Comments by "R Johansen" (@rjohansen9486) on "NATO Nation Firm Rejects Anti-Putin 'Propaganda'; German Company Seals Business With Russia" video.

  1. Everyone in Europe cooperates just fine, except Russia.
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  2. It was Russia who broke Germany's trust! With the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was much concern in the West about how to contribute to a relatively stable Russia. So they let Russia take over the Soviet Union's place in the UN and other international organizations, poured in billions in investment, pretended that Russia was still a superpower, invited them into the G7, tiptoed around so as not to provoke, looked through their fingers with the most incredible things, etc. All to avoid chaos and warlords in civil war with nuclear weapons on the way. They were allowed to join trade agreements and many American and European companies invested in Russia. Germany was the country that went the furthest in achieving a mutually peaceful relationship. They have invested billions of Euros and they became dependent on Russian gas (despite warnings that the Russians were not to be trusted). As thanks we got Putin's aggressive imperialism and ethno-fascism, and finally a medieval war of aggression in the heart of Europe. They believed that the West was now so dependent on economic and energy conditions, they would not dare protest against the invasion.
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  3. While food and fertilizers are not under sanctions, Russia says sanctions-related restrictions on its banking, transit and insurance make trade untenable. The U.N.'s Guterres pushed back against those claims in a press conference Monday, saying Russia's grain trade had "reached high export volumes" and its fertilizer markets were "stabilizing" under policies laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the U.N. and Russia last July. The most prominent exporter in the Black Sea region is Russia, from which strong exports continue to flow in 2022/23 and is forecast to reach a record for annual wheat exports. Despite the Russian government claims of export challenges, Russia’s grain and oilseed exports have thrived during the current marketing year with ample supplies and competitive prices. Export volumes could be even larger, but the Russian government continues to apply export taxes and quotas, trade-restricting measures that are self-imposed. Guterres has proposed to Putin that Russia allow the Black Sea grain deal to continue for several months, giving the EU time to connect a Rosselkhozbank subsidiary to SWIFT, two of those sources familiar with discussions. UN, July 12 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of grain from Ukraine in return for connecting a subsidiary of Russia's agricultural bank to the SWIFT international payment system. Guterres sent a letter to Putin on Tuesday (beginning of July) proposing a way forward to further facilitate Russian food and fertilizer exports and ensure the continued Black Sea shipments of Ukrainian grain, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday. RUSSIA HASN’T RESPONDED.. "The objective is to remove hurdles affecting financial transactions through the Russian Agricultural Bank, a major concern expressed by the Russian Federation, and simultaneously allow for the continued flow of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters. To convince Russia to agree to the Black Sea deal, a three-year memorandum of understanding was struck at the same time under which U.N. officials agreed to help Russia get its food and fertilizer exports to foreign markets.
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  4.  @pong9000 Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! " Western countries should first lift financial sanctions for the specific products Russia is supposed to export" That's exactly what's in the grain deal, and there was a solution for payment also. So I don't know what you are complaining about. And Russia had a record year for export last year, so the deal is working. Russia has vicarious motives to stop the deal. They want to prevent Ukraine from making money from selling its grain. Therefore they also has destroyed over 240.000 tons in the Ukrainian ports so far.
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