If the root cause of Russia’s attack on Ukraine is not clear to anyone, then it is worth recalling what Putin said about such goals. This is “demilitarization” and “denazification” of Ukraine. Taking into account the fact that several months before the start of a full-scale war, Putin denied the existence of a Ukrainian nation as such, it becomes clear that Putin’s Russia wants to destroy Ukraine as a state and Ukrainians as a nation.

Such goals were expressed more eloquently by one of the former leaders of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, Pavel Gubarev, in October 2022 in a videotaped statement about the Ukrainians: “These are Russian people possessed by the devil. We are not going to kill them, but we want to convince them. But if "You don't want us to convince you, we will kill you. We will kill as many as necessary - 1 million, 5 million, or exterminate all of you. Until you understand that you are possessed and need treatment." Even after a year and a half of war, Gubarev’s views did not change. He recently stated that Ukrainians “are the same people, indistinguishable from us, simply infected with the bacillus of anti-Russianism.” They “believe in some completely mythical idea,” namely, that they are a separate nation.

This is pure Russian Nazism, when they kill only because the residents of Ukraine consider themselves Ukrainians and at the same time extol their Russian nation. This is also in the context of the fact that the topic of supposedly Ukrainian Nazis was raised above.
It is pointless and useless to sit down for negotiations with people who propagate such an ideology.
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I wonder what is the basis for your assertion that it is impossible to defeat a nuclear power, which, as follows from the text, means Russia? Everything happens for the first time. Until the recent attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the port of Russian-occupied Sevastopol, there had never been a case of a missile hitting a submarine. Ukraine has successfully opened such an account.

Do you mean that Russia, with a military defeat from Ukraine, will begin to bomb Ukraine with nuclear strikes or even the whole world? Firstly, Ukraine does not yet intend to seize Russian territory within its internationally recognized borders. That is, Ukraine is not going to attack Russia, but is only defending its independence and territorial integrity. Whatever the outcome, it should be clear to sensible Russians that in this war Russia is attacking, not defending, and therefore the need to use nuclear weapons on a neighboring country, receive nuclear contamination from their own bombs and die from it is completely absurd.

  Secondly, in order to use nuclear weapons, in Russia the president must transmit a code signal to unlock nuclear weapons and thereby authorize their use. This signal is transmitted through a portable nuclear briefcase control system. The Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff have the same devices. The actual possibility of a nuclear strike is feasible if permission comes from all three devices. Then the signal goes to a special service of the General Staff, which, in turn, transmits the order to the specific command in whose location the nuclear forces are located. After this - from the command to the specific officer responsible for the actual launch. In addition, the president is always accompanied by a group of General Staff officers responsible for the “nuclear briefcase.” The chain is long enough, so it seems to be foolproof. On the other hand, if this fool nevertheless decides to use nuclear weapons, will all the military in this chain want to carry out this criminal order and expose themselves, their relatives, loved ones, and so on to the danger of destruction?

As for non-strategic (tactical) nuclear weapons, the chain is even longer. The troops do not have tactical warheads. It must be picked up from a centralized storage warehouse, transported, media prepared, loaded, and military training conducted. It's a long chain, and at every step there may be doubts about whether we really want it. In addition, all this is tracked. US and NATO intelligence will quickly discover this, and NATO has developed, in case of such a danger of using nuclear weapons, a preventive non-nuclear strike, as a result of which any such state will cease to exist within thirty minutes.

  Now some states are simply afraid that as a result of long-term military failures in Ukraine, a wave of protests and centrifugal influences may rise in Russia itself, which in turn could lead to the disintegration of Russia into a number of separate independent state entities and nuclear weapons will fall into the hands of uncontrolled individuals. All other options for the use of nuclear weapons are still unrealistic, even if Russia loses to Ukraine in this war.

