I disagree.
Major political events will be pushing the crowd who react emotionally.
What the markets do is often a bit random in nature at times.
which is exactly what you are attempting at doing.
Cutting Russia off SWIFT - Germany and Italy now on board
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Major political events will be pushing the crowd who react emotionally.
What the markets do is often a bit random in nature at times.
What I can't understand do you support isolation of the USA and exclusion from SWIFT because they invaded Syria, Iraq, Afganistan, Yugoslavia, Lybia etc.
is that what you say?
Do I correctly understand you that no country can invade other country?
Or they must be punished only if that country called Russia?
But other countries can invade with impunity?
The reason of the invasion matters.
The Russians invaded Crimea with the only motive to install a government run and controlled by them, and that is what they finally did. Poeple were forced by terror to accept it and the"voting" was completelly fake.
Russia invaded Ukraine with fake arguments. The population was happy with their President, and Ukraine did not attack another country. Russia want to install a government run and controlled by them after they lost in 2014 Yanukovych as their puppet president.
Russia also invaded Syria. They came to support a dictator that is killing his own people. The US came to support the people against a dictator.
The US never installed anywhere a government run by Americans.
Russia has for centuries already a very bloody and agressive history with millions of people killed for no reason. Lenin, Stalin and now Putin. Do you notice they they all have a name ending with IN?
The entire world, except of China, Belarus and North Korea support the Ukrainians. So it is clear that rthe whole world sees the difference. Only Russian are blinded by Russian propaganda and fake news.
I am sad to see that India is not fully on board with this. They weren't big on the sanctions, and only care about their supply of fertilizer I think. Sure, you don't want your people to go hungry, I get it, but going forward, I don't see how India will be able to ask for support in the future if they ever get invaded.
Soros is evil. This makes me pause and think. If he is for Ukraine then there is something wrong. May Russia win.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/george-soros-i-stand-with-ukraine/
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/george-soros-i-stand-with-ukraine/
Only the weak get invaded. India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel all got nukes.
Interesting article, but a bit long. Translated with Google translate (too lazy and no time to do it myself).
Also Russians on the run, many people on trains to Finland: "It is clear that this invasion will also change Russia forever"
Not only are Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion, some Russians also seem to prefer to leave their country now rather than later. After many recently jumped on a plane quickly, the options have now become limited. One of the last options is the high-speed train from Saint Petersburg to Helsinki. "We've been seeing full trains from St Petersburg since Sunday," Topi Simola, senior vice president at Finnish Railways, told The New York Times. And the press agency 'AFP' was also able to determine on the spot that the trains to Finland are remarkably full. The Russians are fleeing the economic and political consequences of the war. It is one of the last remaining ways out of the country since the widespread airspace closures in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine a week ago.
It is also the only open railway line between Russia and the European Union: the Allegro express train, which connects the second largest Russian city of St Petersburg with the Finnish capital Helsinki. The journey takes 3.5 hours.
Sanctions
The high-speed trains have been full of Russians in recent days, who fear that it may be their last chance to escape the heavy impact of Western sanctions and more generally the economic and political consequences of the war started by Russia. "
It is clear to me that this terrible invasion will also change Russia forever," Russian Alexei Trubetskoy said yesterday in an interview with British newspaper The Guardian. He himself got away by plane and is now in Sri Lanka.
Insecurity
"It is not clear what the situation will be in a week," Polina Poliakova from Moscow told AFP, as she rolls her well-filled suitcase over platform 9 at the Helsinki train station. “Travel is difficult. Everything is canceled,” adds her friend Beata Lukhtanova. Together, the two young women quickly made their way to Helsinki, before they might not be able to anymore. They want to travel from there to Paris.
So they are not alone. “The trains from St. Petersburg to Helsinki for the next few days are full,” said Topi Simola of VR, Finnish Railways. Simola says passenger numbers suddenly skyrocketed two days after Moscow launched its attack on Ukraine.
“They are leaving for a long time,” he also explains. “You can tell by the baggage they carry.”
The Allegro train to Helsinki is only for a select group. Passengers must have either Russian or Finnish nationality and have a correct visa, and they must be able to prove that they have received an EU-recognized Covid vaccination (i.e. not a shot with the Russian Sputnik vaccine). It therefore mainly concerns Russians who already live or work in Europe.
That is also the case with 14-year-old Maria and her mother Svetlana, who took the last-minute train to Finland after their flight to Austria, where they live, was canceled on Sunday. They are happy that they still have the train as an option. “At first we thought we might have to travel through Turkey. Nobody really knew what to do.”
Many people do not feel safe in Russia. And they also know that the economic situation is going to be very difficult.
In despair
“I know several people who are currently quite desperate to leave Russia,” said Elena, a Russian who lives and works in Finland. She was visiting her home city of Moscow when the Russian invasion began last Thursday. She immediately rebooked her return flight to Finland so that she could return the same day. “Many people don't feel safe in Russia. And they also know that the economic situation is going to be very difficult," the 37-year-old told AFP. She added: "Many people can no longer bear it from a moral point of view to stay."
