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To: maceng2 who wrote (184431)	2/25/2022 5:18:31 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218094

The tweet sums it up reasonably well, and yet reasonable question in response might be ‘how can one expect different’? In this war everything is real: Putin’s madness and cruelty, Ukrainian victims, bombs falling on Kyiv. Only your sanctions are pretended. Those EU government’s, which blocked tough decisions (i.a. Germany, Hungary, Italy) have disgraced themselves. — Donald Tusk (@donaldtuskEPP) February 25, 2022 However, perhaps ‘they’ might try, and trigger responses. Let’s watch … BREAKING — Germany is open to cut Russia off from the SWIFT system: German economy minister — Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) February 25, 2022 Call with my Italian counterpart @luigidimaio. Full solidarity with Ukraine. My colleague assured me that Italy will support banning Russia from SWIFT. — Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) February 25, 2022 bloomberg.com Dutch Minister Urges Quick Decision on Ousting Russia From SWIFT William Horobin February 26, 2022, 2:41 AM GMT+8 Dutch Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag Photographer: Valeria Mongelli/BloombergEuropean Union countries must decide quickly on whether they will cut off Russia from the SWIFT messaging system behind global payments, Dutch Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag said. The European Commission and the European Central Bank are currently assessing the impact of such a move, which France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has described as a “nuclear financial weapon” that would escalate Europe’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, his German counterpart Christian Lindner has called to weigh the consequences of such a move. “Time is not on our side so it is important this is done as quickly as possible,” Kaag told Bloomberg News on the sidelines of a meeting of European finance ministers and central bankers in Paris. “The commission and the ECB are fully aware.” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Friday that the Netherlands supports barring Russia from the SWIFT network. The EU “took a big step forward concerning SWIFT,” Rutte said at a press briefing in The Hague. While France has also said it backs the move, other countries have expressed concerns over the potential impact. Kaag said there needs to be an assessment of “unwanted side effects,” such as fueling a parallel or illicit system over which Europeans have no oversight. “The point is to strike and strike where it hurts most,” she said. “You want to ensure that alternatives are not becoming the mainstay, which reduces the impact of your decisions, ultimately.” Sent from my iPad

To: maceng2 who wrote (184431)	2/25/2022 6:06:54 PM
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Re <<special kind of stupid>> Besides likely not having considered the palladium gambit, the oil reckoning, the Venezuelan conundrum, the natural gas riddle, and the Neon puzzle, the folks that advocated engaging the Russians so as to isolate the Chinese in same space is being reminded of some exciting out of this world possibilities … What was it that John Wayne the actor allegedly said, something about ‘life is hard, especially if one is stupid’ Let’s see if true euronews.com Has the ISS become a new front in Russia’s war in Ukraine? The head of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, has suggested that the International Space Station (ISS) could fall out of orbit and crash into the United States or Europe as a result of sanctions on Russia. The comments came following US president Joe Biden’s announcement of new sanctions that “will degrade their [Russia’s] aerospace industry, including their space programme”. The announcement came following . "If you block cooperation with us, who will save the International Space Station (ISS) from an uncontrolled deorbit and fall into the United States or Europe?" Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, said in response on Twitter. He pointed out that the station’s orbit and location in space are controlled by Russian-made engines. "There is also the possibility of a 500-tonne structure falling on India and China. Do you want to threaten them with such a prospect? The ISS does not fly over Russia, therefore all the risks are yours. Are you ready for them?" "Though dramatic, this is likely an idle threat due to both political consequences and the practical difficulty of getting Russian cosmonauts off the ISS safely," said Dr. Wendy Whitman Cobb, a Professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies . "But I am concerned about how the invasion will affect the remaining years of the space station". What has been NASA's response?Four NASA astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts and one European astronaut are currently on the space station. NASA said in a statement that it “continues working with Roscosmos and our other international partners in Canada, Europe, and Japan to maintain safe and continuous ISS operations". "The new export control measures will continue to allow US-Russia civil space cooperation,” it added. “No changes are planned to the agency's support for ongoing in orbit and ground station operations. The new export control measures will continue to allow US-Russia civil space cooperation”. Scott Pace, the Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, told the Associated Press earlier this week that “it's possible to imagine a break with Russia that would endanger the space station, but that would be at the level of a dropping diplomatic relations". "That would be something that would be an utterly last resort so I don't really see that happening unless there is a wider military confrontation," he added. Recent tensions with Russia in spaceThe space station - an international partnership of five space agencies from 15 countries, including Canada, several countries in Europe, Japan, Russia and the US - launched in 1998 and morphed into a complex that's almost as long as a football field, with almost 13 km of electrical wiring, an acre of solar panels and three high-tech labs. For the ISS to function, the Russian cosmonauts and the other astronauts need to work as a team and cooperate. There have, however, been tensions towards the Russians in recent months after a Russian weapons test in November 2021 created more than 1,500 pieces of space junk which threatened the safety of the seven astronauts aboard the station. Sent from my iPad