Hard to have as strong a sanction as today when a bunch of EU countries were against it. That included France, Italy, and Germany. Credit to Biden admin for unifying the west and more this time.
Germany would have been a tough nut to crack for sure. Their idiotic energy policies they were tied too would not have been as untenable. I disagree with you though because Zelenskyy is clearly the person who rallied the west. The USA wanted him to bail on his country a week ago
Understood, but that isn't what was happening in some of the videos. They were not even checking passports. They simply excluded people that looked different.
Zelenskyy definitely is a major part of it. The other major part is Putin was able to claim aggression from Ukraine in 2014 (there was even a major European country - can't remember who exactly - that agreed with him after 'fact findings'). He tried that game again. US and UK intel shut him down. Biden has also made it a priority to re-unite allies since it was weakened after Trump. Also, remember that many of these sanctions were planned ahead of time (before the invasion).
I hate this shitty world, there's nothing but corruption. I hate the fact that I am being monetized by cnn, and I still haven't forgot about Afghanistan and that ****. God blessed it.
There was a hell of a "fuss" when China tossed the Sino-British Joint Declaration into a dumpster. Just because the perception of you and perhaps some others is that more were paying paying attention to Daryl's tweet than they were to the catastrophe going on in Hong Kong, a catastrophe that is on-going, doesn't mean that your perception is the truth. Far from it. What does that have to do with Putin's insane invasion of democratic Ukraine? Is there racism going on at the Polish border where refugees are escaping Putin's monstrous assault on a European democracy? Yes. There are reports that some Ukrainian citizens "of color" are experiencing exactly that, and some aren't citizens of Ukraine, but rather people staying there for one reason or another and caught up in an unbelievable Russian invasion. I suspect that they will make their way into the EU eventually with some help from concerned Europeans, purely my opinion, but that there should be any distinction made is outrageous. You have brought that up. Others have, as well. I have read about it myself from different sources. I didn't get that information from here. However, if you want to have an extensive discussion of racism in this country, or any other not having a bearing on what's happening to Ukraine and the surrounding region, why don't you start a thread about it? Why not "bump" a thread about racism from the half dozen, likely more, threads that have been in D&D in the past? You are derailing things here, @Sweet Lou 4 2, in my opinion. You mean well, but you aren't helping the discussion about the hell that has descended upon Ukraine. By the way, I'm was very much aware of the Sino-Indian conflict you mentioned, just as I am aware of previous skirmishes, standoffs, and more major conflicts between the two countries. I'm sure I'm not the only one here, in my opinion. I spent several weeks in India during the mid-'60's and have had an interest in the country ever since.
You can literally watch Europe's largest nuclear plant being shelled and all markets are crashing hard along due to it. Power unit 1 got hit.
As I was saying the PRC doesn't want to be seen too closely associated with a loser if things go very badly for Putin. As bizarre as it sounds but Xi Jinping might be in a position to play mediator Putin won't listen to the US or NATO but he might listen if Xi Jinping steps in.
Insanity. Is Russia deliberately trying to draw NATO into this conflict? Doing something that endangers all of Europe with a radioactive catastrophe that beggars the imagination might bring that about.
Well, hopefully that reactor doesn't have the flaw design. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/terrorism-and-nuclear-energy-understanding-the-risks/ Could any of the 103 nuclear reactors in the United States be turned into a bomb? No. The laws of physics preclude it. In a nuclear weapon, radioactive atoms are packed densely enough within a small chamber to initiate an instantaneous explosive chain reaction. A reactor is far too large to produce the density and heat needed to create a nuclear explosion. Could terrorists turn any of our reactors into a Chernobyl? Again, extremely unlikely. American reactors have a completely different design. All reactors require a medium around the fuel rods to slow down the neutrons given off by the controlled chain reaction that ultimately produces heat to make steam to turn turbines that generate electricity. In the United States the medium is water, which also acts as a coolant. In the Chernobyl reactor it was graphite. Water is not combustible, but graphite—pure carbon—is combustible at high temperatures. Abysmal management, reckless errors, violation of basic safety procedures, and poor engineering at Chernobyl caused the core to melt down through several floors. A subsequent explosion involving steam and hydrogen blew off the roof (there was no containment structure) and ignited the graphite. Most of the radioactive core spewed out.
