In fact, the principle of a market economy also applies in international trade. Each state buys products at prices and in volumes that are beneficial to it. If it is not profitable for Russia to sell products at a low price, it has the choice not to sell at that price and look for another buyer. No state has the right to start an open war because of this.

Moreover, if Russia does not like trade relations from the United States, then why did Russia not attack the United States, but attack Ukraine?
The United States began supplying tanks and other serious weapons to Ukraine to protect against Russian attacks after the attack itself, and even then not even in the first year of the war. As always, your chronology of events is not all right.

After a large-scale attack on Ukraine, Putin's Russia began by deciding to create an economic blockade of Ukraine in the Black Sea with the help of its Black Sea Fleet. Then, under pressure from world states, she agreed to a “grain agreement”, according to which, although she began to produce agricultural products from Ukraine, she controlled this process and tried in every possible way to slow it down. Then Russia withdrew from this agreement, threatening to sink any ships that would have trade relations with Ukraine entering its seaports. Moreover, this process has practically reached a dead end, since world leaders did not have a consensus on resolving this issue.

Ukraine itself found a way out, which began to sink the Russian Black Sea Fleet with the help of its Neptune missiles and drones, with a special role in this being given to naval surface drones. As a result of this, a third of the “invincible” Russian Black Sea Fleet was destroyed. Russia first tried to hide its warships in the bays of Novorossiysk, but when Ukraine began to get them there too, it transferred them to the Sea of ​​Azov. After all, it is now surrounded either by Russia or the part of Ukraine occupied by it, and to enter it, you need to pass the Kerch Strait, which is heavily guarded along with the Kerch Bridge.
https://24tv.ua/ru/azovskoe-more-stalo-opasnee-tam-obnaruzhili-rossijskie-desantnye-korabli-24-kanal_n2573933

Let's see how this will work out in Russia.

At the same time, these disarmament steps clearly indicate that Ukraine was not preparing to fight with anyone, much less with Russia, against which it had no chance of winning alone. Having attacked Ukraine in order to take away its territory and resources, the Kremlin needed justification for its insane decisions, so an unsubstantiated accusation was launched that Ukraine itself was going to attack Russia and thus, probably, decided to cease to exist as a state, because the chances she had no chance of winning this war. Stupid statements, of course. However, what to do if there are no smart excuses in this situation at all.

Recently, Ukraine’s “low-level, low-quality air defense systems” have been causing significant damage to Russian planes and other aircraft, and missile systems, in turn, are actively knocking out the aggressor’s air defenses, and this is especially noticeable in the occupied Crimea Peninsula.

Thus, on the night of June 10, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck Russian anti-aircraft missile systems in different areas of the temporarily occupied Crimea. According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukrainian defenders successfully attacked the S-400 anti-aircraft missile division in the Dzhankoy area. They also hit two S-300 anti-aircraft missile battalions near Chernomorskoye and Yevpatoria. Moreover, it is worth emphasizing that not a single Ukrainian missile was intercepted by Russian air defense.

After this, the command of the Russian army “recommends” that military personnel working with air defense systems in temporarily occupied Crimea take their families from the peninsula to the military cities of the Southern Military District. In parallel with this, the occupiers themselves are transporting the installations to the Belgorod region. Apparently, the Russian occupiers have begun to come to terms with the fact that they will not hold Crimea.
https://glavred.info/ukraine/rossiyskaya-pvo-ne-sbila-ni-odnoy-rakety-vsu-porazili-zhirnuyu-cel-v-krymu-10571846.html

If you read the news, you might have noticed that Zelensky and Biden do not have very good relations due to the fact that Ukraine does not really listen to US recommendations on many issues of waging war with Russia. This means that Ukraine is pursuing its own policy, although it is largely dependent on the supply of Western military equipment.

Russia has already lost over 520,000 of its soldiers, more than 23,000 tanks and armored vehicles, about 14,000 artillery systems, 359 aircraft, 326 helicopters and other equipment in the war against Ukraine. Isn’t the price too high for “help in restoring the sovereignty of Ukraine,” which no one asked for? Putin's Russia simply wants to conquer Ukraine and use its resources. And everything else is words of an absurd justification for the seizure of someone else's territory.

