Posted on 03/31/2022 3:25:01 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Vladimir Putin today threatened to turn off Europe's gas supplies from tomorrow if countries refuse to pay in roubles.
The Russian President, announcing a decree in televised remarks, said foreign buyers would have to 'open rouble accounts in Russian banks' which can be used to pay for 'gas delivered starting from tomorrow'.
'If such payments are not made, we will consider this a default on the part of buyers, with all the ensuing consequences. Nobody sells us anything for free, and we are not going to do charity either - that is, existing contracts will be stopped,' he said.
The move has been seen as a bid to bolster the Russian currency, which fell to historic lows when the West applied sanctions after he sent his army into Ukraine on February 24. Western companies and governments have rejected the demands as a breach of existing contracts, which are set in euros or dollars.
Russia has been hit by sweeping sanctions on its economy and trade since the start of Putin's war in Ukraine but measures by EU governments have not targeted oil and gas contracts with Moscow because many member states are heavily reliant on the Kremlin's supplies.
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They will pay in rubles.
A shutoff would be crushing.
And notably, it is hell-bent on destroying the German people, though it would never admit it in public, of course.
That is the heart of the matter.
Sorry, that is just wrong.
Germany is ruled by the unelected neo-Bolshevist EU organs, just like the rest of the EU.
I think the esteemed Mr. Desert Rhino has no clue that the German “government” is leading a war against its own people, and it’s winning.
Towardsthis end, the gov. is doing its best to embroil Germany in conflicts with her most important allies, among them the USA, and with their traditional trading partner, Russia.
You really couldn’t make it up!
Sorry, sir, the last sentence in my previous post was supposed to be directed towards Mr. Desert Rhino.
All the best to you :-)
Yes, you are right.
Unfortunately, the Daily Mail really is biased. The reporting on Mrs. Trump really was ust the icing on the cake.
But it seems to me that this paper hates everybody who is not British.
Yes, the DM often reports on crimes which are glossed over in other newspapers, and that is fine and dandy with me, but it has, unfortunately, some shortcomings of its own.
Well Daily Mail is just terrible at reporting anything - biased doesn’t say enough. They give CNN a run for their money actually.
Here’s an interesting video of Russian military leading the commander of the Nazi Azov battalion in Mariupol in front of the citizens.....he shot many of them a few days ago as they tried to flee the city. ......their anger is obvious as the citizns try and get to him while russian troops try and protect him
https://twitter.com/RonnyMyer/status/1508511564126691336
Apparently that was taken in Donbass in 2014 so you never know what’s atually current and or where it’s happening
Yes, a good example of fake news...but isn’t it the role of the media - in this day and age - to keep the public as disinformed as possible?
Sometimes I can understand everybody who uses the unfriendly terms of “enemedia” and presstitutes” :-(
It always has. The Mail (and to a lesser extent the Daily Telegraph also) have long been the voice of the 'Little Englanderr' branch of British Conservatisms (actually quite a small branch, but one which has always had a loud voice). Doesnt' matter whether it's Germans, French, 'Europe' generally, Americans, Chinese, Palistani Muslims...all are seen through the same lens.
Actually, your post is very pleasing to Leftist SJWs. Any slur against any white ethnic group pleases SJWs.
So why don't you get off YOUR "Social Justice Warrior pony," and start treating whites with the same respect that SJWs demand for POCs.
Whites have enough enemies without SJWs encouraging us smear each other's European ethnicity.
Day-go, WOP, greaser...I’ve been called them all and don’t care. Ya know why? I’m an adult.
That might have been a good attitude in the past. With the rising institutionalized of anti-white racism, whites need to start becoming as sensitive as anyone else.
Whites are under attack. You don't win by refusing to play the game. You win by making any racial or ethnic slur on whites as taboo as the N-word. And coming down on the speaker with the same fury as the ADL, SPLC, NAACP or CAIR when their people are even slightly offended.
Germany is occupied by NATO, flooded with Third World migrants, and their media inundated with anti-German, Hollywood globohomo. Germans don't even control their own borders, culture, or foreign policy, much less "most of Europe."
You ask......”Isn’t it the role of the media - in this day and age - to keep the public as disinformed as possible?”......
At one time in democracies, the media was fundamental to political life. ...It provided ‘facts’ to allow us to be better informed about the issues that matter to us.....Additionally It provided criticism and debate to ensure that that information is tested and examined ‘from all points of view’.
