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US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

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dxmnkd316 said:
German flights over Russia are now being diverted.

I see air travel is about to get massive complex
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As much as I'd love to see a return to the Cold War days of European flights going through Anchorage on their way to Asia I doubt that'll happen. Most Euro carriers will just go through the Middle East. Dubai and Doha are about to start making bank.
 
Kepler said:
Finnish is better anyway.
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No joke, I had a local in Helsinki taking me around a few years ago and she insisted we take a shot of Finnish vodka while at the wat memorial for the Russian war for the exact same reason you just said
 
aparch said:
Finland isn't going to do that because they don't want to draw Russian attention. Flirting with calling into the NATO zoom meeting a few days ago was enough for them.
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Well, their people are fully on the "Fuck Russia" train. Considering how well it's going in Ukraine, Winter War Part Two probably wouldn't go very well for Russia.
 
Looks like Azerbaijan is bailing on Russia and providing aid to Ukraine.

It's slowly falling apart for Russia.
 
This would jive with Russian forces taking control of Chernobyl AND the notice circulating nation wide in Russia asking for nurses, doctors, and emt's to be willing to relocate to a site of mass casualty/injury scene.


If Russia launches an attack against their own people on their own soil, Putin would likely not waste time in: a) lying to the world that Ukraine did it, AND b) launching a massive nuclear event on Kyiv.
 
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aparch said:
This would jive with Russian forces taking control of Chernobyl AND the notice circulating nation wide in Russia asking for nurses, doctors, and emt's to be willing to relocate to a site of mass casualty/injury scene.


If Russia launches an attack against their own people on their own soil, Putin would likely not waste time in: a) lying to the world that Ukraine did it, AND b) launching a massive nuclear event on Kyiv.
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Outside of Belarus and the GOP, who would actually believe that? Ukraine is definitely winning the propaganda war right now.
 
aparch said:
Finland isn't going to do that because they don't want to draw Russian attention. Flirting with calling into the NATO zoom meeting a few days ago was enough for them.
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maybe. The writing seems to be on the wall. Sweden had a straw poll of NATO membership and it wasn't majority in favor yet but it was close, and the highest it's ever been.

it was retweeted by the former Finnish PM.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Thank god we elected joe biden.

I'm a little overwhelmed thinking what would happen if we had anyone else in the office right now
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Well NATO would be left helpless as Trump cheerleaded Putin into Ukraine. The Doomsday Clock would be going at double speed...
 
EU, US, UK, Canada agree to boot certain Russian banks off SWIFT. Impose additional restrictions on central bank, will be looking to extend sanctions to oligarchs and families.
 
aparch said:
Finland isn't going to do that because they don't want to draw Russian attention. Flirting with calling into the NATO zoom meeting a few days ago was enough for them.
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Might be the end of that bullsh-t. Russia is depending on that old thinking but maybe the West has started to wise up, just as some Dems have started to wise up to the GOP.

There comes a point where you just give no fucks anymore for terrorists. Their wants are no longer relevant or interesting to the civilized world. It is getting to where the humans just say to the Right, die, already.
 
Actually, this sounds more severe than it originally did

https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1497706505700847617?s=21

US Senior Admin Official, in call with reporters, said in addition to disconnecting key Russian banks from SWIFT, the US & Europeans agreed to launch a mutlilateral transatlantic task force to identify, hunt down and seize the assets of sanctioned Russian officials & oligarchs, as well as those of their families and enablers. We will take their yachts, their luxury apartments, their money, their ability to send their kids to college abroad, the US official said.
also cracking down on entities that sell citizenship to wealthy russians to bypass sanctions
(sounds like those countries and institutions that sell foreign citizenship to wealthy Russians will become the target of sanctions).

On question about will there be carve outs in the swift disconnection action for Russian energy, the official said they are trying to determine if SWIFT identifies which transactions involve energy. If not, they may leave connected the institution that processes most energy sales

He also said they decided to take some action against the Russian central bank that will reduce its ability to support the rubel.

(think it will be blocked from being able to buy rubels abroad)
 
How much do you think we are helping Ukraine? Just ISR info or are there Americans on the ground as well? I wonder if the odd super hornet or two has been conducting strikes as well. We probably will never know but I do wonder.
 
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