In recent years, we have experienced dramatic climate change very strongly. At the same time, scientists and experts argue that it will become worse every year if humanity does not radically change its behavior in relation to environmental damage. Largely due to the high consumption of oil, gas and coal, humanity has come to the brink of destroying itself and its planet. Therefore, states and their unions will be forced to take very tough measures to prevent this from happening. The transition to electric cars and the abandonment of gasoline and diesel engines is just the beginning of such global changes. And no one will any longer look at the whims of individual groups of people or even individual states. Those who oppose will face very severe sanctions and punishments.

Well, in theory, a new financial system not based on the dollar could exist. But the currency of such a financial system must have the same liquidity as the dollar, that is, it must be freely bought, sold and exchanged in almost all countries of the world. It would also be good if such a currency were not the national currency of any state so that such a state would no longer dominate the financial market in the world, like the United States now.
Cryptocurrency will not be suitable for this purpose, at least in the foreseeable future, since most states will not want to take such risks.
Going back to barter also makes no sense. It is not for nothing that the evolution of financial relations, through centuries of practice, has moved to money in its various forms as a more convenient and higher format for the development of financial relations.

Every human society and even the animal world has its own rules of behavior. They are based on the mistakes of previous generations and are generally necessary and useful. But since our rough physical world is imperfect, sometimes the rules set by people are stupid and useless. Therefore, not everything is so simple. Without general rules of behavior there will be chaos, war and violence. Therefore, rules are necessary, but they should not regulate people's lives too much, since they violate their freedom of choice.

Monero differs from the bulk of cryptocurrency in its high degree of anonymity, and this is the problem of its current state. Many understand that states will strengthen regulation of cryptocurrency and this will primarily concern the identification of participants in the cryptocurrency market. If this affects Monero, then its specialness and current attractiveness will disappear and this coin will turn into hundreds and thousands of them that are available in this market. Some states, including Japan, simply prohibit the circulation of this coin on their territory and this cannot but affect the decline in its popularity.

International sanctions and the isolation of Russia from civilized states are forcing Putin to seek connections with rogue states like Russia, or to expand cooperation to sell their products with developing countries, including African ones. But Putin’s attempt following the summit in St. Petersburg was unsuccessful. We'll see what happens next. Russia's influence will increase in some African countries, while in others it will weaken. After all, African countries do not present a united front. Each country has its own interests and they depend on many factors that are constantly changing. But I don’t expect that Russia’s plan will succeed. Russia is weakening because of the war it started in Ukraine, and everyone can clearly see this.

No agreements were ever signed between the USSR/Russia and NATO, including the United States, on the non-expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe. Some Russian officials, including President Putin, state that such an agreement, reached in one form or another between the USSR/Russia and the USA in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was oral. However, leaders of the NATO alliance believe that no such promises were made and that such a decision can only be made in writing. The NATO Alliance has always officially adhered to the principle of “open doors” to new NATO members.

The Soviet Union did not receive written guarantees about the non-expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe, just as the post-Soviet Russian Federation did not receive them. Thus, we can only talk about the presence or absence of an informal agreement.

The demand to “roll back” the military unification within the 1997 borders, that is, before the extensions in 1999 and 2004, was put forward at the end of 2021 in Russia’s large-scale military unification in Ukraine in 2022. However, Russia's defense in Ukraine led to the opposite consequences. Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO last year, and on April 4, 2023, Finland became the 31st NATO member. With regard to Sweden, consent has not been received only from Turkey and Hungary.
After Russia's military failures and receiving a 1,300-kilometer border with Finland as a NATO member, Russia no longer puts forward any demands for NATO non-expansion.

Every country strives to strengthen its currency and have more other countries use its national currency, as this strengthens the economy of its country. Russia did try to increase its financial reserves in Chinese yuan, but lost because the yuan became cheaper after that. Russia is doing this primarily not because of its dislike for the dollar, but because of the sanctions imposed after the military invasion of Ukraine and its restrictions on the use of dollars. If Russia switches to using the national currency of another country in international trade, it loses in any case and at the same time strengthens the currency of the country it uses in trade. This indicates not the strength, but the weakness of Russia.

