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[Del191229]

 

[Del191229]

I understand the words, but not the logic. When it comes to being weaponised, I would have thought Australia’s yapping at China and Russia is the equivalent of shooting a BB gun at a tiger.

Yeah, but it gets it out there and fed into the western news/political cycle with an air of legitimacy.

It's why China was so furious we led the Trumpy bullshit about an enquiry into COVID.

 

[Del191229]

 

[Del191229]

IF this happens, well ...

WSJ News Exclusive | Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales

Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price its oil sales to China in yuan, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would dent the U.S. dollar’s dominance of the global petroleum market and mark another shift by the world’s top crude exporter toward Asia.

www.wsj.com

 

[Del191229]

The New York Times hard at work rewriting history.

 

[Val Keating]

Hopefully the latest round of peace talks are getting somewhere. That was the only reason Putin invaded them in the first place.

 

[Val Keating]

IF this happens, well ...

WSJ News Exclusive | Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales

Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price its oil sales to China in yuan, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would dent the U.S. dollar’s dominance of the global petroleum market and mark another shift by the world’s top crude exporter toward Asia.

www.wsj.com

I’ve been reading a bit lately that the relationship between the Saudi’s and the US is strained.

Fair bit going on at the moment lol.

 

[Val Keating]

The Ukrainian civilians are armed to the teeth.

 

[Del191229]

Hopefully the latest round of peace talks are getting somewhere. That was the only reason Putin invaded them in the first place.

Yep, after a decade of warning too.

 

[Val Keating]

Yep, after a decade of warning too.

How can they insure it though?
Who knows what will happen in the future. Putin would also have to promise not to keep invading them and arming militias etc but what’s to stop a future leader who has a mind for empire building from repeating what he’s done?

That aside, it does give Putin an off ramp to end this madness before anymore people are killed.

 

[Val Keating]

They should disband the Azov battalion as well. It’s mental that they allow it anyway.

 

[DesertRoo]

The Ukrainian civilians are armed to the teeth.

I can hear Viktor Bout sitting on his jail phone, rubbing his hands, with a massive smile on his face, about now.

 

[ferball]

How can they insure it though?
Who knows what will happen in the future. Putin would also have to promise not to keep invading them and arming militias etc but what’s to stop a future leader who has a mind for empire building from repeating what he’s done?

That aside, it does give Putin an off ramp to end this madness before anymore people are killed.

I know some people don't think I think this but this is the most important thing.

 

[ferball]

If this is real what a ****ed up mess.

 

[Val Keating]

I know some people don't think I think this but this is the most important thing.

Who wouldn’t think that? I’m guessing only people a thousand kilometres away with nothing to lose.

 

[DesertRoo]

If this is real what a f’ed up mess.

What the **** did he expect would happen joining the frontline…

id love to know how he got there?
proudboy playing solider?

 

[Val Keating]

If this is real what a f’ed up mess.

I’ve seen a few of these videos of dorks that go to a war zone and find out it’s not what they imagined when chatting with their friends playing dungeons and dragons.

 

[Tectonic]

Fascinating thread put together here

 

[Val Keating]

Fascinating thread put together here

This is the most Eastern Bloc thing ever


It’s in that thread but didn’t link it

 

[ferball]

Who wouldn’t think that? I’m guessing only people a thousand kilometres away with nothing to lose.

Just because of some things some people have said about what I think of this situation in this thread.

 

[Val Keating]

And this is an example of how complicated it is



There’s people from all sides fighting on both sides of the conflict.

 

[ferball]

Fascinating thread put together here

I think I'd vaguely heard of that Igor Wolochow guy. If he's who I think he is that a massive loss.

 

[Del191229]

Squalid white people's war where some people are so invested in one team of white people, they're happy to side with Nazis.

 

[Val Keating]

Squalid white people's war where some people are so invested in one team of white people, they're happy to side with Nazis.

Why were they still there? Did India not tell their people to get out like every other country in the world? They should’ve got out weeks ago.

"For us, it was very difficult because they always considered Ukrainian women and children as their priority,"- as they should.

Ukrainians are also gathering snow to use for drinking water, but unlike the Indian students they didn’t have to opportunity to leave weeks ago because, that’s where they’re from. It’s probably not racism, just utter annoyance at the fact they chose to stay even though they were told to get out and now when Ukrainians are forced to leave and take refugee status they have people trying to take their place, people that could’ve gone home weeks ago.

 

[Del191229]

Why were they still there?

They did but the racist border guards won't let them through and the Ukranians are treating them like shit.