Punishing Russia With Sanctions

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THG

Sunday, December 18, 2022 5:37 AM (P)

Bad News, Putin: Russia Will Get Slapped with New Sanctions

U.S. and E.U. Announce New Sanctions On Russia – The United States continues to levy economic sanctions against Russia and Russian oligarchs, this week announcing a series of new sanctions against a Russian oligarch, the board of directors of a major Russian railway network, and more.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bad-news-putin-russia-will-get-sl
apped-with-new-sanctions/ar-AA15p2pc?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=981ff74835894d52a7494c15d214c81c

Jerk this too comrade.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, December 18, 2022 6:18 AM (P)

Biden* is punishing you with sanctions, tool.

How those heat bills treating you, Ted?

You voted for them. Twice.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, December 18, 2022 6:41 AM (P)

March 1st, 2022:

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Biden and our allies are doing this in record speed.

Current day, December 17th, 2022:

Yeah. The same record speed at which the never-ending tick tock threads to Trump's never-gonna-happen demise.

Get fucked, Ted. You're an idiot.

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THG

Tuesday, December 27, 2022 10:29 PM (P)

Until Russia changes its politics i.e. becomes democratic, it will remain doomed on the world market. We're talking about a major depression. A generational depression.

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RUSSIAN Oil & Gas Disaster as Sanctions Destroy Demand & Production is CUT & Ruble Also Crashes

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, December 27, 2022 10:34 PM (P)

Fuck Ukraine.

#Rootin4Putin

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THG

Sunday, January 1, 2023 6:16 AM (P)

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SIGNYM

Sunday, January 1, 2023 7:00 AM (P)

Quote:
THUGR: Until Russia changes its politics i.e. becomes democratic, it will remain doomed on the ~~world~~ western market. We're talking about a major depression. A generational depression.

Nah.
First if all, your "facts" are 100% wrong.

And it's the EU and UK suffering, not Russia. Russia's fine.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

THG

Monday, January 16, 2023 5:45 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

THUGR: Until Russia changes its politics i.e. becomes democratic, it will remain doomed on the ~~world~~ western market. We're talking about a major depression. A generational depression.

Nah.

First if all, your "facts" are 100% wrong.

And it's the EU and UK suffering, not Russia. Russia's fine.

Can_you_see_me_laughing?

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RUSSIAN OILMAGEDDON 2023 | Falling Oil Prices Are Crashing Russian Economy

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 16, 2023 6:18 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

THUGR: Until Russia changes its politics i.e. becomes democratic, it will remain doomed on the ~~world~~ western market. We're talking about a major depression. A generational depression.

Nah.

First if all, your "facts" are 100% wrong.

And it's the EU and UK suffering, not Russia. Russia's fine.

Can_you_see_me_laughing?

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RUSSIAN OILMAGEDDON 2023 | Falling Oil Prices Are Crashing Russian Economy

As told by The Russian Vausch.

LOL

Nobody gives a shit, Ted. If you haven't noticed that prices are up on everything now, you should really start taking a look before you go broke.

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THG

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 1:53 AM (P)

Told you so comrade signym, told you so.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 2:17 AM (P)

Democrats already wasted over $100 Billion on Ukraine, so Russia is still up.

The only winner here is Ukraine, getting all that free money. Democrats and NeoCon shitstains keep giving our money away while Americans are starving.

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THG

Sunday, January 22, 2023 4:25 AM (P)

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 22, 2023 4:29 AM (P)

Nobody cares.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 7:30 PM (P)

Diamond mining CEO calls for further sanctions on Russia

https://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article/12107/Diamond-mining-CEO-call
s-for-further-sanctions-on-Russia

Russia and Iran eye trade route with India to bypass sanctions

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Russia-and-Ir
an-eye-trade-route-with-India-to-bypass-sanctions

THG

Monday, January 30, 2023 8:34 PM (P)

Comrade signym, can you hear me yelling, I told you so?

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THG

Saturday, February 11, 2023 5:34 AM (P)

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THG

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 1:22 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:

SECIND: I noticed that you didn't address this.

*****

Yeah SECOND, address this.

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PLANNED ECONOMY COMING BACK TO RUSSIA | How They Are Resurrecting The USSR

THG

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 1:32 AM (P)

Russian Media Hack Hits During Putin Speech

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-media-hack-hits-during-pu
tin-speech/ar-AA17Kfxk?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ccfb009575d14e87ac3ff7f77f51a475

Is it wrong for me to be laughing about this comrade signym? Oh well...

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THG

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 1:36 AM (P)

Comrade signym, is it wrong for me to be laughing at this as I post here, I told you so?

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JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, February 23, 2023 9:20 PM (P)

Clown woman Yellen warns India, Africa, Latin America, Arabia and her boss in Switzerland of ‘serious consequences’ if it helps Russia evade US sanctions?

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3870782-yellen-warns-china-of
-serious-consequences-if-it-helps-russia-evade-us-sanctions/

THG

Friday, February 24, 2023 12:13 AM (P)

Comrade signym, Putin needs a check. Stop talking shit and send the moron some money.

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THG

Saturday, February 25, 2023 4:25 AM (P)

U.S. prosecutors seize properties, charge Russian on Ukraine invasion anniversary

NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Friday said they were seeking to forfeit six properties in New York and Florida allegedly belonging to a sanctioned Russian oligarch, and separately charged a Russian national with illegally exporting counterintelligence equipment

The announcements came on the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow calls a "special military operation." The Department of Justice has sought to use asset seizures and criminal charges to squeeze business executives aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin to press him to stop the war.

