Russia Surrounded

[IdleRich]

Blessed are the cheesemakers!

 

[Mr. Tea]

The Telegraph is asking the really important questions, of course.

 

[Corpsey.]

Quick, lads, wake up!

 

[Clinamenic]

The Telegraph is asking the realky important questions, of course.

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Of course they don't care about the real issues. Think about all the memecoins that are dropping!

 

[Corpsey.]

stan call the queen. someone get craner

 

[Clinamenic]

EXPLAINER: A look at toughest US sanctions facing Russia

The Biden administration has launched the first of what could be an ever-tougher series of sanctions targeting President Vladimir Putin, Russia's overall economy and its military and civilian elites over its moves against Ukraine.

apnews.com

Tuesday’s first installment of sanctions hit members of Putin’s inner circle and their families and two banks that the U.S. considers especially crucial to the Kremlin and Russia’s military. Another new U.S. measure limits Russia’s power to raise money abroad.

U.S. officials made clear they were holding in possible reserve more devastating measures, in case Russia escalates actions threatening Ukraine’s territory and sovereignty. The Biden administration says those more sweeping penalties would cripple Russia’s ability to do business at home and abroad, and likely bring on a recession there.

 

[Clinamenic]

But U.S. officials emphasized Washington still could take more of Russia’s banks, including its biggest, offline with a push of a button.

 

[Clinamenic]

Buy the dip, lads.

 

[Clinamenic]

Unfortunately the sanction warfare seems bound to effect those who really shouldn't have to suffer them, but I don't see any better solution re: deescalatory measures.

Overall, the U.S. and its allies aim to impose sanctions that compel Putin to change his ways, while hoping to minimize the harshest impacts on ordinary Russians and any collateral economic damage on the U.S. and European allies.

 

[Clinamenic]

Of course, crypto may jeopardize the efficacy of some of these tactics. Thats what it was designed for, to be uncensorable.

 

[Clinamenic]

In a way, this may prove to be an extreme trial of Bitcoin's uncensorability, if US does lob all these sanctions out.

 

[Clinamenic]

 

[Clinamenic]

Marco Rubio: China is watching the US response to Russia-Ukraine tensions

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., weighed in on Biden’s response to the rising Russia-Ukraine tensions on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

www.foxnews.com

From Marco Rubio, an example of a Republican perspective that is still anti-Russia in this case:

One of the things that's happening here is, you know, we've waged a war under the Biden administration against oil and natural gas in the United States. We stopped producing it. We've cracked down on it. We're not going to do more of it, and so what's happened is it's made Russian oil and natural gas more valuable. It's made Putin giving him more leverage, and it's actually left to Europe and us and the world more vulnerable. We've got to reverse … that's one of the most important sanctions we can impose right now is to announce tonight, Joe Biden should go on TV and say, "I am lifting all these silly Green New Deal restrictions and we are going to begin to produce oil and natural gas so that thugs like Vladimir Putin don't get to hold entire continents hostage."

 

[wektor]

Putin declared War sometime around 4am this morning.
It's official now.

 

[william kent]

Missiles rain down around Ukraine

Ukrainian forces battled Russian invaders on three sides on Thursday after Moscow unleashed the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two, prompting tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.

www.reuters.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

Putin declared War sometime around 4am this morning.
It's official now.

Don't worry, it's just a routine de-Nazification.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Well, Ukraine won't be joining NATO now.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Bet they wished they'd hung onto the nukes that were stationed there after the USSR broke up.

 

[wg-]

Economic sanctions won't do much for the lads getting cruise missiles through their window this morning

We might end up seeing a lot of those shell-owned waterfront apartments in Central on the market very quickly though

 

[luka]

can't beleive craner is not in this thread hopping from foot to foot like a triumphant Rumplestiltskin.