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Good summary of the complicated Minsk protocols.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements
It was Putin on February 22 that declared the Minsk agreements "no longer existed" History tells us what happened next.
I prefer genuine mink not this rubbishy “protocol” stuff - https://www.morriskayefurs.com/blog/...uterwear-made/
Exactly. February 22, 2022. While Minsk II agreement was signed on 12 February 2015. 7 years Russia waited Ukrainian actions for implementation. Tens of thousands been killed, over 1 million of refugees ran from the East to Russia at these years. And West kept silence.
Right now Nazi regiment "Azov" is surrounded and isolated near Mariupol. They are freelancers, not a regular army. "Azov's" commanders calling for help. No one of them will leave this area alive - they aren't combatant as per Hague convent, so they haven't protection by law. Chechens are waiting for the night.
"Aidar", "Azov" and "Tornado" are criminals since 2014 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...unteer-forces/
More: https://www.newsweek.com/evidence-wa...s-grows-269604
Full report is here https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/fi...e0716web_2.pdf
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Matt, are you still waiting for default of Russia? https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/currency
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Are you sure what Trudeau is representing the whole Canadian economic?
Meanwhile Russia doesn't make any countersanctions besides rocket engines and personal symbolic sanctions. Russia still pumps gas, oil, sends coal for to fight with European energy-crisis. Russia even pumps gas via Ukraine and pays for transit, while Zelensky cries to stop working North Stream.
I'm sure Canada will be just fine.
Well, yeah. Russia is in a bit of an economic pinch at the moment, and homicidal genocides are expensive, so of course they're not going to stop selling oil and gas. Don't act as if Russia is doing the West a favor by continuing to sell gas, or some shit.
Russia says it has ordered the $117 million in interest payments it owes Wednesday to be sent to investors, attempting to avoid its first international default in more than a century. But it's not out of the woods yet.
That's because the funds the country used to make the debt payments came from Russia's frozen foreign assets, sanctioned because of its attack on Ukraine — so it remains unclear whether investors will receive their money.
Anton Siluanov, Russia's finance minister, told state media Russia Today that the country had made good on its obligations to creditors. But the "possibility or impossibility of fulfilling our obligations in foreign currency does not depend on us," Siluanov said, according to RT, warning that the payment might not go through if the United States disallows it.
"We have the money, we made the payment, now the ball is in America's court," he said.
The two coupons Russia must pay on the maturing dollar-denominated eurobonds serve as the first test of Russia's ability to pay its debts while the world heaves massive sanctions on its economy.
If the US blocks the payment, Russia could try to pay in rubles rather than dollars. But that action could constitute a default, Fitch Ratings said Tuesday.
It highlights the crunch Russia is in: The nation has the money to pay its debts. It just can't access about half of those funds after the West placed unprecedented sanctions on its foreign reserves, totaling about $315 billion, according to Siluanov.
If the Russian government defaults, investors' losses could start to mount.
Western investors are less exposed to Russia than they used to be. Sanctions following the annexation of Crimea in 2014 already encouraged them to reduce their exposure. But international banks are owed about $121 billion by Russian entities, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
JPMorgan estimates that Russia had about $40 billion of foreign currency debt at the end of last year, with about half of that held by foreign investors. So a default would be bad news for Russia, which will have to meet its obligations in its practically worthless currency, lacking access to foreign financing. But the global markets probably won't get hurt too badly.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/inves...nts/index.html
I just hope in 20 years we don't look back on these sanctions as Treaty of Versailles 2.0.
haha, fixed it before you quoted it.
Might have to get PutinCoin or something going. Hire on some Ukrainians who speak fluent Russian as translators, flood the internet with, "support the troops, defeat the Nazis, buy PutinCoin".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxgBuhMBXSA
YouTube: Why Putin Didn’t Invade Ukraine During Trump’s Presidency
Not so fast. Not even the most experienced investors know if Russia will default or not just yet.
Regardless if they default or not, the fact that the Russian economy has been destroyed in just a few short weeks is evidence that "Sanctions" if properly applied can have devastating results.
The reason I'm particularly keen on this is because I much prefer "Economic Warfare" to a "Military Warfare". Military wars are totally outdated and result in mostly young gullible soldiers and innocent working-class civilians getting killed - where Economic Wars effect the wealthy power-seekers who sit in high places with the Gods - who make these types of idiotic and self-serving decisions in the first place. Seems a lot more fitting to me.
A Russian government debt default was unthinkable until Putin started playing Genghis Khan and slaughtering his neighbors. They had nearly $650 billion of currency reserves, coveted investment-grade credit ratings with S&P Global, Moody's and Fitch, and were raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a day selling oil and gas at soaring prices. Putin thought he had enough money in reserves to offset the inevitable sanctions that would be imposed the minute he launched his attack (oh, sorry I meant "operation"), but the unprecedented level of sanctions knocked him off his horse and ended up freezing two-thirds of Russia's reserves that were being held overseas. Opps!