"For as long as it takes, the Department of Justice will continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our Ukrainian and international partners in defense of justice and the rule of law," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-prosecutors-seize-properties-cha
rge-russian-on-ukraine-invasion-anniversary/ar-AA17TlXS?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=7191551afb3d42468264aafffcc2dbaa&ei=56

Too funny

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THG

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 7:34 AM (P)

Poor Putin

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SECOND

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 9:41 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Poor Putin

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If you are impatient with the video, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld Yale school of management also wrote it down a week ago:

A Year after the Invasion, the Russian Economy Is Self-Immolating

Economic pressure and a talent drain are driving Russia into permanent irrelevance, write Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian.

Russia is well on its way toward its long-held worst fear: becoming a weak economic dependent of China – its source of cheap raw materials.

More at https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/year-after-the-invasion-the-rus
sian-economy-is-self-immolating

Here is his prediction: "Tightening these screws will help improve the chances that before this time next year, Russia will realize it does not need Putin, just as the world has already realized it does not need Russia. Only then will the Russian economy and people stand a chance of returning to prosperity."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

THG

Thursday, March 2, 2023 9:02 PM (P)

Russian Billionaire Deripaska Makes Rare Critique: Warns Russia Could Run Out Of Money Next Year

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russian-billionaire-deripaska-
makes-rare-critique-warns-russia-could-run-out-of-money-next-year/ar-AA188Qs0?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=525ae4e0466e47c4aab270e8d8af5942&ei=46

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THG

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 5:00 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Punishing Russia with

Do you know what your problem is signym as you try to shill for Russia? Facts comrade facts. I've said this many times in the past. You and others think you are arguing points with me. You are not. You are arguing against, facts. This is why you come across as a dishonest moron.

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RUSSIAN Oil Disaster - Sales to India Fall in February as Price Caps Cause Documentation Problems

THG

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 5:09 AM (P)

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MEANWHILE IN RUSSIA

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THG

Saturday, March 18, 2023 4:02 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

The world has had enough.

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MP uses parliamentary privilege to name Russian oligarchs

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, March 18, 2023 4:13 AM (P)

There's nothing worse in the country than warmongering, Neo-Lib meat-popsicles.

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THG

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 1:48 AM (P)

A close Russian ally is messing with the legendary spaceport it leases to the Kremlin, seizing assets over an unpaid debt

Kazakhstan impounded Russian equipment at the Baikonur space base over a feud with the Kremlin.

Kazakh authorities say Russia companies never paid huge fines, leading it to impound equipment there.

Baikonur is a source of pride for Moscow, from which the Soviet Union sent the first man to space.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-close-russian-ally-is-messing-w
ith-the-legendary-spaceport-it-leases-to-the-kremlin-seizing-assets-over-an-unpaid-debt/ar-AA18TKfl?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=08676cc3d7cb44d5a35340bddbba62cd&ei=415

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THG

Saturday, April 1, 2023 9:18 PM (P)

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THG

Sunday, April 2, 2023 7:44 PM (P)

Russia is undergoing 'reverse industrialization' as limited resources force a retreat from high tech industries, Finland's central bank says

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-is-undergoing-reverse-i
ndustrialization-as-limited-resources-force-a-retreat-from-high-tech-industries-finland-s-central-bank-says/ar-AA19njL5?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=de7e1ed2758043f9a78e13c5d5d47411&ei=32

Poor comrade signym. She is stuck saying everyone but Russia is lying. Stuck between a rock and a hard place she is. How she gets by is that lying comes naturally to her.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, April 2, 2023 7:48 PM (P)

So much fake news pouring out of Ted's ears from his empty little brain cavity.

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THG

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 1:58 AM (P)

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RUSSIAN Arms Crisis as BILLIONS Lost in Arms Sales After Disastrous Ukraine Campaign

THG

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 11:06 PM (P)

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RUSSIA - Devastating Loss of Technology as USA Ramps up Sanctions Against CHINA to Stop IP Leakage

THG

Monday, April 24, 2023 4:49 AM (P)

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, April 24, 2023 7:15 AM (P)

Don't talk about a real estate bubble, Ted.

Way to close to home.

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THG

Friday, May 12, 2023 5:41 AM (P)

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HOW MUCH DOES THE WAR COST TO RUSSIA?

INSIDE RUSSIA

SIGNYM

Friday, May 12, 2023 8:23 AM (P)

You post so much about Russia, one might think that you live there.

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THG

Thursday, June 15, 2023 5:27 AM (P)

Russia's isolation from the global economy causes poor turnout at Putin's economic forum

Russia's isolation from the global economy caused poor turnout at Putin's economic forum in St. Petersburg.

The event previously drew big names from the West, but was mostly populated by lower-level politicians this time.

Experts have sounded the alarm on Russia's economy amid Ukraine war sanctions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-isolation-from-the-globa
l-economy-causes-poor-turnout-at-putin-s-economic-forum/ar-AA1cycWd?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=d155cd89b9234b4e9328f52eee585847&ei=128

Such a shame aye comrade signym.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, June 15, 2023 8:21 AM (P)

Fuck Ukraine.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, July 12, 2023 8:35 PM (P)

Frantic Putin desperately looking for allies as he calls on old friend Cuba

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1790239/putin-russia-cuba-oil-exp
orts

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, August 4, 2023 8:03 PM (P)

Blinken bashes Russia on grain

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/aug/04/blinken-bashes-russia-
on-grain/

THG

Saturday, August 12, 2023 4:30 PM (P)

Russia is broke.

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THG

Monday, August 14, 2023 8:36 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

So, thE EU and the 5 eyes are shooting themsleves in the foot by sanctioning vital world commodities and all you can do is come up with an ignorant cartoon..

Got it!

Russia's currency hits the lowest level since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine

LONDON (AP) — The Russian ruble has reached its lowest value since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its energy exports.

