corrupt neocons and their fake media will demand Russia be shut out of everything useless - Olympics, Eurovision, European soccer
Anything important or relevent to their own power - SWIFT, Pipelines, uranium production - not so much!
Ukraine was used and abused by NATO. Like some schoolyard punk encouraging the class nerd to pick a fight the captain of the football team.
If it makes you feel any better I’ve been calling for a total trade embargo on Russia and I absolutely agree with you that there is no end of hypocrisy in continuing to do business with Russia at any level.
We are living in a "liberal" world of pretense and imagery meant to obscure or possibly obliterate reality. Of course, energy shipments will receive a stern letter and then continue. Coal as well.
The EU and NATO -- which Putin suggested Russia join some decades ago -- have been waving their big stick named USA, and now they find out that the big stick is a twig.
The "face" of Europe is now Greta and Conchita Wurst.
Hahaha
The nerd picking a fight with the captain of the football team.
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I don’t even think the Germans could deploy one division. Not one. Italians, they don’t want to fight. Spaniards, they don’t want to fight. Hungarians, they don’t want to fight. So let’s rephrase it once more. We’re the nerdy scrawny kids, that don’t really mean it, telling the other nerd “we have your back,” if you go to the locker room and pick a fight with the captain of the football team.
Unless we are willing to pay and bleed, we meaning the USA, this nerd has no more than a bunch of scrawny pimple faced nerds telling him how they have his back, but not willing to make a move when fists start flying.
The only allies we have that we can count on are the Aussies (super tight), UK, South Korea (under rated, ROKs military is very competent).
The French are a loud yappy dog without a bite (the little dog that thinks it’s big), the Germans were neutered, and the Poles have the heart (they fight!) but are too small to make a big difference. The Italians, they are always on the winning side even if they need to switch sides mid fight and the Spaniards have learned that it’s not so bad being on one’s knees (as soon as they were bombed they withdrew from Iraq). The Romanians are shitting their pants about now and the Serbs would be happy if the Russians did come into Europe (they’re buddies). The Greeks won’t move because all they keep their eye on is Turkey (In case NATO goes to war with NATO)... In the end, we have just a few allies that have any capabilities, the size needed to make a difference and the will to fight. The rest just have support militaries. They send a few here or there, a token force in a support and noncombat role, in a more secure and stable place preferred, and then claim they contributed. Worthless-