The Russians have gone in

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I pray God and His legions will show Putin his own future, and heal his sickened mind. Pride cometh before a bad fall. At this point, the only way Putin can save face is to withdraw and stop his threats. That would not make him weak, but strong. Today! Amen

Sadly, not in his eyes I think. He will see it as a defeat unless he can truly subdue Ukrainie. If the ground troops can’t get the job done, he will resort to thermobaric weapons, and then who knows?
 
It's reported today that Belarus will probably join the fight on the side of Russia. I suspect that Putin has probably pushed his toady puppet state into it. This is not good news.

What would be good news is that the UN is considering removing Russia from its security council, forcing the end of its veto power. I'll believe it when I see it, though.

John
 
BBC: Russia has more than doubled its interest rate to 20% in a bid to halt a slump in the value of its currency
Rouble, rouble, toil and trouble!

And on the London market, the shares of Gazprom, which sells Russia’s natural gas abroad and fills all those pipelines, dropped 55% this morning. Rozneft, which sells the Russian oil, dropped 40%.

It doesn’t look like folks who actually understand the energy market share the view that “Putin will just sell his oil and gas to China and be fine”.
 
The sun is going dark! The SWISS are going to freeze Russia's assets!!!

GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss President Ignazio Cassis said on Sunday that it was "very probable" that neutral Switzerland would follow the European Union (EU) on Monday in sanctioning Russia and freezing Russian assets in the Alpine country.

Cassis, interviewed on French-language Swiss public television, said that the seven-member Federal Council would meet on Monday and review recommendations by the departments of finance and economy.
TV says this has now occurred. Russian assets in Switzerland are frozen.
 
Isn't refusing access to your money the Swiss equivalent of declaring war?

It's hard to overstate how significant this news is. Switzerland has been neutral for 217 years...until now. We are witnessing history being made, in many, many ways.

Let's hope that Putin's myrmidons understand the harm he is doing to Mother Russia and take appropriate action...

Swiss neutrality - Wikipedia
 
I didn't think the Swiss would do it. I am surprised, impressed, and encouraged. That is gonna be serious bite in the butt for Putin and his gangster oligarchs.

This is big, have the Swiss ever taken a side?
 
I'm glad to see the worldwide response to help Ukraine. There are a lot more good guys in the world than bad guys. The bad guys can't be bullies if all the good guys band together and shut them down. This works on a neighborhood, local, national and world level.
 
The easiest way out of this
crisis is for the Russian
military and the oligarchy
to decide that money, money,
money, money is more
important than Putin's ego.

Sometimes, a mob boss has
to "step down" one way or
another.
 
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