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I mean, Russia would never say they have been crippled by sanctions/say everything is fine now...surely this isn't the case? My understanding of this is limited so looking for knowledgeable posters to help. :)
 
SideWinder said:
I mean, Russia would never say they have been crippled by sanctions/say everything is fine now...surely this isn't the case? My understanding of this is limited so looking for knowledgeable posters to help. :)
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Well worth a watch if you want a better understanding.


06:47 onwards if you want to cut to the chase.
 
Past 30mins:
*Ukraine Conflict Day 54: Putin Honors Bucha Brigade, Russian Missiles Hit Lviv
*Ukrainian Minister: Russian Invasion Has Damaged Up To 30% Of Ukraine's Infrastructure At A Cost Of $100 Billion
*UN Deputy Secretary-General: UN Calls On Russia And Ukraine To Hold Talks On Humanitarian Issues
https://www.axios.com/putin-brigade-honor-bucha-41249f9d-93af-4e3b-899d-b2193147b516.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...ines-infrastructure-says-minister-2022-04-18/

*US Treasury Deputy Secretary Adeyemo: Yellen To Call On Policy Makers This Week To Take Steps To Mitigate Impact On Developing Economies From Russia's War In Ukraine
*US Treasury Deputy Secretary Adeyemo: Next Phase Of Santions On Russia Will Be To Disrupt Military Industrial Complex And Supply Chains
*US Treasury Deputy Secretary Adeyemo: US Treasury To Urge Moves To Shield Developing Economies From War Impacts
*US Treasury Deputy Secretary Adeyemo: China Has In The Past Continued To Follow Western Sanctions On Russia
*US Treasury Deputy Secretary Adeyemo: Dollar Will Remain Most Dominant Currency In The World As Long As US Continues To Invest In Its Future
*US Treasury's Yellen To Skip Some G20 Sessions, Encourage Pressure On Russia
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-tr...ussian-sanctions-evaders-official-2022-04-18/

*French President Macron: Has Not Spoken To Russia's Putin Since Discovery Of Mass Killings
*French President Macron, Asked On Visiting Ukraine's Capital, Says I Will Go There When I Can Bring Something Useful, Don't Need To Go There To Display Support

*Member Of The Russian Federation Council: The United States Conducts Biological Research In Hundreds Of Laboratories Around The World
*Russian Ministry Of Defense: Russian Rocket Forces And Artillery Forces Have Paralyzed 331 Ukrainian Military Installations
https://ria.ru/20220418/ssha-1784121586.html
https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14405869

*The Communist Party Of Moldova Is Preparing To Organize Mass Protests In Order To Overthrow The Government
 
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woppy101 said:
Wonder why we haven't seen any more alleged 'hypersonic missile' strikes yet?
Here's a clue. They're probably not real.
https://twitter.com/expatua/status/1516087197920813061?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1516087197920813061|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=


Even the fake planes on Russian bases are falling apart snapshot full size
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It's important to not spread disinfo no matter the side

Those are cannibalised aircraft and there's been plenty of hypersonic missiles launched, they're called Iskanders
 
This all a bit crazy isn't it, why do we bother with any comments from Russia, they are fascist murderers, I believe the international response is ok ish at the end of the day though civilians and family lives being wrecked is not acceptable in a civilised world let alone europe. Germany, austria, us and anyone else should be ostracising Russia no matter the hardship to the local economy, it is the only way to force them to stop. How the west can rationalise a loss of oil or gas against what is happening to innocent families is incomprehensible.

Impounding a few super yachts doesn't cut it, time to get real.
 
Minusorange said:
It's important to not spread disinfo no matter the side

Those are cannibalised aircraft and there's been plenty of hypersonic missiles launched, they're called Iskanders
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Yes you had better not spread disinformation.

9K720 Iskander is a family of weapons but mostly are ballistic weapons with evasive terminal guidance. Hypersonic cruise weapon is the Kh-47M2 `Kinzhal` whilst based on the Iskander is definitely a different weapon. It also has plasma stealth (one reason why the west are rapidly launching micro satellites to track them and active lasers to engage them)
 
Sounds like someone is really not happy about there ship sinking

How the hell did you let Moskva be sunk? State TV host rants at Russian Navy

A Russian state TV presenter has expressed his fury over the sinking of the country’s warship Moskva demanding answers on how it managed to go down.

Russia-1 anchor Vladimir Solovyov, who has been sanctioned for his support of Putin, criticised the Navy over the incident during a nationwide broadcast.

He said: ‘I am furious about what happened to the Black Sea Fleet’s flagship, Moskva. I am simply furious.

‘And yes, we say it was quite old and went through repairs, and, yes, this series of ships has vulnerabilities. I get it.

‘But tell me this: how did you manage to lose it? Explain me, why the hell you were in that particular area of the Black Sea at that time?’

Mr Solovyov questioned why there was no system in place to mitigate chaos in the event of a fire.

He said: ‘I don’t care what exactly happened – if indeed [it was] the two Neptune missiles as the Ukrainians said. Since when was a combat ship scared of a missile strike, since it has a defence system? Was something not activated?

