Russian invasion of Ukraine

[The perfect fumble]

I believe he thought he would face similar toothless sanctions to what he faced when he invaded Georgia and annexed Crimea. There’s not a chance he expected exactly what he’s facing right now.

The economy is shagged, absolutely shagged. Our analysts are basically righting off anything based in Russia.

I want this to be the case, but to use the American phrase, there's Wall Street and there's Main Street. Damaging oligarchs I see as a political move rather than an economic one. These robber barons got rich off Putin, they're a support group, hurt them and that support evaporates.

But economic sanctions have such a poor record. This might not be a great analogy, but the Royal Navy blockaded Germany in the First World War, no goods came in to the country via the North Sea and the Channel for over four years, a nation with a population of 67 million in 1914. Yet it took those four years to bring Germany to her knees.

Economic sanctions are not a blockade, people will be inconvenienced but they won't starve. I do so want these economic sanctions to work, but if Putin can spin this as the evil west punishing mother Russia for trying to save fellow Russians from Ukrainian Nazis, it might work in his favour.

Difficult to gauge the zeitgeist in Russia, I suspect, but I don't know, that these sanctions are more about undercutting a specific Putin support group, rather than stirring discontent amongst the general population. To "inconvenience" powerful people in Russia, to motivate them, old time Chicago gangster style, to pull the plug on the man who's bad for business.

 

[BringBackSwales]

As well as the thousands, tens of thousand, hundreds of thousands the **** is responsible for bombing to death, the millions he has forced to flee their homes, how many innocent Ukrainians are going to be starved to death? I am 62 and this is the most disgusted I have been in my life, by a long way. The fact that Europe is still buying russian gas and oil, and to support that trade haven’t cut them anything like fully off SWIFT is also disgusting. There’s a big part of me that thinks we should declare war on the cunts, but to think we haven’t even stopped trading with them is unfathomable

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Apparently,Russian soldiers,dead or fucked off,I don't know,left behind some "battle plans/documents".
One of them estimating the invasion would last for 15 days.

 

[N1985]

Just about every child leaving Ukraine is leaving their dad behind, as well as their homes and belongings. Fucking disgusting, we need a stronger swear word than **** for Putin. These sanctions need to be stronger and need to last for decades. Stop buying their gas and oil, fuck them fully out of SWIFT, seize all the western assets of russian oligarchs INCLUDING THOSE IN THE UK JOHNSON. Russia needs to pay for this for decades to ensure putin or a successor doesn’t do it again; bankrupt and humiliate the cunts

I won't be happy until the **** is dead.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

He will be lucky to get £2bn, probably closer to £1.5bn.

People know his situation and will wait to kick him in the bollocks.

The pool of buyers is also very small now.

China wouldn't be allowed, Saudi, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, all boxed off.

Any interested American will struggle to get business with a Russian signed off.

In the current circumstances - is he even allowed to sell it? Can a new owner even be allowed to pay him? Where would any payment be accepted?

 

[bluethrunthru]

as I said previously - the delay to allow the Winter Olympics did them no favours

 

[BringBackSwales]

I won't be happy until the **** is dead.

Not just him Nick but all the other cunts who support him and all the cunts responsible for war crimes

 

[metalblue]

If an army is said to march on its stomach, then it needs the cash to feed it. Companies like BP, Shell, they don't usually write off stakes worth billions of dollars?

If Abramovich is writing off the £1.5bn in loans he is owed by Chelsea, it also shows the flip side of this coin?

He can't afford not to write it off, because whatever he recoups back is better than nothing?

Surely if we sanction him he can’t get his hands on those proceeds anyway? Anyroad is it on eBay? I want to have a cheeky £1 bid.

 

[BringBackSwales]

in the current circumstances - is he even allowed to sell it? Can a new owner even be allowed to pay him?

I’ll buy it for a quid roman, that’s the most you deserve, ****

 

[metalblue]

Don't think he/they are laughing now

Nope mate - but exactly why they expected us to do the square root of fuck all