[Nachum]

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[no-to-illegals]

Find it (the article) quite strange ... saudis and opec receive no blame. putin and his minions aren’t very intelligent, according to this article.

[ansel12]

Better to stop this KGB nut while he is weak, and show a strong front and try to steer Russia into the 21st century, rather than to start undoing all that Reagan accomplished, and move the world back into darkness and always on the brink of total annihilation.

[Oliviaforever]

The sanctions are working.

Putin can starve.

[NonValueAdded]

If it is the oil price that is wreaking so much havoc on the Russian economy, what would happen if Pooty Poot let a nuke slip through his fingers into the hands of one of the players in the Middle East?

[familyop]

Russia could have focused more on producing many other things, but leaders there focused too exclusively on oil.

[GeronL]

the salient point is that Tokyo felt that the Americans really started that war with their harsh sanctions

and the sanctions were a response to...? How do sanctions start a war when war was already being waged?