The UK can afford it, Continental Europe can’t.
Strongly doubt this. I'll believe Zerohedge over the sadly diminished Telegraph when it comes to economic power analysis. Russia seems to have the whip hand when it comes to gas.
- Ukrainian resistance and outraged moral opinion in the democracies -
“democracies” such as CIA-trained paramilitaries already in action in Eastern Ukraine before Russia invaded!
14 Jan 2022: Yahoo: CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central role if Russia invades
The CIA is overseeing a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel, according to five former intelligence and national security officials familiar with the initiative. The program, which started in 2015, is based at an undisclosed facility in the Southern U.S., according to some of those officials.
The CIA-trained forces could soon play a critical role on Ukraine’s eastern border, where Russian troops have massed in what many fear is preparation for an invasion...
While the covert program, run by paramilitaries working for the CIA’s Ground Branch — now officially known as Ground Department — was established by the Obama administration after Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014, and expanded under the Trump administration, the Biden administration has further augmented it, said a former senior intelligence official in touch with colleagues in government.
By 2015, as part of this expanded anti-Russia effort, CIA Ground Branch paramilitaries also started traveling to the front in eastern Ukraine to advise their counterparts there, according to a half-dozen former officials...
One person familiar with the program put it more bluntly. “The United States is training an insurgency,” said a former CIA official, adding that the program has taught the Ukrainians how “to kill Russians.”...
“If the Russians invade, those [graduates of the CIA programs] are going to be your militia, your insurgent leaders,” said the former senior intelligence official. “We’ve been training these guys now for eight years. They’re really good fighters. That’s where the agency’s program could have a serious impact.”...
“It has helped “turn the tide,” said the first former CIA official, who said he or she was briefed that “gains were being made on the battlefield” as a “direct result” of the program...
If the Russians launch a new invasion, “there’s going to be people who make their life miserable,” said the former senior intelligence official. The CIA-trained paramilitaries “will organize the resistance” using the specialized training they’ve received.
“All that stuff that happened to us in Afghanistan,” said the former senior intelligence official, “they can expect to see that in spades with these guys.”
https://news.yahoo.com/cia-trained-ukrainian-paramilitaries-may-take-central-role-if-russia-invades-185258008.html
Tehran and Venezuela because Russia isn’t moral enough to buy oil from…
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had our own oil to pump?
How so?
Dementia Joe is still busy importing over 600,000 barrels of Russian oil per day, no?
After taking steps to cut US oil production by a million barrels per day since seizing power after stealing the elections.
The White House is sending emergency missions to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to find extra barrels. The US is pushing for a quick deal with Tehran on nuclear proliferation to bring back Iranian crude. All normal diplomatic reservations are being set aside.
It is this – as much as comments by top US diplomat Anthony Blinken – that tells us Washington really is going for broke. You can hear the footsteps of the world’s only real superpower bearing down fast.
Iran and Venezuela to the rescue! Thanks Blinky the idiot.
We didn’t. Out idiot leaders have. And not I’m paying over 4 bucks and expecting another dollar to come. And watching our economy implode. First time the American people have been hit with sanctions because of our own government. Stolen elections matter.
“The West has the strategic depth to endure the sudden loss of 4.3m barrels a day of Russian crude, the lion’s share sold to Europe and Nato democracies. It will be painful but is technically and economically doable.“
Economically doable for the coup government in DC. Not for the American people. This will hit our economy as bad as the lockdowns. I despise DC.
Does anyone see this as the flailing last gasps of a West which is losing its grip on world influence? How desperate they are proving themselves to be that they are willing to race to Iran and sell the world out to a demonic regime just to stick it to Putin? What are these crazy bastards capable of doing next?
Yeah, I think Pooty-Poot has overplayed his hand.
This guy was the bane of the Clinton Administration back in the nineties. This reads like he has become a good little poodle, just like Pat Buchanan.
No bias there. Nope.
Biden is running around asking everyone for oil except Texas.
Wolf: Pennsylvania welcomes Ukrainian refugees, severs ties with Russia
That headline is a lie. See the last paragraph, which the enemedia hopes you won't get to, for the proof.
The irony of this entire sanctions’ kabuki theatre is Russia is making substantially more on its energy exports after the war than before. Europe is not importing less Russian energy after the start of the war but more, except Russia is receiving 35% more for its product than before the war because the war has driven energy prices up at least 35%. We have not cut back on importing Russian energy and China is taking all Russia will send. Even Ukraine is receiving Russian energy by letting it flow thru the pipeline to Poland and Poland reselling it back to Ukraine. The Swift sanctions sleight of hand trick was for public consumption because 20% of Russian banks were exempted and that was because Europe insisted some Russian banks not be subject to SWIFT sanctions so they could funnel payments to Russia for the Russian energy they were buying. The cold reality is Russia is making money from this war, although that is not why they started it. Meanwhile Biden is exhorting our enemies like Iran and Venezuela to produce and ship more oil after cutting US production over the last year when the only nation producing and exporting less energy this year than last is the US because of his policies
“Vladimir Putin never believed the West would cut off Russian oil: that was a grave mistake”
HORRIBLE MISTAKE - Now Russian oil that had gone to the West will go to China...and Middle Eastern oil that had gone to China will go to the West. Absolute IDIOCY on Putin’s part.
(no wonder we keep losing, if we cannot even figure that much out)
Isn't that great.
It may turn out to be a mistake for the nations who are cutting off Russian oil. The only positive may be the stark realization that Green Energy is not going to cut it.