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Putin vows to press attack on Ukraine; courts India, China

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Bronco....

You are correct, however, you forgot to mention that Europe is also buying Russian oil and gas. A lot of Russian oil is being shipped from India and very expensive shipments of LNG from Russia are coming via China at a cost eight times the price it would be directly from Russia. Great sanctions!? Not is you are a European consumer.

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“liberation” of Ukraine's entire eastern Donbas region remained Russia’s main military goal and that he sees no need to revise it.

Interesting how different Putin's perspective on 'liberation' is from the reports of Ukkrainian citizens who claimed they'd been liberated after Putin's invading armies were chased away by Ukrainian citizens and military forces.

The picture above show the faces of the leaders of the new cabal, bound to continue doing as much damage to the planet as they can, while they get even richer. It will be interesting to see how long that group of ultra-nationalist autocratss might be able to work together, given they each believe their nation's people are superior to any other's. How many more wars will they start after they have replaced the US/UK/NATO/West, and yes I am well aware of the wars started by the group just mentioned. Historical information is easily found in most democratic nations.

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words of a delusional man, who cannot face reality.

He’s desperately trying to hang on to power.

while His army is losing ground in Ukraine, he is also starting to lose support at home.

Even Saudi Arabia is buying oil from Russia.

yeh, & the Eskimos are buying ice from Russia

Europe is also buying Russian oil and gas

you’re thinking short term. In the long run, most of the western world will be weaned off Russian oil & gas.

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@kipling

many pro Putin anti-west commentators have been conspicuous by their absence these last few days of Russian forces being beaten back.

So obviously this is good positive news for you eh ?

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India and China are enemy countries but they can still work together in some areas.

Hope they are able to push Putin to end this senseless conflict which has only damaged Russia, their common ally.

But I will not count on it.

From India’s perspective it makes sense to engage with Russia and not give in to Western pressure to isolate Russia. An isolated Russia without any friends and totally dependent on China will be a far more troublesome proposition for India.

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Ukraine is depending on the US and NATO for its weapons while Russia is depending on North Korea and Iran for theirs.

Moscow . . . I think we have a problem here!

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Vlad the Bad, keeps changing his story, first it was to liberate Ukraine from Nazis, then it was that Ukraine was not a nation and thus belonged to Russia, followed by grandiose claims of following the imperial path of Peter the Great. The lies keep getting bigger as the desperation grows.

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Poo tin is either delusional or cynically lying. With what will he press the attack? The russian rabble, sorry I mean army, has suffered heavy casualties, lost vast amounts of equipment, both of which they can not replace, their manufacturing capacity will take years to replace what is already lost and day by day they lose more.

Manpower is proving difficult to scrape up as there is little enthusiasm to sign up to die for poo tin, and what has been generated is unfit, old and even disabled when it isn’t outright criminal. Barely trained, undisciplined and unmotivated, it will add little or nothing to their offensive capabilities especially armed and equipped with clapped out outdated soviet era kit that was only fit for scrap even before it was dragged out of storage. Even their rations are out of date.

Meanwhile, the well trained and deeply motivated Ukrainian forces are receiving more and more modern, highly effective weapons, which they have already shown they are most adept at using.

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“We aren’t in a rush,” the Russian leader said, adding that Russia has only deployed volunteer soldiers to fight in Ukraine.

Explains why so many commanding officers have been sacked or worse.

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Vlad the Bad, keeps changing his story, first it was to liberate Ukraine from Nazis, then it was that Ukraine was not a nation and thus belonged to Russia, followed by grandiose claims of following the imperial path of Peter the Great. The lies keep getting bigger as the desperation grows.

This is from the Chinese playbook.

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Yeah, we get it... Russia loves sanctions. They sure complain a lot about something that is so great for them.

With China, India, Turkey and about 100 other countries, including US allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel still actively and openly doing business with Russia and talking with Putin it's safe to say that the sanctions are a failure and that Russia is by no means isolated.

