RE:RE:RE:down the road ..Moemoney42 wrote: 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.
And did you listen to the interview of the young Ukrainian woman who said that no matter what she tells her mother, who is living in Russia, the mother will not believe any of it. Putin has curtailed the whole information system for outside news and is giving all kinds of propoganda to cover it and the bulk of the Russian population has no idea what the reality is.
Unless someone within his own military was to revolt he will go on unending. As one Ukrainian Member of Parliament said it is a modern Auschwitz going on in places like Mariupol and yet the
rest of the world is afraid to touch it for fear of upsetting Putin and causing him to push the nuclear button. Amazing -- frozen in fear of the red button. (Imagine how a guy like Kim Jong-um or the Ayatollah read the opportunities)
As another Ukrainian woman living in a bombshelter said. The war goes on, the murder continues and the West sits by and watches the show on TV. She has 3 small children and each day she says she considers it may be their last but they carry on. Her husband joined them for an hour yesterday, had a shower (first in 10 days), played with the kids, and then headed back out to his combat post. The news interviewer asked her why she stays there, why doesn't she take the kids and leave the country. She said why do you ask me that, this is my country, this is my home, we did nothing. Why don't you ask the Russians, why are you here, why are you doing this.
And does anyone believe Putin or any of his forces or commanders will actually be held accountable after all this ends, as it will some day, one way or another. Or will he and the country of Russia just be accepted back into the world as though nothing out of the ordinary happened, just another bump in the road - forgive and forget! It will be interesting to see the aftermath.