On Monday, the Russian currency passed 101 rubles to the dollar, continuing a more than 25% decline in its value since the beginning of the year and hitting the lowest level in almost 17 months.

President Vladimir Putin’s economic adviser, Maksim Oreshkin, on Monday blamed the weak ruble on “loose monetary policy” in an op-ed for state news agency Tass. He said a strong ruble is in the interest of the Russian economy and that a weak currency “complicates economic restructuring and negatively affects people’s real incomes.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-s-currency-hits-the-low
est-level-since-beginning-of-the-war-in-ukraine/ar-AA1ffz61?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=1b38b5f83eab468495f10c435a2309d4&ei=59

So sad...

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THG

Monday, August 14, 2023 8:38 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

Putin can no longer compete with China on any level so he will be treated by China like he treats other lesser countries. Man has Russia fallen into despair and dysfunction. And man is it going to suck for Putin being told instead of doing the telling. China is telling Putin to come to us my pretty and he is, he is crawling to them.

Too funny…

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THG

Monday, August 14, 2023 8:41 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:

Who saw this coming? Germans when they realize they can march trough Poland again to fight Russians but this time they are good guys.

I see you going back and forth with Jack throughout these threads. The ignorant fool doesn’t realize he is an anarchist. He doesn’t believe in anything that would help a society to develop and thrive. It is left to others to do so despite him.

He believes, or thinks he believes in the organization of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation. A society without political institutions or hierarchical government. He is clueless to what keeps our society running to the extent it does. It is the institutions he criticizes that allow for his very existence.

There are many places on the planet where he could live out his beliefs. Places where governments cannot easily reach him but he is a coward so he’d never go. What that means is he will never live according to his delusional anti-social convictions. He will continue living in a box void of the skills needed to thrive himself in a society that works for a better good.

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THG

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 12:03 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

THUGR believes the M$M bc it tells him what he wants to hear. "Critical thinking" is a foreign concept.

Russia's central bank makes huge interest rate hike to try to prop up falling ruble

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia’s central bank made a big interest rate hike Tuesday, an emergency move designed to fight inflation and strengthen the ruble after the country's currency reached its lowest value since early in the war with Ukraine.

The ruble has lost more than a third of its value since the beginning of the year as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its income from energy shipments. The flagging currency does not mean the Russian economy is in freefall — though it is facing challenges, including rising prices for households and businesses, according to analysts who study Russia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-s-central-bank-makes-hu
ge-interest-rate-hike-to-try-to-prop-up-falling-ruble/ar-AA1fhU40?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=24370e4a3ba84cdf8a6cca5c4cd39858&ei=21

Because you denied and continue to deny what is really going on, I'd say it's you who lack critical thinking skills. I said this was going to happen since the war started. You fought me on that comrade. I wonder why?

tick tock

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THG

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 12:23 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:

Since you can't blame Russia for what it's done, or what it's doing right now, you stoop to blaming Russia for what you're convinced ... convinced, I tell you!... what Russian soldiers "will do" in the future.

Yanno, bc they have access to Russian TV on the battlefield, and have nothing to do but watch it, and take their orders from it.

/snark

tick tock

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SECOND

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 4:11 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:

Who saw this coming? Germans when they realize they can march trough Poland again to fight Russians but this time they are good guys.

I see you going back and forth with Jack throughout these threads. The ignorant fool doesn’t realize he is an anarchist. He doesn’t believe in anything that would help a society to develop and thrive. It is left to others to do so despite him.

He believes, or thinks he believes in the organization of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation. A society without political institutions or hierarchical government. He is clueless to what keeps our society running to the extent it does. It is the institutions he criticizes that allow for his very existence.

There are many places on the planet where he could live out his beliefs. Places where governments cannot easily reach him but he is a coward so he’d never go. What that means is he will never live according to his delusional anti-social convictions. He will continue living in a box void of the skills needed to thrive himself in a society that works for a better good.

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My parents' religion has an explanation for what has gone wrong with people like 6ix, Signym, Trump, and Putin. I'm not a member of that religion, but I can still see that the explanation usefully describes the world of such sinful people as 6ix. Here it is in purified abstract form without a religious paint job or coating:

How America Got Mean, August 14, 2023, 6 AM ET, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-
education-formation/674765/

In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

The Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith and a team of researchers asked young adults across the country in 2008 about their moral lives. One of their findings was that the interviewees had not given the subject of morality much thought. “I’ve never had to make a decision about what’s right and what’s wrong,” one young adult told the researchers. “My teachers avoid controversies like that like the plague,” many teenagers said.

The moral instincts that Smith observed in his sample fell into the pattern that the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre called “emotivism”: Whatever feels good to me is moral. “I would probably do what would make me happy” in any given situation, one of the interviewees declared. “Because it’s me in the long run.” As another put it, “If you’re okay with it morally, as long as you’re not getting caught, then it’s not really against your morals, is it?” Smith and his colleagues emphasized that the interviewees were not bad people but, because they were living “in morally very thin or spotty worlds,” they had never been given a moral vocabulary or learned moral skills.

Most of us who noticed the process of de-moralization as it was occurring thought a bland moral relativism and empty consumerism would be the result: You do you and I’ll do me. That’s not what happened.

“Moral communities are fragile things, hard to build and easy to destroy,” the psychologist Jonathan Haidt writes in The Righteous Mind. When you are raised in a culture without ethical structure, you become internally fragile. You have no moral compass to give you direction, no permanent ideals to which you can swear ultimate allegiance. “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,” the psychiatrist (and Holocaust survivor) Viktor Frankl wrote, interpreting a famous Nietzsche saying. Those without a why fall apart when the storms hit. They begin to suffer from that feeling of moral emptiness that Émile Durkheim called “anomie.”