Ukraine is now defending itself from a completely insolent and bloodthirsty aggressor named Russia, and this is not a crisis at all, and not a natural disaster. This is one of the largest military forces in Europe and has specific culprits in the person of Putin, his entourage and the Russian people, who are now in the hundreds of thousands with weapons in their hands climbing into the territory of Ukraine to kill Ukrainians and destroy everything in their path.

Negotiations and requests cannot stop Russia now; this beast understands only force, and above all the force of weapons. This war can only be stopped by assistance to Ukraine from other states, otherwise the flames of war will spread further to the Baltic countries and throughout Europe.

Ukraine occupies a very favorable geographical position with a good climate and fertile lands. In the Ukrainian Carpathians there is a sign marking the center of Europe. If you don’t count Russia, then Ukraine is the largest state in Europe. It covers an area of over 603 thousand square kilometers. It is followed by France with 547 thousand and Spain with 498 thousand square kilometers. At the same time, Ukraine is a kind of buffer between the democratic countries of Europe and authoritarian Russia, which wages constant wars both with its neighbors and throughout the world. Therefore, it is very important for European countries that Ukraine does not fall under the influence of Russia, because the existing balance of power will be disrupted and the threat to the rest of Europe will increase. This is one of the reasons why European countries provide all possible assistance in the war against Russia that attacked it.

Putin attacked Ukraine because he cannot tolerate a democratic state near his borders. This is a bad example for his empire, which is territorially based on force of arms and coercion. In addition, he wants to appropriate the history of Ukraine and turn it into his own history of the Russian Federation. Although Russians are called Russians, they are not the same thing. Russia as a state arose under Tsar Peter the Great at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries, while the state of Kievan Rus with the center of the capital of present-day Ukraine, Kiev, was one of the most powerful states in Europe back in the 9th century, and present-day Moscow, being then still a small village , was owned by the Kiev prince Yuri Dolgoruky. Therefore, before the reign of Peter the Great, Russians were called Muscovites, and the state itself was called Muscovy, but not Russians at all, since they had nothing to do with Rus', Kievan Rus. Now Russia is laying claim to the lands of Ukraine, although it is Ukraine that has the right to claim its historical lands, right up to Moscow.

Even if the American F-16s were produced in the seventies of the last century, and the Soviet ones, now used in the war by both Russia and Ukraine, were produced in the eighties, in many respects the “outdated” F-16 is superior to modern analogues of Russian, and even more so Ukrainian models .
Unlike the F-16, the MiG-29, for example, has not been developed since the early 1980s and is considered obsolete, while the F-16 has gone through several modifications. Today it has about 15 variants, the last of which are still produced for export.

If we compare endurance, that is, the maximum time after which the aircraft must be written off, since it becomes unsafe to fly, then the first modifications of the F-16 had a service life of 8 thousand hours. This means that with a normal number of flights, their operation is designed for 40 years. Today, the United States is considering the possibility of extending the service life to another 10 or 12 thousand hours, that is, the aircraft will be able to be used until 2048.
The situation with the MiG-29 is completely different. Initially, they had a resource of only 2.5 thousand hours, and later ones - up to 4 thousand. In other words, half as much, that is, the operation of Soviet fighters is designed for a maximum of 20 years.

The MiG-29 has good speed and slightly higher maneuverability, which gives it the ability to turn 180 degrees two seconds earlier, so the MiG-29 is good in close combat, but in fighter aircraft the advantage goes to the one who detects the enemy first.
The best modifications of Soviet (Russian) fighters with their onboard radar can “see” air targets at a range of more than 200 km and carry out air-to-air missile attacks at a range of 75 km. At the same time, the F-16 can engage air targets at a range of about 300 km and carry out attacks at a range twice that of the enemy, without entering the range of enemy fighters and ground-based air defense systems.

But what makes the F-16 even better is its avionics. Modern versions are equipped with the AN/APG-83 radar, which is simultaneously capable of tracking up to 35 targets and allows firing at 8 of them. In this case, targets can be both air and ground; there is no need to switch modes. At the same time, radars even on modernized MiG-29s (in Russian service) track up to 10 targets and allow attacking only one. And they are completely incapable of identifying ground targets. Moreover, the pilot must highlight the air target with radar before it is destroyed.

