d_taddei2 wrote:1) India is considering taking up a Russian offer to buy its crude oil and other commodities at discounted prices with payment via a rupee-rouble transaction, two Indian officials said, amid tough Western sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
Good if this happens but I'm not sure if Rupee Rouble transactions can take place.
Balance of trade has always been in Russia's favour YoY. So what will Russia do with billions of Indian Rupees.
10) Russian Su-25 Pilot Lands Aircraft After Being Hit by Ukrainian Missile While performing a combat mission in the special military operation zone, a Su-25 attack aircraft, the second in the pair, was hit by a missile from a man-portable air defence system fired from the ground by a serviceman of the armed forces of Ukraine," the ministry said. According to the ministry, the pilot of the damaged aircraft, having assessed the situation, decided to turn off the damaged engine and not to eject. The pilot of the leading plane, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Litvinov, rebuilt, and realizing that his comrade's plane could not withstand a second missile hit, he covered it with his own plane. The ministry noted that "thanks to the cool-nerved and skillful actions of the pilot Denis Litvinov, he managed to save the life of his comrade and the combat aircraft, both pilots were presented for state awards."
10) Russian Su-25 Pilot Lands Aircraft After Being Hit by Ukrainian Missile While performing a combat mission in the special military operation zone, a Su-25 attack aircraft, the second in the pair, was hit by a missile from a man-portable air defence system fired from the ground by a serviceman of the armed forces of Ukraine," the ministry said. According to the ministry, the pilot of the damaged aircraft, having assessed the situation, decided to turn off the damaged engine and not to eject. The pilot of the leading plane, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Litvinov, rebuilt, and realizing that his comrade's plane could not withstand a second missile hit, he covered it with his own plane. The ministry noted that "thanks to the cool-nerved and skillful actions of the pilot Denis Litvinov, he managed to save the life of his comrade and the combat aircraft, both pilots were presented for state awards."
d_taddei2 wrote:1) India is considering taking up a Russian offer to buy its crude oil and other commodities at discounted prices with payment via a rupee-rouble transaction, two Indian officials said, amid tough Western sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
Hope Russia don't fool themselves into reducing the prices any lower than what existed before the surge and instead sell their crude at a double-digit discount than what India is buying from the muricans and yet be too desirable not to let it go.
Most people doesn't know that the muricans was the 2nd largest exporter of oil to India last year. God knows, if that oil also include those stolen from Syria.
The basic fact is that, the muricans have bulldozed into the Indian market through their stooges in the establishment and they are reaping good profit, while the Indian consumers pay a heavy price.
There are few big Russian deals that has still not got cleared due to the Reliance and others. The deal being Rosneft's take over of ESSAR including their over 5,000 retail pumps/outlets. Its been like 5 years since now.
These are among the reasons I consider the Russians to be absolute stupids in this big, bad, open market world, not knowing how to negotiate deals. If it was we, I would have linked any sale of S-400 to first clearing the deals which have been put on hold due to murican and their cronies like Reliance industries pressure.
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As for India, they're free to make mistakes in their pursuit of China containment, and alignment with the U.S sidelining Russia. Russia shouldn't fight that current, it's inevitable. In the end its up to the Indians to see what the dividends are. If it doesn't pay off, sooner or later they'll have a mess in their hands from which they'll have to crawl out off. By then, they'll be begging Moscow instead.
Sujoy wrote:Good if this happens but I'm not sure if Rupee Rouble transactions can take place.
Balance of trade has always been in Russia's favour YoY. So what will Russia do with billions of Indian Rupees.
Among the many, one of the stuffs that I would have liked to see, but which is not going to happen, is 50k-100k Indian troops being deployed in Ukraine as peacekeeping force to take up the job of sanitizing the liberated areas and to secure the place from neo nazi's.
Only India can contribute forces for such a surge and the reason why India is of CRITICAL importance for the murican's war on China. They need manpower to pin down China on their western front and have been doing everything possible to heat up things to the extent of a larger conflict, where by India and China fight a war of attrition and gets destroyed.
The objective of the Evil #1 is to make its economic competitor #2 and the next, fight and destroy each other. Basically killing two birds in one shot. Unfortunately, not many in India, blinded by hatred, see this writing on the wall.
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ATLASCUB wrote:Horrific attack on the center of Donetsk by a Tocha-U.
Probably a payback message for yesterday's attack on the foreign legion.
Can't reason with these dogs, and the powers behind them (U.S/UK etc).
Whats up with donetsk airdefense perimeter? That place should have been locked down?
it was there. The damage caused is the consequences of falling debris from a downed missile. If she had arrived at the target, there would have been many times more destruction and casualties. The warhead of such a missile has about half a ton of weight and can be a cluster, providing a damage area of up to 70,000 square meters.
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it was there. The damage caused is the consequences of falling debris from a downed missile. If she had arrived at the target, there would have been many times more destruction and casualties. The warhead of such a missile has about half a ton of weight and can be a cluster, providing a damage area of up to 70,000 square meters.
I was just going to say same. You see the debris of engine&tank compartment? Those are burning. It was shoot down on flight.
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https://t.me/boris_rozhin/32342 The moment of the fall of the rocket in Donetsk. Cameras at the entrance to the DNR Bank. There are women and children in the frame.
Russian military bases would have nothing to do with colonialism. They would serve the purpose of keeping the NATzO funded Banderite insurgents out to let the locals restore sanity to their lives. Being obsessed with appearances is exactly what I was talking about. Appearances mean nothing.
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