Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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couple of silly questions please,
did Ukraine get any money back for returning
all? of their Nukes?
Yes, in return for giving it's nuclear weapons to Russia Ukraine was provided with economic aid (AKA money) plus security assurances from Russia thye would never invade, and security assurances from the USA and UK which is where it gets murky.

According to Ukraine they were promised assistance from the USA/UK if Russia ever attacked them or threatened them with nuclear weapons. According the the USA/UK the promise was only to help if Russia attacked or threatened them with nuclear weapons. According to the wording of the text everyone signed, it's clear something was lost in translation, if read literally it doesn't make that much sense but it is closer to what the USA/UK maintain the agreement was supposed to be, however one additional comma would change it to what Ukraine claim it was supposed to say.

One comical point is that Russia's Sergei Lavrov agreed/signed it on behalf of the Russian Federation (Yeah he's been around a while) so he could easily verify Ukraine's claim but obviously isn't about too xD

NB: it wasn't just the 1700 nukes Ukraine gave up (yes 1700, they were the third largest nuclear power at the time) it was their hundreds of nuclear capable bombers and the dismantling of their nuclear weapons design/production facilities/infrastructure (they actually designed/built some of the USSR's best ICBMs).

NB2: If they hadn't given them up it wouldn't have helped them, the USSR withdrew its short/medium range launchers from Ukraine before the collapse, and all the ones they gave up in the 90s were too long range to actually hit Russia with.
 
Mother of British Captian of yacht allegedly belonging to Putin said she'd be furious if it's true:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18035386/mum-of-brit-captain-on-putins-superyacht-furious/
THE mum of a Brit sailor believed to be captain of Vladimir Putin's superyacht said she'd be "pretty furious" if she found out he was working for the Russian dictator.

Former merchant seaman Guy Bennett-Pearce, 43, declined to comment from his home in Italy last night telling The Sun: "I can't say anything because of legal confidentiality."

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Past Hour:

*Mariupol Mayor Reportedly Leaves City
*Russian Communications Regulator Has Blocked Google News -Interfax
*US State Department Spokesman Price: An Agreement on the Iran Deal Is Neither Imminent nor Certain.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/...-has-blocked-google-news-interfax-2022-03-23/

Now:

*Fed’s Bullard: Russia’s War Will Mean Less Globalization, and More Fragmentation Around the World.
*Fed’s Bullard: Direct Macroeconomic Effects on the US Economy From Russia’s Invasion Are Not That Large.
*Fed’s Bullard: It Could Easily Be That Europe Is Pulled Into a Recession As Result of War.
*Fed’s Bullard: We’ve Seen These Kinds of Oil Prices Before, and It Didn’t Cause a Recession in the US.
*Fed’s Bullard: It’s Not As if We Are a Little Bit Over on the Inflation Target, We Are Way Over.
*Fed’s Bullard: All Indications Are That Inflation Will Go Up in the Spring.
*Fed’s Bullard: High Inflation Has Necessitated All of Us to Think About How Fast We Need to Move.
*Fed’s Bullard: We Will Have to Move Faster Than What We Are Used to.
*Fed’s Bullard Repeats That He Favors the Fed Raising Interest Rates Faster.
*Fed’s Bullard: The Fed Should Begin Reducing the Balance Sheet Right Now, There Is Still a Long Way to Go.
*Fed’s Bullard: We Can Run Down Balance Sheet Faster Than Last Time, if We Have to, We Could Look at Selling Assets Later.
*Fed’s Bullard: The US Unemployment Rate Could Fall Below 3% This Year.

*Citigroup, JPMorgan, Socgen Face Pressure From Rivals, Funds, to Commit to Russia Custody Services -Sources
*Banks Have Received Queries From Clients Seeking Assurances Custody Services in Russia Will Continue -Sources
https://www.reuters.com/business/fi...h-top-custodian-banks-stay-russia-2022-03-23/

*France’s Pres. Macron: I Want to Continue Dialogue With Russia’s Putin on Ukraine.
*France’s Pres. Macron: Europeans Will Do Everything to Stop This War Without Entering Into It Themselves.
*Russian Wellbeing Fund Fell to $154.8 Billion in February
https://twitter.com/PriapusIQ/status/1506712719898120208
 
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