I don’t want or need to dispute your opinion. It’s very possible Putin feared that NATO would give Ukraine weapons without actually letting Ukraine into NATO, or might even let Ukraine into NATO. The questions are, is that belief a rational fear, and why is it sufficient justification for invading Ukraine?
DirecTV – which was already apparently planning to drop RT America at the end of their current contract, has now announced they’re dropping carriage of the channel completely, effective immediately.
Adidas has severed their arrangement as the provider, designer, and licensee of the Russian national football teams.
On a note of levity, I liked this photoshop:
I wrote several times that I consider the invasion unjustified. This doesn’t mean that everyone else involved were doing what they could in order to prevent this catastrophe.
And importantly, I don’t think we are learning the right lessons from this situation. I’m afraid that there will be as many pigheaded decisions in the future. Take Taiwan, for example. But this is a topic for a different thread.
Option 2 in your list seems like a way out for the West. But not for Putin. It seems like he has no really good alternatives at this point.
KevinC
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Sorry to hear that. And sorry that there’s going to be a lot more of that coming in the days ahead. :(
Option 1 is moderately good for him. But I’m skeptical they can isolate Russian economy.
They are trying hard, though. They have capital controls and the Moscow stock market might just not reopen.
Edit: and the market cap of BTC is now higher than the rouble.
2nd edit: one unexpected consequence of this might be the West finally acting against cryptocurrencies.
Any way to make that closed captioning area larger than 2 lines?
Quaro
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Try the mobile clients maybe. The desktop interface is pretty half baked. You can’t even change the volume?
Edit: Paste this into Google Chrome console. (Right click, Inspect) Works for me at least.
$('div.r-vp2fyv').style.height="500px";
I absolutely love this kind of mischief. Please, please do this.
It’s clear now that Putin is this generation’s Hitler. There won’t be peace in Europe anymore as long as he is in charge of Russia.
Guap
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Forgive me but I’ve been observing your statements in this thread and many of them are misinformed at best and misleading/decietful at worst. There have been dozens of negotiations and and ceasefires in the Donbas conflict. Perhaps educate yourself here and stop listening to one sided propaganda? Here is the wikipedia article on it to get you started.
I mean, probably not. At best we learn lessons for a short period of time.
Finally, the Internet has found someone where this hyperbolic statement is mostly true!
Thanks for this report!
Honestly, I’ve been looking at the photos they keep showing of this ‘convoy’ for days, and mostly what I see are trucks, and I keep thinking that’s not an armored attack column, it’s a baggage train. But then I think if that were the case, someone would surely have said so,
I’m not sure what this means. Currencies don’t have a market cap. Nor do cryptocurrencies, really, but it is a shorthand people use.
Funny, it’s the wikipedia article that I linked several posts above. Is there a specific statement I made that you feel is misinformed or misleading?
Sorry, I’m not in finance.
Apparently the amount of BTC in “circulation” (total minted minted, valued at today’s peak) surpassed the total money supply the Central Bank of Russia stated the country had in circulation (including deposits with 2 years maturity and deposits redeemable with up to 3 months notice).
Probably apples to oranges, I know.
Guap
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Yes, I quoted it. You said Ukraine has not talked to the separatists. This is false.
I think one of the right lessons we should learn is Russia has territorial ambitions in Eastern Europe, and EU and NATO policy and planning should take this into account.
Do you agree that this is one of the lessons we should learn?
Valued in US dollars, presumably?