Moreover, having started the war, Putin counted on a quick victory, but now he can no longer stop it, since this would mean his death in the literal and figurative sense of the word. So he sacrifices several tens of thousands of Russian lives every month in order to delay his death. But it will come anyway, and very soon.

Ukraine is preparing for a war against Russia in a very strange way.
On December 5, 1994, Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain and the United States signed the Budapest Memorandum, according to which these states pledged to respect the independence, sovereignty and borders of Ukraine, and in return Ukraine transferred to Russia the third largest nuclear potential in the world, and later the Tu-95MS and strategic bombers Tu-160 with missiles that Russia is currently firing at Ukraine and many other military equipment. In addition, before Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Ukraine sold a lot of its tanks, aircraft, armored personnel carriers, and so on. The size of the Ukrainian army was also greatly reduced. And this is preparation for a war with Russia?

There will be work for people at any level of robotization of production. People still know very little about the structure of the Earth's interior, the depths of the world's oceans, and even the nature of man himself, not to mention the secrets of space. People for the most part were engaged in the methods of destroying their own kind than in understanding themselves and the world around them. Therefore, there will be enough work for each person for many centuries and millennia, if there is a desire.
In addition, there are and will always exist certain industries where AI cannot be allowed to manage, since this will threaten the safety of the person himself. We are talking primarily about the management of military systems, where abuse or even an accidental mistake can bring humanity to the brink of destruction.

According to statements from the Cuban Foreign Ministry, a Russian naval group consisting of three ships and a nuclear submarine will visit the port of Havana from June 12 to 17. It includes the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov", the nuclear submarine "Kazan", the supply ship "Akademik Pashin" and the tugboat "Nikolai Tsiker". The Cuban Foreign Ministry clarified that visits by naval units from other countries are a historical practice between states with which Cuba maintains “relationships of friendship and cooperation.”

Washington does not consider this Russian move, which involves the presence of a relatively small number of ships, threatening, but the US Navy will monitor the exercises.

It should also be added that Russia removed all its valuable ships from the occupied Crimean peninsula and hid them from Ukrainian surface drones in the port of Novorossiysk. When the Ukrainian drones got there, they transferred some of them to the Sea of Azov, which has either a Russian coast or an occupied one. But this doesn’t save them either.
On June 8, Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacked and damaged the Russian tugboat “Engineer L.G. Smirnov” and the barge “Section-179” in the Sea of Azov.
On June 9, in the waters of the Azov Sea near the port of Yeisk, surface drones struck a Russian Ropukha-class landing ship, which had previously been moved from the Black Sea to the Azov Sea. He was allegedly under surveillance for a long time in Kyiv, and the day before he was attacked by surface drones when he was in the port of Yeisk. If the information is correct, then this landing ship became the fifth of seven, which in the third year of the war were either completely destroyed or severely damaged by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Maybe Russia is hiding its ships from the Ukrainians to Cuba?

Are the Russian “brothers” already openly admitting that they want to destroy Ukraine and its people? I think that even the most stupid people in the Kremlin, in the third year of the war, already realized that they would not be able to capture Ukraine, and therefore periodically still change the reasons and goals of such an attack on Ukraine.

Ukraine will choose the path of its foreign policy development itself, including which military and political blocs to join and where to send its missiles, and the force, blackmail and threats that Russia has always used in such cases only add to the determination of Ukrainians to defend their sovereignty and independence .

Overall, we are still moving forward. Science and technology are constantly developing, despite various difficulties, life expectancy is growing, although this is most noticeable in countries with a high standard of living. Therefore, in this regard, I do not see any special problems. Of course, many different problems await us, but without them, moving forward is also impossible.

But the development of science and technology has so far always led to the death of human civilization. With high technology, the world is becoming very fragile and vulnerable. This is exactly what we need to be wary of.

