How The West's Sanctions On Russia Backfired

 

July 25, 2022

 

We Boggart Bloggers don't like to say, "We Told You So," we absolutely LOVE it.

The strategy adopted by the collectively demented Biden administration in the USA and supported by its allies in NATO and the European Union against Russia in Ukraine is fast proving a total fiasco, sanctioning Russia has backfired on the EU with Germany and several other nations now so short of natural gas for industry and domestic use they are having to introduce rationing. There have also been unintended consequences for international food and fertiliser which will inevitably worsen in the coming months.

EU countries which rely heavily on Russian oil and gas as a result of dismantling their own energy infrastructure in pursuit of idiotic 'Net Zero' targets set by the Brussels bureaucrats on the advice of a 15 year old Swedish retard are now doomed to the worst energy crisis since the 1970s when the cold weather arrives. With no way of averting the crisis they are also awakening to the threat of another mass migration from the starving Middle East and Africa, which depend on exported Ukrainian and Russian wheat for food because the war has cut off shipping routes through The Black Sea.

The full weight of this migration crisis will fall on the EU, which was flooded with a million illiterate, uneducated, unemployable, sex starved migrants in 2015 during the war in Syria and with whom it has struggled to cope in the years since. What will the EU do with a million or more others whom it cannot prevent from coming?

Ukrainian wheat exports are stuck in ports blockaded by the Russian Black Sea fleet. Russian exports are blocked by United Nation sanctions enforced by the USA. The world was told these sanctions would cripple the Russian economy and force Putin to abandon his military adventure in Ukraine. These have not only failed to achieve their objective but are seriously hurting the rest of the world, while Russia sells its gas and oil through proxies to Asia, Africa and under the counter to European nations brave or desperate enough to stand out from the crowd.

Why was none of this foreseen by the highly paid 'experts' who advise governments before the sanctions were imposed, when three retired old gits like us could see it in technicolour and 3D. Was it due to the arrogance of NATO governments that designed their sanctions in the exercise of so-called smart power? Turned out to be stupid power didn't it. Most stupid of all is the way those governments and their 'experts' are crying foul now Russia's retaliatory sanctions are hitting the west.

The Sanctions, deceitfully described as the toughest ever, appear to have been planned on the assumption that Russia's economy would quickly fold under them and the resulting political chaos in Moscow would trigger the removal of Vladimir Putin from the presidency. But the Russian economy prospered, the Rouble did not collapse, it grew stronger and Putin is still in control. The Russian army has captured 20 per cent of eastern Ukraine and intends to stay there until whatever peace is agreed and probably longer.

The other half of the strategy, based on the assumption that defensively-armed Ukrainian forces could defeat the Russians without NATO soldiers trained in hi-tech warfare fighting on the ground alongside them, has also failed.

In spite of all this, there is no evidence that Nato policy is being re-thought. The Russians are embedded in Ukraine and cannot be dislodged without direct, boots on the ground intervention from NATO, and this is not going to happen mainly because smaller NATO members that have borders with Russia would be vulnerable and several large and economically powerful NATO members are dependent of Russia for gas and electricity. Rarely has the phrase ‘sleep-walking to disaster’ seemed more apt now that we see the horrifying result. Putin has the west over a barrell (of oil) and is shafting us up the (Nord Stream) pipeline.

Foreign policy ‘realists’ blame successive US administrations for provoking the war by expanding NATO eastward after the Soviet Union fell and inviting Ukraine to join. This is denied by war hawks, who claim NATO was never a threat to Russia even while its recruitment policy over the past 35 years is evidence that the alliance was working to surround Russia.  There were even plans to recruit Georgia and Kazakhstan to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. NATO may officially be defensive but there is little difference between a defensive and offensive alliance when it can transform itself from one to the other in an instant as the Russians fear.

The latest delusional prognostication from Washington is that the Russians will feel the full bite of sanctions this autumn but there is no reason to believe this is anything but wishful thinking born of desperation that NATO ’s failed policies will somehow come right.

The realist counter-argument to the proposal to admit Ukraine to NATO, that Russia is genuinely paranoid about the deployment of mainly American Nato troops and missiles on its western border, is dismissed as naïve sympathy for an anti-West aggressor who is a permanent threat to peace. But while the hawks in Washington, London and Paris can only point to a minor incursion into Georgia since the fall of the Soviet Union to back up their claim that Russia is an expansionist power, the Russians cite inverventions by the USA and NATO in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, The Balkans after the break up of Yugoslavia, and indirectly in Yemen to prove that far from being a mutual defence treaty, NATO has appointed itself the world's policeman, the military wing of The United Nations.

