ToxicCoward
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I do not see it as a mistake.
Withdrawing everything would be too obvious step, enemy could prepare better and element of surprise would disappear leading to more deaths in first day of intervention.
Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine
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I do not see it as a mistake.
Withdrawing everything would be too obvious step, enemy could prepare better and element of surprise would disappear leading to more deaths in first day of intervention.
My understanding is that the red doesn't show fighting but rather presence of/controlled by Russian forces. There are forces in Transnistria.
Our President in Spain told to the medias that Spain will suffer an economic situation, worse than the present one, that prices will go up for the consumers, that we need to suffer more. He employed the word suffer, by the way. And all of these thanks to whom? Not to what, but to whom? Thanks to Putin. 
It looks like all the sanctions are targeted at small and medium businesses, conglomerates are doing business as usual. Hyundai Motors (and KIA) is a large part of Hyundai which is, in turn, a large part of the South Korean economy.
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Another sign of the EU's dependency on Russia (machine-translated):
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I think you are right. As for Transnistria, there is Russian military base and presence there and over the last 8 years it has been said to be somewhat vulnerable due to the difficulty of resupplying it. If I remember correctly thought, then they have a huge amount of ammunition. Moldova also has had designs on Transnistria as was discussed earlier in the thread.
Andrei Martyanov explains a little more about the picture or rather puts it into into scale:
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
To Give Some Impression Of The Scope.
Of operation in Ukraine. Here is the map for today:
Those who still have issues with grasping what they see, I'll give them some scale: the area of operations you observe is roughly the size of one third of Ukraine's territory which is 603,000 sq. km / 3=201, 000 sq.km, which is very roughly (slightly less) the size of the United Kingdom. So, those who still have issue with coming to terms with what is actually happening--get a grip, it is a serious war of a new generation. I speak about this in video I am trying--unsuccessfully--to upload to YouTube in the last two hours. It simply refuses to load it, stops at 11% and is not moving. The progress is excellent.
Those who expect that war to be over in 72 hours, you better get educated on the meaning of the deep operations and urban combat. Some people call on Russia now to go into overdrive. Russia can do that but she will not do that because this will mean many more civilian casualties. Especially against the background of ukies using human shields all over the place, such as not allowing civilians to leave for humanitarian corridors Russian Army opened all over: from Kiev to Mariupol. Nazis are desperate, as are their masters from Washington and London.
You are right. The bank could've intervened better obviously but they had no idea. The element of surprise was on Putin. He caught off guard his own people too.
I live in Germany and I can still access RT and Sputnik. Not sure how long that will last.
Tycho
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Our President in Spain told to the medias that Spain will suffer an economic situation, worse than the present one, that prices will go up for the consumers, that we need to suffer more. He employed the word suffer, by the way. And all of these thanks to whom? Not to what, but to whom? Thanks to Putin.
Yeah, "The Russians did it". Not your politicians, not the ECB, not the FED .....
RT is verboten in the Netherlands. I can't access it.
Goodbye
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16,000 Foreign Mercenaries Are Going to Fight for Ukraine, Zelensky Claims
On Wednesday, media reports said that around 70 volunteers from Japan were ready to join the ranks of mercenaries in the "foreign legion" of Ukraine, where a Russian special operation to demilitarise and "de-Nazify" the country is under...
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EXTERNAL reserves of the Central Bank of Russia in Western countries (and Japan) were blocked. These EXTERNAL reserves are needed to maintain a stable exchange rate of the ruble and they could not be withdrawn in one day, even in a week (there are 463 billion dollars according to estimates), the ruble would fall in the same second.
In fact, we do not know how much REAL money was blocked, neither the West nor the Central Bank of Russia disclosed this figure.
The Central Bank of Russia also has gold and euro/dollar cash, the REAL number of which we do not know.
In any case, this "freeze" (I would say theft) of Russian money will hit not only Russia, but also Western countries (and Japan) as well, since they will somehow pay for Russian exports (oil, gas, wheat ).
I think that such a scenario of "freezing" money was envisaged by Putin in advance and he has a couple of jokers up his sleeve in front of the West.
I thought the UK had left the European Union.
I think Loreta was joking hence the emoji.
It is just like Covid. The rulers said that everything was due to Covid, whereas it was due to the governments actions to Covid such as lockdowns and gazillions of dollars wasted on masks, testing, vaccines etc., and that same script is used now. Everything, like the collapse of the economy, run away inflation, higher prices for everything, no travel, lack of medicines/health care, food crises, massive supply chain problems etc. will be blamed on Russia rather than seeing that it was due to Western leaders shooting themselves in the collective foot with sanctions. There is of course money enough though to send weapons and aid to Ukraine
Russia has prepared for this for years, but the West has lived in a fantasy make-believe world and not prepared at all. The leaders of the West don't care one bit about their own people. The priorities were different. While the West found it important to ban plastic straws and install gender neutral toilets along with waving rainbow colored flags, other countries were busy improving their countries infrastructure and living standards.
