Now watch the greens blame the failure at Liddel because it is a
coal station.
Well, it is a transformer failure and wind and solar probably have
many more transformers per Megawatt than steam stations.
They would in fact be choppers and as such much less reliable.

The whole system has been weakened to such an extent that one
transformer can throw the country into a political tizz.
After all that money has been thrown at W&S this is what we get !

Hey shadowminister,

Looks like I forgot to add the video link for Tech Camp run out of the US Embassy in Kiev, I'll add it now.
http://youtu.be/bpIoBUDuL3U
"The U.S. Embassy hosted TechCamp Kyiv at Master Klass Cultural Center in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 12 and 13. TechCamp Kyiv marks the 14th TechCamp supporting Secretary Clinton's Civil Society 2.0, an initiative which builds the digital literacy of civil society organizations around the world."
There's only 4000 views on that video.
You're now one of less than 5000 everyday people who know the real unmistakable truth about Ukraine.
So have I proven adequately that the US caused this damn mess in Ukraine?
I'll add the other video again to MAKE CERTAIN that you do.
November 2013 Pre-Maidan - Ukraine Deputy Has Proof of USA Staging Civil War in Ukraine
http://youtu.be/y9hOl8TuBUM
Turn closed captions on or read the description.

It's fairly straightforward if you watch both those videos and read the descriptions.
Both of which I posted here in the forum 4 YEARS AGO.

Do you understand that I hold the same damn position in opposition to US government overthrows I've always had?

"This new payment system devised by the Russians has one major flaw in that it is not accepted by any western banks..."

http://sports.yahoo.com/20-european-natural-gas-buyers-121005100.html
"Twenty European natural gas buyers have opened accounts with Gazprombank so they can pay in rubles, a person close to Kremlin-controlled energy giant Gazprom told Bloomberg.
A further 14 companies have requested the paperwork to set up accounts with Gazprombank, the anonymous source said in an article published on Thursday."

As for your other arguments, go here, skip to 45min mark, watch this important video and get yourself up to speed.
Then you'll have the same info I've got.
http://youtu.be/COl-b6pD214

Next, look at the damn map, does it look like Ukraine are winning to you?
http://liveuamap.com/

Now watch this and you can see all the Ukrainian military units who are quitting or going AWOL.
http://youtu.be/qeFSGUPemzc

Hey Canem malum,
I'm not sure I spoke about everything of that list you added earlier,
- But I do remember telling you that I had serious doubts Russia shot down MH-17.

Even Lavrov mentions it and refutes it in this video I watched a couple days ago.
http://youtu.be/ecpRrep0twE

Now some of you post some good info, but just in general, and in relation to quality of news,
- I just want to say you're not going to get any wiser watching the dog-shite they spoon feed you to keep you dumb.
If I watched the news you all watch I'd be just as much of a mushroom.
- Kept in the dark and fed nothing but BS, that's what our news does.

Oh and by the way shadowminister,
"These sanctions are slated to stay in place until Russia withdraws from the whole of Ukraine including Crimea."

If you think that's going to happen then you're dreaming.
Russia will nuke everything before they give up Crimea.
- IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, so stop living in the past -

In Russia, there's only 2 outcomes.
Either Russia wins, or there will be a nuclear war.

AC,

For starters, only a nut job would think that Russia could win a nuclear war. It would simply cease to exist. As for Russia winning the war, Russia is advancing at a glacial pace whilst burning through huge numbers of troops and materiel that cannot be replaced all the time committing 1000s of war crimes. Russia has lost more men and equipment than it did in 10 years in Afghanistan before it fled.

Secondly, you have not offered a jot of proof that the US had anything to do with the overthrow of the Russian puppet government in Ukraine.

Thirdly, Gazprombank is one of the very few banks that haven't yet been blocked from the swift system, and only deals in oil and gas. The few EU businesses still buying gas pay in Euros and the bank changes it into Rubles. This is not a new system in any form and businesses other than petrochemical cannot sell their products to the wealthiest economies.

Russian small businesses are going bankrupt at a prodigious rate.