Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Sorry May not be clear was talking about the UK taking Russian money. keeping it.

Yeah I wager the Russians will be heavily pushed back into pocket areas. Then a protracted war with rotational ceasefires that are ignored. Dug in situation artillery swapping fire. Vast majority of Ukraine will then go on as normal.

bit too fast on the trigger there , your 300 years out of date with your fact check on my post.

I said " So I guess if you ignore Russia saving us from Islam in the 13th century  " 13TH CENTURY - I was CLEARLY taking about a period circa 1200-1350, Its not spin or a Russian narrative to say The Grand Princes of Russia fought the Mongol Horde and stopped the spread of Islam in the 12-1300s.

Battles of Vienna was in 1529 , sure that stopped Suleman in the 1500s, but if The Grand Russian Princes had not stopped The Golden Mongol Horde 300 years before whose to say there would have even been a Vienna to defend.

" Russia saving us from Islam in the 13th century " , thats a bit mad to try to contradict that statement by pointing out a similar battle in 1529 300 years later. The only analogy I could make to that wierd time travel history is its a bit like saying America didnt defeat England in the late 1700s because America fought with England 200 years later in WW2 .

Your also the guy who said Russia was doing little better than ... " A mickey mouse trade deal with say Mali ... "

LEX in the Financial Times reports that Japan, more specifically the Mitsui and Mitsubushi corporatins have said they want to remain as key partners in the Sakhalin-2 Natural gas project. Japan relies on Russian LNG for 10% (circa open to correction) for its energy needs. And even though Shell are exiting the project , Japan wants to remain a key partner (20+% stake) in this .

Sakhalin 2 according to SHELL provides 4% of the worlds LNG needs .

Yet here on boards we have people telling you Russia is losing economically, sure they are losing some economic battles , are they being compensated by other major wins, one could argue they are.

700 Million Euros heading Russias way today, 500 from the EU and 200 from China ... but but they have to discount the price is what some say, thats correct but their break even point on oil is about $40-45 , so any price they get over that is all profit, and oil experts say they give a $15-20 maybe $25 discount on whatever the market is. Oil is close on $108 so thats $80 bucks maybe, which is close on a 100% markup for Russia.

Nope folks time to wake up, our Western leaders have led us down another dead end, the only people in the west suffering are the ordinary man/woman/non-binary/... in the street having to pay thru the nose for ordinary day to day living expenses.

The sanctions were badly thought thru and have backfired catastrophically. Winter will expose the cracks in the mis-guided policy.