“German gov sources” tell @handelsblatt “Western govs no longer considering cutting Russian banks off from SWIFT” if 🇷🇺 further invades 🇺🇦 Why take SWIFT deterrent off table? Especially after 🇩🇪 signals #NordStream2 shouldn’t be “mixed up” in response?🤷🏻♂️ news.trust.org/item/202201171…
@BLSchmitt @NoahCRothman @handelsblatt What deterrence is left?
@KatieClemency @BLSchmitt @NoahCRothman @handelsblatt I mean, the West *could* pressure Ukraine into giving its Russia-leaning regions autonomy and respecting their language rights, but I guess sleepwalking into war or economic catastrophe is preferable to this.
@Podzhog_Sarayev @KatieClemency @BLSchmitt @NoahCRothman @handelsblatt By Ukrainian law, only a state-wide referendum can change Ukraine's administrative structure. There's no fucking way Ukrainian people will vote for making a pro-Russian region an autonomy with the veto rights on Ukrainian policies. As for language rights, there's no suppression.
@Podzhog_Sarayev @KatieClemency @BLSchmitt @NoahCRothman @handelsblatt I'm a Russian-speaking person who's been to various Western regions of Ukraine and never once have I felt oppressed.
@SleeplessMosher @KatieClemency @BLSchmitt @NoahCRothman @handelsblatt What do "various Western regions of Ukraine" have to do with this? The Russian language has no official status and no state support anywhere in Ukraine, including regions that are 90% Russian speaking and thinking. For many people, that's casus belli.
@Podzhog_Sarayev @SleeplessMosher @KatieClemency @BLSchmitt @NoahCRothman @handelsblatt In 2014, the same nonsense was written about the supposedly oppressed Russian language in Ukraine. It was a lie back then. The language law of 2012 was still in force in Ukraine until 2019
@AlterweiserMan7 @SleeplessMosher @KatieClemency @BLSchmitt @NoahCRothman @handelsblatt Thank you, Ukrainian troll account created in August 2021. For anyone reading this, the law was formally repealed in 2018, but it wasn't actually enforced before then either. And the attempt to repeal the law in 2014 is one of the things that sparked the conflict in the Donbass.
@Podzhog_Sarayev @SleeplessMosher @KatieClemency @BLSchmitt @NoahCRothman @handelsblatt I am a german troll account working for George Soros.