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Russia Seeks Economic Revenge Against Turkey Over Jet

DDD said:
It takes two stupid opponents that must prove to the world how tough they are to enter WW3.
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At least this economic action isn't a shooting war. Whether or not it'll escalate into a shooting war is yet to be seen, but I rather doubt it. Seems the likelihood of that is pretty low.

Simpleχity;1065294006 said:
Sooner rather than later, I hope everyone will realize how dangerous it is to become addicted to the Russian petro-state

Moscow will always hold energy-dependency over a nation's head like a Sword of Damocles.
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At the present state of the world oil market it's a pretty weak Sword of Damocles. Should the Saudi surplus pumping get cut back, then it'll be a lot more impactful.
 
woodsman said:
Actually he has a point, Russia does use It’s natural resources as a sword. One may want to consider the amount of Natural gas and petroleum flowing into northern Europe and the EU Countries. They are absolutely dependent on this fuel and Putin knows this. We may want to recognize this is why no action was taken when Russia invaded and took back Crimea, the threat of shutting off the tap kept Europe and Obama reasonably silent.
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Bit of a far stretch, that.

If Putin shut off the tap, Europe would hardly perish what with the oil markets being what they are. Maybe Russia wouldn't hurt awfully either but it would be cutting off its nose to spite its own face.

As to fear of a shut tap keeping Europe silent over Crimea, that's a rather silly statement. As I recall it got quite loud. That it didn't go to war over Ukraine is hardly surprising.

For one thing because Crimea holds no sufficient importance, for another because many understand that Crimea had been Russian for centuries anyway. That it wound up with Ukraine was a historical fluke when the USSR disintegrated. If Khrushchev hadn't given it to Ukraine in 1953 there wouldn't even have been a crisis.
 
Montecresto said:
Of course your opinions stand, as do everyone else's. If you can't be bothered, unsubscribe.
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So, I should unsubscrid because I don’t wanna be bothered with nonsensical nonsense, thanks for the advice..
 
woodsman said:
So, I should unsubscrid because I don’t wanna be bothered with nonsensical nonsense, thanks for the advice..
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No, because you've forgotten so much. Not much left to deal with, or not? Russian economics, remember or have you forgotten?
 
woodsman said:
So, I should unsubscrid because I don’t wanna be bothered with nonsensical nonsense, thanks for the advice..
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No, you do the mature thing, and read by it. No one forces a reply, or even to post to what you consider nonsense.
Is that not correct?
 
woodsman said:
So, I should unsubscrid because I don’t wanna be bothered with nonsensical nonsense, thanks for the advice..
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Well, maybe if you were to raise your own standards of posting, you'd be secure from suspicion of projecting.

As things are right now, the only thing you posted on the topic itself so far, wasn't exactly an analytical highlight.

IMO, of course, but that may be biased by my not having forgotten much at all.
 
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