Don't think it's any time for jokes tbf.
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Pretty sure he said he would limit their ability to do business in those currencies
Any news of the death toll so far?
Laughable sanctions.
Essentially freezing Russia's financial assets in the US, but still being ok with buying oil and gas from them.
At least he threatened with article 5 if Russia tries to do something similar with some NATO country.
Essentially freezing Russia's financial assets in the US, but still being ok with buying oil and gas from them.
At least he threatened with article 5 if Russia tries to do something similar with some NATO country.
Feck, Biden can barely read at this point.
China likes this.
Must have missed that. But i guess they have the chinese RMB to fall back on
BS sanctions. Putin would be laughing his head off.
Everyone is meeting tomorrow, so I suspect this will be on the table.
Right. Whatever that means.
"Our" policy has been a disaster and has completely blown up into our faces since this morning.
There is a lot of Russian money in Germany. A former chancellor is basically a paid Putin shill. A current prime minister of a state has established fake environmental foundation to support Nord Stream II. Speaking of which, the whole Nord Stream II was geopolitical nonsense. Many corporations consider Russia an important market and have downplayed everything Putin has done. And let's not speak of the Putin fans on the far left and far right (horsehoe?).
In addition to dependencies and downright corruption, there is also not a lot of appetite for confrontation in Germany. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but can be naive if going too far. Merkel was all about diplomacy and talk. Kramp-Karrenbauer said it best, in the past German politicians would also value diplomacy high, but would also make sure that the other side had little incentive to go beyond diplomacy. But, she was minister of defense, so she was part of the problem.
Germany holding back on Swift? Really? Wow, I'm shocked.
Dunno if answered already, but its their best route to Kyiv from the North.
Money. Either Russia owe them lots of money or they need to keep their businesses with russian companies alive.
Biden confirms that European countries are not favouring to cut Russia from SWIFT. I guess it is Germany and Italy.
A friend in uni in Kharkiv says they are running out of food.
Its what America always does best, flexing their military might. I"m sure there were many things that could have been done without triggering an all out war. Biden just said he's moving US troops over to the eastern NATO front, into countries like Lithuania Hungary Romania... he could have done that months ago. Literally anything is better than nothing.
He’s what people wanted right? All the ignorance over trump and this is what people get. A guy who can barely speak and a puppet.
To hell with just sanctions, man. It's the Sixth Fleet camping north of Istanbul that people want, supported by the Second Fleet in North Atlantic and off the coast of Norway if necessary.
I'm so fecking mad at the state of affairs, man.
I'm so fecking mad at the state of affairs, man.
They won't push Russia out of Swift as it would be a major precedent. The type of precedent that might end up in another parallel financial system being set up which, would feck the current global economy.
For fecks sake...
As sad and tragic as it is for the Ukraine I support Natos decision to not intervene with military (this would just lead to WW3 and nukes) BUT: for the love of God please please please use the hardest economical sanctions possible.
They elected a clown as president nothing less to be expected
Biden getting testy with Collins when questioned over the effectiveness of his sanctions
Genuinely how is that possible? It been less than a day.
No chance of that happening.
what does this even mean?
Rightfully so. All of these journos are asking silly questions.
Germany is very, very reliant on Russian gas due to the green dumbos there forcing the shutdown of their nuclear power plants, so now they are up shit creek without a paddle. Also, there is a lot of corporate interests intertwined between the two countries and we know money talks.
Similarly, for Italy as well.
Also, watching Biden now and it's a bit of a shit show.
I can imagine all the shops running out of food as people panic buy and I guess no or very very few trucks bringing in new supplies
Biden dodges China question. Any chance he is trying to deal with China in sanctioning Russia, which seems like a lost cause.
Oh, a reporter just asked the question "Why not sanction Putin directly?"
Care to elaborate?
Jeez, Putin must be in hysterics after hearing Biden’s sanctions
You genuinely think Trump would handle this better?
Tomorrow they are threatening to speak in the harshest possible terms