Is it true Yulia is coming to Dublin?
[quote=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 911755, member: 2272”]impact of what is happening will be medium/longer term
Europe cannot rely on energy supply from Russia so needs an alternative. Putin’s actions now will see that accelerated.
Will Europe start to arm itself independently of the USA as it becomes clearer that US and European interests are not always aligned.
I suspect this will be solved for now but will result in policy shifts that play out over the next decade. Japan and China will also be watching with interest as to what the US does here - if US weak here then will that encourage China to be bolder and result in Japan thinking they too need to have military force independent of the USA to protect interests[/quote]
All Putin has to do is to turn the tap off on that gas pipeline and that’s Germany fucked.
Now this minute or in future? Not really at the moment, wrong time of year, we’re past winter when that would bite harder. And given the sanctions would hurt Russia a lot more, added to the lost gas revenue, it might be a good bet the gas would be flowing again before next winter. Into the future, Germany will have some time to scale back it’s reliance and Russia needs Germany as a market. It’s the effect of sudden energy cuts/hikes on the crappy euro zone economy they’re more worried about immediately.
Merkel announced that the krauts are scrapping all their nuclear power stations in a panic reaction to fukushima. They are more reliant on Russia gas than ever before.
Yeah that was an overreaction, they’ll about turn on that eventually. Meantime it’s a prime opportunity for Bord na Mona to swoop in and sell them some turf. But the point remains that Russia turning off the gas to Germany equally hurts Russia.
Time for Enda to kick Shell out of Ireland and make us billions.
Agreed. And if the Russian economy struggles, Putin won’t be as popular. But it’s a longer game.
There would be an immediate squeeze on Germany in the near term which would be very uncomfortable. In the medium term the Russians would suffer the most though.
Crimean MP’s have asked that the region be allowed rejoin the Russian Federation.
I’m sure Russia will use this as final and indefatigable proof of its claim over the Crimea.
However that would be a bit hard to take seriously given that it has completely ignored the 328-0 decision of Ukrainian MPs to impeach Yanokovich, and still recognises him as Ukraine’s legitimate President.
That should be the Crimean MPs that are left have asked that the region be allowed rejoin the Russian Federation after they and the “unknown” gunmen ran the other MPs that didn’t agree with them out.
A mere detail, Sidney…
Fair play to Liz Wahl.
[quote=“Sidney, post: 912742, member: 183”]RT anchor Liz Wahl resigns live on air:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h79v9uirLY
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Reminds me of the time kibman left the board, ‘oh look at me, woe is me Im leaving and Im never coming back’. If you’re gonna leave just leave don’t be making a big song and dance about it. Fucking drama queens
Great to have him back all the same though.
Russia has just raised the stakes!
They’ve a ten year old girl over-dubbing for her on the news 
She looks well though. (Yulia, not the 10 year old.)
By the way, what in the name of fuck is going on??? The biggest story in world news for the last week and it seems to have all decamped to a coke can shaped building just round the corner from fucking Sherriff Street. o_O