I also remember a simple game of naval battle, where Ukraine and Russia are fighting each other in the Black Sea. It turns out that this game was created by a resident of Sarov in the Russian Federation, Vadim Bashurov, back in 1992. Then can we assume that Russia was planning to attack Ukraine even before the game you’re talking about appeared in 1997?
https://news.obozrevatel.com/show/lite/v-igre-iz-90-h-morskoj-boj-uvideli-predskazanie-vojnyi-mezhdu-rossiej-i-ukrainoj.htm#:~:text=% D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F%2C%20%D0% B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%83%20%D0%B2%201992%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83,%D1%80%D0%BE%D0 %B4%D0%B0%20%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D1 %80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%20%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0.

However, most likely this is just a coincidence.

In his election promises, Trump will say whatever he wants as long as it increases his rating. He used to speak poorly of cryptocurrency, but recently he has changed his attitude towards it in a positive direction. However, in this regard, it will be necessary to see what his attitude towards cryptocurrency will be if he again becomes President of the United States. After all, he is quite unpredictable and can again change his mind.

At the same time, his conviction of a criminal offense lowered his rating by an estimated only ten percent and therefore the likelihood of his re-presidency is high.

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If the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already been almost destroyed and they are on the verge of collapse, then the Russian occupiers will soon be in Kyiv? Or at least in Kharkov, which is located relatively close to the border with Russia? Taking into account the fact that the Russian army is now actively storming the Kharkov direction, then in a month or two Russian soldiers should at least capture Kharkov, right? But I think that even by the end of the year Russia will not be able to capture even Kharkov.

As for Russia’s possible war against NATO, everything depends on the aggressive appetites of Putin’s Russia. After all, Russia is currently attacking, not NATO countries. Russia, as a nuclear superpower, cannot lose a war? But the USA and France also have their own nuclear arsenals and then they also cannot lose?

NATO has not yet lost a single soldier in this confrontation. At the same time, Russia’s losses in manpower and military equipment are simply colossal. A few more years of such a war and NATO soldiers will be able to simply march and enter Moscow without any resistance.

The US and European countries tried to use peacetime methods to solve wartime problems, and now they see that it didn't work. Putin’s Russia continues its aggressive war against Ukraine, increases military tension in Europe, threatening to attack many European countries, especially the Baltic countries, which it considers most vulnerable to attack, and also deliberately creates provocative conflict situations that could well end in a direct military clash with NATO countries as a whole.

At the same time, Ukraine’s allies admit that they are not doing enough to ensure that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have the opportunity to push the invaders out of their territory. Therefore, it is no coincidence that 11 states have already recognized Ukraine’s right to strike Russian military targets with their weapons. An opinion is also emerging that if Russia manages to achieve significant success on the Ukrainian front, then the army of European countries will be forced to openly help Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression. Therefore, indeed, Russia’s continuation of the war with Ukraine increases the likelihood of direct military clashes with NATO.

Putin’s Russia still has a choice: continue military aggression against Ukraine and increase the likelihood of war with NATO, or gradually wind down military operations, admitting that the initial plans to seize Ukraine have completely failed. So far, we see that Russia is frivolously moving towards its own catastrophe with disintegration into several parts.

Apparently, by nationalism, and especially Ukrainian nationalism, you understand something very bad. To hang up unclear labels, let's first figure out what they mean.

Wikipedia defines that nationalism is an ideology and policy direction, the fundamental principle of which is the thesis about the value of the nation as the highest form of social unity, its primacy in the state-forming process. As a political movement, nationalism strives to create a state that covers the territory of residence of only a certain nation and defends its interests. It is further stated that nationalists believe that each country should govern itself without outside interference (self-determination), that the nation is the natural and ideal basis for government, and that the people are the only legitimate source of political power. Nationalism advocates the creation and maintenance of a single national identity based on common social characteristics such as culture, language, religion, politics...
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8 %D0%B7%D0%BC

Since nationalists value their language and culture very much, Ukrainian nationalists cannot use another language, much less consider it their native language. These concepts are simply incompatible.

Nationalism is a political program built on a feeling of patriotism. Almost all liberation movements of oppressed peoples were formed and acted under the banner of the ideology of nationalism. Where national freedom is at stake, the ideology of nationalism is inevitable.