I do not see any significant reduction in Bitcoin price volatility even if there is a dramatic increase in adoption and use by people and businesses. As the liquidity of Bitcoin increases, its price will certainly increase, and the higher the price, the greater the amplitude of its price fluctuations becomes, that is, its volatility increases.
Decentralized cryptocurrency is based on the lack of price regulation and this is the root cause of its high price volatility. Refuse free pricing for cryptocurrency
  is impossible, which means its high price volatility will continue. This indicator may vary only slightly depending on the specific characteristics of market conditions. But so far no one can give an exact answer to this question.

Most likely, the question was posed a little incorrectly. Countries are switching to the use of alternative energy sources and this is the call of the time, since the use of traditional oil, coal and gas is very quickly deteriorating the climate on our planet. If earlier people usually dismissed the solution to this problem by saying that it was a problem of the distant future, now everyone already sees the consequences of such neglect. Humanity will definitely switch to other, more environmentally friendly energy sources, and not only those that are currently known. But this is not an addiction. This is the convenience and safety of our society. We can switch to other energy sources at any time, which will be more accessible and cheaper.

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If a Ukrainian missile malfunctions for some reason and falls somewhere else instead of the target and kills Ukrainian citizens, the root cause of all these deaths is still Russia. The Russian army treacherously invaded the territory of Ukraine, causing destruction and death to military and civilians in Ukraine. If it were not for the Russian military attack, the Ukrainian missile would not have been fired and there would not have been the accidental deaths that periodically happen in all wars.

  Now let’s return to the grain deal terminated by Russia. It seems that the joy of Russians over Russia’s refusal to participate in the “grain deal” is premature. This is now noted even by collaborators and traitors of Ukraine, who admit that the refusal of the grain deal was a strategic mistake of the Kremlin, for which the Russian Black Sea Fleet is now paying. As Odessa collaborator and traitor to Ukraine Igor Dimitriev writes in his telegram, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is now “systematically being expelled from the annexed Crimea... The Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea is now paying for the Kremlin’s action, which is almost daily subjected to attacks from Ukrainian missiles and drones...Ukraine is seeking the withdrawal of the Black Sea Fleet to Novorossiysk, which will expose the Crimean coast and allow the landing of small sabotage groups... After this, Novorossiysk itself will come under attack. This will create serious economic problems - a significant part of Russian grain and oil exports goes through Novorossiysk. Replacing this route is very complicated. Following Ukrainian grain exports, Russian grain exports may collapse. The joy from the termination of the deal was premature," Dimitriev complained. Source: https://www.dialog.ua/war/281658_1695457429

Russia felt its first serious loss in the Black Sea on March 24, 2022. On this day, one of the largest landing ships of the Russian Navy, Saratov, was disabled by a Tochka-U missile in the port of Berdyansk. Several more landing ships - Novocherkassk, Orsk and Tsezar Kunikov - were damaged.

  On April 13, 2022, the Ukrainian army dealt a crushing blow to the flagship missile cruiser Moskva with a Ukrainian shore-based cruise missile Neptune. The cruiser caught fire and sank to the bottom. At least 37 sailors were killed and about 100 were injured.

On June 17, 2022, the Ukrainian army destroyed the Russian tug Vasily Bekh, which was carrying the Tor anti-aircraft missile system. And on October 29, the new Russian flagship frigate Admiral Makarov, the minesweeper Ivan Golubets and another ship were damaged in the Bay of Sevastopol.

In addition, the Ukrainian army has damaged five more Russian ships in the Black Sea in just the last few weeks—in fact, 10% of the entire fleet based there.

Thus, on the night of September 12-13, a missile strike was carried out on the invaders’ dry dock in Sevastopol. The targets were the large landing ship Minsk and the diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don, one of four submarines of the Black Sea Fleet that carries Kalibr cruise missiles. As a result of the attack, the Minsk lost almost its entire superstructure, and the submarine received two large holes in its hull from a direct hit from missiles.

