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the2ofusr1
reply to post by TritonTaranis
now even their gold has been taken to the US and not the EU for safe keeping ..Doesn't that smell to you ? It was after all the EU they were going to join and not the US ..Why take the gold there ?
TritonTaranis
The difference here is the west never used an army to install anybody in power
Nathabeanz
Not surprised to here china is involved. Those bastards dont do the international community any benefit unless its on thier terms or primary interests.
dominicus
reply to post by Bassago
US Gov putting sanctions on Russia would be one of the dumbest moves ever.
This will force Russia, China (Maybe B.R.I.C. as a whole) to get rid of the dollar as the reserve currency for oil, the last thing that's propping the dollar up....then BOOM, US collapse!!!!
Russia going after Crimea is like when US when after Alaska.
What a bunch of idiots....... this should be diplomatically handled via talks at a round table. World Police my Arse
Putin has done nothing but severely damage his own public imaging within Russia
But the western leaders have just made Russia to look like desperate Nazi idiots to the rest of the world
The reaction of the financial markets to the west's sanctions over Crimea spoke volumes. Up went the rouble and shares on the Moscow stock market, down went the price of crude oil.
Conclusion: the steps announced by the US and the EU were seen as a slap on the wrist for Vladimir Putin, the very least that could be delivered without Barack Obama, Angela Merkel et al all losing face.
Market reaction suggests sanctions over Crimea are slap on the wrist for Putin
Bassago
reply to post by TritonTaranis
Putin has done nothing but severely damage his own public imaging within Russia
But the western leaders have just made Russia to look like desperate Nazi idiots to the rest of the world
... and the only Nazis around are those in Ukraine government. You know, the ones who just overthrew a democratically elected government and drove the elected leader out of the country. Did you miss that part?
Bassago
In the OP I said that Putin would not buckle under the sanctions imposed by the west. Here's where things stand at the moment.
The reaction of the financial markets to the west's sanctions over Crimea spoke volumes. Up went the rouble and shares on the Moscow stock market, down went the price of crude oil.
Conclusion: the steps announced by the US and the EU were seen as a slap on the wrist for Vladimir Putin, the very least that could be delivered without Barack Obama, Angela Merkel et al all losing face.
Market reaction suggests sanctions over Crimea are slap on the wrist for Putin
Who you calling a Nazi ?
Oleksandr Sych
The new Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Sych is a member of the far-right Svoboda party, which the World Jewish Congress called on the EU to consider banning last year along with Greece's Golden Dawn.
Andriy Parubiy
Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council is Andriy Parubiy. Parubiy was the founder of the Social National Party of Ukraine, a fascist party styled on Hitler's Nazis, with membership restricted to ethnic Ukrainians.
Oleh Tyahnybok
The Social National Party would go on to become Svoboda. The far-right nationalist party whose leader is Oleh Tyahnybok.
Dmytro Yarosh
Overseeing the armed forces alongside Parubiy as the Deputy Secretary of National Security is Dmytro Yarosh, the leader of the Right Sector - a group of hardline nationalist streetfighters.
Bassago
reply to post by TritonTaranis
Whatever. Now let's try to keep this back on topic which is the effect (or currently non-effect) sanctions a going to have on Putin. There are other Ukraine threads if you want to go on about the Svoboda party and their "non-Nazi" Wolfsangel logo as well as their non-affiliation with Golden Dawn.
Topic = Sanctions / Russians already moving money.edit on 159pm1616pm92014 by Bassago because: (no reason given)
If you was head of the EU What would be your move ?
Knowing full well Russia is a clear threat and danger and that cutting its ties and depend amicus will see Russia's economy collapse and so there military and threat diminish just like the Soviet Union
So what would you personally do? Would you as I suspect your going to say keep doing business ?