What kind of stupidity logic. Switzerland has never been neutral. Only on its war positioning where it supposedly doesn't war. Supporting it, yawn. Also on it supposedly joining the EU. Where it gets everybody else investing into it. But it still sanctions.
Look at it seizing on any sanctioned nation's reserves held in its monetary system recently. Venezuela, Syria, Libya, Iraq etc. Even Serbia if we go that far back.
But magically it would be different now?
Individuals perhaps until they're targeted by international sanctions. Switzerland has never maintained monetary neutrality. Not since WW2. Not recently.
It is what it is. I am not here to convince anybody of anything. I don't sell propaganda. I debate my own opinion. I don't pick sides.
You asked for a reason, but it doesn't bait me when giving an answer. I am neither. Dick move.
But topically why would I care? Is my prospective. I don't. But I tend to like a good war. Explosions are better than sparkles. Because it stops the bullshit. Where's Covid. Where's the other scandals. Suddenly there's some patriotism or some other coverage. Suddenly there's God save the nation. Seriously you should've asked on twitter.
I never said Ukraine was Russian. I stated Crimea is.
Nope Crimea is Russian, it always has been. Like much of Eastern Ukraine has always been largely Russian. They had an open border for centuries.
I am not gonna get into the geopolitics of Nato. It could undermine Europe or atleast facilitate the demand. But I might suggest another occurrence at the time of Ukrainian independence. Cough, Syria.
It's probably better to read twitter instead of geography and history books. Because propaganda will sell you fairytales.
I should avoid this shit. Dunno why. But l obviously should.
Look at the map. Or did you want me to link it.
Crimea is bang center in the middle of Ukrainian coastline. So Einstein what did you propose. Russia go home? There wasn't a direct threat? Where is Ukraine aiming its guns? What does it want? As global supplier of agriculture, various metals, minerals, and industry? It immediately aimed its guns on an Eastern separatist region start smaller obviously. Isn't Mariupol in Donetsk? It is the largest harbour in the Sea of Azov, and Eastern Ukraine, or it's crossing the Dneiper going around Crimea. But don't you see a Russian land bridge into Crimea.
Stop reading propaganda and use your fucking brain.
The Cold War profits. Races and redlines. It also profits the next age of control and rival tech.
Crimea dominates the Ukrainian coastline. Look at the map. By Ukraine becoming Western. Crimea is under increasing threat and so are other regions full of Russians. War literally would've happened. It was inevitable as the West supported Ukraine. Ukraine sought Crimea.
Outside of that basis. Russia potentiality dominates natural gas, and also agriculture, and increases production and manufacture from a favourable Ukraine.
By that run off collectively it is faster feeding and energising and potentially arming how much of the globe? These also trade in resources or simply buy into competition.
On the other shoe. Nope not bothering with any stakes.
No, they all aren't. There is however profit and what is profitable. It benefits trade and resources causing policy and agenda.
Russia haven't been part of the WEF or even the G summits since sanctions placed on Crimea and Syria.
Now they're totally cut off from most other funds, and Western institutions. Some are far more exclusive than above publicised.
But they have their own partners and competitors.
However, does the Globe simply go back to its red lines? Isn't it far too connected?
Do they protect your skin? Radiation enters from everything and everywhere, like pores. But in that blast radius, it's literally on everything right? There aren't no vaxs, I meant pills, for it. Masking doesn't work either. Full bunkers, with decontamination chambers. Perhaps they might offer mild protection against it carrying airbourne to areas outside of the blast radius. But can you swear on it?
None of it matters if a nuke carrying 25 odd warheads explodes across the entire country or state. It really doesn't matter if a hypersonic nuke has no detection. Or if a dirty bomb, briefcase nuke goes off.
Atleast you took your iodine? Full immunity.
Absolutely. But there are far more partner nations globally as that actually goes. But irregardless of it. The simple land mass has almost everything on it. Fuel, gas, metals, minerals, abundant water and agriculture etc. Those supply lines aren't threatened by sanctions, domestically. Although nationally it does lack, as example I read about, in certian alloys making stuff like hypersonics. Perhaps other rare earth minerals and metals needed in advanced aviation and space programs and electronics. Where China and sometimes even African nations supply. Again India and Brazil, are BRIC block sometimes trading through gold or other values.
Yes but they manufacture all of it. That point.
It isn't a globohomo corporate structure. Where every eurofighter has had each member topping its pizza, and unless Luxembourg sprinkles little rainbows, Greece will feel left out for making the exhaust.
It's simply all made in Russia unless any supply lines rupture. Funding, what?
It's like I said. The Network studios CGI stuff. It does this because it has to filter out bodies. Demoralising. Unethical. Because it makes propaganda and it uses narratives to rally and control and propagate. It often isn't even on the ground there. Just blue screens, sometimes using actors. There is also jammers and cyber warfare, no coverage, no internet. So journalism is caught between sides. Freelancers uplinking are sometimes army cams further filtered.
