Ukrainian victory over Russia is inevitable
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| Perhaps Russia would accept a proposal of withdrawing from Crimea and Donbas and Ukraine doesn't enter NATO, but Russia does? |
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The whole set of far left policies that Dems have been espousing lately is hurting them, not just the fact that they have Biden. |
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Are you seriously acting like the "One China" policy is something new? We didn't have a problem with that policy when we gave them Most Favored Nation status, or sent them our entire manufacturing base, or when they were buying up our treasuries. You don't find it weird that we really didn't have a problem with China until the Biden administration and then a switch flipped? |
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Sanctions are working!
https://www.rt.com/russia/601334-russia-ministry-microsoft-outage/ “The situation with Microsoft once again demonstrates the significance of import substitution of foreign software, first of all – at critical information infrastructure facilities,” officials added. |
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"Import substitution?" More likely they are running old, bootleg versions of Windows. |
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Well they didn’t crash, so… |
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Ukraine has a long history of stealing gas (receiving it and refusing transit). Tried and true tactics. Who is the seller this time? Probably not Russia? |
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For every action..
"Inflation in the country remains around 8-9%" https://www.asianews.it/news-en/The-paradoxes-of-Russian-finances-in-support-of-Putin-61157.html "Markets have priced in a rate hike on July 26, the bank’s next policy meeting." https://en.thebell.io/russias-650-000-wartime-emigres/ "The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has set from 20.07.2024 the following exchange rates of foreign currencies against the ruble without assuming any liability to buy or sell foreign currency at the rates below" "1 US Dollar 88.0206" https://www.cbr.ru/eng/currency_base/daily/ "direct payments made in yuan are increasingly being frozen or delayed" "It has become very difficult or even impossible to make direct payments from China to Russia" "Some Chinese buyers of Russian farm goods have also been experiencing issues with payments this month" "The yuan now accounts for about 40% of Russia’s export and import payments and more than half the value on Russia’s foreign currency market." "Those who are experiencing problems often are able to find alternative methods for payment, including by using cryptocurrencies or routing the transactions though former Soviet republics like Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan, even though that adds cost, people said." https://www.livemint.com/news/world/russian-firms-find-it-increasingly-harder-to-get-paid-by-china-11721247870219.html There is a reaction.. "Top managers at Russia's Central Bank may soon carry weapons such as submachine guns" "the draft government decree to extend it to its chiefs "was discussed with the National Guard among issues related to ensuring the protection of facilities and employees of the Bank of Russia in new regions."" "Those who could get the arms include the bank's deputy chairs and their advisers, branch managers, as well as department directors who can be provided with a service pistol or a submachine gun." "Possible weapons for the bank chiefs could be the Makarov, Yarygin and Glock pistols, as well as Kedr, Vityaz and Kiparis submachine guns. Kalashnikov assault rifles of various models are also mentioned" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-arms-top-bankers-with-submachine-guns/ar-BB1qddXJ?item=flights%3Cimg%20src&item=flights%3Cimg%20src&item=flights%3Cimg%20src The funniest part is the Kremlin seems to truly believe that everything will go back to normal once they hit the war stop button? So strange. |
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| Biden is going to Afghanistan Ukraine |
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I know everyone is focused on Biden's exit, but keep an eye at what's going on in Russia right now. It's not the time to get distracted.
"The country’s seaborne crude shipments have slumped to the lowest since January, and are likely to remain near that level through to the end of August. The shift in flows is a mirror image of Russia’s domestic refining rates, which that so far in July are on track to reach a six-month high." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-19/russia-cuts-crude-oil-exports-to-keep-more-barrels-at-home-for-refiners?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-economics&utm_content=economics&utm_source=twitter What does this mean? Without the currency inflow from oil exports, the value of the Ruble should plummet for as long as Russian exports are curtailed. No Russian oil exports = no demand for Russian Rubles to pay for the oil. Although the Kremlin claims it's not dependent upon imports to survive, this isn't 1950. Anything that Russia does not domestically produce will correspondingly skyrocket in price. My guess is this is why Nabullina said "payment methods should be a 'state secret'", since it allows accurate measurement of Russian imports. https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-banker-kostin-payment-mechanisms-state-secret-sanctions-2024-7 Take a hard look at what Russia is doing arming the Central Bank leadership. The Russian Central Bank is the equivalent of the Federal Reserve Bank. It's like giving Ben Bernanke an AR-15 to carry around to board meetings, or outfitting Jerome Powell with a pistol. 
This is not normal folks. |
Anonymous
Give it a year to lift the sanctions, at least the key ones |
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For those of you arguing (hoping?) that Ukrainians would be irreconcilable with Russia, there was an important development over the weekend. One of the biggest "anti-Russian" people in Ukraine was assassinated: https://kyivindependent.com/former-ukrainian-mp-iryna-farion-dies-in-lviv-after-assassination-attempt/
Just one of her many quotes: "“I cannot call them Ukrainians. If they don't speak Ukrainian, let them call themselves ‘Russians.’ Why are they so crazy? If they are such great patriots, show your patriotism,” Farion said." This was aimed at the military by the way. At the ground level, many Ukrainians don't really buy into the anti-Russia narrative anymore. |