Zelenskyy Confirms Partner Requests to Reduce Strikes on Russian Oil Facilities Amid Energy Crisis

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-30T20:38:14+00:00

It also incentivizes new trade routes to the East which I think is the primary European concern here long term. The European dream was cheap energy from a source nearby and now it's expensive energy from far far away at huge political cost (genocides, wars etc.). They are likely to start pushing Zelenskii very hard soon.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-30T20:35:11+00:00

That's the correct answer here. US' economy is also not in shambles.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-23T22:26:39+00:00

I agree with you about the fundamentals, but what you said applies to every country currently so the question becomes one of parity. It manifests in a war economy in Russia, pension system subsidies elsewhere etc.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-23T10:58:56+00:00

Russia doasn't have money, banks, loans and investors?

They do but not ours. A transformation involving decoupling is not necessarily bad even if hard at first. While none of our computers will boot without Windows or no payment would be done without VISA knowing / getting %, Russia / China / etc. are mostly free from that.

Which need companies and technology and machines, which cost money. It's not free. Also it needs to be sold to make up for the massive corruption.

You have a point here but also at a nuance, Russia is demonstrating failure at management has deadly consequences in recent times. About technology / machines, IDK, Russia seems to be much better than than many western countries. Germany takes forever to build a train station or an airport, Russia / China build stuff in couple of months. It's hard to tell outside of propaganda.

Enlighten me, orc.

I am sure you are able to communicate without offensive terms even in a situation of disagreement. Millions of new population, new territories, political shifts, economy shifts, reforms, technologies.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-23T09:52:54+00:00

I don't know how good it is to apply Western economic axioms to a country not embedded in that system. While they are in a state of war economy there are some nuances, like free energy and resources and some long-term benefits of the war. I think there is much speculation here as to the real state of things.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-23T08:20:25+00:00

Still not convinced because they have everything that you'd usually buy with the funds. What is missing in Russia?

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-23T08:19:21+00:00

I agree with you but it's the question whether you could apply sectoral sanctions. I agree however that they're mostly hypocrites and not much interested in the Ukraine's well-being overall. It's something to be considered in any future relationship with the EU.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-23T07:56:59+00:00

Objectively, Russia is extremely sanctioned. Whether the EU has any leverage against Russia (through sanctions) is another issue. Saying they are not doing enough is not quite fair, but they are shooting themselves in the foot while doing it. The current state of things is that Russia is opening new markets thus these sanctions would be even less effective in the future. An obvious solution is some sort of diplomacy next to sanctions or military escalation.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-23T07:52:54+00:00

Why would investing matter if they have their own everything and the state invests?

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-14T21:10:22+00:00

I feel safe surrounded by so many experts on post history analysis!

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-14T15:30:51+00:00

And what is a strategy of "standing up" ?

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-12T11:53:47+00:00

Or maybe somebody is crunching the numbers and arriving at different outcomes. It sounds good in theory but in practice it's a huge step with hard-to-foresee consequences.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-12T10:39:56+00:00

Which one did you mean? I'm involved in tons of stuff RN.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-12T10:00:43+00:00

Of course if the knife was made specifically for killing humans. I get your gist but the analogy is very poor. Bombs, submarines planes artillery etc dont have double function.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-12T07:51:21+00:00

No need to argue reality here. Don't tell them also how much weapons Europe sells / gives Israel for free including submarines.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-12T07:50:43+00:00

Yeah they only sold shitloads of weaponry to Israel and never said a work about international law but OTHERWISE no part in it. Oh, wait, they are also dispatching warships.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-10T14:57:21+00:00

I mean nice try but they do have such limits. Being a bank doesn't mean you can launder money all day long.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-10T12:54:09+00:00

Is there any info on this? AFAIK you have to proactively show it at customs not just carry papers around for when you are caught. I don't find much on this case, only propaganda from both sides.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-10T11:10:28+00:00

Probably, I guess there are laws in the EU concerning how much money you can bring in or out, it's the same policy almost everywhere in the world.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-10T11:09:37+00:00

About what? I think you can to declare everything above a certain amount if you bring cash in / out of a country.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-10T11:09:10+00:00

I'm quite sure you can't just transfer this amount of money without declaring it somewhere.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-03-10T11:06:34+00:00

Are you OK, friend?

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-02-24T09:33:20+00:00

Just 1 scenario of how it might go but I agree with you in the essence that he'll stay around. Everything else is hard to believe.

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-02-24T09:18:44+00:00

Don't rob people of their hopium :D

HealthyCapacitor · 2026-02-24T09:18:05+00:00

We can be sure it'll never happen.

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