RE:RE:down the road ..Exactly.. this is all the western democracies needed to justify running the Russian economy into the ground.. and they're not going to back off until they have severly weakened the Russian economy.. Putin might gain some land in this invasion, but it will never offset the losses the county is going to take.. which is unfortunate it always affects the general population and not the hiearchy.. that's why the Russian citizens need to remove their own dictator before the shelves are empty..! prested wrote: The "Allies" (Britain and America) have no reason to hasten the end of this war IMO. They have the Russians on the ropes and realise now that they never were the threat they thought they were. Putin has to go is a precondition, and only the Russians themselves can do this, but with so much misinformation this will take time. Meanwhile oil inependency will begin to kick in before the next general election in botcountries. So, we have at least 2 years during which VET will continue to blow the doors off with buy-back, debt reduction, expansion and dividend increases. History will prove this was the time to be buying this puppy.