The Brink of War?

[Jellybean]

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[Moses]

I wouldn't expect a population being "liberated" to run away. Surely they would seek safety in the arms and territory of their "liberators". The UNHCR figures tell a different story.

Poland 1,204,403
Other European countries 210,239
Hungary 191,348
Slovakia 140,745
Russian Federation 99,300
Republic of Moldova 82,762
Romania 82,062
Belarus 453

https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situation...nhcrrestricted

Yeah. At past there were around 1.5 mln from East, now around 1.5 mln from West

[Moses]

I'm assuming there's loads of Russians earning money online, same as all over the world. You're telling me they don't do business with folks all over the world, and stick to Russian only, or something? Me asking some client in say South Africa to send money via some Canada only payment gateway just isn't going to work. They're not going to do that, and will just go elsewhere for whatever the fuck it is I'm offering.

The same must be true for loads of Russians right now. You're telling me Russian businesses don't accept VISA, Mastercard and PayPal and offer their products / services to international customers? The offer to only Russians, and fuck the rest of the world? I doubt it.

I probably shouldn't even ask, but another example, hosting? AWS, Digital Ocean, Google, Azure, et al? You know, the industry leaders with cutting edge data centers all over the world, and best in the industry? You can't even pay for those now, but I'm assuming you'll reply with some shitty cloud hosting provider in Russia or China you guys all use that nobody else in the world has heard of.

I'm saying what only about 5% of Russians speak foreign language.
So, wake up from your dream, please. PP has here turnover about 100 times less than YandexMoney.

[StevieWonders]

Nickel on LME is over $100000 per ton now. Do you know industry what can exists without nickel?

Only "NorNickel" company controls 14% of world nickel production, 41% of palladium production, 10% of platinum production. It is biggest but not only nickel company here.

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The London Metal Exchange halted trading in its nickel market after an unprecedented price spike left brokers struggling to pay margin calls against deeply unprofitable short positions.

[StevieWonders]

Moscow is threatening to cut off gas to Europe and warning oil prices could surge to $US300 barrel if western nations ban exports of Russian oil, as Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers prepare to hold talks amid Ukraine’s accusations of “medieval” style siege tactics against major cities.

While a third round of peace talks broke up without bringing an end to Russia’s attacks, Ukraine said Russia had made minor commitments to establishing so-called humanitarian corridors to allow citizens to flee cities after earlier attempts had failed.

Russia announced a fresh ceasefire taking effect at 10am Moscow time (6pm AEDT) on Tuesday for Kyiv, Mariupol, Sumy and Chernigov, dropping demands that citizens flee towards Russia or its ally Belarus.

As the United Nations said 1.7 million refugees had now fled the deepening humanitarian crisis, a bipartisan group of senior US lawmakers outlined they would legislate to ban Russian energy imports. America imports about 700,000 barrels a day of Russian oil and fuel products.

The White House is also talking to the European Union about boycotting Russian energy supplies, although the continent is split on moving that far given its reliance on Russian gas.

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak threatened to use those energy supplies in retaliation against sanctions crippling the Russian economy.

It’s Cold War 2 - make no mistake

[cdnmatt]

It’s Cold War 2 - make no mistake

Difference being back in the actual cold war Russia owned half of Europe, making it a formidable force against the West.

Nowadays, that's simply not the case and Russia is simply bitch slapping itself back into 1980 for no reason.

[StevieWonders]

Difference being back in the actual cold war Russia owned half of Europe, making it a formidable force against the West.

Nowadays, that's simply not the case and Russia is simply bitch slapping itself back into 1980 for no reason.

What a quaint view of history and international relations you have

[cdnmatt]

What a quaint view of history and international relations you have

Tell me where I'm wrong.

[cdnmatt]

And here I thought the cluster fuck that was the US invasion of Iraq was as bad as it could get.

And now I watch the Russia invasion of Ukraine. One for the history books....

[StevieWonders]

McDonald’s has announced the closing of all its Russian outlets. I guess Comrade Putin will have foreseen this. Perhaps there’s now a McTrotsky Burger? Has Trotsky been rehabilitated yet?