Erinnerung

[matrixmann]

Originally posted by matrixmann at Erinnerung

2022: Russia starts an endeavor that Western sources prophesied about for months and which some sympathizers of it say it was inevitable for 8 years already - the Russian Federation invades the former Eastern territories of Ukraine (since 2014: the self-proclaimed independent peoples’ republics of Donezk and Luhansk), officially calling it a “special military operation” in order to stop the ongoing bloodshed against ethnic Russians that takes place on these territories since shortly after a coup d'état in Kiev known as “Euromaidan”.


The situation is still ongoing with no end of the hostilities in sight - and due to the entanglement of several European countries and the United States of America in this issue (making it a matter of larger extent than just a regional conflict between neighboring countries), on both sides, everyone has to watch their mouth what to say and write and how about the conflict in public.

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[matrixmann]

Intresting what the European economy will be looking like after a decade of such intensive confrontation on all the levels, when all trade lines as at Red sea as in Atlantic could be cut off by some Russian proxi...


As it looks like already now, some proxy that sabotages trade routes won't be needed. Already the relations that have been cut off, in combination with the world market resonances on excluding one major supplier of oil and natural gas and other natural resources (such as wood), and making it necessary to restructure supply chains to other sources of them for the country which practice this exclusion-policy (making the products coming out of them way more expensive 'cause nothing is as cheap as Russian ((illegally cut) wood) - all these things already throw Europe into an economic depression. Especially the FRG.
Currently it's only still covered by the high inflation because final products are being sold for higher prices than before - the surplus from these sales is what still makes the statistics show small economic growth.
Looking into the production sector - it's already noticeable.
Fewer orders, smaller orders (plus noticeably higher prices for the goods) - leading to "producing less, selling less", and what that means in the long term, it's quite as easy to conclude...

(On a side note: I wonder what the statistics are going to say during the course of this exclusion endeavor because the supply chains of the base resources have been restructured to environmentally way more harmful and dirtier pathways than before. - Like, for example, LNG. Ships which cool gas so far down that it becomes liquid are just a way more bigger consumer of energy in order to transport energy than two long pipelines through the Baltic Sea which only need normal maintenance, but otherwise work silently without much additional effort to do so.)

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

Yes, if we look how USA had prepared Ukraine during decades to future war with Russia it had been started with the fake promises to unite Ukraine with EU and to protect it inside Nato, the second was a demand to cut ties with Russia and the third — throwing at last Ukrainians into an economic depression to fuel the radicalisation... It is funny to hear now that the president of France now is telling he is ready to sent French soldiers to fight with Russia at Ukraine... ))) So, yes Europe, time to prepare...

[matrixmann]

What Macron recently stated - due to it suposedly having been on a bigger pro-Ukraine event, should probably seen as something of the usual pure opportunism. He didn't really think that through to the end, he just threw something into the room which he thought would "aid" or "do Ukraine good".

But, in fact, indirectly, he did a chunk of a service with that.
Because all the other European and NATO countries signaled refusal - or at least no support for that.
In other words, he brought to the surface: NATO is not going to come to "save" Ukraine. NATO and the EU countries aren't willing to enter the big war with Russia.
And that is... more like a kick in the ass of that clown from Kiev. - If that one even notices it at all.