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2022-03-11 Europe
Russian Judo Tears the West Apart: Washington's sanctions on Moscow will destroy Europe, not Russia
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Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top

#1 The US administration of President Joe Biden is now absolutely desperate: today it banned all imports of oil and gas from Russia, which happens to be the second-largest exporter of oil to the US, behind Canada and ahead of Mexico. The US’ big Russian-energy ’replacement strategy’ is to beg for oil from Iran and Venezuela.

Correct. Retarded, incompetent, destructive. Definitely not "evil" or "brilliant."
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-11 02:17||   2022-03-11 02:17|| Front Page Top

#2 The Russophobic all-out attack on Russian exports also targets palladium metals — vital for electronics, from laptops to aircraft systems. Prices are skyrocketing. Russia controls 50% of the global market. Then there are noble gases — neon, helium, argon, xenon — essential for production of microchips. Titanium has risen by a quarter, and both Boeing — by a third — and Airbus — by two thirds — rely on titanium from Russia.

This was obvious from Day One to anyone with even a basic understanding of our industrial manufacturing economy. It's a bit to hard to imagine that Team Biden didn't see these 2nd order effects.

Then again, we're talking about Rainbow doofuses like Tony Blinken and Pete Buttigieg, plus dopes like Jake Sullivan, Kamala H and the Vegetable-in-Chief himself. Like them, Ron Klain also never spent a day working in an industrial manufacturing company.


Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-11 02:24||   2022-03-11 02:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Oil, food, fertilizers, strategic metals, neon gas for semiconductors: all burning at the stake, at the feet of Witch Russia.

See comments above. Note the importance of food and fertilizers. As a software entrepreneur Ron Unz skins over these, but their impact is going to be far greater than the impact on the various tech industries.

As was pointed out yesterday we can expect with near total certainty a series of upheavals across the Middle East and Africa due to food scarcity resulting from these retarded sanctions.

Less predictable is the impact on US politics of skyrocketing food prices. Our parents and grandparents experienced hunger during the Depression. Biden likes to compare himself to FDR. Is he - perhaps subconsciously, in his demented way - trying to create another Depression?

Some of us have ancestors who escaped the Potato Famine. Will our children and grandchildren now experience another depression?

Will American democracy survive the predictable blowback and devastation caused by the madness of Team Biden and its idiotic sanctions of the #1 resource-producing economy in the world?
Posted by No Fortunate Son  2022-03-11 02:34||   2022-03-11 02:34|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ What American democracy?
Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-11 02:36||   2022-03-11 02:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The end result will be the US eating European savings for lunch while China expands its middle class to over 500 million people. Russia will do just fine, as Glazyev outlines: sovereign — and self-sufficient.

Correct again. Ignorant Americans forget that Russia has had over a decade -- 14 years! -- of experience with sanctions in which it has been preparing for this moment. It won't be painless but Russia and Russians will handle the fallout from sanctions better than Americans will.

To point this out is not to bash ordinary Americans or even to praise Russians. It is simply to acknowledge reality, and to recognize that other nations are not "irrational" or pathetic or insufficiently aware of how economies work. Those descriptors apply to our own shit-for-brains political class.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-11 02:41||   2022-03-11 02:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Food shortages already afflict some 70 million people in MENA (Middle East / N Africa).

Now we will have famines and wars and revolutions. Is Biden a Leninist?
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-11 03:48||   2022-03-11 03:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Lesee...6 comments, 5 by Lex NFS so far. Hmmmm. A monologue?
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-11 06:46||   2022-03-11 06:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Could be multiple poster under the same name.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-11 07:12||   2022-03-11 07:12|| Front Page Top

#9  Food shortages already afflict some 70 million people in MENA (Middle East / N Africa).

Now we will have famines and wars and revolutions. Is Biden a Leninist?

Brevity is not your strong suit, is it?
Posted by badanov 2022-03-11 07:32||   2022-03-11 07:32|| Front Page Top

#10 " Brevity is the Soul of Wit It is one of the countless phrases coined by William Shakespeare ', but now and then I will partake of it.
Posted by Dale 2022-03-11 08:21||   2022-03-11 08:21|| Front Page Top

#11 ...whatever.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-11 08:24||   2022-03-11 08:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Old "Pepe Escobar". Still shilling for the Communists and Fascists and more wrong for a longer time than even Joe Biden.
Posted by Unoluling Ebbush7408 2022-03-11 08:26||   2022-03-11 08:26|| Front Page Top

#13 brevity
Can you say, Blowback?
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-11 08:33||   2022-03-11 08:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Ukraine War Pushes Biden Toward Venezuela, Iran and Saudi Arabia in Oil Hunt
😛👏🏻💩
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-11 08:38||   2022-03-11 08:38|| Front Page Top

#15 soul of wit
Like Kamala Harris?
💃🏽
"A friend in need is a friend indeed," Kamala said before howling with more laughter. The Polish President ended up taking the question since Harris was incapable of recovering a serious composure.
Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-11 08:43||   2022-03-11 08:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Unz is an antisemitic website. Quite surprised to see it posted here.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-03-11 17:58||   2022-03-11 17:58|| Front Page Top

#17 I don't care if he thinks jooz are germs,
Or got caught using incorrect terms,
For I fear not Ron Unz...
But that writing! Great guns,
What a hot, squirming handful of worms!
Posted by Chusosh Clunk9058 2022-03-11 20:48||   2022-03-11 20:48|| Front Page Top

#18 And speaking of squirming brains... it's really important to me for some reason that "squirming" above read "squirmin'."
Posted by Chusosh Clunk9058 2022-03-11 20:54||   2022-03-11 20:54|| Front Page Top

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