Expecting

THG

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 4:52 PM (P)

Putin Slams Dollar Dominance At BRICS Summit, Calls For Local Currency Trade

Russian President Vladimir Putin railed against dollar dominance and Western sanctions in a prerecorded speech at the BRICS summit. Putin, unable to attend in person due to potential arrest, called for increased use of local currencies for trade.

Putin criticized the trade restrictions placed on Russia over the Ukraine war as illegitimate. He stated these actions trample upon basic norms and rules of free trade, Business Insider reported.

Putin also emphasized the “objective, irreversible process of de-dollarization” of economic ties, adding that summit participants would discuss issues and mechanisms related to local currency trade.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/putin-slams-dollar-dominance-a
t-brics-summit-calls-for-local-currency-trade/ar-AA1fEnx4?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=f5a709bba3244a32bee7f28ba6d5e5c8&ei=69

Poor Putin

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THG

Monday, October 2, 2023 10:19 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

Multinationals flee Russia, punishing Moscow

Biden to champion US diplomacy in State of the Union as West stands up to Putin

GOP senators push back hard on Trump's praise of Putin
SENATE

Large multinational companies are fleeing Russia, joining a large swath of the international community in moving to isolate the nation in response to its brutal invasion of Ukraine.

Oil and gas giants BP and Shell announced they are leaving Russia after spending decades making investments worth billions of dollars in the country, while several U.S. companies are halting all shipments to Russia.

The exodus is expected to continue as more businesses weigh the reputational and financial risks of doing business with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Experts say that if energy firms are willing to forfeit huge sums by pulling out of Russia, industries with much less to lose will soon follow suit.

“I think corporate executives, in addition to considering political risk, are genuinely outraged by what Russia has done,” said Bill Reinsch, the Scholl chair in international business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, adding that he is surprised by just how quickly companies have made the call to leave Russia.

These decisions are driven in part by enormous public pressure to disown the Russian government and also by the sweeping sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies that severely complicate companies’ ability to do business with Russian entities.

Shell on Monday said that it will abandon stakes in Russian state-owned energy projects that are worth roughly $3 billion. The Dutch company noted that the move will hurt the value of its assets and “lead to impairments.”

"We are shocked by the loss of life in Ukraine, which we deplore, resulting from a senseless act of military aggression which threatens European security," Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said in a statement.

That announcement came after BP, a longtime defender of Putin, said it would desert its 20 percent stake in Russian state-owned energy firm Rosneft. The move could cost BP as much as $25 billion if the oil giant is forced to write off the investment, as selling it could prove difficult under strict sanctions.

“Russia’s attack on Ukraine is an act of aggression which is having tragic consequences across the region,” BP Chairman Helge Lund said in a statement. “BP has operated in Russia for over 30 years, working with brilliant Russian colleagues. However, this military action represents a fundamental change.”

As Russia escalates its attacks on Ukraine, it’s becoming increasingly isolated from the rest of the world. American shipping companies FedEx and UPS said they would temporarily suspend all shipments to both countries, while Germany’s DHL said it would pause some services to Russia and Ukraine, citing security concerns.

Ocean carrier Maersk said Monday that it might suspend shipments to and from Russia, a move that would further cut the nation off from international trade. The Danish shipping giant said that it was monitoring the security situation in Ukraine and “preparing to comply with the ever-evolving sanctions and restrictions imposed against Russia.”

Companies that haven’t fled are likely evaluating how to navigate complex sanctions and exploring whether continuing business with Russia is worth the regulatory challenges.

In response to the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. and its allies froze roughly $630 billion in Russian central bank assets being held abroad, blocked fundraising for Russian state-owned entities and cut some Russian banks out of the SWIFT international payments system. The U.S. blocked Russian state-owned banks from accessing the U.S. dollar and imposed export controls that prevent Russia from obtaining computer chips and other technologies.

In just a matter of days, the sanctions have brought the Russian economy to the brink of collapse. The Russian ruble was worth less than 1 cent as of Monday afternoon, giving

THG

Monday, October 30, 2023 4:09 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

Why the enormous scale of financial pain being inflicted on Russia worries some in the West

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-the-enormous-scale-of-fina
ncial-pain-being-inflicted-on-russia-worries-some-in-the-west/ar-AAUxvE4?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

These sanctions are going to last long after they are lifted. Russia will never be the same. Most who will suffer have nothing to do with Putins' decisions yet without sanctions of this magnitude war is the only option left. It may come to that yet. Putin cannot be allowed to march through Europe. There are no winners here. Only those who will suffer because a mad man is running Russia.

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Told you so comrade signym, told you so.

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RUSSIAN Ruble Collapse Panic Continues as Russia DOUBLES Interest Rates to 15%

SIGNYM

Monday, October 30, 2023 8:07 AM (P)

Well, you're wrong.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

THG

Saturday, November 11, 2023 3:45 AM (P)

tick tock comrade signym, tick tock...

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SIGNYM

Saturday, November 11, 2023 6:20 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
CHINA ANNEXES RUSSIAN LAND

tick tock comrade signym, tick tock...

I imagine you would do a simple Google search BEFORE you post nonsense, THUGR! That might save you embarrassment.
No such thing happened!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

THG

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 11:48 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

CHINA ANNEXES RUSSIAN LAND

tick tock comrade signym, tick tock...

T

I imagine you would do a simple Google search BEFORE you post nonsense, THUGR! That might save you embarrassment.
No such thing happened!

SIGNYM

Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island comrade.

T

China’s New Official Map Has Nearly All of Its Neighbors in an Uproar

A new map published by the Chinese government this week appeared to reverse a 15-year agreement with Beijing's ally Russia over an island on their shared border.

