Pfft. Silly rabbit. Tricks are for kids!
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-troop-equipment-vehicle-losses-ukraine-1956973

Read this article very, very carefully.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/09/18/russian-police-are-joining-the-army-for-higher-pay-leaving-behind-overworked-colleagues-who-are-more-likely-to-resort-to-torture

Anonymous wrote:Why is the IMF saving the Russian Economy? "Ksenia Yudaeva is the former first deputy governor at Russia's central bank, and a current adviser to its governor Elvira Nabiullina." "From November 1 Ksenia will be the Russian Executive Director at the IMF," https://www.barrons.com/news/sanctioned-russian-central-banker-named-to-imf-s-board-102fd78e "International Monetary Fund's plans to resume missions to Russia" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nine-european-countries-protest-against-imf-resuming-missions-russia-2024-09-13/ A "mission" is where they "loan" money to a country.

Because they know that Ukraine and this situation is just a blip on their radar in the grand scheme of things. They want to keep and eye on a large and potentially profitable (though highly volatile) market that Russia is.

I'm really surprised Ukraine attacked this ammo depot with drones. That's a lot of apartment buildings they could have damaged instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_1dZ4cAys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRDw064P_js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujf3k6Wo8cU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ztrA1OQ2k https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_dZyhfpTvLE[/y

In what magical world do Russians think they can do this and not expect it in return?

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Anonymous wrote:Ukraine blows up massive Russian ammunition dump.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dEz1ZLVgp8>

A Ukrainian drone attack launched overnight destroyed an ammunition depot in the western Russian region of Tver, causing a massive blast.

The Ukrainian drones targeted the Russian defense ministry-operated warehouse in the city of Toropets, which was storing Iskander tactical missile systems, Tochka-U tactical missile systems, guided aerial bombs and artillery ammunition.

I'm really surprised Ukraine attacked this ammo depot with drones. That's a lot of apartment buildings they could have damaged instead.

Eat some borscht, buddy. They ain’t paying you enough to write hungry.

+1. Imagine living in a country where your kids had hope rather than political fear. I mean, I don't live in one of those either. But just imagine it!

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Anonymous wrote:Ukraine blows up massive Russian ammunition dump.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dEz1ZLVgp8>

A Ukrainian drone attack launched overnight destroyed an ammunition depot in the western Russian region of Tver, causing a massive blast.

The Ukrainian drones targeted the Russian defense ministry-operated warehouse in the city of Toropets, which was storing Iskander tactical missile systems, Tochka-U tactical missile systems, guided aerial bombs and artillery ammunition.

I'm really surprised Ukraine attacked this ammo depot with drones. That's a lot of apartment buildings they could have damaged instead.

It’s almost like Russia could fk the fk off out of Ukraine, right? Crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Ukraine blows up massive Russian ammunition dump.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dEz1ZLVgp8>

A Ukrainian drone attack launched overnight destroyed an ammunition depot in the western Russian region of Tver, causing a massive blast.

The Ukrainian drones targeted the Russian defense ministry-operated warehouse in the city of Toropets, which was storing Iskander tactical missile systems, Tochka-U tactical missile systems, guided aerial bombs and artillery ammunition.

I'm really surprised Ukraine attacked this ammo depot with drones. That's a lot of apartment buildings they could have damaged instead.

Eat some borscht, buddy. They ain’t paying you enough to write hungry.

Ukraine blows up massive Russian ammunition dump.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dEz1ZLVgp8>

A Ukrainian drone attack launched overnight destroyed an ammunition depot in the western Russian region of Tver, causing a massive blast.

The Ukrainian drones targeted the Russian defense ministry-operated warehouse in the city of Toropets, which was storing Iskander tactical missile systems, Tochka-U tactical missile systems, guided aerial bombs and artillery ammunition.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is the IMF saving the Russian Economy? "Ksenia Yudaeva is the former first deputy governor at Russia's central bank, and a current adviser to its governor Elvira Nabiullina." "From November 1 Ksenia will be the Russian Executive Director at the IMF," https://www.barrons.com/news/sanctioned-russian-central-banker-named-to-imf-s-board-102fd78e "International Monetary Fund's plans to resume missions to Russia" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nine-european-countries-protest-against-imf-resuming-missions-russia-2024-09-13/ A "mission" is where they "loan" money to a country.

Ksenia and Elvira are both first-class brains. Widely respected in the international banker community.

