I landed a strawman zeeper troll!
Posted on 03/26/2025 6:24:42 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine would be one of the main conditions to lift or amend EU sanctions, a European Commission spokesperson said on Wednesday.
European Union countries renewed the bloc’s two sanctions frameworks on Russia for another six months at the end of January and earlier this month. Any changes to sanctions require unanimity among its 27 member states.
“The end of the Russian unprovoked and unjustified aggression in Ukraine and unconditional withdrawal of all Russian military forces from the entire territory of Ukraine would be one of the main preconditions to amend or lift sanctions,” the spokesperson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsau.com ...
Conceptually, it's a great idea. Russia wouldn't dare have attacked a member of NATO, and we'd have had peace.
But there was no timeline for that because Ukraine would not have been eligible until the whole Donbass/Crimea issue has a permanent resolution.
The Europeans are seeing how President Trump is turning America around and they are getting ready to do the same
Why did you tag me?
You are very far gone on the issue of Ukraine
about 15% of Russia's imports come from EU countries (4.74% from Germany)
In contrast, Russia accounts for about 1% of the EU countries exports (0.63% of Germany's exports)
Most of Germany's exports to the Russian federation are:
The EU wanted (or rather Germany and France wanted) until 2022, for Russia to be a trading partner and not threaten European countries with war.
Pfffffft!
I replied to your incorrect post #56
you are very far gone on the issue of Putin killing Eastern Orthodox people.
Unfortunately (and I mean unfortunately) Trump’s alignment with Vladimir Putin and revanchist attitudes towards Greenland and Canada are destroying the credibility of the right in Canada and Europe. Anyone who has aligned themselves too closely with MAGA has become tainted by association. Pollivier was a dead cert to win the next Canadian election, now the Liberals have a good chance of being re-elected, and Reform, despite having made huge gains over the last few months, has started to see membership decline for the first time since July, although the row over Rupert Lowe is probably a huge part of the reason why, but Farage’s Trump superfan act is damaging his image in a lot of people’s eyes (despite a minority of British MAGA mini-mes who are very loud online giving another impression).
This is unfortunate because there are issues with illegal immigration and economic stagnation through socialist and environmentalist lunacy that the legacy parties need to be severely punished over, but Trump’s foreign policy is destroying populist movements in the rest of the western world. MAGA might love Putin and thing he’s a great guy who is misunderstood, but most of us know he is not, and anyone associated with a regime that sucks up to him is going to suffer at the polls for it.
My message talked about why Russia’s currency strengthened very dramatically in the past 3 months.
Your message only talked about 2014-2022...
Go tag someone else I don’t value your perspective on Ukraine
Athos - you are far gone on Muscowy.
1 year ago, 1 ruble got you 0.011 USD
today 1 ruble gets you 0.012 USD
hardly an “appreciation.
The ruble is NOT ‘the most improved currency in the past year’ - that goes to the Swedish Crown
1 year ago, 1 SEK got you 0.094 USD
today 1 SEK gets you 0.100 USD
By Bloomberg News
February 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM GMT
The ruble has strengthened 13% versus the greenback since the beginning of the year, making it the best performing currency in the emerging market universe, data from the Bank of Russia and Bloomberg show. The central bank set the ruble’s official exchange rate at 88.51 to the dollar for Friday, the strongest since August.
(it is today even stronger, at 84 instead of the 88 in this article. It was at 115 3 months ago. From 115 to 84 is a very big change)
Europe needs Russia a lot more than Russia needs it.
Well, bye.
Right? They need to either butt out or completely take over (and screw up) the peace talks. We don’t need them interfering with what President Trump and his team are trying to accomplish.
Ha! No it isn't. You don't like the question because the answer would undermine another argument you have already made.
So let's try it this way. If the EU or EU member states were to maintain or even strengthen economic sanctions against Russia after Russia and Ukraine agree to a ceasefire, do you believe there is any chance Russia would respond by attacking them militarily? Simple question.
They really want to be part of it, but aren’t.
So the cry and scream really loud, but no one cares.
Once we make a deal, if they keep arming Ukraine, there will be a huge price to pay for them, which they won’t want to pay.
The notion of any Euro forces on the ground in Ukraine as “peace keepers” is absurd. This war is about NATO East expansion and NATO countries, the Euros putting troops in Ukraine under a different title/label (same $hit different name) is a nonstarter for the Russians.
Any deal the Euros would hammer out, will need the US as an “underwriter” anyhow. Not only is NATO our club, even outside of NATO, it’s the US with the strategic weapon systems, intel, logistics, mass in personnel etc. It’s the US that has to “come to the rescue” if anything goes seriously side ways.
Europe can set whatever standards they want. It will never happen. Also they still send Russia more money each month for energy than Ukraine gets in aid, so not sure how that is going to work out.
The truth is Ukraine can make a deal to save more land now or keep fighting a lost war that is losing more land each day.
You posted an article from Feb 20, talking about the YTD performance.
The rubble fell in 2024, so it clawed its way up in the starting months of this year.
It was 0.011 rubble to 1 USD on 25 March 2024
It is 0.012 rubble to 1 USD on 25 March 2025
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.