The 2023 map released by China's Ministry of Natural Resources shows Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island on the Amur River as fully part of China, despite an agreement in the 2000s with Russia that the two countries would split control.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-s-new-official-map-show-par
ts-of-russia-india-as-chinese-territory/ar-AA1g33cn

You really are brain dead comrade signym.

T

THG

Friday, November 24, 2023 8:51 PM (P)

Russian Economy About to 'Hit the Ice,' Putin Ally Warns

Russia's economy is about to "hit the ice", billionaire businessman Oleg Deripaska, described as President Vladimir Putin's "favorite oligarch", has warned.

The businessman, whose fortune Forbes estimates at $2.4 billion, issued the warning in a post on his Telegram channel, saying that there is a general drop in commodity prices, including those that Russia exports, and that this could negatively impact the country's economy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russian-economy-about-to-hit-t
he-ice-putin-ally-warns/ar-AA1kqucq?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=e9d7e039d21a434d898ababd778af330&ei=103

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, November 24, 2023 11:04 PM (P)

Oh, I'm sure it is, Ted. I'm sure it is.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

SIGNYM

Friday, November 24, 2023 11:44 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Russian Economy About to 'Hit the Ice,' Putin Ally Warns

Russia's economy is about to "hit the ice", billionaire businessman Oleg Deripaska, described as President Vladimir Putin's "favorite oligarch", has warned.

The businessman, whose fortune Forbes estimates at $2.4 billion, issued the warning in a post on his Telegram channel, saying that there is a general drop in commodity prices, including those that Russia exports, and that this could negatively impact the country's economy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russian-economy-about-to-hit-t
he-ice-putin-ally-warns/ar-AA1kqucq?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=e9d7e039d21a434d898ababd778af330&ei=103

So, why would commodities prices collapse?
Well, possibly bc a large market, the collective west, would collapse first

Too bad for the west that while Russia clearly can function without the west, the west can't function without Russia.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

THG

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 11:48 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

Russian Economy About to 'Hit the Ice,' Putin Ally Warns

Russia's economy is about to "hit the ice", billionaire businessman Oleg Deripaska, described as President Vladimir Putin's "favorite oligarch", has warned.

The businessman, whose fortune Forbes estimates at $2.4 billion, issued the warning in a post on his Telegram channel, saying that there is a general drop in commodity prices, including those that Russia exports, and that this could negatively impact the country's economy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russian-economy-about-to-hit-t
he-ice-putin-ally-warns/ar-AA1kqucq?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=e9d7e039d21a434d898ababd778af330&ei=103

So, why would commodities prices collapse?
Well, possibly bc a large market, the collective west, would collapse first

Too bad for the west that while Russia clearly can function without the west, the west can't function without Russia.

- SIGNYM

T

THG

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 7:14 PM (P)

Leaked documents reveal Russian airlines are slowly collapsing

T

THG

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 5:58 AM (P)

T

RUSSIA Recruiting 170,000 New Soldiers - Putin Decree May Signal New Military Mobilization & Exodus

THG

Thursday, December 21, 2023 3:59 AM (P)

Putin Dealt Double Blow by US Allies in Europe

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been dealt a double blow after the European Union Council adopted a 12th sanctions package against Russia this week and it was reported that sanctions imposed on Russia in response to Putin's war in Ukraine will not be lifted after the conflict ends.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-dealt-double-blow-by-us-all
ies-in-europe/ar-AA1lNh6M?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEXST&cvid=b4d35c6dc2b04b9fb8f85ecdc4f04960&ei=57

Yep...

T

SIGNYM

Thursday, December 21, 2023 5:02 AM (P)

OMG!!! Another even more pointless sanctions package!

Can you see me laughing???

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

THG

Thursday, December 21, 2023 6:25 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

OMG!!! Another even more pointless sanctions package!

Can you see me laughing???

- SIGNYM

You're not laughing. Your hiding behind lies and propaganda. You never even come close to posting anything truthful.

You, no not laughing, crying.

T

SIGNYM

Thursday, December 21, 2023 7:13 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
OMG!!! Another even more pointless sanctions package!
Can you see me laughing???

THUGR: You're not laughing. Your hiding behind lies and propaganda. You never even come close to posting anything truthful.
You, no not laughing, crying.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

THG

Sunday, December 31, 2023 5:04 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

OMG!!! Another even more pointless sanctions package!
Can you see me laughing???

THUGR: You're not laughing. Your hiding behind lies and propaganda. You never even come close to posting anything truthful.
You, no not laughing, crying.

SIGNYM

T

European Sanctions Cause Russian Natural Gas Collapse || Peter Zeihan

Most of Europe has been working to reduce dependency on Russian natural gas, and boy, did they deliver. Russia's natural gas state monopoly, Gazprom, has just reported its lowest output levels since 1978.

THG

Tuesday, January 2, 2024 11:10 PM (P)

Russian oil tankers are turning away from India amid disagreements over payment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russian-oil-tankers-bound-for-
india-are-turning-around-amid-scuffle-over-payments-to-moscow/ar-AA1mmalT?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=933b97d278154dc387704b869fd6b642&ei=72

Simple, the world runs on dollars. Not Russian Rubles or Indian Rupee's. And comrade signym, be sure to check out the video above. It's a gas.

T

THG

Friday, January 12, 2024 9:57 PM (P)

Sanctions deflate prices and the Kremlin's budget revenue

Bloomberg concludes that the primary reason for the difference is an 11 percent increase in expenditures and a 24 percent decrease in budget revenue from oil and gas taxes. Notwithstanding this decline, these sources still comprise one-third of the Kremlin's revenue.