I think you meant well respected in the dimon-gangster community? Didn’t a lawmaker suggest central bankers like her should pack firearms in meetings?

I’m sure Ksenia’s first act will be to drain every penny from the IMF. Oh wait, that meeting in Moscow is in the first week of October! He certainly doesn’t waste any time.

Reposting the same weird comment everywhere is getting old. Please stop.

This isn't how the IMF works.

Also, Ksenia Yudaeva is a woman with a woman's name, moron.
Russians put gender in their name TWICE.

https://www.imf.org/en/About/Factsheets/IMF-Lending

You think any MOUs signed by the Kremlin will be honored? Moron.

‘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. Russian media reported that there are three first deputy chairs and nine deputy chairs at the institution. “
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-central-bank-machine-guns-putin-1927013

I wonder if they’ll be armed by the time the IMF visits? Nah, they’re not gangsters at all..

Excellent! Then there is no need at all for an IMF mission to Russia! And I won’t need to explain what this means to you

“ Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the country’s military to increase its number of troops by 180,000 to a total of 1.5 million”
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/putin-orders-military-boost-troop-numbers-180000-15-113723724

“ "The shortage of (labour) resources may lead to a situation where economic growth slows down, despite all the efforts to stimulate demand, with all that stimulus accelerating inflation," Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said over the summer. "In essence, this is a stagflation scenario, which can only be stopped at the cost of a deep recession,"
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240912-russia-faces-stagflation-threat-as-growth-slows

I wonder what causes a shortage of labor resources?

The Russian Government seems hell bent on destroying it’s own country?

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Why is the IMF saving the Russian Economy? "Ksenia Yudaeva is the former first deputy governor at Russia's central bank, and a current adviser to its governor Elvira Nabiullina." "From November 1 Ksenia will be the Russian Executive Director at the IMF," https://www.barrons.com/news/sanctioned-russian-central-banker-named-to-imf-s-board-102fd78e "International Monetary Fund's plans to resume missions to Russia" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nine-european-countries-protest-against-imf-resuming-missions-russia-2024-09-13/ A "mission" is where they "loan" money to a country.

Ksenia and Elvira are both first-class brains. Widely respected in the international banker community.

I think you meant well respected in the dimon-gangster community? Didn’t a lawmaker suggest central bankers like her should pack firearms in meetings?

I’m sure Ksenia’s first act will be to drain every penny from the IMF. Oh wait, that meeting in Moscow is in the first week of October! He certainly doesn’t waste any time.

Reposting the same weird comment everywhere is getting old. Please stop.

This isn't how the IMF works.

Also, Ksenia Yudaeva is a woman with a woman's name, moron.
Russians put gender in their name TWICE.

Nabiullina's a legend!

Nabiullina’s rise was an unlikely one — she is the daughter of blue-collar ethnic Tatars from Ufa, a city in Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan, more than 1,000 kilometers from Moscow. But from humble beginnings, she became the first woman to run a central bank of a G8 country. She famously saved the Russian economy back in 2014, after Putin annexed Ukraine’s Crimea, deftly hiking interest rates and introducing reforms.

With the ruble tanking and inflation soaring, Nabiullina’s interventions, which also saw Russia develop its own payments system, shut down hundreds of wobbly banks and eventually build up huge reserves, earned her the admiration of her international counterparts. She was honored as the central bank governor of the year by Euromoney in 2015 and The Banker in 2017. And in 2018, Christine Lagarde, then the head of the International Monetary Fund, lauded Nabiullina as the woman who could make “central banking sing” (after waxing lyrical about their shared love of opera).

https://www.politico.eu/list/politico-28-class-of-2024/elvira-nabiullina/

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Anonymous wrote:Why is the IMF saving the Russian Economy? "Ksenia Yudaeva is the former first deputy governor at Russia's central bank, and a current adviser to its governor Elvira Nabiullina." "From November 1 Ksenia will be the Russian Executive Director at the IMF," https://www.barrons.com/news/sanctioned-russian-central-banker-named-to-imf-s-board-102fd78e "International Monetary Fund's plans to resume missions to Russia" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nine-european-countries-protest-against-imf-resuming-missions-russia-2024-09-13/ A "mission" is where they "loan" money to a country.

Ksenia and Elvira are both first-class brains. Widely respected in the international banker community.

I think you meant well respected in the dimon-gangster community? Didn’t a lawmaker suggest central bankers like her should pack firearms in meetings?

