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consider other aspects such as public opinion, freedom of movement, exchange of technology, cultural, sports, tourism etc. Just look where you can fly to from Moscow. Russians and Russia will lose a great deal more if this war lasts any longer than the 9th of May.

they are sanctions on property rights. The West is not trying to imprison their children.

so what? if Russia gives them extra discount because it has fewer customers, then so much better for them. Don't take what happens in Sri Lanka is a result of the war in Ukraine. The point you don't see is the cost of sanctions to the West is much smaller than to Russia. Russia sells less oil...

It's over dramatised, Western countries import only raw material. Exporting countries can easily cope. There is little to do with production capabilities, only profiteering. Trust me, fertilisers are like oil and gas, prices go up but boilers in the West won't be turned off this year or next.

all that does is to benefit alternatives, wind, solar, even nuclear power. On fertilisers, I worked for one of those NPK fertiliser companies in the summer break when I was a student. I can assure you that the world is not short of non-Russian vendors. There is plenty of supply and profiteering.

talking about the obvious: 1. The sanctions on oil and gas make the oil companies companies richer, but who are they? Aramco, PTR, SNP, Exxon, Total, Shell, BP, Chevron, MPC. So do you see Russian companies anywhere? 2. profit from the sale of Russian oil and gas is milked off the Russian...

I can't see Russia getting the sympathy vote anytime soon from anyone other than those that voted with Russia in the UN. Just look at them: North Korea, Syria, Eritrea are effectively at war themselves and rely on supply from Russia, Belarus is a Russian satellite. All Putin has achieved is to...

there will be in Russia like elsewhere plenty of people who don't have time for politics and who don't particularly care for one version of history or another. That does not mean that they don't know or suspect they are being lied to, just that until the lies matter in their livelihood then they...

is it fair to put all Ukrainian army and volunteers into the Nazi basket?

dictators tend to rely on corrupting a small circle of people in order to control the apparatus of the state, to pass draconian laws, curb the press, torture dissidents, control who has access to the resources etc. Those people are a lot more sensitive to the idea of winners and losers. It won't...

they perhaps won't vote for ditherers, those prefer sitting on the fence forever to avoid making mistakes. Still, I reckon even dictators will lose after making a big mistake. Orban hasn't yet but Putin has.

56 days = 8 weeks. It's practical for packaging.

There's plenty of oil and gas to make up for the reduction of Russian supply. The big multi nationals exploit the turmoil to inflict misery on billions of human beings especially on the third world too poor to compete for supply. It just like the price of sea freight containers. 1,000%...

The West can easily let Putin know that it is prepared to supply Ukrainians with enough Exocet missiles to defend Odessa. Likewise, Putin already knows that if he hasn't won then it is futile to push on, his soldiers will soon be fed up living in foxholes. It's time to negotiate.

He may have cancer, I don't know but l don't believe that has much influenced his decision to invade Ukraine. He's prepared Russia for war with the West at least since Ukraine failed to implement the Minks protocol.

that looks like an XT60 connector. You can get them on amazon and ebay. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Battery-Connectors-Vehicle-connectors-connector/dp/B074RGT76J/ref=pd_lpo_1

some 120 old coal fire power stations got converted to gas, so it should be easy to convert them back to use coal, don't you think?

why don't we switch gas fired power stations to coal for a couple of years to help reduce demand on gas?

that's the simplest way to inform the Russian public the reality of Mr Putin's war.

The UN can expel members. "A Member of the United Nations which has persistently violated the Principles contained in the present Charter may be expelled from the Organization by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council." All it needs to do is to remove the veto...