Perry Staltic
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A large drop in living standards can change calculation's pretty quickly. Two thirds of the world are happily buying cheap Russian resources. The EU is going to lose competitiveness to them. May take a few difficult years & the return of Trump, but economics usually wins out. However, Russia may not be interested in such a difficult customer as the EU.That’s not happening. Sweden and Finland are joining the nato.
Gas-clients of Russia Are now ceasing their imports of Russian fossil energy for good.
It’s simply not happening.
Can there be a turn around - Germany for example folding and even all of a sudden resorting to operate north stream 2 and kiss the US hegemony goodbye?
No. All Putin can achieve is to further divide those countries domestically. You have in all this countries a portion of the populace that would rather see close ties with Russia and continuation of cheap energy. They will become more bitter and more opposed to their respective country’s establishment.
But not more.
That’s of use for Russia, but it’s only a small victory.
A large drop in living standards can change calculation's pretty quickly. Two thirds of the world are happily buying cheap Russian resources. The EU is going to lose competitiveness to them. May take a few difficult years & the return of Trump, but economics usually wins out. However, Russia may not be interested in such a difficult customer as the EU.
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No Matter Who Wins Ukraine, America Has Already Lost
There are multiple tough strategic realities for the United States to absorb.nationalinterest.org
''Regardless of who wins the Ukrainian war, the United States will be the strategic loser. Russia will build closer relations with China and other countries on the Eurasian continent, including India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states. It will turn irrevocably away from European democracies and Washington. Just as President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger played the “China card” to isolate the Soviet Union during the Cold War, presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will play their cards in a bid to contain U.S. global leadership.
Knowing that it can no longer keep Europe as its top energy customer, Moscow has logically moved to grow its fossil fuels sales with Asia, notably China and India. Since the Ukraine invasion, Russia has become China’s top oil provider, replacing Saudi Arabia....''
Both France and Germany dream on replacing dollar with their colored paper as the world currency, additionally Germany dreams of finally becoming de-occupied - both US bases and US nukes(targeted on Russia - forcing Moscow to target back) are still present there as a result of WW2.
After WW2 the status and rank in the Western Club does not allow Germany to conduct a fully sovereign foreign policy, but here is what former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder once said(as a retired statesman, he can speak more freely):
“We cannot tolerate being treated like an occupied country”
Noting that when he watches the actions of the American ambassador in Germany, Richard Grenell he “gets the impression that the diplomat sees himself rather an officer in an occupying force than an ambassador of the United States to a sovereign nation."
In this situation, Germany, according to Schroeder, should look for allies with similar interests:
“It is inevitable that those who have suffered from conflicts emanating from the United States will draw closer”.
As for Russia the future is much more grim, IMO: downgrade from being an EU cheap resources colony towards being an India & China one and then(after 10..20 years) an upgrade back to EU colony level. I.e. Russia is still being ruled by (post)soviet degenerates(they just became even older) - a men of few talents and complete lack of creative ideas.
I planted canteloupe in my garden and I’m naming it Kiev. Not expecting to be eating juicy melon several weeks from now but it would be fun if it happens!
I just wish it would keep bugs away from the rest of my plants, and ensure better overall yield of the garden. ?
I know you’ve been on the edge of your seat. I grew a canteloupe! Small but tasty. It was pretty easy so maybe I used gmo seeds before.
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So the world should keep being butt-f*cked by the amerimutts, due to the fear of a possible new world order led by China?