‘Even it it was hit with two missiles and it ignited the ammunition – what happened to your fire fighting system?’
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Read it here How the hell did you let Moskva be sunk? State TV host rants at Russian Navy (msn.com)
 
kitch9 said:
Are you saying there's no Russian Nazis?
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A post from about 2hrs later -

ianh said:
It's a known fact that all 3 groups involved (UA, RU and Separatists) have fairly large contingents (900+) within their military/civil defence forces who are active Nazi's, I would hope by this point that should be an unassailable fact.
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BTW, and this is entirely non-judgemental from my part, asking "are you saying........." and then asking something that was never said is called a "Strawman" and it tends to be seen as a very poor form for discussion as the question implies that the answer is a rhetorical "gotcha" rather than a real question. I prefer discussions to have more straight forward questions and answers, for example the question could have been "do you believe that there are Russian Nazis?" which wouldn't have been seen as a Strawman but would still have got the same answer.
 
*Ukraine President's Chief Of Staff: "The Second Phase Of The War Has Started," Referring To Russia's New Eastern Assault
 
Malevolence said:
No, it's really not. It's just the business end of an Iskander-M that's dropped from an aircraft. Are you sure you're not thinking of the 3M22 Zircon?
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Yes it really is , if it was an `Iskander` , it would be identified as the same family of weapons. 3M22 is ship born and will replace the P-700 on the Kirov`s in a VLS cell system. Tass themselves say it was Kinzhal not Iskander-M , The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that the use of the "Dagger" in Ukraine confirmed its effectiveness - the Army and the defense industry - TASS . Iskander is Land Based , Kinzhal is airbourne and Zircon is naval.
 
*White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Speaks: - https://youtu.be/hJ9f134leHk
*White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: US Continuing To Review Additional Russia Sanctions
*White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: Expect To Have More On Russia Sanctions In Coming Days
*White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: There Are No Plans For President Biden To Visit Kyiv
*White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: Any Assessment On Designating Russia A State Sponsor Of Terrorism Would Be Done By State Dept
*White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: Four Planes With Military Assistance For Ukraine Arrived Over The Weekend
*White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: US Objective Is To Open Embassy In Kyiv Again
*White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: US Economy Will Deal With Challenges From A Position Of Strength

*Fed's Bullard: War In Ukraine Will Have A Meaningful Impact On Europe's Economy, But Less On North America
*Fed’s Bullard: Russia War Price Impact More Concerning For US
*Fed’s Bullard: Sees Less Impact on Real US Economy From Russia War
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*Fed's Bullard: US Probably Won't Be Directly Hurt By War In Ukraine
*Fed’s Bullard: Inflation Far Too High for Comfort, Fed Has a Good Plan In Place
*Fed’s Bullard: Market Pricing Based on Anticipated Fed Tightening Is Helping US Keep Inflation Under Control
*Fed’s Bullard: Inflation Will Also Moderate Partly on Its Own
*Fed’s Bullard: We Want to Get to Neutral Rates Expeditiously
*Fed’s Bullard: We Should Try to Get Above Neutral As Early As the Third Quarter, but One Step at A Time
*Fed’s Bullard: 3.5% Minimum Neutral Rate Is Based on Taylor Rule
*Fed’s Bullard: 3.5% Is the Minimum Fed Funds Rate Needed, Can’t Do It All at Once, but Should Try to Get There by the End Of the Year
*Fed’s Bullard: Base Case Is Not for More Than 50 bps at Any Meeting
*Fed’s Bullard: Fed Needs to Ratify the Rate Increases That Are Partially Priced Into Markets Already
*Fed’s Bullard: Don’t Think Unemployment Will Rise, Could Even Fall Further, As Fed Hikes Rates
*Fed’s Bullard: Jobless Rate to Stay Where It Is or Fall Further
*Fed’s Bullard: Jobless Rate May Go Below 3% In 2022
*Fed’s Bullard: Biggest Inflation Determinant Is Price Expectations
*Fed’s Bullard: Rate Hikes Will Bring Inflation Expectations Down, Lowering Inflation Without Hurting Labor Market
*Fed’s Bullard: We Can Bring Inflation Under Control Without Going Into Recession
*Fed’s Bullard: Unless Get Above Neutral Can’t Blame Recession on Fed
*Fed’s Bullard: It Might Be Reasonable if Housing Market Cools off A Bit
*Fed’s Bullard: Need to React to Inflation Problems Right Now
*Fed's Bullard: War In Ukraine Will Have A Meaningful Impact On Europe's Economy, But Less On North America
*Fed’s Bullard: Russia War Price Impact More Concerning For US
*Fed’s Bullard: Sees Less Impact on Real US Economy From Russia War
*Fed's Bullard: Would Be Open To A 'Reverse Twist' Although For Now Happy To Go Ahead With Passive Runoff Plan For Fed's Balance Sheet
*Fed's Bullard: Sees Using Balance Sheet To Steepen Curve As 'Plan B'
*Fed's Bullard: FOMC Wants To Return To All-Treasuries Balance Sheet
*Fed's Bullard: If War In Ukraine Took A Turn For The Worse It Could Affect USA Monetary Policy, But That's Not My Base Case
*Fed's Bullard: US Probably Won't Be Directly Hurt By War In Ukraine
*Fed’s Bullard: Fed’s Credibility Is Being Tested
*Fed’s Bullard: Inflation Expectations Could Get Out of Control if We Don’t Act Quickly
*Fed’s Bullard: 75 Basis-Point Hike Could Be Option if Needed
 
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