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    Quote Originally Posted by Neveragain View Post
    Pretty much any of this type of information should be taken with a grain of salt. Deflating/inflating casualties is a propaganda staple.
    True dat. Biden would never lie though so I'll just wait to hear what he has to say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gelston View Post
    Biden didn't even have it on the table. We use it to buy oil from them too.
    I got the impression that the EU wanted nothing to do with cutting russia from swift.

    The US does ~10% in trade with Russia compared to the EU.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SHAFT View Post
    I got the impression that the EU wanted nothing to do with cutting russia from swift.

    The US does ~10% in trade with Russia compared to the EU.
    He said we'd reevaluate in a month.
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    Ukraine is handing out AK rifles to any citizen that will take them. So much for gun control when the world around you is going to hell…

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    Quote Originally Posted by Suppressed Poet View Post
    Ukraine is handing out AK rifles to any citizen that will take them. So much for gun control when the world around you is going to hell…
    Good. Make Russia bleed for this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ClydeR View Post
    In his press conference today, Biden said that the sanctions are worse than ejecting Russia from SWIFT. Who here knows enough about SWIFT to tell us if that is true? I do not understand what SWIFT is. Something about sending wires.
    I work for a big bank in a niche part of financial services, but honestly no idea about SWIFT until I started reading about it this week. My limited understanding is that if they are ejected from that, it essentially cuts off Russia from financial exchanges with the Western world. Sounds like that would hurt them a lot, but also be painful for Europe as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suppressed Poet View Post
    I work for a big bank in a niche part of financial services, but honestly no idea about SWIFT until I started reading about it this week. My limited understanding is that if they are ejected from that, it essentially cuts off Russia from financial exchanges with the Western world. Sounds like that would hurt them a lot, but also be painful for Europe as well.
    Yeah, cutting them off from swift is the nuclear option. Like I said earlier, I don’t think the EU has the stomach for it. They need russia for energy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Archigeek View Post
    If they really want to fuck up Russia, they'll bomb Russia's pipelines to Europe. That would cripple the Russian economy.
    I honestly think Javelins were not enough. Or those bunker busters that fuck up enemy trenches.

    I wish there was a very, very, very; and also, very discrete way to give them The Bomb.
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    Press: Mr. President, what about China?

    Brandon: I'm not prepared to answer that question.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Neveragain View Post
    Press: Mr. President, what about China?

    Brandon: I'm not prepared to answer that question.

    Well, at least he told the truth with that.
    I asked for neither your Opinion,
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    nor your Permission.

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