First the UK is a Western Country, and you responded my post regarding the UK's imports
Also the US have in place an Executive Order (E.O.) of March 8, 2022 “Prohibiting Certain Imports" into the United States of crude oil; petroleum; petroleum fuels, oils, and products of their distillation; liquefied natural gas; coal; and coal products of Russian Federation origin.
I said the UK "Had been" in past tense, leading up to the War - In the 12 months leading up to the war, the UK imported an average of £499m of fuel from Russia but this figure has dropped to zero, the UK has been compensating by increasing imports of refined oil from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Netherlands and Belgium.
I was unsure if LNG (liquid natural gas) purchases had been phased out completely, but according to the UK Parliament it has.
Quote " In June 2022, the fourth full month since the invasion, according to UK trade statistics, the UK Imported no oil, gas or coal from Russia. This was the third month in a row with no Russian gas imports, but the first month (since 2000 when this data is available back to) with no gas, oil or coal imports from Russia. Before the Invasion overall energy imports from Russia in the year to June 2022 were £4.4 billion "
With Oil there's other reliable suppliers such as the USA, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium and Saudi Arabia, at least two-thirds of Uk road fuel comes from our own domestic production. The reason it throws prices up is because its a global market and it affects prices as a whole.
With Natural gas, 3% of our gas had been coming from Russia and about half comes from the North Sea, and a third is sourced from Norway, then bits of LNG had coming from countries such as Qatar and the US and russia.
Respect to you for your post, very honest and factual , and unbiased as you speak of the wrongs that both sides may have done.
I have noticed that others only pick at little parts of your post to argue/debate about, and totally miss the relevant parts such as "We hate them so much that we take them to work in the Wagner PMC or in other battalions like "Rusich" which fought in the Donbass... Society hates and the state works with them, a very hypocritical convenient position for someone like you."
One can only hope for peace, however late is will have come.
You only need to elect a corrupt leader once and usually done so innocently by the people as it's only later that their true colors are shown, then they will take out any opposition and/or rig future elections.
Blame should never be placed on the people themselves. I don't agree with conflict. I've only met and spoke to a handful of Russian and Ukrainian people IRL and have only good things to say.
Multiple instances of it happening hence the ban. As we know it can happen in good races but when it happens multiple times, a line must be drawn eventually otherwise it ruins the fun for others.
As didobmw said, its just a case of him needing to know what to do after or during overtaking, thinking one step ahead.
The same as in real life, car setup changes for different tracks, different suspension setup ect. What may feel good for one track could be a total fail on another, rendering it only useful for a number of tracks.
It has been suspected as a pangolin since the beguinning.
SARS-CoV-2 is a newly discovered virus that is closely related to bat coronaviruses,[24] pangolin coronaviruses,[25][26] and SARS-CoV
The scientific consensus is that the virus is most likely of zoonotic origin, from bats or another closely-related mammal.
The earliest known infected person fell ill on 1 December 2019. That individual did not have a connection with the later wet market cluster.[38][39] However, an earlier case may have occurred on 17 November.[40] Two-thirds of the initial case cluster were linked with the market.[41][42][43] Molecular clock analysis suggests that the index case is likely to have been infected between mid-October and mid-November 2019.
Certainly trust some of the best scientist and virologist than a comedian youtuber(even though he is a great comedian). Id not really trust a state scientist personally, but with WHO they're a group of international scientist under the UN and not a single state government group.
Heres good video about all the conspiracy theorist of late.
Its never actually been bats that had been accused of spreading it directly to humans, bats had been suspected of passing it to the ant-eating pangolin, which is a delicacy in china and then it jumped to humans.
Bats are known and proven to carry two different types of Coronavirus already (Sars-COV) which first surfaced in 2002 , and MERS-COV which surfaced in 2012.
Other known diseases found in bats are Ebola , Marburg(filovirus) , Hendra ,Nipah , Lyssavirus. Which all but one can be spread to humans.
Youtube aint great for research, you can find scientific papers quite easily from independent sources, or even request them under the freedom of information act if from the UK.
While they don't know exactly from what animal Covid 19 came from, they do know its is a zoonosis, a human disease of animal origin by checking its genetic makeup . However, the animal source of SARS-CoV-2 is still unknown for certain.
Could quite possibily be correct, i know that virus's leaking out of such labs is nothing new, its considered a high probability that the Foot and Mouth outbreak (effects cows) back in 2007 had come from a lab called Pirbright in Surrey and somehow accidently leaked.
With human airborne diseases all it takes is one person to accidently become infected without realising and it soon will spread if the bodies immune system does not recognise it.
Who was arguing ? , i just stated some facts that Russell had been wrong. To disagree is not to argue, its a discussion, people can have a different opinion while still being friendly. Respect to you
I am struggling to get the point of the article that he links to, i've read it and understand that the Vanity fair article shows that there the origin had first been based on assumptions without any real proof but then it states the following.
"Bloom among them, questioned that assertion, saying the preprints, while worthy, relied on incomplete data and found no infected animal.
“I don’t think they offer proof. They provide evidence that more strongly supports the link to the wild animal market than to the WIV, and that’s the way I would have phrased it,” says W. Ian Lipkin"
The latter sentence contradicts itself, "i don't think they offer proof. They provide evidence that more strongly supports the link to the wild animal market than to the WIV, and that’s the way I would have phrased it,” says W. Ian Lipkin"
Evidence results in proof if it strongly supports the link to the wild animal market than to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, isn't this what we had been told anyway.
The first sentence is not uncommon , a virus mutates within one animal and makes the evoluntionary jump, that animal would've of been eaten.
Its quite possible i missed something in the Vanity Report, which is what Russell's on about.
I have always believed in the possibility that it was an engineered or mutated by human disease, just waited for proof
Only you think that happens then, always back accusations up with evidence, if anything it shows that you make light of the crimes that hitler commited, Putins not even accused Ukraine of mass genocide and only of nazification within ukraine so you're all alone there.
Such as you attempting to take my saying of Glory to Ukraine as nationalism, while its a sentence that was around before nationalism, and first used in the Ukrainian War of independence between 1917 to 1921.
I've no doubt you will ignore this though as whenever proven wrong, you just move on to some other baloney.
Been using google translate again i can see
Numerous times you've spread false lies here that have been proven wrong. Its pointless trying to have a rational conversation with someone that does not want to see or speak the truth.