Russia leases most of it's commercial aircraft from Ireland, add to things you only learn in a crisis

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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Weird.

I learned a while ago that the Netherlands is the #1 oil/gas importer of Russia's, and refining oil and gas from Russia is one of the Netherland's largest industries. Kind of ironic given the general Green/Pro-EU theme of the Netherlands.

I wonder what the Netherlands is doing in regards to all these sanctions against Russia.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They sell less of it. There were salesmen at my house who normally sell oil, gas, internet, TV, and phone subscriptions. They only offered me the latter three, and as we were talking, they received a message saying that the oil and gas deal was definitively suspended until further notice.

[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Don't Russian commercial planes have a history of crashing?

[–]package 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Have watched every episode of air disasters and it's less the planes themselves than it is bad pilots and differences in protocol vs the rest of the world

[–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Possible relevance for the way the war has been going.