OMG, you’re right. This has to be Trump using his close ties to Putin to get him to invade Ukraine in order to make Biden look weak and ineffective so that Trump can win in 2024.
Russian invasion into Ukraine is imminent
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Trump has nothing to do with it. I maintain this is all about the dollar.
^^^^^still doesn't understand the definition of imminent.
Knighttime dreaming of Vladdy Pusstin invading the Ukraine:
I took his comment to mean the US media needs to come up with another story to latch on to in order to distract the US public from the events that will have adverse impacts on the current administration.
Called it. Putin just threatened to launch cyber attacks on us if we get involved.
Lol. Anybody still want to argue that this whole thing is about the dollar? Putin played this one perfectly
At some point, with enough Ukranian resistance ... Russian 'pacification' will start becoming like it was during Afghanistan, as well as South Ossetia (Georgia) more recently. If that happens, then the world will very much turn against Russia.
No one wants to see another South Ossetia, and it's likely to happen since Ukraine has far more capabilities than Georgia. I really think this might cause Putin to have to step down. He had better hope they win, and win without the atrocities committed 15 years ago, let alone 40.
And that's a very credible threat. They have extensive capabilities too.
But not cutting off their ability to sell petroleum products. Our response is toothless, but we did that to ourselves.
It isnt toothless and they always have the ability to go further. This is a nuclear superpower with a nutjob running their country, we have to have some levels of caution with this.
I think this is going to be interesting. I dont think the Russian people want this war, so it will be interesting to see if they can have any level of influence over Putin. It would be pretty crazy if Putin was eventually brought down by his own people.
It absolutely is toothless. They are still selling oil in the global market, therefore making a ton of money off of this. But we can't do a damn thing about it because it would destroy the dollar if we did.
We can’t cut off Russia’s ability to sell oil when 7% or more of our oil is imported from Russia and our President is taking heat for high gas prices coming into a midterm election (Not to mention the hidden price increases in everything from cosmetics to plastics due to oil components).
Grossly underwhelming press conference. Why all the smiles? ...I feel sick and anger for the Ukraine people, and I'm just a regular citizen. As the leader of the free world, stay composed, but never express any form of levity, wtf?
I appreciate the input, but then use today's platform to pressure allies to enforce the strongest sanctions as possible... But even Biden himself seemed reserved. I heard one question about sanctioning Putin himself, and he ignored it... What else is he waiting for?
Germany. Italy. Russia. Pretty interesting alliance, particularly when you add China into the equation.
Anyone looting stores, stealing Nikes? ...perhaps this is what a true protest looks like, and not a theft opportunity
Ukrainian resolve is impressive from what I've seen on TV, of course we know media can distort things, but if real, they are very admirable... Civilians, military, and government leadership... One dude from the government acknowledged he's a target of Putin and remained calm and determined to hold his ground, displaying his firearm.
I'm already prepared for an invasion... Deterrence is the best defense.
As the contemporary American philosopher Lil' Jon once said: "Don't start no $h!t there won't be no $h!t"
The same MSM bs about "tough" sanctions have been almost universally panned as weak by everyone but CNN 💰 🤦♀️
Russia stock market is down 50%. Sanctions certainly take time to be felt, and they can, and probably will even go further at some point, but this idea that they are pointless is nonsense.
Putin had his ducks lined up. Doesn't need swift. Doesn't need petro dollars. In rubles, the Russian stock market is not ... "down 50%" . Short term manipulation of the currency on international exchanges is one thing the West can do temporarily. After Crimea, Sberbank ralled 90% off the bottom in the next year.
Lukoil is already up 60% off the lows and Sberbank is up 75% off the lows. Both are flush full of gas and oil money. They aren't going belly up, and present compelling opportunities. At one point, Sherbank was yielding close to 50% dividend.
But most of the sanctions havent really taken hold yet. This is something that will be felt more and more the longer they are in place. This also isnt Crimea. Nobody really cared about Crimea, but taking over an entire country is a different animal. On 1/31 Sberbank stock was just under 14.00 dollars, it is currently under 4 dollars, and went from 8.97 yesterday, to currently at 3.60. Rubles are currently at their weakest since 2016, and could go lower. To act like this is nothing is nonsense.
What sanctions are going to do anything? Russia has decoupled from dependence on the West. The West has already been trained well to tread carefully with energy in play. Remember the murdered journalist?
Calling the sanctions “tough” is just more bs and nonsense from the liberal MSM
Calling the sanctions “tough” is just more bs and nonsense from the liberal MSM
