Did you bother to watch the video? Russia is selling less petroleum products in total and instead of highly profitable refined fuels, its selling cheap crude oil AND having to cut the price of even that well below international crude oil market prices. It not only has lost its profitable markets in the West, it has been reduced to the position of a traditional colony; selling raw materials at a low price and buying finished products at a high price. China and India are laughing all the way to the bank buying cut rate Russian crude and selling Russia’s former customers refined petroleum products at market rate. Russia has to shut down its refineries which costs money, and will have to spend even more to repair and restart them whenever the western sanctions are lifted. IF they are ever lifted.
Question's - Isolating Russia, was that the right thing to do in all of this, otherwise was it wise to not hold peace talks with Russia in order to figure out what is driving the hatred between Russia and Ukraine, and then addressing that in the most peaceful yet aggressive diplomatic smartest ways possible ???
Once you have an animal (when reduced to such a thing), therefore scrambling to save face after committing so much blood and treasure to an effort that it believed in greatly, but is now seeing itself losing that effort in the eyes of it's own citizen's past and present, then what will be the ultimate outcome or last resort of that leadership once the world shows that it is bent on destroying that leadership be ???
A nuclear weaponed deployed in the region as a last ditch effort ?
Has the world not considered the impact of forcing a now isolated reduced once proud leader of a supposed super power (who has his hand on one of the most powerful nuclear arsenals in the world), to not be a reactionary type of individual in the face of such isolation, and so instead the world figures him to be a soon to be Hitler reject cowering in his bunker after all has been lost ???
If anything, hopefully what the world is getting from all of this, is that war is never the answer, and working to escalate war because of the thinking that war is the answer is a serious flawed notion or thinking.
In summary - Is isolating Putin the right answer when it comes to negotiating peace deals between the two rival battlefields and nation's in play ?
What has caused the isolation of one side when it comes to direct talks in hopes to solve the crisis ?
Who has stiffened it's neck and back up, and has decided that peace comes at the end of a rifle barrel ?
Yes Putin could end it somehow, and he could go back to Russia, but has he been isolated so badly that he knows nothing but to fight on towards a supposed Victory with his nukes at his side ???
Very serious questions the world had best to ponder.