Oil revenue also fell due to a 17 percent downturn in oil prices in 2023. Western sanctions, applied in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, had a significant influence as well.
Revenue from the export of Russian gas also diminished. The Kremlin's decision to halt most of the supply to Europe in 2023 led to a 65 percent decline in budget revenue from export duties on gas, equivalent to roughly 6.9 billion US dollars, Bloomberg reports. It's worth noting that Russia only delivers gas via one pipeline in Ukraine – TurkStream.

Moreover, the International Energy Agency assesses that domestic pipeline gas exports to the European Union fell by 65 percent in 2023. The mild winter weather and, thus, the reduced demand played a part in this drop.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/russia-s-budget-deficit-grow
s-amidst-dwindling-energy-revenues-and-heightened-military-spending/ar-AA1mPAWQ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=df19a3df7a9a4908951994d02bb1eadc&ei=337

Also, if these numbers come from Russia, and it is said they do, then the real numbers are certainly worse.

T

THG

Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:31 PM (P)

Tens of thousands of Russians freeze as hot water pipes burst around the country

Tens of thousands of people across Russia are currently living with no heating or hot water following an unprecedented wave of infrastructure failures.

Even large cities like Novosibirsk and Vladivostok, as well as the suburbs of Moscow, have experienced burst hot-water mains, ruptured heating pipelines, and crumbling municipal infrastructure. These incidents have escalated since the beginning of 2024, with temperatures dropping to -30 degrees and below in some parts of the country.

Borrow From Your Home While Keeping Your Current Mortgage Rate

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/tens-of-thousands-of-russ
ians-freeze-as-hot-water-pipes-burst-around-the-country/ar-AA1n2pJZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=16c04403b2e844ae916b4c0a7254c446&ei=75

Sad...

T

THG

Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:34 PM (P)

Vladimir Putin is scrambling to contain soaring egg prices as Russia grapples with a Soviet-style economic headache

Vladimir Putin is battling red-hot inflation, with the price of eggs and other basic foods soaring.

Soviet-style queues have formed with Russians trying to build up large stockpiles.

The Kremlin has responded by slashing import duties and buying eggs from Azerbaijan and Turkey.

As the war in Ukraine rages on, Vladimir Putin has another battle on his hands: the one to rein in soaring egg prices.

End the war. Russia, get out of Ukraine.

T

THG

Thursday, January 18, 2024 5:05 AM (P)

China Banks Tighten Curbs on Russia Over Fears of U.S. Secondary Sanctions, Report Claims

China’s state-owned banks are tightening the screws on funding to Russian clients, likely because they’re scared of catching heat from U.S. secondary sanctions, according to a Bloomberg report.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/china-banks-tighten-curbs-on-r
ussia-over-fears-of-u-s-secondary-sanctions-report-claims/ss-AA1n8stn?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=0443d74b3ce545bc9034df9bb0c31e3c&ei=54

T

THG

Thursday, January 18, 2024 5:10 AM (P)

India halts purchase of Russian oil amid Western sanctions

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/india-halts-purchase-of-russia
n-oil-amid-western-sanctions/ar-AA1n4ZFS

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, January 18, 2024 6:06 AM (P)

I wonder what person with a Russian name killed Ted's kid or pissed in his Cheerios.

Why do you care so much?

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

SIGNYM

Sunday, January 21, 2024 12:37 AM (P)

FROM NEWSWEEK

Quote:
How Russia Won the Sanctions War With the West | Opinion
Jan 17, 2024

It is now abundantly clear that Russia has defeated the Western sanctions regime that was intended to cripple its economy and force its withdrawal from Ukraine. Instead of collapsing, the Russian economy is growing rapidly. Russia's GDP grew by an impressive 5.5 percent in the third quarter of 2023. Final figures for the year are not yet in, but Russian GDP growth for all of 2023 should exceed 3 percent. Ironically, the Russians are doing rather better than those who imposed sanctions on them. In 2023, the U.S. economy grew by 2.4 percent while the German economy shrank, and the EU as a whole grew by less than 1 percent. Instead of withdrawing from Ukraine, Russia has increased the size of its invasion force from 190,000 troops in February 2022 to more than 600,000 today.

Between February 2022 and February 2023, Western countries imposed on Russia the most extensive sanctions regime seen since World War II. In all, several thousand sanctions on Russian individuals, businesses, and government institutions caused only a mild recession in 2022 which the Russians quickly turned around. How did they do it? Very simply. The Russians have a lot of gold, grain, oil, and friends, all of which they used effectively to defeat the sanctions. Any realistic war game could have easily predicted all of this.

And yet, neocons failed to notice the little speed bump on their road to World Domination?

Quote:
In March of 2022, G7 member states froze $300 billion in Russian Central Bank reserves, about half of Russia's foreign currency reserves at the time. This was supposed to "turn the ruble into rubble." It did not. Instead, the Russian Central bank moved very quickly to peg the ruble to gold and backed this up with its massive gold reserves and production capacity. The peg was in force for barely three months, but this bought Moscow time to re-orient its energy trade away from Europe and adjust its overall economy to the sanctions.

Life Goes on in Russia
Almost immediately, Russia began to shift its energy trade toward China and India by offering discounts. Today, 90 percent of its crude oil exports go to these two nations. Europe, which used to receive 40 percent of Russian crude oil exports, now receives only 4 percent to 5 percent. To evade Western shipping and insurance sanctions, the Russians have assembled an enormous "shadow fleet" of oil tankers, buying and leasing hundreds of vessels that did not comply with sanctions. According to the International Energy Agency, Russia currently exports 7.5 million barrels of oil per day, only slightly less than Saudi Arabia.

