The EU is losing 22 billion euro per year thanks to its own sanctions against Russia according to the EU itself. This is some context for the bogus claim that Russia is losing 10 billion dollars per year thanks to sanctions. Unlike the EU, Russia import substitutes. So it does not have a net loss, but a net gain. Russia never exported volumes to the EU that could possibly result in a net loss of 10 billion dollars. Looks to me like shenanigans with including the lower price for oil and natural gas were used to pad the sanctions impact on Russia.
The Baltic chihuahuas are demand Russia restore goods transit and purchasing of local production. These are the same swine that engage in apartheid policies against ethnic Russians living in those republics. And the EU systematically ignores the rights of this abused minority while at the same time posturing over Crimea. Precious Banderastani "territorial integrity" is clearly more important than human rights. If the Kiev regime was in charge of Crimea and throwing the ethnic Russian majority into concentration camps, the NATzO west, which sponsors the regime, would be making up stories about how all the Russians moved there as genocide squatters.
In 2007, the Estonian national-chauvinist regime relocated a war memorial out of Tallinn triggering protests. The protestors were rounded up into port warehouses and brutally beaten over a period of several days. Not a squeak of condemnation from the precious NATzO west of this brazen human rights abuse and today nobody remembers this real crackdown. Contrast to all the frothing of the mouth over the kid-glove treatment of seditionist rent-a-crowd protestors working for Navalny. The protestors in Estonia were not seditionists.
Also, the racist hate for Russians from these Nazi-loving rubbish heaps is ongoing. They concluded that Russian tourists were scaring away the EU tourists. So last year they used Covid-19 as a pretext. They restricted travel from both Russia and the EU and when summer arrived they only lifted the travel ban from the EU. But the expected EU tourist flood never happened and these hater losers lost hundreds of millions of euro in revenues.
After 2007, Russia woke up and smelled the coffee. It put the port substitution program in high gear. Now these rabid chihuahuas are feeling the consequences of their actions. Cry me a river.
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Not much love for free market capitalism in the three baltic piglets. Russia and her companies/people decide from whom they buy stuff or which ports they use.
Hole wrote:Not much love for free market capitalism in the three baltic piglets. Russia and her companies/people decide from whom they buy stuff or which ports they use.
Indeed market rules dictates that using domestic ports using only Rubles would be significantly cheaper than using ports with tacked on cross-border fees, then converting Rubles in to Euros which no doubt the digital conversion service has fees to pinch off (or add) on the top, in to a more bloated/expensive currency within Eurwhorezone nations like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Someone should tell them to bash their teeth with a brick, then choke on it!
Nevertheless Russia should send a delegation there. Just for fun. Demand that cross-border fees, harbor fees and so on are eliminated and russia companies are subsidized if they use baltic ports. And that all transactions are made in Ruble. Lets see how they react.
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Hilarious self-snookering by Ukr-tard Kiev regime "legends in their own minds".
Last summer the Banderite regime imposed 65% import tariffs on Russian coal. Now they are only a few days from totally running out. Cause -> Effect. A concept that eludes Maidan hoppers completely.
The world is experiencing an epidemic of magical thinking.
Of course... when your diplomats misbehave and get sent home it makes sense to respond by sending Russian diplomats home.
Perhaps Russian diplomats should ask to see the Skripals, or maybe start supporting the Catalan independence groups in Spain maybe?
Maybe they should have a meeting with the group who are protesting in the UK about that tower block in London that burned down for which no action has been taken yet...
Those EU countries would be indignant at Russian diplomats interfering in their internal affairs...
George1 wrote:Poland, Germany, Sweden expel Russian diplomats in tit-for-tat move
https://tass.com/world/1254011
Russia should expel 2x the diplomats in return. If these clown-states expel more Russian diplomats always multiply by two and expel in response. If the diplomatic missions are reduced to zero, then Russia loses nothing. NATzO should be properly represented by its owner, Uncle Swine-shit.
Hilarious self-snookering by Ukr-tard Kiev regime "legends in their own minds".
Last summer the Banderite regime imposed 65% import tariffs on Russian coal. Now they are only a few days from totally running out. Cause -> Effect. A concept that eludes Maidan hoppers completely.
The world is experiencing an epidemic of magical thinking.
That unfortunately is the side effect of embracing LGBT culture.
So we have the usual inane propaganda about Russia imposing some sort of cyber concentration camp when Russians are free to access the world wide web without any censorship. They can use satellite dishes to watch western rubbish at their leisure. But in Latvia, there is an actual information concentration camp. The "democratic" regime has enacted laws that enable fines against people watching Russian TV using satellite dishes. There are currently about 60,000 such households right now. (I guess the ethnic Russian minority has not be fully ethnically cleansed yet).
You can bet your last penny that the next step will be to ban watching Russian TV on the web too. This will require 1984 style monitoring of their IP activity to catch them in this egregious criminal act
The Latvian "democratic" regime has already sent its thugs to intimidate Russian language journalists and made them sign legal documents that they will not leave the country. As if they committed some crime like murder.
The Latvian regime is actually afraid that Russian news will "corrupt" the minds of its citizens. Funny behaviour for clowns who claim to live in freedom and be on the right side of history. More like the paranoia of a totalitarian regime as brilliantly described in 1984.
Whenever you hear anything negative about Russia it cannot be given the benefit of the doubt. The accusers need their agendas to be investigated first. Nazi is a Nazi does and NATzO is indeed NATzO.
Now that Russia has banned the export of unprocessed wood, Estonian racketeers are stripping what little forests there are in Estonia of trees. Their days are numbered and Russia is no longer acting like a cheap resource colony that Yeltsin made it into.