While trains out of Russia are sometimes sold out, the return service from Helsinki to Saint Petersburg is only 30 percent full, Simola said. "I have no plans to return to Russia anytime soon, that's for sure," Elena said. She wishes to emphasize that the difficulties her home country is now and will face are “impossible to compare with the horror unfolding in Ukraine”. “Sometimes stiff prices” The sharp rise in demand sometimes seems to cause the prices for train tickets to rise sharply. For the afternoon train from St. Petersburg to Helsinki, you paid at least 9,122 euros on Thursday, a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal reported on Twitter. In the morning the prices started from 6,752 euros. However, the prices for Friday have already returned to normal, with tickets between 57 euros and 79 euros.De Finnish railway company VR, which operates in partnership with the Russian railways, wants to be able to open its services to all people with a passport from an EU member state and also increase the capacity on the trains.“We know that there are still tens of thousands of EU citizens in Russia and we assume that many of them would like to return home,” Simola said.
Also Russians on the run, many people on trains to Finland: "It is clear that this invasion will also change Russia forever"
Not only are Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion, some Russians also seem to prefer to leave their country now rather than later. After many recently jumped on a plane quickly, the options have now become limited. One of the last options is the high-speed train from Saint Petersburg to Helsinki. "We've been seeing full trains from St Petersburg since Sunday," Topi Simola, senior vice president at Finnish Railways, told The New York Times. And the press agency 'AFP' was also able to determine on the spot that the trains to Finland are remarkably full. The Russians are fleeing the economic and political consequences of the war. It is one of the last remaining ways out of the country since the widespread airspace closures in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine a week ago.
It is also the only open railway line between Russia and the European Union: the Allegro express train, which connects the second largest Russian city of St Petersburg with the Finnish capital Helsinki. The journey takes 3.5 hours.
Sanctions
The high-speed trains have been full of Russians in recent days, who fear that it may be their last chance to escape the heavy impact of Western sanctions and more generally the economic and political consequences of the war started by Russia. "
It is clear to me that this terrible invasion will also change Russia forever," Russian Alexei Trubetskoy said yesterday in an interview with British newspaper The Guardian. He himself got away by plane and is now in Sri Lanka.
Insecurity
"It is not clear what the situation will be in a week," Polina Poliakova from Moscow told AFP, as she rolls her well-filled suitcase over platform 9 at the Helsinki train station. “Travel is difficult. Everything is canceled,” adds her friend Beata Lukhtanova. Together, the two young women quickly made their way to Helsinki, before they might not be able to anymore. They want to travel from there to Paris.
So they are not alone. “The trains from St. Petersburg to Helsinki for the next few days are full,” said Topi Simola of VR, Finnish Railways. Simola says passenger numbers suddenly skyrocketed two days after Moscow launched its attack on Ukraine.
“They are leaving for a long time,” he also explains. “You can tell by the baggage they carry.”
The Allegro train to Helsinki is only for a select group. Passengers must have either Russian or Finnish nationality and have a correct visa, and they must be able to prove that they have received an EU-recognized Covid vaccination (i.e. not a shot with the Russian Sputnik vaccine). It therefore mainly concerns Russians who already live or work in Europe.
That is also the case with 14-year-old Maria and her mother Svetlana, who took the last-minute train to Finland after their flight to Austria, where they live, was canceled on Sunday. They are happy that they still have the train as an option. “At first we thought we might have to travel through Turkey. Nobody really knew what to do.”
Many people do not feel safe in Russia. And they also know that the economic situation is going to be very difficult.
In despair
“I know several people who are currently quite desperate to leave Russia,” said Elena, a Russian who lives and works in Finland. She was visiting her home city of Moscow when the Russian invasion began last Thursday. She immediately rebooked her return flight to Finland so that she could return the same day. “Many people don't feel safe in Russia. And they also know that the economic situation is going to be very difficult," the 37-year-old told AFP. She added: "Many people can no longer bear it from a moral point of view to stay."
While trains out of Russia are sometimes sold out, the return service from Helsinki to Saint Petersburg is only 30 percent full, Simola said. "I have no plans to return to Russia anytime soon, that's for sure," Elena said. She wishes to emphasize that the difficulties her home country is now and will face are “impossible to compare with the horror unfolding in Ukraine”. “Sometimes stiff prices” The sharp rise in demand sometimes seems to cause the prices for train tickets to rise sharply. For the afternoon train from St. Petersburg to Helsinki, you paid at least 9,122 euros on Thursday, a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal reported on Twitter. In the morning the prices started from 6,752 euros. However, the prices for Friday have already returned to normal, with tickets between 57 euros and 79 euros.De Finnish railway company VR, which operates in partnership with the Russian railways, wants to be able to open its services to all people with a passport from an EU member state and also increase the capacity on the trains.“We know that there are still tens of thousands of EU citizens in Russia and we assume that many of them would like to return home,” Simola said.
Most members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are neutral, as well as China, India, Pakistan.
The swift news seems to have shown that China already has its own system up and running completely. China has been using it to buy Iran oil for a few years now. India uses it to buy Russian weapons. The swift seems to be a non factor...except to cut off Europe from resources and energy. This nuclear option was used hastily and without thought of the repercussions.
Countries realizing that all of their reserves can be confiscated at a moments notice...loss of trust and integrity.
Countries realizing that all of their reserves can be confiscated at a moments notice...loss of trust and integrity.
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