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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This ZNPP attack is shaping up to be the most transparent false-flag ever:

First is the claim by Zelensky that Russia placed explosives on top of ZNPP:

This is quite the change from the claim that they had mined the basement that they were floating just a week ago.

Second is that the US just deployed the nuclear sniffer plane Constant Phoenix to the Black Sea region.

Third is that Russia placed all the reactors at ZNPP in cold shut down.

Fourth is the curious avoidance of anyone talking about why Russia would suddenly blow a plant they've controlled for 16 months. Right after Ukraine's counter-offensive fizzled out and on the verge of a large NATO summit.

My guess is that Ukraine planned to blow the plant once they had some gains in their counter-offensive, and blame panicked/retreating Russians. Now it looks like all they can do is shell the plant, and hope to hit one of the waste storage vessels. They will of course blame Russia for any leak and hope they can rope NATO deeper into the conflict as a result.

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Lol keep on believing their counteroffensive "fizzled out" - they are barely even 10% in to it.

They are not even seriously focusing on punching through the Russian lines yet, instead they are destroying Russian capacity first.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-4-2023[/quote]

+1.  Russia seems to be pouring everything it has into the current counter attacks.  If anything, it's unclear where Russia will be able to obtain more troops, since they've started cannibalizing the police.

"police chiefs are considering reassigning special units of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service to Rosgvardiya, the Russian national guard"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-beefing-security-services-because-114821496.html

The Rosgvardiya isn't National Guard like it is in the US.

"it consolidated the forces of the MVD Internal Troops, SOBR, OMON and other internal military forces outside of the Russian Armed Forces"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_National_Guard_of_Russia

Remember that OMAN and SOBR were those lovable stormtrooper type guys who cracked heads when the USSR collapsed.  A weak analogy might be re-assigning DEA SWAT teams to a Nazi brownshirt version of the FBI SWAT with APC's and Automatic Grenade Launchers..?  Kinda hard to describe.

There's also the economic factor.  Ukraine is cushioned by many countries providing economic / military aid and support.  Russia is on it's own, so it's understandable why Russia is coordinating with OPEC to cut oil production, but it may take a few weeks or months before prices help them any.  The theory is cutting production will raise oil prices, therefore Russian gas will be more valuable.

Yet something else is going on with Russia's economy.  Today the Ruble was 90.75 to 1 USD; a far cry from the 25'ish to 1 ratio Russia enjoyed before 2010.  A month ago it was 80 to 1.

"As of January 1, 2022, retirees in Russia received a gross pension of approximately 16,900 Russian rubles on average (monthly)"
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093950/average-monthly-retirement-benefit-value-russia/

Why is this important?

That's about USD $186.23 (in 2009, that would've been $676, and a year ago about $318).  It means the average Russian's buying power was just cut in half from last year and a third from 15 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNuAR4k09_4

These propaganda videos are meant to show how full the shelves are, but look at the prices.  If a single cut of fish (one meal) is 1500 rub, do the math.  A pensioner will have about 10 meals and their paycheck is done.  She focused on the red-tagged (sale) fish or meatballs (300-400 rub, but we don't know why it's on sale - is it rancid?  we don't really know..), but we do know the wine is 500-600 rub (about USD $5.60 to 6.60 a bottle, with a sale that the second bottle is half that price).  Cakes are 500 to 700 rub and stacked on the shelves - again, with no one buying them.

Take a look at the people shopping.  Big store, fully stocked, but only a handful of customers?  It might be that she's shopping at 6 am, but look carefully at the video [17:06 / 29:53].  1300 and 700 rub per kilo for shrimp and the ones on sale were 400.  Shrimp doesn't last long unfrozen - two days tops.

Just because the US exchange rate is attractive and makes goods look cheap, doesn't mean that the average Russian pensioner with only 16,900 rub a month can afford it.

My question is whether Russia in hyperinflation?[/quote]

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