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Washington, London and Paris are stoking hysteria against Russia and Syria with all sorts of lies. Such as the BS about some secret package with novichoke supposedly delivered to get rid of the Skripals. The UN Security Council representative for Russia asks why this magic package was not sent from Syria to cover up the cheesy plot. He also points out that even during the Cold War, the USSR was not subjected to the sort of hysterical abuse by representatives of NATO states and Security Council members. He highlights that mess that western (as lead by USA, UK and France) meddling leaves in its wake. This includes the open support for terrorists in Syria and Libya.
Apparently the US clown declared that Russia would never be a friend of the USA. Awww, the poor dears. The Russian representative points out that friendship is based on mutual trust and civilized treatment. Russia is not begging to be America's friend and expects nothing from America. By contrast America makes endless ludicrous demands of Russia while blood libeling it up and down. That is the whole trick to US imperialism. They accuse the others of wrong doing to justify invasions and regime change. All the wrong doing by the USA, including war crimes and the support for terrorists, is never an issue. Imagine if Russia was slaughtering thousands of civilians somewhere using drones through "collateral damage" like the USA. There would be mobilization for war on Russia organized by the west.
You will note that both the UK and US representatives are females. We have heard about how if women were in charge there would not be any war. This is BS. Women are very useful as hysterical, foaming at the mouth attack dogs. They are also more gullible and can be manipulated easily by the star chambers that run the show. The tone of international relations has sunk to new historic lows thanks to these affirmative gender action hires. They do not have the mental caliber to be real diplomats instead of shrieking harpies.
The demented chutzpah of the yanquis. They want Russia and other countries surrounding Afghanistan help them achieve US imperial ambitions in the name of peace. So Russia is supposed to help America win in Afghanistan after America restarted the heroin supply into the former USSR.
This is the same BS as the whinging about Russia needing to support Ukraine "for its own good". Get fcuked.
America runs around like the master of the universe and sends warships to harass China and Russia. But at home it is literally rotting away.
Note that the train derailed where it should never have done so. You can see that there was a catastrophic failure of the rail ties at the head of the train. Millions will be spent fixing this particular case. But where are those trillions of Pancho Villa peso-dollars to maintain the infrastructure?
Maybe corruption? That is why the USA is busy propping up "corruption fighter" seditionists like Navalny.
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The United Swines still continue to hold the delusion that their sanctions can hurt Russia. how serious is the measure that is listed last in this article about the rouble denominated debt? what is the maximum extent that these NATzO sanctions can do harm to Russia?
U.S. sanctions on Russia will send a signal, if not deter
MANY SANCTIONS IN U.S. ARSENAL
Among the punitive tools in Biden's arsenal are:
- Executive Order 13848, under which the U.S. government can freeze the U.S. assets of any foreign individual or entity found to have directly or indirectly interfered in a U.S. election;
- Executive Orders 13757 and 13694, which enables Washington to freeze the U.S. assets of those engaging in "cyber-enabled" activities from abroad that threaten U.S. national security, foreign policy, economic health or financial stability;
- Executive Order 13818, which implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and lets Washington freeze the U.S. assets and bar the U.S. entry of foreigners who commit human rights violations or engage in corruption;
-- the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, which, among other things, authorizes the president to bar U.S. banks from lending to a country that used chemical weapons.
Under pressure from Congress after the British government accused Russia of using the Novichok nerve agent to try to kill former spy Sergei Skripal, Trump in 2019 prohibited U.S. banks from participating in the primary market for Russia's non-rouble sovereign debt.
Biden could go further by applying such restrictions to rouble-denominated debt or by extending them to the secondary market, though this would be a big step.
Dan Fried, a former top U.S. diplomat for Europe, described Putin as "a rational actor within his own frame of reference (who) calculates risks and benefits."
"If he sees that there will be a strong and organized response from the West, that will enter into his calculations," Fried said. "We know from Soviet history that sustained pressure over time, combined with internal stagnation ... both political and economic can lead to a strategic reassessment by Russia's leaders."
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Biden could go further by applying such restrictions to rouble-denominated debt or by extending them to the secondary market, though this would be a big step.
1) If this was a real thing, it would have been used in 2014 already.
2) This is an attempt to coerce any 3rd party on the planet from buying Russian debt. Pure imperial hubris. And Russia is not desperate for new foreign debt in any currency. If it was, then it would not have been massively retiring it over the last few years. To the point of making its GDP growth look small.
The UK regime is starting to spread BS about some hit list of Putin's enemies. This is clearly an attempt to set up another anti-Russian psyop. This time the attack will be on high profile anti-Russian expats such as Khodorkovsky and Chichvarkin.
They do not have to be terminated, they can recover like Nahalny. This Putin "murders his political opponents" pony clearly has legs for western regimes. Biden's bitching about Putin being a killer without a soul is part of the preparation for such false flags.
So the UK has been busy dismantling all the channels of cooperation between Europe and Russia that existed since before the collapse of the USSR. It also foams at the mouth about Russia being an "acute threat" without ever even characterizing this threat. Very peculiar policy approach. All threats are the same? Is Russian an environmental, economic, political, scientific or some other threat. All I see is Russia = bad. Which is a clear indication that the term "threat" is a smear and the real threat here is the UK itself to Russia.
Time for Russia to learn something from China. NATzO routinely sanctions Russian individuals but Russia almost never does this. All the "independent" outfits in the west that serve to foist regime change on Russia should be sanctioned. This includes all "civil society" activists. You are what you do. If you act like a Soros and NATzO agent, then you are one and are legitimate target for sanctions.
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