The Brink of War?

[StevieWonders]

As the film The Death of Stalin reminds us, Stalin’s world view was that of the “Western “ - goodies vs. baddies. Then there’s those wonderful scenes where Marshall Zhukov having planned his coup against Beria executes him on the basis of his moral turpitude including pedophilia - always a useful accusation to deploy against an enemy. Zhukov is one of my favourite characters in that film. And then there’s the scenes of cleaning up by Beria after Staliin’s death - all the household servants, the guards and doctors all summarily shot. I imagine it will be the same after Putin although we will never know. The same sort of thing apparently happened during the reign of King George III after he recovered from his first bout of “madness” - the servants and soldiers who had witnessed it were exiled rather than executed. I wonder where Yeltsin’s former servants are. I must remember to research that

As the English poet John Dryden wrote about “wits” “Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”― John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

[cdnmatt]

“Reporting”? SPECULATING at best

Fine, when the news reports start surfacing about Ukrainians having severe muscle spasms and foaming at the mouth, we'll just call it rabies.

WTF is NATO waiting for? Are we really going to sit around and wait for Russia to invade Poland before acting? If Putin is bat shit insane enough to actually fire nukes, then it's totally irrevelant whether he fires them now or in two years from now. It's better to just stop him in his tracks now, so fuck it, if he wants a war, let's give him one.

[StevieWonders]

Fine, when the news reports start surfacing about Ukrainians having severe muscle spasms and foaming at the mouth, we'll just call it rabies.

There are some posters here who when writing about me might fit that description

[Surfcrest]

There are some posters here who when writing about me might fit that description

Peculiar …that the guy who complains the most about threads being taken off topic is also the same guy taking threads off topic.

Surfcrest

[Dodger]

I don’t think anyone in the West is under the illusion that these businesses are going to come back ......

To emphasize the point you’re making; One of the major tasks involved when moving a Company or Organization from one country to another is coordination of global supply-chain management which is a very costly and time-consuming process.

This was undoubtedly the most important topic discussed by these Company’s prior to finalizing a decision to pull up roots in Russia due to the large capital investment and thousands of man-hours required to facilitate and manage this type of international relocation.

Just a few of the common tasks involved in a move like this includes; formal risk management, new global supply-chain development, lead times, delays, cash flow, data management, accountability and compliance, quality assurance, language barriers, time zones, exchange rate and foreign transaction costs, and statutory and regulatory compliance concerns, etc., etc., etc. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Once a western Company or Organization closes its doors in Russia and moves its operations to another country the chances of it returning to Russia at some point in the future would be extremely doubtful for these reasons.

What I just described is “Globalization”, and what we’re seeing now is Russia being isolated from the global business network piece-by-piece. Being isolated from this Global Business Network will inevitably suffocate Russia’s economy (it’s already started) and place them back in the Stone Age. Why Putin refuses to halt his invasion into Ukraine before things get worse will go down in the history books as the mystery of the modern epoch.

[Surfcrest]

Sanctions are going to make it extremely complicated and risky to continue doing business in Russia. Look at Chelsea’a famous football club and the complicated web of sanctions they’re caught up in now!

Surfcrest

[StevieWonders]

Peculiar …that the guy who complains the most about threads being taken off topic is also the same guy taking threads off topic.

Surfcrest

Please provide references where I have complained about off-topic threads this calendar month. HINT: there are none

[StevieWonders]

Please provide references where I have complained about off-topic threads this calendar month. HINT: there are none

Oh and the basis on which you justify the use of the adjective “most”

[Dodger]

Below is an incredibly insightful article written by a news anchor who's been in Moscow covering Putin from the very beginning:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/11/e...cmd/index.html

[Moses]

Bombing a children's hospital.......war crime of the worst order, utterly despicable. The threat of chemical weapons now, how much lower can the Russian forces go?

"Children hospital"? Do you mean empty building of children hospital taken as a base of Nazi battalion Azov? Well, why not? Should empty building of hospital to protect Nazi by default?

What threat do you mean? These 26 bacteriological laboratories, existence of which Nuland denied at past and confirmed just 2 days ago, because “The U.S. government is concerned about preventing any of these research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.” ?