Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Tuesday that will ban exports to people and entities on a sanctions list that the Russian government has 10 days to draw up.
The order is Putin’s reaction to the US-led Western sanctions campaign that aims to decimate the Russian economy. He said the decree sets out “retaliatory special economic measures in connection with the unfriendly actions of some foreign states and international organizations.”
Putin’s said the Western pressure campaign is meant to deprive “the Russian Federation, citizens of the Russian Federation and Russian legal entities of property rights or the restricting their property rights.”
While it’s not clear at this point who will be sanctioned, the ban on exports could apply to European countries that are incredibly reliant on Russian gas. Moscow has already stopped shipping gas to Poland and Bulgaria for their refusal to pay using the ruble.
Putin’s retaliatory measures are a natural response to the pressure Russia is facing and demonstrate the power Moscow has to hurt Western economies. For example, German economic institutes have warned Germany would face a sharp recession if Russian energy was suddenly cut off.
President Biden has said that Americans would feel some economic pain from the sanctions on Russia and has even warned of “real” food shortages as a result.
Although the US started the war in Ukraine and wants a long war in order to weaken Russia, the opposite is happening.
The longer the war goes on is to Russia’s advantage. Well over half of humanity knows that white liberal progressive American citizens vote for war and are pushing for war all over the planet. Every day that passes reveals the US as an abhorrent den of death eaters who lust for world war 3.
That about sums it up… too much arrogance and sense of self-entitlement… Joe Bye-Done seems to have a ‘common sense’ deficit….
One Russian nuke = half of the military bases we have scattered all over the world. Particularly if it takes out our grid.
Once those German manufacturing jobs move to Asia, they ain’t coming back. We Americans should appreciate the great sacrifice of the German people to stay in our good graces …
The pipeline from Russia to Germany was a benefit for Germany. Oil less, gas less Germany.
Economic pain???! And food shortages???…. Biden is the gift from hell that keeps on giving…
Cut Biden’s pay. Cut the pay of every one in the administration that is for “weakening” Russia. D*mn them all!
Also cut the pay for all the Senators and Members of Congress saying we should send troops to Ukraine, take Putin out and kill him.
I prefer sanction wars to killing wars. Nevertheless, sanction wars must be stopped immediately when they begin to kill people by hunger and/or disease.
Yes, sanctions kill despite what many people say. Some people I met say sanctions don’t hurt anyone and blame the poverty and famine on the leaders of the poor countries and say every country should take care of its own people. They believe in making an exception for Israel and want it to have never ending military and economic aid. They either don’t know or they just deny the US meddles in other countries’ affairs.
Natural gas, nickle, palladium, titanium, platinum, other rare earths, and wheat.
See how you like your sanctions now Biden and obama.
Little know fact about electronics. Many of older electronics parts for older airplanes are only made in Russia. The Asia ‘Tiger’ countries (Singapore, Taiwan, PR China, South Korea (ROK) don’t make them because not high enough quantity are sold for high profit. I am listening to MISES institute (The Economic Sanctions against Russia Are Destructive and Counterproductive: We Must Oppose Them) article.
Putin’s new war narrative is dropping/reducing the use of Neo nazi/I de-nazification terms. I anticipate his followers here soon doing the same 🤷🏽♂️
https://us.yahoo.com/news/putin-abandons-term-nazification-russians-075905558.html
Oh, Putin made it clear there were multiple goals. Some stated publicly, some still classified and undisclosed at this time.
But, the “denazification” goal has been largely accomplished from my understanding. The greatest concentration of Azov battalion was on the borders of Donbass in late February preparing to annihilate every pro-Russian person in eastern Ukraine.
The very last of them are dead, injured or hopelessly surrounded now.