Yea studios make up stuff all the time.
Calling it a fake war. No it's far too big. Yes agendas on both sides and others profiting. Nothing changes. While policy put us here now.
Look at the Defcon site. It is level 2. Historically this is real. Because Russian heightened their response. Here's a money guess at Europe possibly sending fighter planes and drones and more lethal aid and supporting mercs. While literally sanctioning hard super hard. It is edgy.
But there is conflict despite the vague coverage.
For the sheer sake of conspiracy and yes I agree on the coverage being skewed. You're suggesting a moon landing. On such a global scale it's fooling far more than the dumb public. And a stupid space narrative. Yes it seemingly ties into agendas, like technology. But a lot of people will get hurt outside of any supposed conflict. Because that fuckery will spread to the markets where all of a sudden shortages are gonna cause fallout. Perhaps part of the plan. But the containment you've assumed will be another dumb narrative when control looses its grip and conflict and protest become real elsewhere spreading. Can you imagine places like Libya increasing in other nations as a result? Food shortages or simply prices hiking or market collapse. It spreads. Unless you're in on it. It gets ugly very ugly. Uncontained.
Okay so there might as well have been conflict justifying any result. Not just CGI propagating support.
China are directly supporting. It is still current. Any support likely won't change. But obviously they're also calling on mediation or terms. Largely supporting Russian policy, and their security concerns.
Literally it's back to the height of the Cold War, but absolutely different geopolitics. It's Defcon 2, and also the Russian equivalent. At 1, nukes potentially fly.
Incase you missed that meaning. It hasn't been the level for quite a long time. Although maybe briefly occurring on 9/11, think it was still 3, maybe not at the time of impacts.
But it is quite different this time.
China may still seize on it. Or others.
Kyiv Ukrainian, Kiev Russian.
I think they chose Kyiv after the former Soviet Block broke up, where it was formerly called chicken, no, I meant Kiev.
I think it became a narrative after the coup where it hit the sources and textbooks changing, perhaps now even drawing ire.
A nation that builds manufacturing its military, can deploy it until it runs out of resources.
The narrative of funding comes from banking cartels, these sanction. Therefore cutting off a nation sanctioned. Sanctions may cause citizens relying on credit, products, and services, and likewise trade to revolt. It can cause military operations to become ineffective and redeploy.
But it's a globohomo narrative largely from nations buying their armies or resources to fund them from somewhere else. No funding, no gas. No funding, no guns. No funding, no mercs.
In the last 100 odd years, a few examples. The British invasion of Egypt the Suez, German tanks running out of fuel, perhaps even Nixon stealing the gold, etc.
The term green energy is a hoax. Pure fraud. It only profits. At even staggering costs. Yes there is the little white lies skewed into any narrative. Where combustion does produce toxicity. But almost unlike anything EMR, and the waste of increasing electronics. It is speeding up consumption and automation in even more machiavellian attempts to invasively intrude and police you into dystopia. No we fundamentally don't get our energy from the sun or the wind. Props. Where science yes stuff grows needing light and warmth to live. But we are fundamentally using products made out of resources and we are using far more products and services the more we increase in electronics. These aren't green at all. Not green at all. IPhone, microwave, fridge what. Worse with a wind turbine. They don't recycle neither do solar panels. Instead they break even quicker. But we need them because some cunt called them green.
It is about dominating that source. If you own the railway, it was often the only means then, you can charge what you want. But you faster divest from other methods profiting. The stagecoach, wagon train riding through conflict zones. Or the merchant clippers taking much longer under pirate attack. Primative. Today that source aims to enslave you fully. Everything on the same grid and Internet digitally. Completely fallible all eggs in a rotten basket. Weather so green and oops lights out. But haha the railway baron laughs we can now charge double.
Yes big oil has been funding renewables. They're far more profitable. They still need big oil to make their bullshit products. But everything transport, energy, literally every product, and sooner agriculture, currency require it as their only means.
Because press is getting banned it's a warzone in active curfews. How much activity have they got. Are they on the ground in live fire, perhaps they are in secure zones, or are they simply reacting uplinks from local sources?
Press has become a narrative, it operates on which policy for what agenda. Dubious when shown to be bias. But it will be because of its narratives, although undoubtedly it contains facts, after shifting through any propaganda. Optics are often in the eye of the beholder. You see and hear what you want prompting your reactions and viewing.
Crimea voted Russian, when Ukraine couped, it has about a 75% Russian population, like the Eastern separatists regions.
Except historically Crimea has always been Russian. For the last few hundred years. It was gifted to Catherine the Great by separatists from the Ottomans, as a province, seeking a Russian protectorate. It has since been Russian.
Crimea like Hawaii has a huge naval and various military bases. These also manufacture and build.