Everyone knew well in advance that Putin would invade Ukraine. The question is: why, if Biden wasn’t going to try to prevent war by negotiating with the Russian leader, the West did not give more thought to dealing the dire consequences on which it has since impaled itself?

The energy crisis was unfolding long before sanctions cut off Russian oil and gas, an action which would inevitably aggravate it, were imposed. The blockade of Ukraine’s main wheat export port of Odessa was foreseeable. The ensuing shortage of wheat in the Middle East and Africa was an inevitable consequence. Was any thought given to other ways to feed these peoples? Was there any contingency plan?

Another increasingly significant factor in the direction the conflict may now take of the conflict is public opinion, especially in Europe as people begin to suffer the full economic and social impact of the choices their leaders have made.Runaway inflation, fuel poverty, cold showers, empty supermarket shelves ... People will not give indefinite support to a cause in which they perceive no direct national stake and which has only negative effects on them. Ukraine was portrayed as a necessary ‘good war’ but looks more and more like a bad one for which the west has no exit strategy.

The EU expects Putin to weaponise or even totally cut off its energy exports to Germany and northern Europe via the Nord Stream pipeline, and has asked member countries to reduce their gas usage by 15 per cent between August and March. It proposes to grant itself powers to enforce the limitation thus usurping a little more of member states' sovereignty.

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen complained hypocritically to the media that ‘Russia is blackmailing us. Russia is using energy as a weapon’. Translation – we can sanction Russia but it’s not fair for Russia to sanction us.

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Boris Johnson's Flagship Net Zero Policy Flops As Few People Take Up Grants To Replace Boilers With Heat Pumps 

An air source heat pump - Picture: ecosolar heating australia

Sometime last year  besotted Boris Johnson  unveiled his flagship policy for heating all our homes with zero emissions heat sourced from ... wait for it ... the cold air outside our homes. Under the Government’s “boiler upgrade scheme”, 'woke' and environmentally conscious homeowners would be able to  apply for vouchers that knock up to £6,000 off the cost of installing heat pumps to transfer heat from outside our homes (on a winter's day,) into our baths, showers and heating systems. 

Now there is nothing wrong with heat pumps, they are simply a refrigerator or air conditioninh unit in reverse and the technology has been around for over a hundred years. And in places like Australia where our picture was taken, they work very well. But in Britain in the depths of winter? There's a bit of a difference. If you are curious to know how heat pumps work we reported in detail on the technology a year ago HERE, There are problems with heat pumps of course, mainly because the scientists who dreamed up this latest green idiocy were working with mathematical models of a home, its occupants and an average day. And as usual the mathematical models work just fine but have nothing to do with reality. One is that they require shitloads of electricity to run them, and on those cold, windless, sunless days of a typical British winter when output from wind turbines and solar panels is negligable, if we have abandoned fossil fuels and declined to build new nuclear plant because the Exstinktion Rebellion crusties don't like it, where will that eletricity come from?

The governments envisaged three-year programme to 'nudge' us all to throw out our efficient boilers and storage heaters and rely on inefficient, unreliable technologies included a scheme to make the devices more affordable and stimulate domestic demand, with ministers hoping that plumbers will be installing 600,000 per year by 2028.

But despite 30,000 vouchers being made available for the current financial year, only 4,100 applications have been received and only 2,500 issued since the scheme opened on May 23. A big part of the problem was that the vouchers are worth £6000 and the heat pump plus installation costs upwards of £25,000 (£10,000 for the heat pump, the rest for upgrading and adapting electrical and plumbing systems.

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak, who is currently campaigning to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, has hinted he could scrap the scheme altogether and divert cash towards efforts to improve household insulation.

Craig Mackinlay, a Tory MP who chairs the Net Zero Scrutiny Group, claimed the figures underlined “the futility of a target-led approach which attempts to force consumers into adopting technologies which they simply don't want, are expensive and don’t work very well”.

MacKinlay said: “Just like the period of subsidies for electric cars, heat pump vouchers are only likely to be used by those with the additional resources to pay for such expensive playthings.

“Although the Treasury has been unable to spend as much money as they were hoping to, this still equates to large sums of money wasted on people who don't need state hand-outs.

