indirect channels to signal that he is open for talks, including about future security arrangements for Ukraine.
Loses it shirt to whom?Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:05 pm .
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-signals-wa ... 00203.html
Vladimir Putin continues to explore if the United States is prepared to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Jan. 25.
According to two individuals close to the Kremlin, Putin has "tested the waters" with the United States through indirect channels to signal that he is open for talks, including about future security arrangements for Ukraine.
Biden should sign on the dotted line, before West losing it's shirt.
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Syrsky was born in Russia, and comes from a family of patriots.
Russian patriots.
Twelve months ago, delegates at the Munich Security Conference radiated optimism about the prospects for Ukraine, as the west vowed to back Kyiv in its war with Russia for “as long as it takes”. This year, with the conflict tilting in Moscow’s favour and faith in western support ebbing away, that optimism has flipped into unremitting gloom.
The three-day gathering in Munich that concluded on Sunday was marked by a recognition that Ukraine badly needed more weapons and ammunition, and that the rhetoric of solidarity must now be translated urgently into action.
We were too optimistic about Russia's war against Ukraine in 2023 – NATO Admiral Bauer
Washington has fondly hoped that it could bring about regime change in Russia. Now it seems even more likely that there will be regime change, but not in Russia – in Kiev.
The catalyst for regime change in Kiev is the bloody and now ended battle over Avdiivka.
