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jykiodfgr says

If they get the coldest winter in history 100s of millions of Europeans are literally going to die.

Not so sure about that. A heat wave can kill Europeans (like the 10,000 French who died during the heat wave awhile back), but Europeans are acclimated to cold. I doubt we will see Germans freezing to death.

Which country introduced the first mass vaccinations against covid?
What is the vaccination% in Russia, which apparently is not going down the tubes, unlike rest of Europe, and which is conveniently omitted from the Table below?
jykiodfgr says

HeadSet says

They do own coats and blankets.

Nothing can save them at this point.

jykiodfgr says

This isn't even fucking that cold. This sarcasm? 48ºF? For real? Mountainous regions might be fucked, but it doesn't get that cold in most of Europe outside of an extreme event. Climate wise it's generally like TN. There's not going to be some mass casualty event. They'll just pay more for gas. They made their own bed.

This winter just giggle at the hypocrisy as the Green Europeans have pollution advisories from all the wood smoke. People will be amazed at how many fireplaces and wood burning stoves the Europeans have.

Misc says

This winter just giggle at the hypocrisy as the Green Europeans have pollution advisories from all the wood smoke. People will be amazed at how many fireplaces and wood burning stoves the Europeans have.

It's pretty obvious by now that all the Green Cunts were firmly on the Ruscist payroll for many decades.

PS. You are not going to cry "wood smoke baaaaad!" now, would you?

Since most of the upper echelons of the Euroweenie governments are super pro-green energy, and beat everyone with the climate change denier label if they talk rationally about energy as well as most of the American elites ---- Then you'd have to say that all these idiots were on the Russian payroll.

What happens to Russia when Europe gets through this winter?

It will certainly be a rough and expensive winter for Europe, but they will get through it without massive death - and Russia will be stuck having purposefully lost their richest customers for decades to come.

Russia can only use energy as a weapon once. Europe is busy building floating LNG facilities to take US natural gas, they are keeping nuke plants operating and firing up old coal power plants to make up for the loss of Russian gas.

Even the Germans aren't retarded enough to go back to relying so heavily on Russian energy after all this bullshit.

I plan to visit the UK on a Hipster Holiday around New Years.

As it'll be a holiday for me, I hope I won't see folks in misery.

My hope is that the locals will be too drunk to be miserable.

jykiodfgr says

Russian economy is projected to boom next year while Europeans face economic collapse next year.

Is Russia going to "boom" just selling to India and China having lost their European clients? China's population is starting to decline.

Who is going to want to buy crap Russian military hardware after seeing how poorly it performed in Ukraine?

ZipperTits says

Oil isn't crap. Wheat isn't crap. Chinese -- and lots of Africa -- desperately needs both.

Yeah - but they are all commodities that are impacted by demand. You think the shit-poor Africans and the Chinese are going to be paying a premium for energy and wheat like Europe would be doing?

Russia will certainly get some short term gain while Europe suffers over the next year, but I think Russia is killing themselves in the long term.

FWIW

German Chancellor Scholz: We Will Be Able To Face This Winter, The Question Of Supply "Looks Solved"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/09/22/german_chancellor_scholz_we_will_be_able_to_face_this_winter_the_question_of_supply_looks_solved.html

socal2 says

Europe is busy building floating LNG facilities to take US natural gas, they are keeping nuke plants operating and firing up old coal power plants to make up for the loss of Russian gas.

Even the Germans aren't retarded enough to go back to relying so heavily on Russian energy after all this bullshit.

Until Germans start drilling deep under the Ruhr coal beds for natural gas (just like natural gas under the coal beds of Pennsylvania and OK/TX old oil fields), existing evidences seem to indicate that Europe is still run by puppets like Hitler and Napoleon, who were plucked out of obscurity to implement intentionally insane policies / wars in order to kill millions of people so that the banksters can have liabilities wiped off their books. So long as Germans have to import energy (due to deliberate policies preventing domestic production, like Green policies and anti-nuke policies), that import can be turned off and the savers can be frozen to death so that banksters never have to pay back the money.

socal2 says

Is Russia going to "boom" just selling to India and China having lost their European clients? China's population is starting to decline.

You can get rich two ways:

1) you can make more money than others
2) you can impoverish the others

Russia is doing #2 here.

Notice we can't invest in Russian corporations now - WE can't, but I guarantee American financial institutions are able to do it.

socal2 says

Who is going to want to buy crap Russian military hardware after seeing how poorly it performed in Ukraine?

Only the United States thinks war == economy.

China builds shit, and Russia provides energy to build shit. It's only the United States that still thinks the broken window theory is real.

Real war is nuclear annihilation. Nobody but an insane asshole thinks they can win that, unfortunately, we have a bunch of octogenarian insane assholes in control of this country. Mutually Assured Destruction is still in effect. Russia is still a nuclear super-power. How can you not realize this?

richwicks says

Only the United States thinks war == economy.

Of FFS.

Virtually the entire 3rd world bought weapons from Russia and China over the last half century.

The AK47 is the most ubiquitous weapon on the planet.

The Russian government has decided for the second time this year to raise tariffs for gas and housing and communal services for business and the population.

Gas tariffs for industry and citizens will increase by 8.5%, the Ministry of Economic Development told Interfax. This indexation will be a record one since 2013, when gas prices went up by 15% at once.

Electricity for Russians will rise in price by 9% and the tariff for network companies will increase by the same amount. At the same time, prices in bills for hot and cold water, heat and municipal solid waste will be indexed by the same 9%.

https://patrick.net/post/1347525/2022-09-22-instead-of-exporting-gas-to-europe?start=1#comment-1880888

-socal2 says

richwicks says

Only the United States thinks war == economy.

Of FFS.

Virtually the entire 3rd world bought weapons from Russia and China over the last half century.

Yeah, the US has been selling weapons to various militias, basically criminal syndicates for the last 70 years and at the same time stirs up as much shit as possible to create the needed market for them.

-socal2 says

richwicks says


The AK47 is the most ubiquitous weapon on the planet.

Yep. KA-CHING!

Now the far-left comes with creative boat name 'humanity' for press for smuggling humans and avoid criminal background checks. No one cares national interests anymore.
https://www.dw.com/en/italy-blocks-35-migrants-from-entering-sicily-port/a-63662302
SOS Humanity says the 35 men onboard the ship have the "right to apply for asylum and to a formal asylum procedure, which can only be carried out on land."