Someone, somewhere will believe this and a few of them may be Ukrainians.
I saw an outline from someone in some vid a while ago about what Russia wants:
The canal to Crimea unblocked(I think everyone is aware of this)
Land bridge to Crimea(this too)
To control the gas field to the west of Slovansk. Now this I had not heard of before, it is old news but in 2010 it was discovered and it has been suggested that Russia wants to control it so it does not threaten their own economy.
This last bit suddenly makes the war have a lot more sense and I have not seen it mentioned nearly as often as the former points.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
On that note, diesel export from the Middle East to Europe in April are expected to more than double to 379,000 barrels a day (bpd), offsetting an expected loss of 166,000 bpd of Russian diesel supply. Diesel export out of Primorsk, Russia’s key fuel shipments port on the Baltic Sea, is anticipated to slump by as much as 30 percent in May.
That being said, Russia is still earning $66B from their energy since February 24. Germany alone accounts for $9.1B.
Last edited by Rasulis; 2022-04-28 at 10:06 PM.
Remember when Russia tried to get everyone to believe that oil prices would reach $300 a barrel?
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
Western people will never understand russians which is why i think west is having such a problem dealing with current situation.
You kinda need to understand that "good russians" as some people like to call them are statistic error minority. Vast majority of them simply lack any form of empathy for anyone, often times even for themselves. They are being trained from small child to not think for themselves and blindly accept everything they are told.
This is why, even if they KNOW something will have bad consequences or is objectively wrong they will simply approach it with dead-eyed fatalism.
Russia fired missiles at Kyiv while the UN chief was visiting. One landed near the hotel he was staying at.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-...ost_type=share
gerasimov is allegedly in kharkiv, cmon accurate artillery or drone strike
What purpose does it serve to keep them in? All they do is abuse the rules and then probably laugh behind our backs that we allow it.
Bad faith actors sit in bodies like this just so they can block investigations into their human right abuses and so on.
It's time we stop playing nice with them.
Last edited by zorkuus; 2022-04-29 at 03:19 AM.
Because the main reason any of the big 5 keep the UN is international prestige and the means to use it to influence the rest of the world. It's never been about the XYZs that they claim it is. It's why countries that are just as bad, if not worse than Russia are able to get into places like the human rights council and others at the behest of the UK and the USA. That way these countries might be run by child-killing bastards, but they're western aligned child-killing bastards.
Without the UN there's no real show and dance and it makes behind the scenes dealing a little more difficult.
At no point is any foreign policy about who is morally right (Don't get me wrong here, in Ukraine, Russia is the morally reprehensible side with Ukraine the victim and the west taking the morally right side). It's all about power and the UN is just another part of the poker game everyone plays and cheats in. Which is why it stays and allows the worst of the worst in certain areas because USA and Russia both benefit from it.
I'm not sure that's a hot idea since he holds one of the three main keys for big weapons, and his replacement would absolutely be a Putin toadie...more so than Gerasimov is. If it was Aleksandr Dvornikov I'd say crater him.
edit: kinda better the devils you know and don't trust than the devils you don't know and don't trust.
Last edited by Iphie; 2022-04-29 at 04:56 AM.