I think Putler made his ultimate warning:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18000231/moment-russian-hypersonic-missile-destroys-ukrainian-weapons-depot/

There's no defense. Not even the US do have these kind of missiles (prototypes will emerge in 2023). The hidden message: "We can hit you anywhere, anytime with highest precision and there's nothing you can do about it."

Vlad is angry.



https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-cosmonauts-ukraine-colors-international-space-station/

They said it's because they had "too much yellow facture in stock"

i get a 404 when trying to look at that porn link (i mean, i think we can all agree its not a news link! )

This post was edited by ferdia on Mar 19 2022 08:14am

try
russian cosmonauts yellow
in google image

yes i see it. whats your take on it ? i really dont think the astro(cosmo)nauts spacemen would have done this without putin's express command/blessing, but well spacemen have always been a breed apart. is it russia propaganda, or do you think they really did this in defiance ?

i cant see any images on the russian news site (tas) - am checking to see if i can find any images - but i see this ~

MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said he would wait until the end of March for the response from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency to his demand to lift sanctions against Russian enterprises. "We will wait until the end of March. The lack of response or a negative response would be a basis for our decision," he said, without specifying what kind of decision it would be. According to the official, the space corporation was not going to yield to the sanctions. Last week, Rogozin said the Russian state-run space corporation Roscosmos was sending appeals to its partners in the International Space Station demanding they lift illegal sanctions from the corporation’s companies. During an earlier meeting with Russian lawmakers, Rogozin said the work of the International Space Station was no longer effective amid the current geopolitical sitaution. He also said that ‘colossal funding’ will be required to continue ISS operations until 2030, otherwise "the station will fall into pieces.".

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on our side i see the below (it does deserves a nod if they really did this in defiance of putin).
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Artemyev, the Soyuz commander, was asked about the colors during a hatch-opening ceremony webcast by Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos. He responded (in Russian) that there was a surplus of yellow fabric in the warehouse, according to space exploration enthusiast Katya Pavlushchenko, who posted a Twitter thread about the exchange.

Not everybody's buying this answer, however. Some folks with knowledge of spaceflight procedures seem to think it could be a show of support for Ukraine, which Russia invaded on Feb. 24. "Three Russian cosmonauts who just docked with the ISS arrive in Ukrainian yellow!" former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who flew a yearlong mission on the space station with cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko from March 2015 to March 2016, tweeted today, in both Russian and English. "Wow. Just wow. Well done. За экипаж!" tweeted Terry Virts, another former NASA astronaut. He spent six months aboard the station from November 2014 to June 2015 and traveled to and from the orbiting lab in a Soyuz. ("экипаж" is Russian for "crew," according to Google Translate.)

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it reminds me of the Arnold video and is a reminder to everyone that not every russian supports the war.

This post was edited by ferdia on Mar 19 2022 08:41am

Cool story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudeten_Germans

Tell us more, oh wise sage.

Oil is already coming back down. Know why? Because Russian oil is still being sold - now at a big discount to India. What happens when India buys from Russia instead of their usual suppliers (those not under sanction)? Well then those suppliers have supplies they can divert to non-sanctioning countries. So the buyers still get their products, the producers still sell, but Russia just has to do so cheaper than other producers.

Also, the world isn't going to starve while Ukrainian farmers swap plows for swords. American farmers produce 10x as much corn as Ukraine produces wheat, which is mostly wasted in ethanol production. And guess what! This year's crop hasn't even begun planting yet, and if American farmers foresee a spike in wheat prices due to a shortfall elsewhere, they can easily take up the slack. Easily.

India and China you mean. This means India and China are getting cheaper oil.



It is not that easy. Large parts of the Middle East for example (Egypt first and foremost) rely heavily on Russian and Ukrainian grains exported through the Black Sea, which is much cheaper than American products being transported there. Beef prices in Europe also rely on the cheap availability of cattle feed from Ukraine, etc.
Disruptions to trade from the region might very well have unpredictable effects. For sure prices will rise worldwide, especially in the countries that consume directly from Ukraine and Russia.