On September 14, information appeared about new attacks on Russian ships in the Black Sea. The Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that the Ukrainian Defense Forces damaged two Project 22160 patrol ships of the Vasily Bykov type. And on Friday, September 15, an experimental SBU drone shot down the Russian missile ship Samum near Sevastopol Bay. The impact hit the rear of the ship. The ship received significant damage and lost speed. As a result, the occupiers had to tow the Samum for repairs with a large trim to the stern and a list to starboard. Source: https://focus.ua/eksklyuzivy/593217-rossiyskie-korabli-v-lovushke-kogda-ukraina-smozhet-unichtozhit-chernomorskiy-flot

On the night of September 14, military counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Navy destroyed the Russian S-400 Triumph air defense system near Yevpatoria in annexed Crimea, worth $1.2 billion. First, drones hit the target, hitting the complex's radars and antennas, and then the Ukrainian military launched two Neptune cruise missiles at the launch complexes. This is already the loss of the second S-400 Triumph complex out of six deployed on the occupied Crimean peninsula, which Russia considered impregnable.

Regular strikes against Russian air defenses and airfields in Crimea now allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to launch precise strikes against other Russian targets and control points.
Thus, on September 22, during a meeting at the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the center of occupied Sevastopol, several missile strikes were carried out, as a result of which the building was penetrated from the roof to the basement. After the strike, the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Sokolov, was listed as missing, and among the wounded were the commander of the group, Colonel General Romanchuk, and the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Tsekov.

https://www.svoboda.org/a/po-shtabu-chernomorskogo-flota-v-sevastopole-udarili-raketoy/32604638.html
https://news.online.ua/budanov-nazval-poteri-rossiyan-posle-udara-po-shtabu-chf-rf-sredi-ranenyh-generaly_n864521/

Putin and his troops continue to bomb and shell Ukraine’s Black Sea port infrastructure, elevators and grain storage facilities. Thus, Putin is deliberately creating a shortage of grain that will not reach world markets, and this, in turn, will increase prices. Doesn't this bother you? Is this how Putin ensures uninterrupted food supplies to African countries? Or by taking stolen grain from the occupied territories of Ukraine and trying to sell it to third countries?

If Great Britain does not play by the rules, then how do Russia and its bloody leader Putin play? Is he playing by the rules, unleashing the biggest and bloodiest war since World War II with the goal of capturing a neighboring state, where about forty thousand shells are now fired every day?

All states are now experiencing difficult economic times. Great Britain will survive this period too. The question is, will Russia survive them or will it disintegrate into a number of small republics?

The great and mighty Russia has been unable to cope with the relatively small Ukraine for a year and a half and still dreams of capturing other states? Alas, she clearly doesn’t have enough strength. Even to resume the offensive and cut off Ukraine from the Black Sea, today for Russia is already in the realm of only imperial intentions, which are far from reality, nothing more. During the autumn months, the Armed Forces of Ukraine may well throw the Russian invaders into the Sea of Azov in the south of Ukraine, after which the Russians will feel very uncomfortable in the occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which will be completely within reach of Ukrainian missiles and will certainly turn into an island for them, without full-fledged military supplies equipment and ammunition.

Given that the Russian professional army is almost entirely defeated in Ukraine, with a critical shortage of military equipment, especially artillery, is it still threatening to attack the Baltic countries, which are NATO members? For Russia, this would practically mean suicide.

The article you linked to states that at the party of the UAE Embassy in Pretoria, which took place on Tuesday evening on the occasion of the country's admission to BRICS membership, the Russian Ambassador to South Africa made a short speech and presented the UAE Ambassador with a symbolic banknote of one hundred units of countries BRICS. This banknote is purely symbolic, such money does not exist, it does not even indicate the name of this monetary unit. That is, this symbolic banknote has no practical significance for the emergence of a single currency of the BRICS countries.
There are still different rumors and opinions surrounding the single currency of the BRICS countries, but we have not yet heard at the official level that there will be such a currency and what kind it will be.