Then the Russians got creative in their sanctions-busting by recruiting friends like Iran, Turkey, China, North Korea, and Kyrgyzstan to help transship high tech goods like microchips, as well as drones and automobiles. For example, imports of Western cars and parts to Kyrgyzstan rose by an amazing 5,500 percent in the first nine months of 2023.

Russia remains the world's largest producer of natural diamonds and a significant diamond exporter. Waves of sanctions have had only a limited effect on its diamond production and revenues. Finally, since the collapse of the Soviet Union's collective farm system, Russia has become the world's largest wheat exporter. Despite Western sanctions, Russia's share of global wheat exports actually increased over the past two years. Thanks to global warming, Russia has just had another bumper grain harvest and hopes for even more grain as Siberia warms. Putin does not care about polar bears. He has plenty.

NATO's wonder-weapons like HIMARS and Leopard tanks failed to fuel an effective Ukrainian counter-offensive. Diplomacy

Neocons don't do "diplomacy". They break treaties, agreements, and contracts; torpedo peace talks; and threaten military strikes and sanctions. They even blow up allies' energy su

SECOND

Sunday, January 21, 2024 2:09 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
FROM NEWSWEEK

Since major articles NEVER appear in western press without purpose, which elite faction does this represent?

The same economic truth works in both Russia and the USA. The gross national product of the U.S., as measured in constant dollars, grew from $88.6 billion in 1939 — while the country was still suffering from the depression — to $135 billion in 1944. Russia has started WW3 and it will get a similar burst of growth just the same as the USA got in WW2, at least until NATO or Ukraine starts a wholesale destruction of Russian manufacturing. Russia didn't prosper during WW2 because, you know, Nazis were very aware that destroying Russian cities reduces GDP. Germans seem to have forgotten how economies still work the same in 2024. No, Signym, Russia cannot stop that destruction unless it wants to be nuked. At the moment only Ukraine is even halfheartedly trying to destroy Russia's GDP, but Russia has gone full speed destroying Ukraine's.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-american-economy-during-world-war-ii/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Sunday, January 21, 2024 4:23 AM (P)

Russia hasn't started WWII. It's our neocons and their dreams of World Domination.
Why are our troops in Syria?
Why are our troops in Iraq?
Why are our troops in Japan?
Why have we broken every treaty with Russia?

Quote:
Infographic: US military presence around the world

Upwards of 750 US bases around the world

According to David Vine, ??professor of political anthropology at the American University in Washington, DC, the US had around 750 bases in at least 80 countries as of July 2021.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-prese
nce-around-the-world-interactive

Can you blame other nations for wanting to defend themselves?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

SIGNYM

Sunday, January 21, 2024 4:32 AM (P)

JUST SO, YANNO, THE MAIN POINT DOESN'T GET BURIED IN SECOND'S RED HERRINGS

FROM NEWSWEEK

Quote:
How Russia Won the Sanctions War With the West | Opinion
Jan 17, 2024

It is now abundantly clear that Russia has defeated the Western sanctions regime that was intended to cripple its economy and force its withdrawal from Ukraine. Instead of collapsing, the Russian economy is growing rapidly. Russia's GDP grew by an impressive 5.5 percent in the third quarter of 2023. Final figures for the year are not yet in, but Russian GDP growth for all of 2023 should exceed 3 percent. Ironically, the Russians are doing rather better than those who imposed sanctions on them. In 2023, the U.S. economy grew by 2.4 percent while the German economy shrank, and the EU as a whole grew by less than 1 percent. Instead of withdrawing from Ukraine, Russia has increased the size of its invasion force from 190,000 troops in February 2022 to more than 600,000 today.

Between February 2022 and February 2023, Western countries imposed on Russia the most extensive sanctions regime seen since World War II. In all, several thousand sanctions on Russian individuals, businesses, and government institutions caused only a mild recession in 2022 which the Russians quickly turned around. How did they do it? Very simply. The Russians have a lot of gold, grain, oil, and friends, all of which they used effectively to defeat the sanctions. Any realistic war game could have easily predicted all of this.

And yet, neocons failed to notice the little speed bump on their road to World Domination?

Quote:
In March of 2022, G7 member states froze $300 billion in Russian Central Bank reserves, about half of Russia's foreign currency reserves at the time. This was supposed to "turn the ruble into rubble." It did not. Instead, the Russian Central bank moved very quickly to peg the ruble to gold and backed this up with its massive gold reserves and production capacity. The peg was in force for barely three months, but this bought Moscow time to re-orient its energy trade away from Europe and adjust its overall economy to the sanctions.

Life Goes on in Russia
Almost immediately, Russia began to shift its energy trade toward China and India by offering discounts. Today, 90 percent of its crude oil exports go to these two nations. Europe, which used to receive 40 percent of Russian crude oil exports, now receives only 4 percent to 5 percent. To evade Western shipping and insurance sanctions, the Russians have assembled an enormous "shadow fleet" of oil tankers, buying and leasing hundreds of vessels that did not comply with sanctions. According to the International Energy Agency, Russia currently exports 7.5 million barrels of oil per day, only slightly less than Saudi Arabia.

Then the Russians got creative in their sanctions-busting by recruiting friends like Iran, Turkey, China, North Korea, and Kyrgyzstan to help transship high tech goods like microchips, as well as drones and automobiles. For example, imports of Western cars and parts to Kyrgyzstan rose by an amazing 5,500 percent in the first nine months of 2023.

Russia remains the world's largest producer of natural diamonds and a significant diamond exporter. Waves of sanctions have had only a limited effect on its diamond production and revenues. Finally, since the collapse of the Soviet Union's collective farm system, Russia has become the world's largest wheat exporter. Despite Western sanctions, Russia's share of global wheat exports actually increased over the past two years. Thanks to global warming, Russia has just had another bumper grain harvest and hopes for even more grain as Siberia warms. Putin does not care about polar bears. He has plenty.

