Wait, didn’t rump finish this “on day one” ?
Nah, Putler already took “Kyiv in three days”
No, you made the classic mistake of listening to what he says instead of looking at what he does ;)
Haha. Oh don’t worry I have zero faith in everything he says.
The sanctions will target Russia’s weapons supply chains
Crazy that it took them three years to get here. And given how much hardware is coming from outside the European bloc, I’m genuinely curious to know what they’re hoping to accomplish.
Another 46 financial institutions that help Russia evade sanctions have also been targeted.
Sanctions have also been placed on a further 18 ships, following 110 earlier this month, in Russia’s “shadow fleet”, which carry Russian oil under different flags (often Liberian) to continue shipping oil around the world despite sanctions that have placed a price cap on Russian oil.
So much of this sounds like token enforcement. Chasing the cut-outs and front-operations without ever actually getting to the big petro states in Turkyie or India or China or the EU/UK/US based banking sector that profit from Russian black-market trade.
I’m sure we’ll get some Panama Papers expose in another 20 years about how the usual suspects - your HSBCs and JP Morgans, your Exxon/Shell/BPs, your assorted Bitcoin brokers, and your various other war profiteers - were all flagrantly violating the sanctions while national intelligence agencies were either ignored or hushed up.
But for now, it doesn’t seem like anyone is actually staunching the flow of arms in or petrol out of the Russian sphere of influence.
Someone said he’s waiting cause he told Russia they already regained the whole Kursk region plis other Ukrainians areas which they actually never conquered, so dude is not up with the bs he tells to his people.
