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NEW: In a conference call with reporters on responding to Putin, and what comes next, a senior admin official suggested that Russian troops in Donetsk/Luhansk *alone* may *not* warrant the "swift and severe" sanctions the admin has been previewing.— Ali Rogin (@AliRogin) February 21, 2022

NatSec ghouls fucking around: we must starve the next ten generations of russians for their hypothetical glassing of Kyiv

NatSec ghouls finding out: uhhhhhhhhhhh uummmmmmmmmm uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh help idk what to do

  • halfpipe [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah , no shit. Sanctioning Russia means cutting off something like 35% of the European energy supply. The EU was never going to go along with that for anything less than an existential threat to Europe.

    • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Or some sweetheart concessions/kickbacks from the US that the US has absolutely no intention of even considering

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      America was trying to come up with alternative arrangements for oil and gas to Europe. I'm going to guess them flinching hear means either they failed to make those arrangements or were trying to sell their own stuff and got rejected by the EU.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Wouldn't alternative energy sources be really expensive and a logistical nightmare, if not straight out impossible?

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I think the alternatives are liquefied gas shipped by container ships from America. Pretty sure it's prohibitively expensive, which is why I doubt Europe had considered that option seriously and probably only floated it as a bluff.