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True, but they cannot be guilty of a wilful default if it is not them preventing payment of available funds. .

Unlikely to happen though. The Hague is for lesser figures like Slobodan Milosovich and Radovan Karadic of Serbia. The top powers don't use it on those at the top of major countries, probably because, "there but for the grace of god go I". Bush and Blair for example for the Iraq war crimes. .

Russia stockpiled large amounts of foreign currencies before this action against Ukraine started. .

You need Motorcycle Single Vehicle approval, for a 1000 watt motor if restricted to 15.5 mph maximum assist speed the vehicle class is called L1e-A. If restricted to up to 28mph the vehicle class is called L1e-B. You'll find all the details you need ON THIS LINK THE SVA PDF manual gives all...

As I posted a few days ago and you gave a Like to: "This will most likely be settled by negotiation in the end" .

"As the Soviet Union disintegrated in May 1990, its leader Mikhail Gorbachev made what was, in effect, a concession speech to assembled dignitaries after a dinner at the Soviet embassy in Washington. Socialism in one country, the inward-looking dogma of the Russian Communist Party, was over...

They all are, even Waitrose. If they want to be politically correct with more sensitivity, they could switch to the Italian version, Poco di Pollo, which I think actually superior. More expensive to make though. .

Not for us any more. Once we realised the impossibility of exploiting it from 8000 miles away, we ceded 50% of all of any oil found to Argentina if they looked after the local activity. Then when the price of oil crashed a few years ago as it started being in huge surplus, we lost all interest...

We intended to and had 17 years of negotiation with Argentina to that end: "Whilst maintaining the British claim, the British Government (still) considered a transfer of sovereignty less than two years before the outbreak of war. However, the British Government had limited room for manoeuvre...

Jonathan and Zlatan, your thinking really is warped. My home and my car are of course of huge value to me and my freedom. The very small parts in their vast land that Ukraine needs to concede to remain free and independent they do not possess anyway, nor are they of any use to them. The...

What on earth is wrong with your understanding? Ukraine needn't have lost any land of value to them or have losses of life to be cut. Nor give up their eastern half. By reasonably conceding the tiny amount of Crimea and Donbass which are no use to them anyway, they could have this war...

Come now, Woosh you know better than this, of course Putin didn't want this violent war, he wanted the same easy collapse as in Georgia and should have enjoyed that for the ultimate good. The start point of negotiation is that both sides demand everything. Deadlock, so the weaker should then...

Can't you read? Georgia is independent and free, not living under Putin, and Ukraine doesn't need to by the same token. It can be just as free and independent, without all the bloodshed. Georgia has shown how simple that is. .

As I posted I wasn't going to post again on this subject, but since you and Zlatan have posted ignoring the realities, I'll respond on it this last time. As I've already described in detail, any chance of this war occurring could have been removed in 2014 by a sensible pragmatic response to the...

I entered this subject in this thread for one purpose only, to protest that the possibly impending war at that time was entirely unnecessary and could easily have been avoided in the ways I described. Since then I've been sidetracked into arguments on all sorts of related issues and for a...

True, especially in the rest of the world. But Putin still has huge support as you know, as much as anything because so many Russians believe he could bring back the old communist days. .

Your one sided interpretations, wrong as usual because they are so emotionally based. As we saw in your saying Russia was never communist, that descending into a silly rant about their leadership always being mafia. You miss the fact that as much as a half of the Russian population regret...

Nothing in my post justifies war crimes in any way. Nor did i say I was explaining extreme emotional states, I couldn't because I don't understand those states so there was no mentalising. My explanations are of the circumstances that inspire those reactions and are an attempt prevent the...

Explaining how things that trigger extreme emotions come about, calmly and rationally. It is only in that way that we will ever understand enough to avoid repeating the experiences over and over again ad nauseum. Professionally no. Aspects of entomology yes. Fun no, damned hard work...

The USA saw the chance to take advantage of the hard line communists reaction against Gorbachov and their CIA helped bring about the civilian uprising that led to Gorbachov going in favour of Yeltsin. Since Yeltsin was entirely and solely responsible for Putin's fast track promotion to...