re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Sunday to call for a rare emergency special session of the UN General Assembly on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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They’re having a vote to see if they should have a meeting? That’s bureaucracy at its finest right there. I’m sure there’s six doodle polls to align calendars for the pre vote discussion about the vote for the meeting where maybe something might, but probably won’t happen.

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If they nuke Washington and kill everyone with the codes and then China launches a shite ton of nukes at us before we can even react, what happens? The space nuke, while equally as destructive as a conventional nuke, means they don’t know a nuclear strike is coming. That’s a big difference than us having a few minutes to react.

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Are you just hysterical all the time? It’s impressive how you can imagine a worst-case scenario and then pretend it is the only possible outcome for literally every single thing you talk about.

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Are you just hysterical all the time? It’s impressive how you can imagine a worst-case scenario and then pretend it is the only possible outcome for literally every single thing you talk about.

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He’s living the MeltLife.

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Yep. You should have seen the Afghanistan thread.

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Because you didn’t realize what was going on and I understood that this would make Russia invade Ukraine and China invade Taiwan. I don’t think I’ve been too far off.

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baw was going to DC and demanding Bidens removal from office.

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How have things not gotten worse? I’m sorry, there’s a reason why people in this thread keep on bringing up China and Taiwan, because that’s next and will be at least (if not more) ten times worse than what’s going on in Ukraine. That’s the big picture here. Taiwan is the endgame and the precious that could ignite WWIII and throw this world into darkness.

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Russian tank seems to have driven off a bridge. Was this a female driver?

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Russian military is quickly becoming a laughing stock

[The Guardian] The US, Canada and key European countries have agreed to remove “selected Russian banks” from the Swift payment system, the countries announced on Saturday.

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“As Russian forces unleash their assault on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, we are resolved to continue imposing costs on Russia that will further isolate Russia from the international financial system and our economies. We will implement these measures within the coming days,” a statement from the leaders of the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada, and the US said.

Swift is the world’s main international payments network. Several countries have already expressed support for locking Russia out of the platform, and Germany, which had previously oppose the measure, leant its support earlier today.

The joint statement on Saturday made the move official, although few details were given as to when the Swift removal will take place, and which Russian banks will be targeted.

“We commit to ensuring that selected Russian banks are removed from the SWIFT messaging system. This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally,” the countries said.

“Second, we commit to imposing restrictive measures that will prevent the Russian Central Bank from deploying its international reserves in ways that undermine the impact of our sanctions.”

The countries also said they would take measures “to limit the sale of citizenship – so called golden passports – that let wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government become citizens of our countries and gain access to our financial systems”.

They also announced plans to launch a “transatlantic task force” which will ensure sanctions on Russians remain effective that will ensure the effective implementation of our financial sanctions by identifying and freezing the assets of sanctioned individuals and companies that exist within our jurisdictions. As a part of this effort we are committed to employing sanctions and other financial and enforcement measures on additional Russian officials and elites close to the Russian government, as well as their families, and their enablers to identify and freeze the assets they hold in our jurisdictions. We will also engage other governments and work to detect and disrupt the movement of ill-gotten gains, and to deny these individuals the ability to hide their assets in jurisdictions across the world.

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