“[We have] lots of weapons to reply.”
Punishment
No cap.
Critical infrastructure.
Russia’s greatest strength, politically, was the notion that it could not be beaten. This weekend, its army was routed. That will change the political calculus considerably.
Simon Coveney says that neutrality means taking sides “from a military support point of view” in conflicts which don’t involve us. @Ben_Scallan says someone get this man a dictionary pronto.
It’s a funny thing, in 2022, to live in a modern, tolerant, compassionate country like Ireland.
The EU has reportedly been buying natural gas from China at a premium, which has in turn been buying its gas from Russia. According to Hong Kong-based news outlet the South China Morning Post, the Chinese government bought 2.35 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas in the first half of 2022 – 28.7% more than […]
Henry Kissinger famously applied the dictum that “information is power” to a theory of global economic and political systems. His understanding of geopolitics and global economies and the interconnected global world can be summarized with the triad: Control food, you control the populations; control energy, you control whole continents; control currency, you control the world. […]
BEN SCALLAN: Some of the weapons being poured into Ukraine will inevitably end up on the European black market, meaning we can all look forward to a new breed of military-armed gangs and super terrorists. #gript
Military neutrality.
Interesting times ahead.