I read today on the BBC website that Russia is gonna turn the gas pipeline off TOMORROW, if Finland join Nato. Do a search for "Russia threatens to turn off gas supply tomorrow" and see what you come up with. Either Russia make this threat every day or those in Nato are saying they make the threat every day.
Yet...
When I come back to the article an hour or two later, the fucking beeb cunts have altered it again.
Not even going to bother linking. I should have archived I know, but what does it matter?
One thing that is still up though on that article that they changed (no mention now of Russia threatening to turn off the pipes the next day) is a very informative little infographic, which I did archive:
Fuck me, talk about painting it in black and white! If I wasn't convinced before, I am now. Cheers beeb!
I mean, they (Nato) waited a few years while they got all their ducks in a row, then BAM! After the 7 year itch was up after the fucking Berlin wall came down in 1990, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and fucking Albania have now all joined the Nato alliance.
They don't name the countries but I think those are the ones (didn't check a wiki). Geography is not my strong point either, but apart from one of those big white blobs being a Serb stronghold, the other is Austria and Switzerland. You can have your apple strudel, but you can't eat it as well! They would be the icing on the cake!
So thanks for that map! When you put it like that. Plus, you can see that Finland and Sweden really do seal the deal, well...
Ukraine really is the final bastion!
I still think Putin's a cunt. But even though I was leaning towards fairly neutral in this fight, this map just helped my simple mind with its "painting by numbers" narrative. Thank you beeb!
As for Russia turning off the gas tap/pipe Tomorrow? Well, maybe they will, maybe they won't. But they might! And that is a frightening prospect. Of course they miss out on money from all that 'black gold' (even if it's in the form of natural gas). But as the furry freak brothers said: Gas will get you through times of no Rubles, better than Rubles will get you through times of no Gas! Or something like that.
There's also the diesel thing. Farming equipment needs it. Russia exports a lot of it. A lot of the pre-cursors for making it. Diesel is not too far removed from aviation fuel as well. But who cares if you can't fly? Either because you aren't allowed or your economy has crashed and you can't afford to. Why not both?
Oh, things are shaping up very nicely indeed for fucking WWIII, if you ask me.
Threats, threats and more threats and when they don't work more grandstanding and brinkmanship, leading to more threats, more mockery when those threats aren't carried out, until one day something snaps in the whole chain, and consequences will never be the same again. No point in back-tracing it. You dun goofed!
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I doubt all this preamble and the co-ordination of both Sweden and Finland announcing at the same time whether they will, or will not, be applying for Nato membership (of which they have been assured a very quick initiation should they actually do it, by other Nato members) is just for show or just to poke the bear more. It's a softening up. They are joining. They don't go through all this BS just to say "eh guise, we thought about it, but nah, not joining Nato, soz! Cya!".
It's fucking happening.
And the sooner those fucking dumb Ruskies get used to the idea of being completely surrounded by usurped and bought and paid for countries (from the 'West'), the better we can all get along, uh? Uh?
It's now or never baby!
Someone made the point that Russia is effectively too weakened at this point to do much about shit, and that's a fair point. I don't know. But this is turning in to more than a grudge to be remembered for later when you CAN do shit about it.
I get the impression that Russia feels like it is fighting for its life. And anyone who has been in a fight to the death will know that's it's not just fists that come out. You'll use your boot, you'll use that broken chair leg, you'll use that knife you had hidden in your socks and that hammer you hid up your jacksy. You might even use a nuke, should you happen to have one.
I just hope that the Ruskies nukes are in better order than their air force. Because they look good on paper. But in practice, if all those Migs and Sukhois were up to snuff and Russia had dominated the requisite airspace, this fight would have been over and done and dusted by now. In my expert armchair General opinion, of course.
Now it's a dirty war. By this point I wouldn't be surprised if this shit dragged on for another decade, bringing down not just Russia, but the 'West' as well in a war of attrition that both sides can ill afford to fight, and neither side can really win, but for a pyrrhic victory. Even if it doesn't go nucular, the fallout from this will be immense, should it drag on for too much longer. Slavs might have little brains, but they have long memories. And the vicious little vindictive bastards are only too happy to drag us all down with them as well.
This is massive. It's massive news. And when Sweden and Finland do finally go ahead with it in a few days time, then the ante will have been well and truly upped to epic proportions. The pot just keeps getting hotter...
Who will blink first?
