My grandpa was taken by russians, with the whole family, for holidays, into siberia forests, at 7 y.o. The family surname was an, issue. I thought, a long time have passed, and maybe, he's a bit too harsh on em. Time to forgive type of stuff. But he was like , - ,,Nah... You just wait. You will see for yourself" Now i do. And only him and one more relative remains with that name. Guess whos gonna change the surname/passpport soon.
What Joe Biden, Johnson, Macron and the rest of NATO do not take into consideration is Putin already decoupled Russia from the US dollar a long time ago due to past sanctions. I would not be surprised if Russia cut oil production (number 3 oil producer), cut off supplies of natural gas to Europe, raising the prices of natural gas and oil. Ukraine supplies the US and Europe with a lot of raw materials to make all sorts of things. You don't think Putin will cut off those exports from Ukraine and send prices of commodities skyrocketing? Putin is not without economic weapons he can use against the US and Europe. Wait and see. It won't be long before the Russians retaliate. Who gets hit the most? US and European consumers. Filthy rich, extreme liberals do not care because they got monies---that includes, Joe Biden and the RINOs backing him up. All idiots without a clue.
Same sense of reaction here: My Finnish grandpa fought invading Russians in WW2, little did I expect the risk of seeing something similar in my lifetime...
Same here, fighting both sides in different times, one a prisoner of war and faced a gulag at one point as well. But nothing has changed, Russia is still exactly the same.
I saw that on the news during the day, and I was like, THAT IS FUCKED UP. I mean, that was a deliberate attempt by Russians to kill an innocent civilian. WHAT THE FUCK WAS THE POINT OF THAT ACTION? There was no point to it, other than to commit murder. If you do it with a tank, isn't that a war crime? That tank should have been blown to bits. Like this fucker from years ago...
Here is an article from the Los Angeles Times regarding the sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and NATO. https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-spent-years-preparing-international-172210099.html
I'm guessing that cutting them out of the SWIFT system effectively cuts off the oil and gas to Russia's customers, since Russian energy would not get paid. Too much of Europe is dependent on Russia for fuel. They'll have to go hug a Green energy supporter for warmth if Russia pulls the plug on Europe. Europe is supposedly restarting coal plants for electric generation as the green energy folks weep in the corner. And shutting the nuclear plants for wind and solar was such a fabulous idea. NOT. If they can come up with alternative supplies, then I believe the SWIFT action takes place.
I doubt that they even saw whos inside. Could have been children as well. Evil, a definition of it in a form of video.
Note that some of pro_rus members here (new accounts), became active during the exact same period when they started gathering forces at Ukraine's borders. Nov, 12 It's the only message of such sort, that i ever wrote to any founder/mod, since, his/their activity was irregular/unusual. Maybe, just being paranoid. About the timming. Tho, the guy/s was spreading pro russian articles for sure.