“The Government urgently needs to develop a market-friendly approach to decarbonisation which focuses on developing technologies people would choose to use without compulsion.”

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When The Lies Come Home

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/when-lies-come-home

by Tyler Durden

Saturday, Jun 18, 2022 - 10:44 PM

Authored by Douglas MacGregor via TheAmericanConservative.com,

After lying for months, the media are preparing the public for Ukraine’s military collapse...

Diogenes, one of the ancient world’s illustrious philosophers, believed that lies were the currency of politics, and those lies were the ones he sought to expose and debase. To make his point, Diogenes occasionally carried a lit lantern through the streets of Athens in the daylight. If asked why, Diogenes would say he was searching for an honest man.

Finding an honest man today in Washington, D.C., is equally challenging. Diogenes would need a Xenon Searchlight in each hand.

Still, there are brief moments of clarity inside the Washington establishment. Having lied prolifically for months to the American public about the origins and conduct of the war in Ukraine, the media are now preparing the American, British, and other Western publics for Ukraine’s military collapse. It is long overdue.

The Western media did everything in its power to give the Ukrainian defense the appearance of far greater strength than it really possessed. Careful observers noted that the same video clips of Russian tanks under attack were shown repeatedly. Local counterattacks were reported as though they were operational maneuvers.

Russian errors were exaggerated out of all proportion to their significance. Russian losses and the true extent of Ukraine’s own losses were distorted, fabricated, or simply ignored. But conditions on the battlefield changed little over time. Once Ukrainian forces immobilized themselves in static defensive positions inside urban areas and  the central Donbas, the Ukrainian position was hopeless. But this development was portrayed as failure by the Russians to gain “their objectives.”

Ground-combat forces that immobilize soldiers in prepared defenses will be identified, targeted, and destroyed from a distance. When persistent overhead intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets, whether manned or unmanned, are linked to precision guided-strike weapons or modern artillery systems informed by accurate targeting data, “holding ground” is fatal to any ground force. This is all the more true in Ukraine, because it was apparent from the first action that Moscow focused on the destruction of Ukrainian forces, not on the occupation of cities or the capture of Ukrainian territory west of the Dnieper River.

The result has been the piecemeal annihilation of Ukrainian forces. Only the episodic infusion of U.S. and allied weapons kept Kiev’s battered legions in the field; legions that are now dying in great numbers thanks to Washington’s proxy war.

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Energy Transition Goals At Risk As EU May Label Lithium As Toxic

by Tyler Durden

Sunday, Jun 19, 2022 - 02:20 PM

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/energy-transition-goals-risk-eu-may-label-lithium-toxic

Via Rystad Energy,

• European Commission could move to put lithium on a list of toxic substances.

• This piece of regulation could drive up prices across the battery supply chain.

• Should the European Commission take this decision, it may undermine the EU’s energy security.

A potential European Commission (EC) act to classify lithium as a Category 1A reproductive toxin in this year’s fourth quarter could undermine the European Union (EU)’s attempt to create and support a domestic battery materials supply chain.

The EU currently relies heavily on imports of lithium to supply its nascent electric vehicle (EV) production sector and the classification may increase its reliance on other regions, at a time when the union is focused on energy security and reducing emissions. Europe has announced plans to expand lithium battery-grade Li Carbonate production from nothing today to 8.3% of global production by 2025, according to Rystad Energy research.

Europe has similar ambitions for lithium hydroxide, which is crucial for long-range EV batteries. Even without the potential decision by the EC, it will still fall well short of closing the estimated 218% deficit gap in lithium hydroxide processing that Europe is facing by the end of 2030, according to Rystad Energy research. The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)’s Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) at the end of 2021 published its opinion that it agreed with French proposals to classify three lithium salts as Category 1A reproductive toxicants. It determined that lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide and lithium chloride should be classified under the Classification, Labelling & Packaging (CLP) Regulation as substances that may damage fertility and unborn children. It also agreed that the substances may harm breastfed children.

Initial proposals were presented to the EC on March 23 and 24 and are now under review and consultation, with the EC set to publish its first draft of the act between October and December. EU member states can still object to these proposals through the summer.

While the classification would not stop lithium usage, it is highly likely that it would have an impact on at least four stages in the EU lithium battery supply chain: lithium mining; processing; cathode production; and recycling. Several administrative issues, risk management and restrictions could hit each of these fledgling industries in Europe, which would drive up costs.