Russia's export revenues are at record levels.

Even Saudi Arabia is buying oil from Russia.

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“We aren’t in a rush,” the Russian leader said, adding that Russia has only deployed volunteer soldiers to fight in Ukraine."

Putin wants to end Ukraine war ‘as soon as possible’. Then Putin said he was in no hurry to achieve his goals.

Also Putin:

"I want the Ukraine war to end as soon as possible, but the Ukrainians refuses to lose! "

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Those sanctions and boycotts are idiotic and of course bring the opposite effect in the longer run, because it just only will balance out later. Look, Russia is forced now to save or keep parts of own resources because of sanctions while all other countries by logic now have to use that amount more out of their own. When all those running out faster on average now, then Russia has its many saved ones left for sale at maximum prices and of course in order not to economically die immediately everyone will beg on knees to get the last drops of oil or cubic meters of gas from them.

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Sanctions are indeed having an effect on Russia's economy in sectors where it is hurting their ability to wage war. Lacking access to western semiconductors and other high tech components not made anywhere in Russia, their auto production is down by 97%. They are not making new trucks either, or armored vehicles. Hard to build new trucks when they rely on engines made by Cummins (the Tigr for example) and Caterpillar and no new engines are available. Volvo shut their truck plant in Russia too.

Being cut off from semiconductors is limiting their ability to make replacement precision guided weapons so they cannot replace existing stocks of these as they are used. It takes a bit of time but the sanctions are making it very hard to impossible for Russia to maintain what it has in the field and replace losses. That is taking a toll on their ability to fight and we are now starting to see this. Russian forces are resorting to using civilian trucks because their military trucks are down for lack of spares and for a lack of the skills necessary to maintain them.

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Forget about high energy prices, living ever closer to nukes, lawlessness, raging inflation etc., as long as Ukraine win the war, it's all good right?

Inflation is a small price to pay in the long run to prevent the Russians from taking Ukraine. The west learned a valuable lesson from Hitler inasmuch as appeasement of a dictator intent on conquest does not buy peace. If the west had confronted Hitler over his takeover of Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia we might have avoided the horrors of WWII. So today we do not appease yet another dictator intent on territorial conquest. He is challenged and it appears he will not prevail. If the west did not support Ukraine then Russia would go after NATO allies Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia which like Ukraine Mr. Putin and the adherents to the Russkiy Mir philosophy all consider to be illegitimate nations that rightfully belong to Russia, and possibly a couple of the Balkan states that are in conflict with Serbia.

As for the nuclear threats coming from Mr. Putin and some Russian media pundits, it is a bluff. The Russians will not go there because they know it means the end of Russia. They are not suicidal. MAD still deters them.

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Sanctions are indeed having an effect on Russia's economy in sectors where it is hurting their ability to wage war. Lacking access to western semiconductors and other high tech components not made anywhere in Russia, their auto production is down by 97%. They are not making new trucks either, or armored vehicles. Hard to build new trucks when they rely on engines made by Cummins (the Tigr for example) and Caterpillar and no new engines are available. Volvo shut their truck plant in Russia too.

Being cut off from semiconductors is limiting their ability to make replacement precision guided weapons so they cannot replace existing stocks of these as they are used. It takes a bit of time but the sanctions are making it very hard to impossible for Russia to maintain what it has in the field and replace losses. That is taking a toll on their ability to fight and we are now starting to see this. Russian forces are resorting to using civilian trucks because their military trucks are down for lack of spares and for a lack of the skills necessary to maintain them.

Everything Desert Tortoise said is true.........now apply that to their energy sector. Production thus revenue is down.

As for the nuclear threats coming from Mr. Putin and some Russian media pundits, it is a bluff. The Russians will not go there because they know it means the end of Russia. They are not suicidal. MAD still deters them.

Not only that but considering what we have seen in Ukraine.....how reliable are Russian nukes? We do not know if they will miss fire and destroy a portion of Russia's own territory.

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