Topic: Is the West gearing up to invade Russia once again? - page 18. (Read 58230 times)

You're also forgetting Russia doesn't have its' buffer zone.  It wasn't the Russian winter which burdened Napoleon or Hitler, most of it it was largely the Belorussian and Ukrainian winter and their winters are mild compared to what you'ld encounter in the American Midwest.

In 1813 like in 1945 it wasn't Russia against the rest of Europe and the US.
In 1813 it was allied with prussia england and austria
in 1945 it was allied with the uk , france and us.

All of it's former allies are now on the opposite side.

In 1813. Do you think that it has been long time since?

Russian troops in Paris as usual? Please let me know the last time this happened..

So it will end up as usual with Russian troops in Paris and Berlin!

and like I was saying:

It is a regional tax "allowing each administrative district to decide on a sales tax of up to 3 percent to make up for [regional] budget shortfalls"...

British Airways, Air France and Lufthansa are the biggest EU airlines. Lufthansa said it could potentially lose more than €1 billion in three months if it does not use trans-Siberian routes, according to Forbes.The three air carriers told RT they weren’t commenting on a possible block on European flights as they don’t have any information.

Russia’s possible curbs on European carriers crossing Siberian airspace in response to Ukraine-related sanctions would have a limited impact on travel, even as news of the threat weighed on airline stocks.
Service from Europe to Japan and South Korea could be most affected, an analysis of routings on the Flightradar24 website shows. At the same time, relatively few carriers cross eastern Russia, in contrast with more crowded skies closer to Moscow.

Russia would also be disproportionately hurt by any tit-for-tat move from the European Union to close its own airspace to Aeroflot and peers, said Oliver Sleath, a Barclays Plc analyst in London.
“This is extremely unlikely to happen because the response would be more crippling to the Russian economy,” Sleath said. Russian flights cross EU airspace outnumber European carriers’ trips over Siberia, he said.

Btw , why isn't there any article on rt about this one?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/us-russia-economy-tax-idUSKBN0G13H420140801

"The VAT will not be touched. Sales tax will be up to three percent depending on the decision of the region. Everything will go to the budget of the region," said one of the sources acquainted with the issue.

Let's see Russians flying to Europe bypassing Europe

To add to this, Europeans will soon fly to Asia bypassing Russia. Get ready to cash out and fly longer!

And the winter is coming!

President Vladimir Putin has decided to introduce a sales tax on Russian consumers, two sources acquainted with the issue said on Thursday, raising the tax burden earlier than expected as Western sanctions deepen the country's financial woes.

According to Uralsib Capital, the sanctions together with the sales tax and tight monetary policy may reduce economic growth by up to one percentage point over the next two years, while adding up to two percentage points to consumer inflation in 2015. This year the economy is on track to post 0.4% growth according to central bank forecasts, compared with an average growth expectation of around 6% previously.

Add number 4.
Russia bans cow meat imports from Romania.

The bright side for us is that the last export of cow meat to Russia happened 10 years ago =))))

Nothing new. These are the things which are now banned in Russia.

1. Fruits and Dairy from Poland
2. Fruits and Wine from Moldova
3. Pork from all of the EU.

EU companies are facing billions of EUR in losses. 

Ever wonder why your (Russian) quotes are 95% from RT (Russia Today) channel? You guys have no other or is it the new Pravda?
That one is what? The new attempt from a long side-lined Russia to try to make their citizens afraid with the "Evil America"?

Moving there one step closer at a time. This one seems to be a move from Washington to justify the upcoming nuclear first-strike.

Moscow has upped the ante in its growing confrontation with Washington after releasing an incendiary statement, accusing the US of spinning and distorting facts to allege that Russia is testing a new cruise missile, banned by a landmark Cold War treaty.

“Once again the US is trying (and again rather clumsily) to act as a mentor, for some reason pretending to possesses the truth in the last instance and have the right to judge others. Claims are made with little to know evidence and based on warped logic, in other words presented not with further experts’ analyses in mind,” opens the lengthy tirade by the Russian Foreign Ministry, in response to the allegations detailed in the State Department report released on Tuesday.

“The purpose seems to be to create a wall of information noise to incite other countries, and to boil up a propagandist brew for the media. Or does the US administration still sincerely deceive itself that the world can take Washington’s word?”

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But the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia repeatedly raised concerns with US short range missiles for target practice, drones and the MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems which the US is planning to deploy in Poland and Romania.

It seems that the current unsubstantiated accusations against Russia are just a “tendentious and provocative’” attempt to create a smokescreen and draw attention away from the Pentagon’s own transgressions, Russia says, going beyond identifying a single specific area of disagreement.

http://rt.com/news/177228-fast-food-warnings-russia/

Finally.