Do you live in the EU? You don't know!!!
We're fully committed at backing Ukraine and are scandalized with those dragging feet on arms supplies or by Russian Trojan horses of the likes of Orban...
BTW, crowd fundings to buy advanced weapons systems for Ukraine are more successful than the Telethon...
Any way, there's a very simple thing to do to stop this war : just announce that, let's say in 2 weeks from now, Ukraine becomes member of NATO, that a no flyzone will be imposed and standoff weapons will be retaliated proportionally => 4 for 1 : 1 cruse missile for Kyiv, 4 for Moscow, 1 for Odesa, 4 on on Leningrad... Then, let them 72 hours before the A-10s, EC-665s, AH-64s, AC-130, MQ-9, etc come : this is a No Drive Zone : Just look at the 1991 Highway of Death if you don't know what a NDZ is...
NATO packs about 65% of world's firepower, if Putin wants to fight NATO, he knows what he's in for, and we have huge nuclear arsenals too
ENERGY IS NOT AN ISSUE !!! FRANKLY, WE WERE JUST USED TO OVER CONSUMPTION!
You'd be shocked at how we're few affected by the economics : this winter, I spent not even the half at warming the house as in 2021, and in 2021, it was about the half of 2020, and it was decided prior to the conflict as Russia had always risen gas prices in the last two years : reinforcing isolation, reducing the temperature, actually, the only gas I used was for cooking and for water warming. Heating was provided by electricity where we have a 15,268 MWth NPP and a large wind turbines farm.
Moreover, the winter was mild and the summer started 7 weeks sooner than the usual date, now half of the NPP is stopped, we're mounting the new gen of Siemens turbines with 60% efficiency, instead of 35% for previous generation. This means next winter, instead of a 5200MWe cruise output and 5448MWe in case of surge, the NPP will be able to provide 9,160.8 MWe with 4 reactors of 3.817 GWth as near all of our 58 NPPs
To give you an idea, the typical Soviet-era NPP is a 6x 3.2GWth = 19.2GWth. Even upgraded with 3rd gen western turbines like the one Putler's Waffen-ZZ shelled near Zaporizhzhia, the output is only 6.72GWe max...
I wish ecologist useful-idiots didn't managed to have the Superphénix fast breeder closed! Fast-Breeder make nuclear energy a renewable one. You burn nuclear waste and neutron-activation produce more nuclear fuel than you burn... Guess who funds anti-nuclears? Oil and gas producing countries.
Avoid freeways with tolls, drive at 90km/h instead of 130km/h on freeway and 110km/h on motor-roads, spare on car use, moreover, these damn Renault small cars burn near nothing and are near maintenance free
FOOD IS NOT EXPENSIVE IN HARD DISCOUNT SUPERMARKETS.
Moreover, they sell near only de-branded stuff, get your usual Gervais, Danone or whatever big brand at half price or less : they all overproduce, so, the overproducing is simply sold to hard discount with another brand on the sticker!
EU's CAP (common agricultural policy) was on deliberate reduced output for years since overproduction was driving prices too low for peasants to make a living.
Therefore, CAP has been reboosted, next harvest will be gigantic.
So, just like for energy, all you have to do is to revise your consummers' habits, you switch from the Auchan super-mall to smaller Super-U, Lidl, Aldi then you're OK... Any way, they have exactly the same products with the house's brand.
BTW, we produce more wheat than Ukraine... Make no mistake, Ukraine only produces 6.5% of wheat, we produce about 8.5% and ruZZia about 16%, they're just way more into export while our wheat barely doesn't goes out of the EU market. Same stuff for the US wheat : their Mid-West output is gigantic; but it's for domestic production...
Don't you know that both EU and USA have gigantic intensive agriculture?
It's not here that your beloved Putin's deliberately engineering a food crisis will hurt! He's into starving the 3rd world to blame it on the sanctions on ruZZia when he's the one blocking Ukraine's wheat exports : Ukraine's output is too large to be transported by road/train only. Boats are needed an ruSSian navy attacks them.
IF YOU STARVE, GO AFTER PUTIN AND HIS CRONIES, WE CAN'T HELP, except at bringing you better weapons than the ruSSian ones
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