Now he wants to talk. Now he's ready to revise his list of demands on the neighbor he's attacking to provide himself with a much-needed off ramp. We'll just have to see how this pans out. Part of me wants to see an agreement, regardless of its content, just for the benefit of the thousands of innocent people who are suffering in Ukraine, but the other part of me would like to see Zelenski tell Genghis to stick his revised "list of demands" straight up his ass.
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/25d8c539...h-russian.html
Ukraine says fourth Russian general has been killed in combat
Maj. Gen. Oleg Mityaev died Tuesday during the storming of Mariupol, said Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko, who published a photo on Telegram of what he said was the dead officer.
It's a guarantee they're going to default. Maybe not on this payment, might take another two or three months, but they'll eventually have to default. They've already said, "we can make this payment with sanctioned funds or rubles, but that's all we have", so they're going to default at some point, as these sanctions aren't going away anytime soon.
Good, if this pans out, we're looking at Western dominance for another few decades. Russia will be in the economic shit house for the next 20 - 30 years hence no help to China aside from natural resources, and the Western world is heavily bolstering it's defense spending now. Xi Je Ping must be livid with Putin because his plans have most likely just went to shit, or have been stalled indefinitely at least.
CONGRATILATIONS....Russia has just set a new Guinness World Record for the number of generals killed in the first 16 days of a Peace-Keeping Mission. Can you just imagine how many they would have lost if this would have been an actual war?
The previous record was held by Cossack Commander Ivan Zolotarenko who invaded Ukraine's Right-Bank in 1654. He reportedly died when he fell off his horse and got the blade of his Shashka stuck up his ass. His last words were..."those lousy bastards told me this was just a peace keeping mission".
I'm sorry, but after this thing is over I think Russia has to seriously consider the capabilities and effectiveness of its military - from top down. If a few thousand retired Ukrainian farmers can kick their asses, knocking off their generals in the process, there definitely appears to be an opportunity for improvement here somewhere.
On a more serious note (slightly), I'm actually shocked at how ineffective the Russian military is. Now I know why Xi is freaking out over this thing. If Putin and his Generals (if there were any left) ever did unleash their nukes half of the dam things would probably flip-flop off-course and land in China.
It's especially crazy because Putin's initial ambitions obviously extended west of Ukraine. Obviously, those plans have now went up in smoke.
hahaha, how awesome.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/k...tion-fm60qt2x9Quote:
A Ukrainian mayor who urged his city to rise up and fight the occupation before he was kidnapped by Russian forces has been freed, his government announced last night.
“We don’t leave ours behind,” President Zelensky told Ivan Fedorov, 33, who was dragged from his office in the southern city of Melitopol with a bag over his head on Friday night.
Kirill Timoshenko, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said that Fedorov had been freed in a “special operation” without offering further details. Zelensky told Fedorov by phone: “Very happy that we got you back. Very happy. Very glad to hear your voice.”
I am very surprised by our "Russian" board owner leaves out so mush history. Some of which would add to his arguments. Either they don't teach history in Russia, or he is just the left wing Canadian I think he is. Just a thought. I don't give a shit one way or another, but most of what I hear him saying is just Canadian Russian Television. It sorta like Smile's latest crocodile tears post, you hear it but it just does not ring true.
Yeah, instead of wiping whole country by carpet bombing like US and EU did in Iraq, Vietnam, Libya, Syria, or to drop 2 nuclear bombs, like US did in Japan, Russia does precise operation where for month of the campaign fatalities within civilians are below 1000. It shows "how ineffective the Russian military is".
And let me remind you Afghanistan. US and NATO spend 20 years there and ran without result. That's effectiveness!
Ohhh, come on... if you're going to have a fucked up imagination in your old age, can't you make me a counter intelligence CIA agent, or something?
This is just stupid. Fine, I think you're Pee Wee Herman. Can you prove you're not? You can't, can you? See, I knew it all along, you're actually Pee Wee Herman.
Do the words “cdnmatt” and “intelligence”belong in the same sentence ?
So how many more millions of people should have died instead, and how many more years should WWII have dragged on for? As tragic as those events were, they put an immediate end to the largest war the world has ever seen in three days.
So I'm assuming when Putin inevitably uses nukes your response will be, "it's fine, he's allowed to use nukes because the US did 80 years ago"?
I'm sure - there will be much less fatalities in Ukraine, than in Iraq where "coalition" of NATO and US killed over half of million.
Tonight was fight for Rubezhnoe town in Ukraine. Ukraine calls that "total hell" and reported overall causalities within civilians "1 killed and 5 injured". 27 buildings in whole town got some damage.
The video below shows you how effective Russia is at destroying schools. Great precision!
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russ.../31737808.html
Some very very good news for you gerefan2 - and maybe you’d heard it already as you haven’t posted in the last day or so - you get to pick your own Ukrainian yourself. I see it as in the old style slave market, they’d have to be stripped to the waist and so on. “ anyone hoping to sponsor a refugee will have to specifically name the Ukrainian, or Ukrainians, they are hoping to take in”
Why has that rule been adopted?
Those designing the new program in Government argue that asking for names is the quickest way of getting Ukrainians in desperate need to the UK.
Waiting for the Government to match Ukrainian refugees with people willing to put them up would be time-intensive and burdensome.”
That’s from a story in the Telegraph
Get in there John