 

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Boris Johnson's Flagshop Net Zero Policy Flops As Few People Take Up Grants To Replace Boilers With Heat Pumps 

An air source heat pump - Picture: ecosolar heating australia

Sometime last year  besotted Boris Johnson  unveiled his flagship policy for heating all our homes with zero emissions heat sourced from ... wait for it ... the cold air outside our homes. Under the Government’s “boiler upgrade scheme”, 'woke' and environmentally conscious homeowners would be able to  apply for vouchers that knock up to £6,000 off the cost of installing heat pumps to transfer heat from outside our homes (on a winter's day,) into our baths, showers and heating systems. 

Now there is nothing wrong with heat pumps, they are simply a refrigerator or air conditioninh unit in reverse and the technology has been around for over a hundred years. And in places like Australia where our picture was taken, they work very well. But in Britain in the depths of winter? There's a bit of a difference. If you are curious to know how heat pumps work we reported in detail on the technology a year ago HERE, There are problems with heat pumps of course, mainly because the scientists who dreamed up this latest green idiocy were working with mathematical models of a home, its occupants and an average day. And as usual the mathematical models work just fine but have nothing to do with reality. One is that they require shitloads of electricity to run them, and on those cold, windless, sunless days of a typical British winter when output from wind turbines and solar panels is negligable, if we have abandoned fossil fuels and declined to build new nuclear plant because the Exstinktion Rebellion crusties don't like it, where will that eletricity come from?

The governments envisaged three-year programme to 'nudge' us all to throw out our efficient boilers and storage heaters and rely on inefficient, unreliable technologies included a scheme to make the devices more affordable and stimulate domestic demand, with ministers hoping that plumbers will be installing 600,000 per year by 2028.

But despite 30,000 vouchers being made available for the current financial year, only 4,100 applications have been received and only 2,500 issued since the scheme opened on May 23. A big part of the problem was that the vouchers are worth £6000 and the heat pump plus installation costs upwards of £25,000 (£10,000 for the heat pump, the rest for upgrading and adapting electrical and plumbing systems.

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak, who is currently campaigning to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, has hinted he could scrap the scheme altogether and divert cash towards efforts to improve household insulation.

Craig Mackinlay, a Tory MP who chairs the Net Zero Scrutiny Group, claimed the figures underlined “the futility of a target-led approach which attempts to force consumers into adopting technologies which they simply don't want, are expensive and don’t work very well”.

MacKinlay said: “Just like the period of subsidies for electric cars, heat pump vouchers are only likely to be used by those with the additional resources to pay for such expensive playthings.

“Although the Treasury has been unable to spend as much money as they were hoping to, this still equates to large sums of money wasted on people who don't need state hand-outs.

“The Government urgently needs to develop a market-friendly approach to decarbonisation which focuses on developing technologies people would choose to use without compulsion.”

Meanwhile, green campaigners have also criticised the government scheme for not being ambitious enough, but as always with the Greens all they offer is ideology because they have no practical solutions. As with sustainable sources for electricity there are many 'green' technologies that look great on paper but when it comes to transposing theory into real world performance they fall short simply because the sciencetits had simply ignored evidence of flaws in their theory.

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Hit Brake On Net Zero, Voters Tell Wannabe Prime Ministers

2 August 2022 

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A majority of Conservative party members who will vote in the leadership contest want the next prime minister to pause and review the push for Net Zero, a new poll has revealed. The Telegraph has more.

These results increae pile pressure on leadership hopefuls Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to strengthen their stance on the cost likely of transitioning from coal and gas fuelled electricity generating plants to inefficient, unreliable, intermittent 'green power' sources. Both have committed to honour the pledge to eliminate carbon emissions by 2050 but said they will revisit how the UK is set to achieve it as targets for 2030 and 2035 look increasingly unattainable.

A new poll by YouGov found 59% of Tory voters want Net Zero frozen, which rises to 70% when don’t knows are excluded.

In contrast, only 30% of Labour and Lib Dem backers would like to see the climate target suspended by the next prime minister. Overall this suggests a majority of the punlic are sceptical of the achievability and the promised benefits og eliminating Carbon Dioxide emissions. The survey showed that support for a review of the green policy is strongest among over-65s, almost one in six of whom are in favour.Overall, the public are narrowly in favour of such a move by 52% to 48% when those who expressed no opinion are excluded.