This isn’t possible today as media has become nothing more than a well oiled propaganda machine which ‘creates and formulates information rather than reporting it as it is - this in order to shape societies into a particuliar image.
One of the things I enjoyed was Free Republics open and lively debates and a true desire to seek the truth. Now you’re lucky if you can post an opposing response without getting rudely and sometimes visciously baggered for it.
I recall when Trump was running - and also Palin. In both instances for the most part people understood there was a sincere effort to choose the right person. Many here gave me their opinions including the owner. In time I realized I needed to go further and put the effort in to finding out on my own just what both thse candidates were about....with a different frame of mind.... I would not have done so had people not expressed their opinions as they did.
We lack this in society today because there’s been a great effort made to divide our society in every area. IMO it really moved quickly in the Obama years.
This guy is an edgy Brit and he knows what is going on.
https://rumble.com/vz7cf7-i-support-the-current-thing.html
So, I took a look at the 2 week weather forecast for Berlin. Ugh. It makes Seattle look like a sunny vista. Cool, wet, and windy.
BUT. It’s survivable. Germany had already cut imports of Russian gas to 40% of their supply. The wind turbines should be cranking, alternate imports are ramping up, and Germany has some reserves (tho’ not nearly so much as they should). The big problem will not be people freezing, it’ll be economic. But, it’s a 2 edge sword: The greater the discomfort to Germany now, the greater the incentive to completely cut out Russia as a supplier in the long run.
The Germans (particularly) need a lot of these “physical batteries”, if they want to go even greener:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Power_Station
Definitely not a quick solution, tho’ how quickly CA fully repaired the immense damage at Lake Oroville is impressive...
Ahh, we are on the same side but using different words. I’m not sure of what you wrote but I get the gist. Where we agree is that it was a lot better in the past. Remember the movie ‘Bad New Bears’ I think, Walter Matthau played the coach of a kid’s baseball team. He got his daughter to be the pitcher and so introduced her to the team. The little Mexican kid said ‘Great, we got Kikes, Wops, N3333 and Spics, and now we got a girl.’ Classic. Saw a re-run decades later, got a beer, waited for the line....The whole thing was edited out. What crap! Those used to be words in everyday conversations and we all made jokes with each other, and some bal....spineless wonder figured out he could divide us by banning those words. A pox on all of them, it worked fine before.
Thank you very much, Mr Winniesboy, for your kind elucidating words :-)
Actually, I had had this “hunch” for many years, but thanks to your confirming my suspicion, I shall always keep it in the back of my mind.
This is a real pity, since at least the DT have, if I remember correctly, always had writers who were very knowledgeable about the matters about which they wrote (I am writing in past tense, because I haven’t read many DT articles since the paywall went up some years ago on their Internet presence).
One needed not always to agree with the conclusions the DT journalists came to, but in any case they knew their tools of the trade very well.
And that is, alas, more than you can say about most journalists in these days.
P.S.: I have always liked your comments on FR - well-written and erudite they are. Furthermore, it was always very interesting and instructive to read a British perspective in the discussions here on FR :-)
After all, I am a non-American guest on this American forum, too.
Than you very much, too, Mr. Caww, for your excellent and true words about the media in this day and age :-)
Yes, and it seems to me that - along the media’s deterioration into a propaganda tool - the quality of their output has also declined very significantly.
To give you an example, I think I still can remember when articles in the NYT were mostly well-researched and excellently written (though you always had to watch out for the liberal bias ensconced in them, of course).
For instance, years ago, I researched articles in the NYT archive on the Alsace-Lorraine question before, during and after World War One (the story of Alsace and Lorraine has always intrigued me, since the creation of its spiritual forerunner, the Kingdom of Lotharingia, in the ninth century).
Though they had a strong pro-French bias, I found them, by and large, hard to fault on the factual level.
I definitely agree.
It seems to me (sorry if I’m repeating myself) that West Germany was, some time after its foundation, supposed to become a kind of Petri dish for globalism, internationalism, rampant liberalism and the whole enchilada.
Afterwards, the globalizers, the Powers that Be, applied the results of the “test series” applied in WG, to other countries - with the same disastrous, but very effective, results :-(
Yes, it’s only a theory of mine, but it seems daily more convoncing to this humble, handicapped mind...
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