. It's not aggressive warmongering & Fascism when WE do it. 
Posted on 03/10/2022 12:42:17 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Moscow (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday that Western penalties against Moscow for its military incursion in Ukraine would destabilise the global energy and food markets and vowed the country would emerge stronger from the crisis.
Speaking at a televised government meeting on the 15th day of Moscow's advance into Ukraine, Putin said that Western sanctions on Moscow had begun to hurt the United States and Europe.
"Their prices are rising, but that's not our fault. It's the result of their own miscalculations. There's no need to blame us," Putin said.
While the 69-year-old Kremlin chief said Moscow was continuing to export oil and gas, including through conflict-torn Ukraine, he blamed the West for sky-rocketing energy prices.
"They are telling their citizens to tighten their belts, to dress warmer," Putin said.
Putin scoffed at Washington for what he said were their efforts to sign energy contracts with Western adversaries Iran and Venezuela.
He also warned that the Western penalties could send global food prices soaring, as Russia was one of the world's main producers of fertiliser.
"If they continue to create problems for the financing and logistics of the delivery of our (fertiliser) goods, then prices will rise and this will affect the final product, food products," he said.
He acknowledged that Russians may be worried about an interruption of supplies but claimed there was nothing the Kremlin could not solve.
"It is clear that in such moments people's demands for certain categories of goods always increase, but we have no doubt that we will solve these problems in due course in a calm way and gradually people will find their way," Putin said.
He said he believed Russians would "understand that there are no events that we cannot solve, they simply do not exist."
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Slinky Z will take care of it, no worries.
Invasion will disrupt Ukrainian way of life. But that didn’t stop you.
“Western penalties against Moscow for its military incursion in Ukraine would destabilise the global energy and food markets.”
Nice to know putin has our back on this.
There is a saying “ that which doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger” pardon my paraphrase.
Russia should understand that, it works both ways.
If I was Xi, I'd go ALL IN on creating the SATO [South American Treaty Organization], and sponsoring China armaments in the Mexican provinces on the US border.
Because all the cool kids are doing it.
U.S would destroy Mexico if that happened. Oh the irony. Not sure if true, but I have read that Americans don’t understand irony.
. It's not aggressive warmongering & Fascism when WE do it.
True
We invaded Cuba during JFK. Because we did not want anally of enemy 90 miles away. Russia does not want a NATO member, not 90 miles away, but right on it’s border. Do you fail to see the parallel’s?
FYI... Goat food price had doubled since I last got it. It was $14 a bag last month. Was $28 yesterday. Let’s go Biden. Only 7 years left to “fundamentally transform” the nation.
Kiryandil on 10th March 2022
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“If I was Xi, I’d go ALL IN on creating the SATO [South American Treaty Organization], and sponsoring China armaments in the Mexican provinces on the US border.”
you really do support the enemies of the USA?
They are still far away from a military alliance in that region - most of those countries have militaries for internal force at best
It's why their intelligentsia ended up getting massacred by both the Nazis and the Commies in WWII.
No imagination.
Spoken like a true Russki. you say you just "learned Russian in college", eh?
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