Working-class voters, who will be hit hardest by spiralling energy costs, are more likely to be sceptical of environmental targets than middle-class people, the results of the poll show. They also reveal that backing for a rethink is highest in the Midlands and Wales and lowest in London and Scotland. Ms. Truss, the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race, has pledged to temporarily scrap green levies on energy bills to help with the cost of living crisis.

The Foreign Secretary has said she will look again at how Net Zero is delivered, insisting “what I don’t want to see is ordinary households penalised”.

Mr. Sunak has committed himself to building more offshore wind farms if elected but has also insisted hitting green targets “can’t mean neglecting our energy security”.

The YouGov survey of 1,797 Britons was carried out last Wednesday and Thursday, and was commissioned by Net Zero sceptic group CAR26. It comes after a separate study by the pollster found only four per cent of Tory members think the green policy should be a top policy priority.

 

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Are US Supplied Long Range Missiles Really Winning The War For Ukraine?

by Ian Thorpe and Phil T Looker, 26 July 2022 

Ukrainian servicemen firing on Russian positions with a Grad BM-21 multiple rocket launcher. The more accurate Himars system can hit targets from further away, forcing Russian troops to push back Credit: GETTY IMAGES

Last month the Russian military high command announced an "operational pause" in the Donbas. region of Ukraine, where the most intense fighting in the current conflict has been focused. Such breaks are not unusual in a high-intensity war of attrition, because of the vast supplies required and damages inflicted. Armies need to regroup, re - supply, review progress and give the troops time off.

Naturally, given the one sided tone of reporting by mainstream media of the five month old war, which has gone something like: "Ukraine are winning this war, the Ukrainians are driving Russian forces back. Ukraine's army have retaken most of the territory occupied by Russia, Putin has been humiliated. Putin is on his deathbed, boy are the Ukrainians giving those nasty Russian bullies a good thrashing. Oh dear, another major Ukrainian city / military stronghold has fallen to the Russian onslaught, the reporting by mainstream broadcast and print media in the west has claimed there must be another reason that Russian military activity has decreased.

Well for reasons stated above or possibly other considerations it has decreased. Russian artillery fire has been reduced, and there seem to have been less offensives. But of course we do not get told anything remotely resembling what is really going on.

Thus while the Russians are regrouping in Donbas and reviewing strategy, but still advancing, western media reports the Ukrainians have started hitting targets on the Kherson front in the South.,even making their lies more incredible by claiming the Ukrainians have actually taken more territory off Russia in the South, than the Russians have off them in the Donbas. It's bollocks of course, the Ukranian army  (and their American helpers but you didn't learn that last bit from me, OK?) have fired a few long range missiles from American Himars systems into Russian occupied territory and managed to hit one or two significant targets.

Kherson is very important strategically - it is the only foothold that the Russians have north and west of the Dnipro River, which is the major strategic barrier that runs across Ukraine from Crimea to Kyiv. If the Ukrainian attack was anywhere near being successful, Russia would have called the big guns up to the front. They have not done so which suggests they are not unduly worried.

While there is an element in the west who glorify war (see Wilfrid Owen's poem Dulce et decorum est,) most of us just want the fighting to stop. Mention this however and the mob will attack, accusing one of being 'Putin's poodle, hating democracy (as if the corrupt, neo - Nazi Ukrainian government is anything to do with democracy, a fascist, a right wing nutcase, a propaganda troll on The Kremlin's payroll and all sorts of nonsense. These people then go on to call for escalation of the war, direct intervention against Russia by NATO, supplying the neo - Nazi nutters in Kiev with nuclear weapons and sensing in the SAS / US Navy Seals to take out Putin. It's difficult to have a rational exchange of opinions with such people.

Even before the current conflict began we knew the Russian military would be brutal and ruthless, if not quite competent in prosecuting their war. They have a reputation going back hundreds of years. We knew that the government in Kiev had been provoking Russia on an almost daily basis since the pro - western elements were put into power following a coup d'etat engineered by the USA and NATO. Anyone with even the most tenuous hold on reality knew Ukraine could not win this war without direct NATO involvement, and that direct intervention would escalate a local conflict into a global war.

This blog, my colleagues and I, do not want any war, we do not want innocent Ukrainian civilians dying, we do not want Russian soldiers dying. But what we three old gits and our occasional contributors knew from day one and before is that the Russianm mindset and the east European mindset operate on a different set of values to those of us in the west.

