... if Tucker were at risk of arrest and 15 years in the slammer for not following the party line, mind. You have to remember that these (Russian TV presenters) are people that live in fear. They're falling over each other to appear patriotic. If Putin falls this could well backfire massively for them. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
They are complicit, no doubt.
Tell me you haven't lived in a country that has had a dictatorship/authoritarianism without telling me that.
Like an old dog chasing its own tail.
But if you try sometimes you just might find you just might find that you get what you need OOOHHH YEAH OH TELL IT TO ME 
That cowardly mindset given frail excuse is a reason those countries aren't in the West.
It's not cowardice when they know exactly what's going to happen to their families if they say one wrong thing.
Seriously?
United States intervention in Chile - Wikipedia
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SERIOUSLY?
Because to me, staging a coup ON A FOREIGN DEMOCRACY is nothing short of being an asshole. The fact that Nixon died a free man, and Kissinger is still alive and free speaks loads of the hypocrisy of the US regarding foreign interventions.
...and the US government has the gall...THE GALL to criticize and ban Putin.
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Saudi Arabia reportedly considering accepting yuan instead of dollar for oil sales
Saudi and Chinese officials are in talks to price some of the Gulf nation’s oil sales in yuan rather than dollars or euros, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar wit…thehill.com
We already saw the reports about controlling media coverage internally (with an eye towards Taiwan), asking Russia to hold off until after Olympics, and the refusal of sanctions / offering to let Russian banks operate in China. Now China is trying to take advantage by seeking to further distance the price of oil from dollars. I'm starting to wonder if Putin is pursuing his own imperialist vision or China's.
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Big problems for those caste nations building Nebuchadnezzar's dream in the real world replete with clay feet and golden brow.
I'd give the dollar 20 years...maybe 30 at best. There's just too much pressure from China, Russia, and India to leave it, and both China and India combined have most of the manufacturing capability in the world (thanks to the US companies moving their factories to China and India).
There has been discussion of moving some of those to South America.
Capitalism! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
Just as frustrated as you are but you also have to understand there's danger in escalating the war any further.Checks Ukraine... Still getting bombed to shit because we aren't doing nearly enough.
Russia will probably cut their losses with regard to European trade and double down on China, India and other countries apart from Europe and the industrialized English speaking world. This will make the Russian economy contract quite substantially short term. But it seems that they are going to take Ukraine come hell or high water at this point while crushing it to rubble and not caring about Ukranian civilian casualties.
I’d have a hard time being “brave” if there’s someone holding a gun to my family’s head.
That difficulty is the reason for my posting the Evey pic with her chemical shed decision from V for Vendetta. It does come down to that choice in that situation. The taking consideration of loved ones is part of it. The Russian invasion has forced that decision in the most immediate way on the Ukrainians and they fight against those making the threat with actual guns/bombs and horror to their loved one's heads.
Yes and yes.
This is what I fear, sadly I can see Putin deciding it is me or them, and then you know what happens next.
I think people prefer to use certain currencies to trade for reasons like they are easily accessible, and the price is not too variable, so you don't lose money on a deal just because of local instability. Already Iran was legally just bartering oil for goods to avoid dollar trade sanctions, but I doubt that is ideal, or we would all be bartering down the local market.
It's better to push them to EU, which was apparently why they went there, to support the "enlisting" of Ukraine in EU.
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Ukraine Strikes Back: Barrage Leaves Russian-Occupied Kherson Airbase In Flames (Updated)
Satellite images show multiple aircraft were destroyed in a Ukrainian attack on Russia's forward operating near Kherson.
Do you believe that?
