Timothy Birdnow

In a discussion with Valerius Anders he points out how strange this war between Russia and Ukraine has been, as has our response.

Valerius points out:

The Ukrainians did not destroy the bridge to Crimea- this made the invasion easier

The invasion routes have been printed for weeks - and yet there was no resistance

And all those US and UK weapons - mostly remain unseen

Even NATO took many hours before being able to get a few words on paper - as if NATO had not been predicting the invasion for months

There is something mysterious happening over there.

The US have refused to block the Bosporus to Russian Navy ships. Germany is preventing others from banning Russian companies from using SWIFT...

Tim adds:

That last is interesting. I heard a security expert discussing that bit about SWIFT - the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication - which controls the flow of money electronically. Stop that and Russia's economy will collapse, the expert claimed. Yet Germany is blocking that.

And why not? It's the dead of winter and Germany doesn't want to be without natural gas to heat their homes. Clearly the "green" technology they have invested in so heavily can't do the job.

So we have the means at our disposal to stop Russia at any time but are refusing to use it.

We could take steps to get the price of oil and gas to come down too; that would drain Russia's finances.

There are strange things about this war.

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