I’m sure Ksenia’s first act will be to drain every penny from the IMF. Oh wait, that meeting in Moscow is in the first week of October! He certainly doesn’t waste any time.

Reposting the same weird comment everywhere is getting old. Please stop.

This isn't how the IMF works.

Also, Ksenia Yudaeva is a woman with a woman's name, moron.
Russians put gender in their name TWICE.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is the IMF saving the Russian Economy? "Ksenia Yudaeva is the former first deputy governor at Russia's central bank, and a current adviser to its governor Elvira Nabiullina." "From November 1 Ksenia will be the Russian Executive Director at the IMF," https://www.barrons.com/news/sanctioned-russian-central-banker-named-to-imf-s-board-102fd78e "International Monetary Fund's plans to resume missions to Russia" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nine-european-countries-protest-against-imf-resuming-missions-russia-2024-09-13/ A "mission" is where they "loan" money to a country.

Ksenia and Elvira are both first-class brains. Widely respected in the international banker community.

I think you meant well respected in the dimon-gangster community? Didn’t a lawmaker suggest central bankers like her should pack firearms in meetings?

I’m sure Ksenia’s first act will be to drain every penny from the IMF. Oh wait, that meeting in Moscow is in the first week of October! He certainly doesn’t waste any time.

Anonymous wrote:Why is the IMF saving the Russian Economy? "Ksenia Yudaeva is the former first deputy governor at Russia's central bank, and a current adviser to its governor Elvira Nabiullina." "From November 1 Ksenia will be the Russian Executive Director at the IMF," https://www.barrons.com/news/sanctioned-russian-central-banker-named-to-imf-s-board-102fd78e "International Monetary Fund's plans to resume missions to Russia" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nine-european-countries-protest-against-imf-resuming-missions-russia-2024-09-13/ A "mission" is where they "loan" money to a country.

Ksenia and Elvira are both first-class brains. Widely respected in the international banker community.

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Anonymous wrote:Question.

Russia has stated if Ukraine uses U.S. weaponry to strike in Russia, they will consider that the U.S. and NATO are at war with Russia.

Should the U.S. greenlight Ukrainian forces using U.S. missiles to strike inside of Russia?

For certain long-range weapons to be used against Russian targets in Russia, they would be correct. That's because to use them, NATO would have to provide the targeting data, NATO would have to actually program the targeting data into the weapon systems. Its not even clear if Ukrainians could "pull the trigger" for certain weapon systems. At that point, there just is too much direct NATO involvement to pretend its "Ukraine" attacking Russia anymore.

You are providing your view.

Now, in this scenario, U.S. produced missiles are used to attack several buildings inside Russia.

You are trusting Russia will lawyer up and figure out exactly who, what, when, where and how the targeting is done.

Maybe they don't bother and launch three or four submarine launched missiles (conventional) into buildings in Memphis, Boston and Los Angeles.

Now what? What's your next move?

The likely escalation path is that Russia will provide the same "support" to groups like the Houthi, Syria or any other dozens of parties currently fighting the US somewhere. So the likely retaliation will be a ship in the Red Sea, or a base in Syria or Iraq.

We thankfully have a few escalations before American civilians might be in the line of fire.

This is a statement from their government.

How are you determining their likely escalation path?

Oh, another red line drawn by Russia in erasable ink.

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Anonymous wrote:Jeff, you should just lock this thread. It’s mostly a bunch of bots trying spreading RT style fire hose of propaganda bullsht. What the point? The five Fox News viewers reading this are convinced by the stupid bots (I mean studies show their personalities lean authoritarian anyway), but to everyone else this is stupid. Russia invaded Ukraine. They should leave. It’s as simple as that.

I posted the statement of the question to and answer by Putin. How is that propaganda? It's the president of Russia making a clear statement on where he stands.

It is not some vague statement coming out of some corner of the internet you've never heard of. It's the president of Russia making a clear statement on where he stands in his own words.

I provided no commentary. I let the viewer decide for themselves. What are you afraid of?

Dp- yeah babe. We heard him. We heard him when he said he would have this “special military operation” completed in three days. We also heard him when he said he would use nukes.
His threats aren’t compelling.

That's what you're counting on? Chance?

The west isn’t worried. Lil’ puffy faced Putin likes to run his mouth. It’s not a compelling threat. Head back to RT and find another talking point.