EVERYTHING is Hillary's fault, silly! Notice I picked this up from CNN, as opposed that other news outlet.
You don’t answer this with mere sanctions - Putin must be dealt with - with an iron fist. Again, Putin must die.
We watched the Netflix documentary Winter on Fire last night. All about the 2013 Ukraine almost civil war. Crazy stuff, I had no memory of it being that nuts at that time. It's a good prelude to what's going on there today, when they got cheated out of joining the UN due to Russia. After watching it, it is amazing that Putin thought he could just walk in. The Ukrainians are tough as nails, much respect to them.
My concern is that Russia will cut off supplies from the West and have Kyiv surrounded, using a dark age tactic to starve people to death.
Journalist Andrew Cockburn & Historian Timothy Snyder on Ukraine, Russia, NATO Expansion & Sanctions.
Is anyone else concerned that the sanctions will just corner Russia into an all-out war? Reminds me of how Hitler used the sanctions put on Germany after WWI to motivate the German people into another war.
I do not think we import a lot of oil from Russia. The issue is that if Russian oil is cut - there is a lot more competition from the places we do import oil from - from all over the world - and oil prices will go much higher. The solution as we have been talking about for a long time is to accelerate the move to alternative sources for all kinds of consumption. First step, start converting a lot of the world transportation to be battery / electricity motivated - which makes it much easier to reduce the dependency on oil.
Yea, but what else are we going to do? By then their economy could be running on fumes. Their conscript army and equipment running on wd40 and duct tape are not a real threat. Gotta worry about those nukes tho and an actual war makes them much more of a real possibility