For those who believe in western values and freedoms a couple of key points are emergingabout the conflict.Firstly, this is likely to be a longer war than was envisaged. Sadly Russia would have to suffer major casualties before they even considered withdrawal. They are not like the British, American, french or German public whose enthusiasm for war wanes as soon as the body bags start coming home.

Second, Ukraine has no real option to finish the war, they cannot win and only by winning could they persuade Russia to accept a ceasfire on Ukrainian terms. Russia on the other hand can simply withdraw - despite its aggression - and cripple Ukraine economically as they are now crippling the economies of Ukraine's main supporters in the European Union. 

If Russia withdraws it is unlikely to suffer the type of attack that it itself perpetrated. This means that the timing of the end of the war is in Russia's hands.

Third, there is a need for unity in the West, not to escalate the war but to put pressure on Ukrain to accept reasonable terms for surrender and bring Russia to the negotiating table.  However the UK govt need to dissociate Europe from America's efforts to use this conflict as a proxy war against Russia . It is largely a one-way war as any perusal of European media will confirm, and whatever is reported from the front line in Ukraine, in the economic war Putin is winning hands down as Europe faces energy shortages, food shortages, runaway inflation and the fragmentation of the European Union. However the perpetration of a continuous state of hostility between Russia and Europe benefits no one except Putin.It certainly does not benefit the United Kingdom.

Russia is not our friend but the EU and globalism  are our real enemies, the EU still trying to punish us for Brexit. Brussels is trying to carve off Northern Ireland, sending illegals across the channel and doing its best to hold up travellers in Dover. We should be open to leaving NATO if France doesn't stop the invasion of our Southern shores by illegals. It is in fact an act of economic war and no different to the economic war Russia is now waging on Europe and America by reducing gas exports.

 

The USA is responsible for the war in Ukraine, had they not tried to push Ukraine into NATO (an absolute no - no as far as Russia was concerned, had they not given Kiev the impression that should Russia invade Ukraine Washington, backed by the NATO posse would ride to the rescue, had the USA not meddled in Syria's internal affairs too, by sponsoring another proxy war, arming and financing ISIS in a bid to topple President Assad, had Washington not tried to control the internal politics of afghanistan and Iraq, the world might now be a better place. As things stand the USA needs ti be taught a lesson and Putin, aided covertly by President Xi in China might be about to do that while the kerfuffle in Ukraine provides a convenient diversion.

 

The Germans also need to learn a lesson, a different lesson. They laughed when Trump warned them - and others - that it was madness that the US subsidised European defence while they transferred billions to Russia for Gas. He also pointed out that this made Germany, the world's fourth largest economy over-reliant on Russia for its energy. I personally would love to see Putin turn the gas off so the Germans and the arrogant bureaucrats in Brussels learn their lesson, that modern, developed nations cannot afford to be wholly dependent on a potentially hostile neighbour for the means to keep its industry and businesses running and its homes warm and well lit. 

As for Ukraine, Putin is holding four aces:

1. Gas: Should Russia cut off the gas supply half of Europe (and most of NATO) will be plunged into economic meltdown and social chaos. Attitudes and unity could change very quickly if the Russians weaponise this vital commodity. USA, the EU and their allies were quick to sanction Russia, crying foul now Russia is sanctioning them is hardly credible.

2. Grain and vegetable oil: Not only are some poor countries now facing a food crisis as wheat and cooking oil, two essential commodities that Russia and Ukraine are the largest exporters of. UK is fairly safe on this one, we get most of our imported grain from Canada, but other west European nations rely on imports from Russia and Ukraine.

3. Battlefield nuclear: The Russian army in the field may have been brutal but Russia's high command has been very restrained. Were they to roll out the big weapons the slaughter would be on an unprecedented scale.

4. Fertilizer: Russia also provides the raw materials for over 50% of the commercial fertiliser used to boost crop yields. So were the war to end tomorrow and the grain start flowing again, the shortage of fertilizer will ensure a vastly reduced harvest and shortages next year.

Outcome? Stalemate. I can't see Ukraine ever getting Crimea back, and it will be hard going to re-take the South and South East. It's very easy for those sitting comfortably in the West wanting Ukraine to fight to the bitter end. But in reality that is going to cost. Crimea especially will be such a major operation I doubt Ukraine could do it without the direct involvement of the U.S. U.K. France and other NATO members, and that would risk escalation to a global conflict should China grab the opportunity to annexe Taiwan while Washington was looking the other way. 

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