Geo Political Risk

[Waltzing]

US Senator Marco Rubio has intriguingly suggested "something is off" with Vladimir Putin.


kazakhstan refuses to send troops to assist Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

[Bjauck]

Now he is threatening Finland and Sweden with trouble if they show an interest in joining NATO.

Interesting. Do you have a source for this please?

The EU will have to develop its own military otherwise Putin’s rampaging Russian bear will start to pick off its small “neutral” member nations.

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/russia-mil...163803214.html

[Panda-NZ-]

Interesting that currently, cities like St petersburg and even moscow are undefended.

Would be great if NATO wearing ukranian uniforms could go in as peacekeepers.

[Waltzing]

The Europeans will now respond late a bit but hopefully with a larger NATO.

Finland wont be listening to any threats as they have a long history of defending themselves.


https://www.spiegel.de/international...5-39e5790b29b2

spiegel always worth a read when waiting at an airport or travelling on a train.

[Panda-NZ-]

Hopefully swift sanctions will be announced soon.

EU can simply print money to cover all its losses unlike putins regime.

[mcdongle]

interesting discussion if you have 38 mins to spare...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GkmdCaBECs

[mcdongle]

Hopefully swift sanctions will be announced soon.

EU can simply print money to cover all its losses unlike putins regime.

They can print but where are they going to buy oil and gas from to keep their countries running?

[Waltzing]

The US will have to supply them with a new Berlin airlift only this one will be a sea lane.

Finally the Germans are preparing to send thousands of ANTI tank Weapons and Stingers.

Europe will now re Arm.

French preparing to build floating Gas Terminals to cater for supplies from Tankers.

[mcdongle]

The US will have to supply them with a new Berlin airlift only this one will be a sea lane.

Finally the Germans are preparing to send thousands of ANTI tank Weapons and Stingers.

Europe will now re Arm.

French preparing to build floating Gas Terminals to cater for supplies from Tankers.

There are not enough ships to do this and they take two years to build.
Also i read that Germanys banks are already integrated into the Russian version of swift.

[Waltzing]

They have to start somewhere... french wind turbines used to have a resource consent of 7 years. Cant be right but according to BBC.

Last 24 hours the germans are having a major rethink.. re : Das Spiegel.

attempt to cut swift cut off for some russian banks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60542433