The Brink of War?

[Brad the Impala]

If this was the 15th century, I'm pretty confident Vlad would have had Putin impaled on a large spear, because Russians are like that.

It may yet happen, metaphorically at least.

[StevieWonders]

I'm disappointed Matt we haven't heard from you how Putin can use Bitcoin to avoid the financial sanctions that the UK & Biden have just imposed

[StevieWonders]

And sure enough, Nordstream now cancelled and EU will go elsewhere for its energy needs.

Halting the certification process puts the project on hold but doesn't cancel it altogether, leaving the door ajar to future certification. This might give Berlin some leverage in any future talks with Russia, but that will be for another day

[StevieWonders]

Putin — a former intelligence chief — knows how to mess with the minds of his many enemies and anyone who believes they know what comes next is probably kidding themselves.

[cdnmatt]

Now that the invasion of Ukraine has officially kicked off, when is the invasion of Taiwan going to start?

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Have you sought arsenal’s permission - it was after all started by him?

[Moses]

And sure enough, Nordstream now cancelled and EU will go elsewhere for its energy needs.

Good job Putin.

It is not possible. EU has nowhere to substitute 40% of EU gas market. Bloomberg already calculated that: it EU will contract all vacant gas in world it will substitute only 2/3.

then it's only right if the West responds in kind and reminds him of who won the Cold War.

funny sentence... at times of Cold war it was bipolar world... now it is multipolar... at any time Russia may switch own attention from EU to China/India/South East/Latin America. There are about 200 countries in world, only 30 of which are talking about sanctions.

That why everyone western leader talks now about "strongest", "incredible" and so on sanctions, but by fact they apply sanctions to 5 physical persons and 5 banks 4 of which already are under sanctions. Nobody wants to shoot own legs.

[Moses]

Halting the certification process puts the project on hold but doesn't cancel it altogether, leaving the door ajar to future certification. This might give Berlin some leverage in any future talks with Russia, but that will be for another day

exactly, it just keep status quo - no changes... just frozen investments of $US 9 bln of German investors

by the way: in 2024 is the end of Gasprom contract with Ukraine. Russia may not renew it, and without NS-2 EU will have no gas to sell to Ukraine...

[cdnmatt]

And now Ukraine is calling up some reserves....

I hope this becomes 10 times harder for Russia than Afganistan was, and just completely depletes the economic and military strength of Russia before they finally give up and retrat.

And sure enough, Trump is being an idiot again and calling Putin a genius.