WTF? Ukraine and Russia are talking all the time. That is how prioner exchanges and the like are organized.

Great news and much needed. Chinas emissions falling could very well mean global emissions start to fall. It also obviously weakens the fossil fuel industry in the rest of the world.

Year on year Chinas emissions went up by 0.8%. That is why. Btw the US emissions fell by 0.2%. However with Trump that is not going to last.

Please read up on what the EU actually is. That statement is about as smart as calling China a US state, because US companies invested a lot in China.

Europe has send twice as much aid to Ukraine as the US. There has also been a pretty large built up of military capacity in the EU, allowing enough weapons to flow to Ukraine for the coming years. The only thing Europeans need to do to stop Putin from marching into Kyiv is to keep sending aid.

Honestly not just third world countries. The UK has been warmimg up to China, with Trump being elected and Brexit being a problem. It is not like Trump is not trying to kill deals with other developed countries as well.

LNG is expensive. If Russia is selling gas to the EU again, it would have a decent time pushing out US LNG sales. A lot of gas is used outside of power generation, so consumption is not going to drop overnight.

Von der Leyen Comission got a sales ban of fossil fuel cars, a carbon market without offsets for heating and transport, lowered emission permits on the existing carbon market(again no offsets), carbon tariffs on some products, the nature restoration law and a bunch of other positive laws. So in terms of empty promises von der Leyen is actually doing pretty well.

That is fire extinguishing foam, not snow. Right now it is just below freezing in Liski

That is dumb…

Why not keep it up and just let Trump shut it down?

Lets see:

• Soviet era weapon storage is running empty
• national wealth fund is emptying
• sanctions hurting trade badly
• foreign workers stay out of Russia due to the massive increase of racisim
• huge emigration waves due to the war
• many foreign companies left Russia
• increase of crime, due to lack of cops and a lot of criminals being freed
• rubel looses a lot of value

But also fairly importantly a lot of Russians benefit from the war. The soldiers pay is great and the worker shortage means higher wages. That really has to break

The Russian military industry is already mostly owned by the government. The war related industry took on $200-250billion in new debt. That is about the Russian pre war federal budget for a year.

The EU has already sanctioned Russian shadow fleet vessels. Russia just buys more and uses those instead, so it needs to be updated all the time.

It is also realizing that there are a lot of great things in the world.

MTC is the largest Russian mobile carrier. T-Bank is a Russian bank. Telegram is mostly Russian as well, certainly not terribly Western. TikTok is Chinese. If this is blocking, then it is from the Russian side and not due to sanctions.

Huawei still sells networking hardware to Russia. So that is not a problem.

Also T-Bank is Russian, as is Telegram at least somewhat. TikTok is Chinese and they do not sanction Russia.

This is just Russian internet infrastructure collapsing. Nothing to do with sanctions. Although digital sanctions have hit Russia, for the most part using a VPN works fine.

The term World Systems theory would use is periphery. Thailand would probably end up in semi-periphery though. Also it is a model best kept in the 90s. Currently it is really having a hard time. Russia for example should be periphery, but acts like a core country.

No worries. They can all just start working at Fakel…