Well, since we were not able to get our production up sufficiently in the 3 years(or the 8 before that) we have to pay now. The question is whether our governments have a plan how to replace these shipments with our production. Even if the war in Ukraine ends it might be soon needed in Caucasus, Moldova or elsewhere.
What is truthdig.com? They make a major revelation out of something that is obvious to anybody who spent just 5 minutes thinking about it. Ever since the Roman panem et circenses it is known that even the most authoritarian of dictators has to maintain some level of approval by the people he rules and can’t do everything he wishes.
Hitler had his KdF and still had to scale down his eradication of “undesirables” before the start of the war, putin has been bribing russians for more than 20 years with scraps from oil money and yet he can’t use conscripts in Ukraine.
It shouldn’t be therefore surprising that economic sanctions are enacted also against the population in hope that they will undermine the support for the government in question.
Austria isn’t as blatant as Hungary but their policy is also pretty russia-friendly.
And there is a reason A-H collapsed and it wasn’t just because of WW1 and Bosnian Serbs. Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians or basically anybody who wasn’t German or Hungarian hated the monarchy in the end(With the possible exception of the Croats, who reached some kind of agreement with Hungarians right before the collapse).
As long as they control the government, military, police and other stuff putin and his regime are russia. If russians don’t like that they can make their own Maidan.
Does he even hasve a say? Doesn’t Polish stance on Ukraine’s entry depend on the government & parliament rather than the president?
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No matter whether we are talking about real space or IPv6 address space, Douglas Adams’ quotes always come handy.
…and stay there.
No he wasn’t. It’s just because of his pride and idiocy that he thinks he was.
I was obviously referring to the second part of your post, are you dense?
Boycott is a perfectly fine, non-violent form of protest, what’s your problem?
On the other hand Trump haven’t forbidden Ukraine to fight back on their own(yet). Which is what west did to Czechoslovakia.
But I am European, anything that breaches sanctions against putins russia isn’t good for me either.
Considering R in BRICS stands for russia, no, they certainly shouldn’t.
I am afraid such a war unfortunately can’t change Trump’s regime.