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by zx85wes 5y ago
I think he thinks he has nothing to lose at this point. The EU is looking for alternate suppliers for gas, and when that's in place the sanctions noose will be fully tightened. The only thing he can do to the EU is triggering a huge re
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by zx85wes 5y ago
Except it wasn't a dictatorship back then. https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/russia/16293
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by zx85wes 5y ago
Official neutrality and a trade deal with both the EU and Russia?
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by zx85wes 5y ago
And NATO had been sending arms and advisors into Ukraine. And what good did that do for Ukrainians who by and large are sick of this conflict?
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by zx85wes 5y ago
And what if Russia detonates a nuclear bomb over these incoming NATO troops?
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by zx85wes 5y ago
I don't believe it was inevitable.
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by zx85wes 5y ago
You think he'd just roll over and surrender if they cut them off from Swift? I doubt it...
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by zx85wes 5y ago
We're talking about the 2 biggest nuclear powers here. A tiny mistake or misunderstanding is all that's needed. Google Vasily Arkhipov. After the EU sanctions overnight, it seems that Russia felt it had not much to lose, and they
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by zx85wes 5y ago
The former states of the USSR agreed that Russia was the continuator state of the USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_of_states#Soviet_Un... The "the Soviet Union ceased to exist" argument was also
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by zx85wes 5y ago
Putin's been telling these oligarchs to bring their money back for years. https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/20/putin-urges-billionaires-to-... You'd be doing him a favour.
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by zx85wes 5y ago
And who's going to pay this tax in the end?
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by zx85wes 5y ago
The SPD has always been on the moderate side when it comes to Russia. His Green coalition partners are NATO hawks though.
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by zx85wes 5y ago
It's been dead for a very long time. It's a carrot that Russia was never going to get. If Scholz is smart (which I doubt) he'll restart/keep open the nuclear power plants and cut taxes on gas/electricity for househo
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by zx85wes 5y ago
They'd be doing him a favour if they target these oligarchs, and that's why they haven't done it yet. https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/20/putin-urges-billionaires-to-...
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by zx85wes 5y ago
Easy to say for those who can absorb the higher energy cost. Millions of Germans can't.
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by zx85wes 5y ago
NS2 has always been a carrot that Russia was never going to get.
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by zx85wes 5y ago
Of course they're on Russia's side. China knows they're next in line.
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by zx85wes 5y ago
They don't care about these hacks unless they hit their bottom line.
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by zx85wes 5y ago
Dramatic escalation of the conflict between NATO and Russia is a matter of weeks. You can be sure governments in the west will use that 'good crisis' to crack down on civil liberties.
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by zx85wes 5y ago
Would 50000 more deaths made it look better? Australia's handling of the crisis has been stellar compared to most other countries.
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by zx85wes 5y ago
You mean the people who told us not to wear masks? I trust science, but that doesn't mean I trust every scientist.