Hassan Al-Somal
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Have you ever heard of " chemical Ali "..Would be interesting to know why!
Thats true.
Iraq War gave China the breathing space it needed in order to grow without being a target like it is today. If the US had choosen to contain China insted of fighting Iraq, Americans wouldnt have to deal with a vastly more powerful China today.
Have you ever heard of " chemical Ali "..
The US couldn't have chosen to contain Russia..that's contradictory to its economic policies at that time..when its own giant companies were manufacturing their goods in China..!
Energy isnt sanctioned. Demanding payment in rubles insted of euro or dollars agreed upon is a breach of contract. My contrys contract with Russia expires in 2030, and it would be costly for the company controlling gas deliveries if they simply refused to accept russian gas. If Russia is breaching the contract the problem is solved.Why would Russia keep accepting USD and EUR when those funds are confiscated?
Would you accept a payment for a product you sell, where the buyer then keeps the money?
It will accelerate western de-indistrialization.
We know for sure that they need war every 10-20 years.. and they plan and create conditions for it in a long term scheme..Official stories are nice but too bad we wont know 100% what Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were thinking.
I believe the USA simply got outfoxed by China.
Sorry if your brain can't deal with more than Twitter-format for your military analysis... You shouldn't consider posting on forums if not fit for more reflectiveness. Sorry if you're accustomed to Schwarzy's or Bruce Willis' action movies where the script is only made of one-liners, if you were accustomed to read a little more or to watch movies a little more sophisticated, you'd get why many use words like Mordor about Russia, Isengard about Belarus and Orcs about Putin's forcesYou really expect people here to read all of that diatribe? We aren't your professors who gets paid to read and grade your paper. Keep it short and to add reason to it. Right now, it is devoid of any facts for anyone to spend even 5 minutes on it.
The problem is that... Just look at Finland : they refuse to pay in Rubles, and so will it be for [near] everybody... You don't seem to get that EU weighs more than 50% of ruSSia's exports and ruSSian economy is about the same size as South Korea, not even on par with Brazil, Italy, Canada.Russia demanding all gas sales to Europe based on the Ruble has strengthened its currency. The West has frozen Russian assets in their financial institutions and imposed sanctions on Russia, thinking they would cripple the Russian economy.
In return, Putin demanded all Russian gas sales to Europe would be done based on the Ruble. He's also demanded all mineral and food sales to EU would be done on the Ruble as well. This is where the strength that you see on the Ruble comes from. Today, every transaction between Russia and EU and other countries, except China, is based on the Ruble.
He's also made deals with China, the largest economy in the world, where Russia is selling more hydrocarbons based on the Yuan. Having this trade outside of US Dollar and Euro is another blow against the "fiat money".
The English-speaking world's effort to kill the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has really backfired on them. It seems Ukraine and the rest of EU have chosen to be the sacrificial lamb here.
This war is about saving the "fiat money" and the system that suffocates many countries and peoples. It looks like Putin and his Russian nation are the ones who are successfully resisting it.
Actually, it's their personnel that is filled with vodka/hydrazine mixture... And no, hell, no, you don't fill a ballistic missile or a space rocket with LIQUID fuel except just before the launch... It's different with things like Topol or Yars which use solid fuel and are as well as in silos or TEL-mounted... Seriously, you should document yourself about the result of launch failures with liquid-fuel powered rockets, ruSSia has broken several records like the most lethal launchpad accident and the biggest launchpad explosion with near 7 kilotons. Note that the N1 space rocked would had been great, the problem was Soviet/ruSSian quality control : you can absolutely trust a Soyuz rocket when launched by Arianespace or NASA, I wouldn't bet my life on it if the operator is RoscosmosSilo based missiles are always filled
Not forcedly! Numerous aircraft can operate from roads!You do realise that planes take off and land on something called an airbase or airfield.
That's the thing you target when you want to deny your enemy.
Haven't you heard that "the best place to destroy an airplane is on the ground".
The problem is not so instant destruction when you imply the use of nukes: this is only valuable in case of air-bursts enough away from the ground so it's not touched by the fireball... The main issue is that anything taken into the fireball is not just vaporized, it's elements are neutron-activated = they become radioactive, go airborne with the mushroom and will spread more or less far depending on the wind. FYI, a 1 megaton surface blast will do half the damages and immediate casualties of an airburst, but your fallout plume will cover an area of about 20,000-30,000km² depending on winds, with no less than 1 rad/h, even at 0.1 rad/h, the area (which is about the double of the min. 1rad/h area) has to be evacuated ASAP and you need to wear an HazMat to avoid contamination. At 1 rad/h, consider you'd better leave the area within 12h, wearing a HazMat Type C and not drinking/eating/breathing anything non protected from contamination: radioactive particles in your lungs or bowels are not nice at all!!! The nice point with the Type C is it's also OK against things like Ebola, the Chinese virus that is pissing us all off for 2 years, H5N1, etc too, but in case of CWs like VX, Sarin, you need a Type B. Type A offers double protectionNATO is 1 billion people, and 1500 warheads cannot possibly kill more than 50M. Only 5% of population.
Russia, or China on another hand are super centralised countries. Officials there can't cook a pot of porridge unless commanded. Loss of the eunich class all living in imperial capital will paralyze the country. If eunichs are dead, or the party leadership along with them, it will take a few civil wars, coups, and a year+ of martial law to reestablish the most minimal semblance of control.
You know, in the last 200-250 years, all wars were fought about economics, except the Arab ones on Israel : these were fought upon racism. Any other reasons pushed are just propaganda. Hitler invaded for the same reasons Erdogan does proxy wars : both being morons, they took loans the country can't cash in order to push megalomaniac projects but, even if you have fast growth, you'd better consider it won't last forever, in some way, China is at VERY HIGH RISK of going rogue : they have 300%+ of the GDP as deficit, and unlike USA or EU, no negative interest rates which are due to the fact the economies are healthy. Having 100% as deficit is OK as the money you lease is included, e.g. USA or EU pay less interests on their debt that they perceive interests on the money they lease, in fact, EU even has strict rules: no more than 3% "in the red". Greece was over 3%, measures were imposed to sanitize the economy while, at the same time, EU bought the Greek debt and put it in a negative interest fund... Actually, when some accuse USA of printing Dollars, they don't get how it works, it's actually PRC which is printing Yuans, causing the global inflation, the point is that, just like Adolf or Gollum, they have over-invested, and their military build up is an obvious sign that they consider the military option to get out from the debt spiral...Fully on the same page as you. It's very evident now, Putin is bombing out Ukrainian industry, and these are not military factories.
Really, there is no politics to this conflict, only profit, and I mean personal profit of these 200 men who run Russian Federation.
Few know, but Ukraine was basically closest economic peer competitor to Russia.
I wrote on it few months ago: he invaded Ukraine for oil, and gas in the black sea.
China rise is not the same time as US being distracted in Iraq. In fact, war of Iraq cemented US as world number 1 Oil Production country, along with the dominance of USD, this development will mean the US have more grip in the world.Second Iraq War?
Did the US really achieve anything substantial, other than removing Saddam and destroying the whole country.
While it was distracted in Iraq, China grabbed the opportunity to become a peer competitor, without waging any wars. That is the true Art Of War. To Win without fighting.
How many operational SU-57 do the russian air force really have? Last I heard the number was 3.. Claiming they are using SU-57 is just a marketing gimmick.
I wonder why Russia is so obsessed with foreigners fighting alongside the ukrainians. Every russian soldier in this war is by definition a foreigner in Ukraine.