So do you have something against nationalism, in particular Ukrainian nationalism? Then tell me why...

In the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on May 2, 2014, people died solely as a result of a fire that broke out there due to riots. Several people jumped out of windows and died, the rest from carbon monoxide, which resulted from the burning of plastic and other flammable substances. If you have facts that they were killed, especially by Ukrainian nationalists, and even at the instigation of the CIA, you can present them here.

And the Russian army is now launching missile and drone attacks on Odessa, and on various residential areas, also because of some kind of revenge? After all, at the same time, the Russian-speaking civilian population, which you are trying to protect here, is dying. In addition, the Russian army is now intensively attacking all areas of Kharkov with missiles and gliding bombs weighing half a ton every day, trying to completely erase this city and its inhabitants. Also, after the Russian army launched an offensive in the east of the Kharkov region on May 10, the city of Volchansk and its residents, who did not have time to evacuate, were almost completely destroyed. Every day, Russia shells from 100 to 120 settlements in Ukraine with all types of weapons, killing civilians, who are predominantly Russian-speaking. How can this be assessed if this is not genocide of the Ukrainian people, regardless of the language they speak?

I opened with interest and read the article you suggested, which has the title: “Eight years of terror: how the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions exterminated the population of Donbass.” But the article itself very briefly talks about the events of the mass riots on May 2, 2014 in Odessa, which I wrote about earlier. The article clearly states that “Odessa residents who disagreed with the actions of the Kyiv regime encountered radical football fans who came to the Ukrainian championship match taking place on the same day.” Well, where is the terror of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ukrainian national battalions? What, the residents of Odessa have already begun to be called the population of Donbass? In addition, the article does not contain a detailed description of the essence of the events, and it is worth noting that the football fans were also Russian-speaking.
But you still provide the facts that the Ukrainian Armed Forces massively killed and terrorized the population of the DPR and LPR, that is, the population of the Donbass region, as you stated earlier.

Natural gas flowed from Russia to European countries in large part through Ukrainian pipelines and through the territory of Ukraine. Such gas is still delivered to the EU in limited volumes, since some EU countries need some time to completely abandon Russian gas. The treaty, which was concluded between Russia and Ukraine even before the full-scale attack on Ukraine, expires this year 2024. Ukraine continues to fulfill the terms of the agreement on the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine in order to avoid possible lawsuits and not lose the image of a reliable partner. But the Ukrainian authorities have already made a statement several times that after the expiration of the agreement on the transit of Russian gas on December 31, 2024, they do not intend to extend its validity. Therefore, the situation with Russian gas supplies is changing and will continue to change. The main thing is that EU countries are looking for ways to completely abandon Russian gas, and this time will come anyway.

Norms governing the civilized rules of warfare exist. This is the UN Charter. But in Russia’s war against Ukraine, it is not observed by the current permanent UN security member, the Russian Federation. Conducting wars of conquest with the aim of arbitrarily changing the internationally recognized borders of states is prohibited by the UN Charter. Russia also ignores absolutely all the rules of warfare, including not allowing representatives of international bodies to enter the territory of Ukraine it occupies, as well as to prisoners captured by Russia.

In addition, the Russian Federation is generally illegal in the UN and illegally occupies the place of its member, since no one has ever accepted the Russian Federation into the UN organization. There was no such decision and there is no such solution. After the collapse of the USSR, the representative of the Russian Federation simply informed at a UN meeting that instead of the USSR, the Russian Federation would now be in the UN. However, the Russian Federation did not have any authority to do this from the former republics of the USSR and the UN did not make any decisions on this matter.

After the full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, Ukraine raised the issue of the illegality of the Russian Federation’s presence in the UN, but the relevant UN officials do not want to discuss this issue, and any decisions regarding violation of the rules of war by the Russian Federation are vetoed by the Russian Federation itself as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

Let me remind you that in order to end this war any day soon, Russia only needs to withdraw its troops from the illegally occupied territories of Ukraine.