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"NATO's wonder-weapons like HIMARS and Leopard tanks failed to fuel an effective Ukrainian counter-offensive. Diplomacy failed to isolate Russia, which is busy reviewing numerous applications to join it in the BRICS organization. Economic warfare has been a bust. This has led some to now consider the mother of all sanctions.

At present, Russian Central Bank assets have been frozen, which means they cannot be used, but still belong to Russia. Some foreign policy advisors are now proposing that these assets should be confiscated and handed over to Ukraine. Regardless of its legality, that is a very dumb idea. Taking the assets of Russia's central bank would encourage just about everyone to find an alternative to the dollar as their reserve currency. That won't be easy, but if the alternative is losing all your money if you annoy Washington, people will find a way. Nothing would do more to unite the Russian people in their hatred of the West, support for President Vladimir Putin and determination to continue the war than stealing what they consider to be their money; which, in fact, it is. And how do you think Putin would react? Well, for one, he will confiscate all Western assets in Russia. Is the U.S. Treasury prepared to compensate the mostly German owners of those assets for their losses?

Sanctions are cheap and easy to impose, but they seldom work. While they make it look like you are doing something meaningful, they are, in fact, often little more than economic virtue signaling. Economic sanctions have certainly not changed the outcome in Ukraine. Kyiv is out of men, out of money, out of artillery shells and out of time. The West should stop giving money to a man with a hole in his pocket."

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... And you think Russia is losing.
Keep up the great work then, is all I can say.
300 bln to put the nail into the coffin of the US empire is probably a small price to pay from a Russian perspective.

'Any realistic war game could have easily predicted all of this.'
My sources did predict much of it.
You sides hopes of destroying Russia were always founded in fantasy.
Remember 'Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country'
The counter-offensive was based on the premise that Russians would 'run away'.

The West, as well as the morons you listen to people are the worlds most incompetent idiots.

Do you have the humility to reflect upon the Wests past choices and assumptions and accept this analysis?
Or will you continue to support the 'doubling down on stupid' mentality, which only results in more people killed for nothing?

Did I not clearly detail the Wests stupidity the other day?
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=22806&page=0#394000

Seriously, Team Biden, Van der Leyen, Bearbock, Truedeau, Sholtz, Zelensky, Albo.
What a bunch of clueless incompetent fools, ALL OF THEM!

Baldrick,

You post Bullsh1te constantly. Only a moron would think that the sanctions haven't had a huge effect. For starters a 70% drop in oil and gas revenue, oil refineries stopping because they cannot get spares, the rapid increases in food prices and food shortages. Dumping of local subsidies for fuel, the collapse of the Russian air industry and the collapse of local infrastructure, health etc.

And the noose is closing.

Russia is losing this war.

Geez you cling on desperately to hope.

The Russians are laughing, saying "Thank you Joe Biden"
- I'll even show you the footage

This is Alexander Zyryanov, director of the Novosibirsk Region Development Corporation, the third largest region after Moscow and St. Petersburg.

"President Putin has been at the helm for many years and we remember the 1990s when life was very challenging we can see a lot of change for the better and during the special military operation his support has grown because we understand what we're fighting for. In my job I'm responsible for the economy of the Novosibirsk region for building new plants and facilities and this year we have seen the biggest volume of investment for the whole period that I have been in the office. We have outperformed in our plan almost fourfold our initial plan
was to raise 4 billion rubles we have raised almost 20, so the support of President Putin is unquestionable and this is not propaganda this is something that I come across on a daily basis and we have a joke that we thank President Biden for the sanctions. So had it not been for the sanctions that Joe Biden implemented our economy wouldn't have been growing at such a pace."

http://www.youtube.com/live/RCxZeePx96I&t=327

Here's the Wests plan:

Proposed Plan for Victory in Ukraine
http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Proposed-Plan-for-Victory-in-Ukraine.pdf
A path to victory for Ukraine will require (1) providing critical weapons to Ukraine at the speed of relevance, (2) tightening sanctions on the Putin regime, and (3) transferring frozen Russian sovereign assets to Ukraine.

- Firstly, the US and Europe don't have anymore weapons.
The US has had some 50+ drawdowns packages from their inventories.
New weapons have to be placed on order, and there's no more money unless congress approves it.
Even if they have money, that doesn't mean weapons instantly appear.
So providing weapons at the speed of relevance is not possible, certainly not possible in order to have enough equipment for another counter-offensive, and then you need trained combat ready troops.
Where are you going to get them from?
Russia has been destroying many European troops fighting for Ukraine as well you know?
Sanctions - It's not working
Stealing the 300 billion from Russia to fund it's enemy?
Sending Russian speaking people to the front to fight and die for Ukraine?

This is not a plan for Ukraine to win the war
It's a plan so that Biden doesn't lose the election, which is unlikely anyway, he's going to lose unless they can force Trump out of the race.

Meanwhile it's the West losing the economic war, the war you seem to forget.
All these European governments are going to disappear soon.
- If there's not insurrection first.

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer: Is Ukraine Finished?
http://www.youtube.com/live/UyS6XImWOP4?t=420

Judge: "How bad are things in Ukraine, is it on its last legs?"

Shaffer "Um, yeah it is, there's no way of putting a happy face on this I think people at Davos and NATO spokesman and all these other
NATO leaders, it's like they're literally living in an alternate world. The Russians... I don't know how to say this without sounding
Pro- Russian. The Russians have won. There's no path forward for the
Ukrainian military to return to an offensive, it's just not possible - the numbers aren't there. The Russians now have the option, not that I'm saying it'll exercise it - I have no inside knowledge I don't talk to any Russians just looking at the tea leaves and looking at the
situation that the Russians are going to have the option now in the spring to go back on the offensive, and they wouldn't have to work that hard to do it."

I listen to this stuff every day SM, many different people from a wide range of backgrounds.
Everyone is saying Ukraine IS DONE.

Tony Shaffer doesn't even like or support Putin.
He thinks he's a thug.

You think you know better than all these other experts?
You made the one grave mistake, you listen to the propaganda.
- The stuff that's meant to fool the Ukrainian people to keep on sending their loved ones to die.
- The stuff that's meant to keep money flowing to the military industrial complex, and then back into U.S. congressmens pockets.