It was a simple example not a direct parallel.
There is far more to that history but briefly unless you will debate otherwise. That's a run down. Far more like perhaps Cossacks. Curiously remember a line from Sean Bean in Goldeneye where did he come from? Eastern Ukraine separatist province. For the LOL. Seriously. Was Stalin a Cossack? Dunno, but asking. Although a different region?
Kazakhstan is very different. Completely different. Largely a closed country. Different politics. It flared probably exploited but a larger protest. Geopolitically Russian position and its allies a competitor alliance to Nato of former satellites sends in peacekeepers.
Russian problem is averting the image of becoming Soviet again. What do any alligned satellites do? They pick sides and possibly unalign. Citizens could even coup.
With Ukraine, due to a huge history not worth getting into, take far too long. But Crimea isn't going anywhere else. It frankly is absurd to even suggest America gives Hawaii back too. They don't even want too. But by geography it dominates Ukrainian coastline. The more Western Ukraine becomes the more threat to Russian Crimea it becomes. It might as well be what it is now because tomorrow it would be. Accidental war was sooner unavoidable, it redefines the borders. Instead of openly engaging until an accident causes it. It isn't only Crimea. Much of Eastern Ukraine is also of Russian origins.
But now once the bear awakes. It doesn't hibernate until its had its fill.
Who knows that full agenda.
Sending troops would have to be urgent. They're fully sealing the border shortly. No Western government will sign off on a hot war with a nuclear power. They might send as they have merc's already operating. But these aren't flying a flag except in support. Denied and disavowed. And munitions and aid.
It could escalate into a hot war the worse it gets. But immediately no support for boots on the ground flying another flag. Hence topically a jolt to it. But it doesn't need it. As propaganda reactors flare it causes more support. Sure if Nato gets hit, undeniable retaliation which could get very hot.
In answer to his question directly no. But never, is not an assumption. Let's suggest any conflict rides out for longer. What is the state of the Global economies this is impacting. Citizens start to cause unrest. What then happens if proxy's start to flare up.
Historically invasions have been cut short by funding, peaking unrest running off, the duration of conflict and the resistance to an occupation. Hence textbook; bog down arms funding patriotism, harass, sanction, propagate. It might divert their advance. But this is Russia an otherwise superpower. It has many of its own means, and when determined what's that textbook?
No it is 100%.
A) They have had months amassing
B) They're going to occupy after invasion, and root any major resistance.
C) In doing so they have to install a new command structure. Or a favourable one.
Your comparison is an existing command against a peasant revolt. Not against a standing army.
In this situation as a comparison, if they cannot effectively enter. It's a case of Aleppo. Because that enemy is using shields and retreating back into Urban centers where it has production and cover. This piece, a human shield. The men now the women. Protecting a command structure where it is rostering them. Largely to cause outcry as sanctions bite and outrage draws World opinion. It protects any other advance. But sooner they'll likely close the border completely and cut off coms.
But you're right who knows fully what that objective is. But it is faster getting full on. Men women are rostered.
Again I don't have to reiterate. I take no side. I am not fighting here. As an overview, discussion, I can only draw on comparison with what seems logical or obvious.
They repelled some of the initial invasion. Drones, urban retreat. It simply regroups and then comes back stronger. Russia has been sustaining some losses. But it's gonna get real ugly. Often the worse that resistance is. Because like Aleppo, they'll surround cities. Starving out supplies, disrupting any other utilities etc. Inching forward under artillery, and air. Not favourable but what's that objective?
Of course the problem for Russia becomes the sanctions and the outcry. Where mysteriously a mindset of sanctions assumes that a country with resources and production manufacturing its military instead of buying it, is costing multi billions to invade. Sanctions have cost. Inevitably. Because they also bite into the normal current population. If they don't stop Russia, by sanction what? The worse causalities there are how bad does it cause a reaction?
But this is also wrong. In a war where they're resisting what. Death, or freedom. Or freedom to die?
This is a propaganda tool. Human shield. Provoking global mediation. Because the meat is suddenly sweeter. Omg not the women and babies. Got to give the toddlers RPGs, releasing the self detonating grandparents.
What do you mean by redpilled? You put, They Live. Great Movie. But your point is? Something like; Dark City, an earlier type of Matrix with aliens, or something like Soylent Green? Or simply Dystopian movies. Where, The Men Behind the Sun is probably the most visceral.
Or did you mean redneck movies like Hobo with a Shotgun, or Tremors?
I know what you mean, but do you? It seems people simply chuck labels on stuff without using much distinction. Because if I put Demon Seed you might puke.
That stance changed after WW2. The hunt for the Nazi gold. Changing far more recently. They have been seizing accounts and reserves as a matter of fact. Where it's laughable to assume the argument of Swiss neutrality once targeted by international monetary sanctions.