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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (184445)2/25/2022 7:58:20 PM
From: arun gera1 Recommendation

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pak73

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<Agree to no NATO eastwards expansion unless Russia agrees to join NATO or Eurostan.>

Thats original.

-Arun



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (184445)2/25/2022 9:35:44 PM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 217825
 
In the meantime, according to alleged Russian muppet ZereoHedge, Team India, the planet's supposed largest democracy, casted ballot for Russia Russia Russia, presumably not also for and on behalf of the QUAD in sympathy with the AUKUS, but likely p*sses off some members of NATO / EU

The Russians did say that India might be bombarded out of the clear blue, and should such happen, blame rests with ... drum roll ... America

:0)

All very complicated

zerohedge.com

India Exploring Rupee Payment Mechanism For Trade With Russia

While China is still trying not to fully alienate the US while effectively siding with Putin in Ukraine (see " China Calls US 'Culprit' For Ukraine Tensions" yet " China State Banks Restrict Purchases Of Russian Commodities, Pause Buying Russian Seaborne Crude"), Asia's other superpower, India, has no such qualms and according to Nikkei Asia, India is exploring ways to set up a rupee payment mechanism for trade with Russia to soften the blow on New Delhi of Western sanctions imposed on Russia - including a potential expulsion from SWIFT - after its invasion of Ukraine, government and banking sources said.

Putting its own national interest first, Indian officials are concerned that vital supplies of fertilizer from Russia could be disrupted as sanctions intensify, threatening India's vast farm sector. Russia and Belarus usually account for nearly a third of India's total potash imports. It would not be feasible to replace them amid a rally in fertilizer prices to a record high, a senior industry official told Reuters.



Russia's President Vladimir Putin with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Dec. 6, 2021Officials said the plan was to get Russian banks and companies to open accounts with a few state-run banks in India for trade settlement, a banking source involved in the discussions said.

"This is a proactive move assuming that the conflict escalates and there could be a slew of sanctions in place," the Nikkei source said. "In this case we would not be able to settle the transaction in dollars and so an arrangement has been proposed to set up a rupee account, which is being considered."

Funds in such accounts act as a guarantee of payment for trade exchanged between two countries, while the parties barter commodities from each other to offset the sum, the source said.

A similar arrangement, in which part of the settlement with Russia is in foreign currency and rest is through local rupee accounts, was also being explored, said the banking and the government source.

Such mechanisms are often used by countries to shield themselves from the blow of sanctions and India also used it with Iran after it came under Western sanctions for its nuclear weapons program, the source said. The program was introduced in 2012 and worked well for several years.

The discussions on Russia were still at an early stage and formal talks had not yet begun between the two sides, an Indian government official said.

EU leaders agreed on Thursday to impose new economic sanctions on Russia, joining the United States and Britain in trying to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies for the attack. The sanctions impede Russia's ability to do business in major currencies and target individual banks and state-owned enterprises. A further financial blockade of Russia, in the form of a SWIFT expulsion, is currently being discussed.

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Russian exports to India stood at $6.9 billion in 2021, mainly mineral oils, fertilizers and rough diamonds, while India exported $3.33 billion worth of goods to Russia in 2021, mainly pharmaceutical products, tea and coffee.

New Delhi is also holding a meeting with fertilizer industry officials on Friday to explore ways to secure supplies from Russia and Belarus, said a senior fertilizer industry official, who declined to be identified.

Similar to China, India has called for an end to violence in Ukraine but refrained from outright condemnation of Russia, with which it has long-standing political and security ties.



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (184445)8/15/2023 4:22:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn2 Recommendations

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fred woodall

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Mq, it's a puzzle that people don't read your posts and publish them in NY Times and everywhere. There would be half a million dead men still alive, hundreds of thousands maimed horribly would be uninjured and leading productive, happy lives, $1 trillion would be deployed in useful things instead of wasted in a battlefield, over ten million Ukrainians could be enjoying life at home instead of being refugees spread all over. And China's border would still be at the Great Wall of China instead of as you wrote right at the beginning = February 2022.

The way the Americans and crazed Euroserfs are going, the western border of China will be Hungary, and the Euroserfs, just like back in the day when Genghis Khan and descendants got all the way to Hungary and down into Turkey and all over the place.

Emperor Pooh Xi has dispatched China's Defence Minister Li Shangfu to inspect the western wall in Belarus to ensure defences are robust. Rather than have a war in Taiwan, China would do better to have the war in Eurostan and Alaska. If USA wants a war, give it to them. Leave Taiwan out of it. First thing to do is cut methane exports to Europe. Oh wait, the USA already bombed the Nordstreams. USA is helping China. Odd but there you go.

Nature is a relentless, inevitable, merciless, cruel, harsh and brutal process of selecting not just genes that are fit for purpose, but ideas that are essential for success. There is a commonly mistaken idea in genetics that the Selfish Gene is what it's all about. No, it's the selfish idea. The genes are just the framework on which the ideas are expressed, the ideas being VVVs. Now, with ideas becoming separated from DNA in Cyberspace, the wet chemistry part of VVVs is being superseded.

It has been strange for several decades now to watch the decline of Virtuous Victorian Values, which were already slumping before my time. England has been conquered by barbarians from the south. But the Chavs of England needed conquering. The British Disease had won. When idea failures grow, replacement genes and ideas take over from elsewhere, or sometimes internally but collapses leave countries vulnerable.

Communism, Master Race Apartheid, Welfare Bludgerism, Big Brotherdom, Kleptocracy and Corruptocracy, Crime, Hedonism, Nihilism, Ennui, Depression, QWERTYism, invasion, and female thinking have over-run Aotearoa-Zimbabwe. The population who made it 3rd in the world in GDP per capita 70 years ago, with near-zero crime has largely been replaced by third world immigrants. The murder rate is now 20 x what it was when I was young.

After 18 months of carnage, USA/NATO/Ukraine have lost bigly. Rather than simply and happily leaving Donetsk and Luhansk to run their own shows [like Bosnia, Serbia, England Brexit, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, Slovenia and many other countries that have chosen independence, or not = like Quebec], the crazed Yanks and Eurostan Feminazi rulers have chosen horrible war and carnage, destruction and starvation, with possibly the End of the World if they don't accept their criminal ideas were worse than Hitler's = in scale if not type. But even the Germans took my uncle prisoner and while not providing luxury accommodation, they did not shoot him in the knees and murder him like the Azovs do to Russians and anyone they dislike. The barbarian Japanese were hideous in their cruelty.

Will USA/Eurostan choose end of the world? So far it seems so. Led by woke women.

Mqurice