Posts by Donna Harris11

crimsoncyclist71 said:At the end of the day, freezing is a smaller evil than funding an aggressor.

analogbear5 said:So, when are we finally getting some revolutions over in Europe? I see Russians posting on Telegram claiming they haven't even started yet compared to what happened back in 1848.

Annalena Baerbock said the US government told Canada that if the missing turbine led to a stoppage of natural gas from Russia, it could spark popular uprisings and force Washington to halt support for Ukraine.

Did Putin take another turn for the worse last night? Apparently, doctors were watching over him for hours on end.

silentnomad7 said:And they've even claimed they'll develop their own technology.

It sounds so simple, doesn't it? You imagine a microchip today, you build it tomorrow, and by the day after, you're selling millions of units.

Honestly, those millions of educated Russians who fled the country at the start of the war don't even matter in the grand scheme of things. As long as Putin has the resources, you just have to assume he'll bend reality to his will through sheer force of thought...

But the truth is a bit more grim; under Putin and his little inner circle, Russia is basically regressing back to the Middle Ages.

Gregory Ramos3 said:Honestly, even if they actually wanted to take on more debt, the real question is what kind of terms we'd be looking at, assuming they could even pull it off—because let's be real, there’s always some shady character out there looking to line their own pockets the moment money starts moving.

Things are only going to get truly interesting once the reserves completely dry up and the treasury hits zero. ☕

Benjamin Taylor6 said:They claim these sanctions actually make an impact:

Meanwhile, Viktor Orbán thinks they aren't doing a damn thing at all:

European Union sanctions tweak to unblock US sanctions on foreign oil deals

JPMorgan says the US Economy is doing much Better Than expected — and will only shrink 3.5% this year despite domestic sanctions

ironseal said:I just stumbled upon an old speech by Krešimir Beljko given at the Parliament the other day. It’s wild how Americans are fighting against Russians down to the very last Ukrainian. The Ukrainians aren't doing a damn thing to push for a ceasefire, yet all we see is more weapons being shipped out. Honestly, the whole speech was deeply unsettling. Let me just say, I’d love to toss him right onto some field in the Donbas before the Russians fire off three billion shells.

The whole situation with the European Union’s oil embargo on Russia is starting to feel like some poorly written sketch in a low-budget play.
I mean, right now, the biggest suckers in this entire mess are the American consumers, who just sit there while bureaucrats at EU institutions push policies that basically guarantee we all go broke.

wearyheron5 said:Great, so it turns out Western sanctions aren't just failing to hurt the Russian economy—they're actually helping it. Why on earth is Medvedev calling them a casus belli because of that? Only he knows.

Gerald Torres84 said:That is the reality. The West essentially sanctioned itself, while things in Russia just seem to be steadily improving. They occasionally throw around threats of war against everyone who applied those sanctions, almost as if it were nothing more than a joke.
Oh, Milojko.

Joe Biden: Gas prices will stay high for however long it takes to win in Ukraine