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So can this be seen as China assisting russia
Well that's the least worst option IMO.
Any news on diplomatic negotiations? Supposed to be today right?
I imagine what was driving them was having no regrets about not having done their part if the worst happens, rather than IG content.
I hardly doubt people like the Sheriff Tiraspol manager wanted to follow up a historic win at Bernabeu by enhancing his brand with a spell in the territorial defences.
Funny when you think we've now got a reason to shit ourselves.
Russia's central bank reserves are the highest they have ever been and they have been building them up ever since 2014. 20% is in Gold that's worthless if nobody will buy it from you, and the rest is in money market instruments. Just under 15% of that is in China, the rest is in the West. In other words, Russia is screwed by the sanctions and can access about a third of its reserves.
Why? Is the evacuation done on humanitarian or racist grounds?
This is starting to sound like you're trying to hold civilians from other nationalities hostage for your benefit, which isn't right.
Could be seen as China capitalising on the situation maybe
You seem to call everyone out on any comments deemed not sympathetic enough to Ukrainians, yet you're not seemingly very sympathetic to foreigners in Ukraine at all. There is a vast difference between your suggestiong of prioritising foreign nationals and outright just ignoring them(or worse still kicking them out of lines) and leaving them there to potentially die. There's more than a hint of hypocrisy in some of the stuff you've said.
Even if they happen, there will be no real progress. Stalemate.
I should have clarified I wasn't directing that at the Kiltscho's. I still stand by my point around Usyk.
Perhaps I am jaded by the rubbish in the ME where celebs would come, full body armour, helmet and the works while the guys doing the job are in shorts and topless, in the middle of the biggest, most well-protected bases in the country. The places that were the only sanctuary of relative calm most of the time. And then you'd look at the stuff they'd put on SM and they'd get praised like they were some kind of brave messiah.
The praise should be going to the men and women who will not come home and the ones that will end up with life-changing injuries.
I see, so sadly no viable alternative on the horizon.. Maybe the economic challenges might provoke some movements but seems the grip is tight at the moment..
A majority of Russian central bank money lives in EU/NATO nations, which significantly more than what they have at home and in China combined.
Next round will be held in the evening, both Russia and Ukraine announced it.
Exactly. I would never sign up to fight somebody else's war but if the UK was ever invaded I'd be coming back to do whatever I could. I'm sure I'd be more harm than help on the front lines but as territorial defence it's a different story.
If the Russians break into your area, you're fighting whether you like it or not.
That's the point that I've said many times, China is the x factor for me.
I asked @Raoul this question but he didn't answer me, so I'm asking it again for everybody to answer, what economic sanctions did they place on Russia now that they didn't place on Iran?
That goes vice versa as well. Many EU and US banks have exposure in Russia:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/stocks/which-banks-europe-are-exposed-russia-2022-02-28/
If I answer, I think it will probably very long passage but it's very interesting questions and can view in many perspectives.
What's the point in the question given that they are different nations in different predicaments and different sets of resources to deal with sanctions.
I'm Serbian and we, as a country, traditionally have close ties with Russia but what their government is doing is clear invasion on another country. My support for Ukraine and their people. Not sure if they can hold on but defending even this long seems impressive given the size of their enemy.
Think what Putin is doing will inevitably spread some anti-Russian sentiment that was probably there in Europe and USA anyways, and even hatred towards Russian people. We have to always remember it can never be fault of every Russian citizen, but of those leading the country.
Think what Putin is doing will inevitably spread some anti-Russian sentiment that was probably there in Europe and USA anyways, and even hatred towards Russian people. We have to always remember it can never be fault of every Russian citizen, but of those leading the country.
Any exposure banks have to Russia can be mitigated by their respected governments to help cover risk and losses. This is after all an emergency that transcends the ins and outs of routine banking activity.
Myself and i'm sure many others here don't have a problem with Russian people or even their soldiers, it's Putin, his cronies and the oligarchs who are the issue and where the hatred is directed towards.
Ukrainian people protest in my country
You forgot the resource rich African countries who do most of their trade with China, if China can strong arm them into their system then it might really create a parallel system to Swift.
They can be mitigated, but will send shock waves through those economies. Also some banks/EU/US citizens have cash in Russia which technically can be used to fund military actions.
I don't know what people expect Ukraine to be doing right now? The infrastructure isn't there to now being organising a co-ordinated evacuation of all foreign nationals in their territory, whilst also fighting Russia on multiple fronts. The country is absolutely massive with vast distances between sizeable cities, and even in peacetime travel is very difficult and time-consuming due to poor infrastructure. There are no motorways in the whole country, except for a short distance between Kyiv and the main airport. There are no flights in or out of the country. There is a severe shortage of rolling stock on the train network.
This is exactly why the US, the EU and the UK told their nationals to get out whilst they could, because they knew exactly this would happen. Usually you turn to your embassy at a time like this for assistance for fleeing from a country in a crisis, but that offer internally from most embassies has now largely dried up. It's like Afghanistan all over again. I see India is trying to organise some busses now for their nationals from Kharkiv, because the suggestion is that their government has spoken to Russia on allowing them some breathing room to get their students out.
It's a massive logistical challenge for Ukraine to even prioritise getting children and their mothers away from the fighting, let alone other adults, especially men of fighting age.
I haven't once supported ignoring foreigners internally or at the borders. What I have said is that people will be prioritised for the processing at borders (where everyone is safe anyway), both for efficiency reasons and for needs-based reasons, and that the very limited transport out of big cities will also be likely be prioritised along similar lines, especially for women and children.
And remember the petrol crisis that wasn’t even a shortage, people just panicked and created a situation out of nothing.
That's important aspect as well. It's not only African countries but also other Asian countries and Brazil.
There has already been talks that BRICS will create their own payment system and CIPS is already operational so depending on where those 4 go and their stance Russia has option to operate outside of SWIFT.
CIPS is currently the Northern Premier League Division One Midlands of global payments systems.
15,000 messages vs 50,000,000 per day for SWIFT.
It's not going to "rival" SWIFT anytime soon.
I would say the absolute minimum they should be doing is not explicitly excluding foreign nationals from any evacuation efforts, and refusing to process them at the border. It kind of flies in the face of the the principles of their fight against Russia and the help they are receiving from a vast array of countries, if they are treating people that were working and studying in their country as second class citizens.
First thought that came to my mind as well.
Where is that, Georgia?
Ukrainian people protest in my country
Yes but those exposures are in Russia, no ? Putin just invaded a sovereign country, I don't think he's the type not to touch foreign assets because they're not his.
Just another step to Russia becoming N.Korea 2.0, another state completely reliant on china. CIPS only transacts in Chinese Yuan for one thing.
SWIFT has been operational for 40 years now? CIPS is from barely 7. The current economical state and trade war between US and China and a huge influx of 140 million population that Russia can bring will definitely boost those numbers in the coming years.
As I said China is the far and away the biggest winner of all this and if they play their cards right they will gain advantage over pretty much everybody.