Tycho
Jedi Master
Still waiting for the promissed "sanctions from Hell," nothing terribly impressive so far.
Maybe the US of A stops buying cheap russian gas now .....
Still waiting for the promissed "sanctions from Hell," nothing terribly impressive so far.
At present, Ukrainian forces control large swaths of the territory to which the separatist leaders lay claim
Largely unseen by the Western world, the Himalayan nation of Nepal has been rocked by protests over the past few weeks, amid mounting opposition to a controversial aid package signed with the United States in 2017.
And there's something else they miss in their own words: the significance of Putin's use of, and grasp of, history. I don't have his work to hand, so perhaps others can correct me, but didn't Collingwood say something to the effect that the most judicious solutions to current problems are those which emerge from 'going deep into history'?
Part of the December 30, 2019 trilateral political agreement between Russia, Ukraine and the EU, which prevented a gas conflict at the last minute, is also an agreement between Gazprom and Naftogaz on the organisation of gas transit. Accordingly, for a $7.2 billion payment from Gazprom, Naftogaz books annual transport capacity for Russian gas at 65 billion cubic metres yearly (bcm/y) for 2020 and 40 bcm/y for the periods of 2021-2024. Capacity was reduced in the contract from 2021 onwards because it was assumed that Nord Stream 2 would be completed by 2020. However, this was prevented by US sanctions. The ship-or-pay agreement does not provide seasonal flexibility as it is calculated on a daily basis of 178 million cubic metres per day (mcm/d) in 2020 and 110 mcm/d for 2021-2024. In addition, the Ukrainian Gas Transmission System Operator (GTSOU) has offered 15 mcm/d of firm capacity since February 2021 for monthly bookings, which Gazprom has consistently booked since then. Yet, the additional 63.7 mcm/d of interruptible capacity that has been offered by GTSOU since May 2021 has come into focus. Although it was expected that Gazprom would book the latter in view of price increases, this has not been the case. According to GTSOU, the volumes are in line with the interconnection agreement with Gazprom for the Sudzha and Sokhranivka interconnection points. It is unclear why the additional firm volumes have been limited to that amount since 2020 and the interruptible capacities are not offered at a discounted rate like they usually are. A shame and blame game between Moscow and Kyiv has commenced. In any case, 2 bcm less gas arrived from Russia in July 2021 due to maintenance work on Yamal from 6 to 10 July and on Nord Stream 1 from 13 to 23 July.
Binden's handlers are aggressively talking smack. As well as the Brit's, and Gemany trying to eradicate any voice from RT news.Still waiting for the promissed "sanctions from Hell," nothing terribly impressive so far.
When the West smashed Yugoslavia and the state broke up into several small states, nobody got upset about these new border regulations. Not even when the Slovaks and the Czechs separated in 1992. There have also been countless deaths in Yugoslavia and NATO has played its part. Nevertheless, peace has finally returned to some extent. The EU has absorbed large parts of Yugoslavia and that is just “okay”. Now Putin has put a stop sign to Kiev’s attacks and murders in the east. He acknowledged that the Minsk process has brought nothing, absolutely nothing, towards peace for seven years. What point could there be in an agreement that Kiev has simply ignored for seven years? What possible solution could there have been?
If Russia now officially extends its protective hand over the citizens of eastern Ukraine, the price will be high for Kiev should they continue to destroy their breakaway provinces there. sanctions? One can only laugh. This declaration of war on Russia has long been exhausted. Refusing gas supplies via Nord Stream 2? Excellent! We threaten Russia to cut off the branch on which we are sitting with our insane energy policy. Russia dependent on SWIFT? Excellent! How then are we going to pay our gas bill and can we expect to receive gas without being able to pay it?
The revolutionary events of 1917 led to the collapse of the Russian Empire and the emergence of a number of pseudo-independent states on the territory of Ukraine (today's) : The Ukrainian People’s Republic centered in Kiev, the Ukrainian People’s Republic of Soviets centered in Kharkov, the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic centered first in Kharkov and then in Lugansk, the Odessa Soviet Republic, and the Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic in Crimea and the Northern Black Sea region. But after the Central Council of Ukraine signed a separate agreement with the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kaiser of Germany, the entire territory of Ukraine and Crimea, which had never belonged to either Germanic country, was occupied by Austro-German troops.
This Kenyan ,as well as the lady who passed on the tweet, has no clue about what happened in Ukraine in 2012. They have no clue why those two regions of Eastern Ukraine decided to fight for their lives. What he says maybe working in Kenya but it sure is not working in many of his neighboring countries. In Ukraine things are not working because there are no people to make it work.
a small minority of western Ukrainians were given free hand to take vengeance on the Eastern Ukrainians who supported Yanukovych !!!!Early life and career
Viktor Yanukovych was born in the village of Zhukovka near Yenakiieve in Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He endured a very hard childhood about which he has stated, "My childhood was difficult and hungry. I grew up without my mother who died when I was two. I went around bare-footed on the streets. I had to fight for myself every day."[25] Yanukovych is of Russian, Polish[26][27] and Belarusian descent.
Two years after May the 2nd there are still no results from the investigation, no one is punished, nor guilty. The House of Trade Unions is sealed. Many questions are not answered as to why there were semi-burned corpses on the upper floors, where there are no traces of a fire, ie they were deliberately lit while they struggled to escape the lower floors; why were there corpses with gunshot wounds, knife wounds, rapes, beatings. Why is the door to the basement of the House of Trade Unions welded; why was water in the building stopped just before the assault; why were water hoses cut – again on the day of the event; why is plaster scrapped in the form of repairs – to hide the traces of gas, chlorine; plaster and artifacts – evidence from the crime scene are reserved by Odessans and wait for the right time; the courageous journalist and Odessan, now living in Donetsk, Irina Lashkevich has extensively written about this.
Across 2021 the US imported between 12 million as 26 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum from Russia every month. In November 2021, the most recent figures on record, the Energy Information Agency reports that the US took 17.8 million barrels.
A 'crossing of the Rubicon' indeed.
Thanks to Laura's research, we know that that doesn't mean what they think it means: 'a dictator come to destroy our way of life'. It actually means 'one good man commits to right action in the face of all the powers ranged against him'.
Ave Putin! Ave Caesar!