NATO's wonder-weapons like HIMARS and Leopard tanks failed to fuel an effective Ukrainian counter-offensive. Diplomacy

Neocons don't do "diplomacy". They break treaties, agreements, and contracts; torpedo peace talks

THG

Sunday, January 21, 2024 9:15 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
FROM NEWSWEEK

Quote:
How Russia Won the Sanctions War With the West | Opinion
Jan 17, 2024

US adds 17 Liberian-flagged bulk carriers and oil tankers Russian sanctions busting blacklist

'Today’s actions once again demonstrate that anyone who violates the price cap will face the consequences. No one should doubt our coalition’s commitment to stopping those who help the Kremlin,' Adeyemo

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-adds-17-liberian-flagged-bu
lk-carriers-and-oil-tankers-russian-sanctions-busting-blacklist/ar-BB1gZ5Zp?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=882b15140dfb430bb06fc57c6065d84e&ei=191

These sanctions are meant to destroy the Russian economy for a generation at least. No hurry, their effect only grows.

tick tock

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 21, 2024 9:55 PM (P)

All of this ends at the beginning of next year. Everybody needs to just chill until then.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

THG

Monday, January 22, 2024 9:55 PM (P)

Nope; Biden will declare an emergency, accept the Senate's version of the border bill and bypass the House. This bill has money allocated for Ukraine, Israel and Twain.

While this is happening, some republicans will try and remove the speaker again.

T

There's been a lot of movement in Turkey's neck of the woods, so the Turks have had to change their stance on several issues. Given Turkey's strategic positioning and importance, expect huge regional implications.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 22, 2024 10:10 PM (P)

Democrats do love them some unconstitutional wars.

They just can't seem to get around to declaring an emergency for the invasion at our own border though.

They'll be happy spending hundreds of billions of dollars housing, feeding and giving healthcare and school to illegal alien invaders while telling us that Social Security is going to fail before we retire.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

THG

Monday, January 22, 2024 10:37 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Democrats do love them some unconstitutional wars.

They just can't seem to get around to declaring an emergency for the invasion at our own border though.

They'll be happy spending hundreds of billions of dollars housing, feeding and giving healthcare and school to illegal alien invaders while telling us that Social Security is going to fail before we retire.

It's not their fault all your teeth rotted out of your head so you have to gum your food. Give it a rest.

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 22, 2024 11:18 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Democrats do love them some unconstitutional wars.

They just can't seem to get around to declaring an emergency for the invasion at our own border though.

They'll be happy spending hundreds of billions of dollars housing, feeding and giving healthcare and school to illegal alien invaders while telling us that Social Security is going to fail before we retire.

It's not their fault all your teeth rotted out of your head so you have to gum your food. Give it a rest.

T

It's called dentures, dummy. I eat my food just fine and you don't hear me ever complaining about it.

I never had a cavity either. It wasn't the teeth that rotted out, but the jawbone holding them in that disappeared.

You'd better hope nothing bad happens to you. A little pussy like you would have already killed yourself.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

THG

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 7:23 AM (P)

T

RUSSIAN Ruble Collapse is Destroying Economy as Import Costs Push up Inflation & Interest Rates

THG

Tuesday, February 6, 2024 9:55 PM (P)

Western tanker owners have been spooked by U.S. sanctions targeting Russian oil sales, putting pressure on Moscow's "shadow fleet" of ships transporting the country's key energy export since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Measures to choke off one of Russia's main export revenue generators funding the war started by Russian President Vladimir Putin included the G7, the EU and Australia imposing a price cap; it bans firms from insuring, financing, and shipping Russian seaborne oil exports sold above $60 a barrel.

However, Russia has traded oil using a shadow fleet in which the ships' ownership is reorganized, often through shell companies in the Middle East, to obscure their connections to Moscow. The amount of shadow vessels leaving Russia rose from 13 percent in February 2022 to 42 percent by mid-2023.
Bloomberg reported that, in January, there had been a fivefold increase in ships sailing under the flag of Gabon to 100—up from just 20 in February 2023, citing data from Windward AI.

The predictive intelligence company noted flags such as Liberia and St. Kitts and Nevis had been heavily targeted by regulators.

"The move to Gabon by operators shipping sanctioned oil was precipitated partly by the U.S. authorities putting pressure on the St Kitts and Nevis registry earlier last year," Septimus Knox, director, disputes and investigation at geopolitical and cyber risk consultancy S-RM, told Newsweek on Tuesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-s-shadow-fleet-running-
out-of-places-to-hide/ar-BB1hQQyn?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=1b1b57203e2a430f9132f0cea43eefcf&ei=90

tick tock

T

THG

Sunday, February 18, 2024 7:33 PM (P)

tick tock

T

RUSSIAN Oil Exports Start to Collapse as Tankers refuse Russian Oil & India Cuts Imports from Russia

THG

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 6:59 PM (P)

China's biggest banks are finally getting scared by the West's sanctions against Russia

Three of China's Big Four state banks have stopped accepting payments from sanctioned Russian financial institutions, per Izvestia.

The halt follows the EU's 12th sanctions package against Russia and US secondary sanctions.

The West is now targeting international firms doing business with Russia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/china-s-biggest-banks-are-fi
nally-getting-scared-by-the-west-s-sanctions-against-russia/ar-BB1iD5Cw?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=da5797e7a68e4f2697660d889961775c&ei=52

tick tock...

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 8:05 PM (P)

Ukraine Can No Longer Win

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/02/21/ukraine_can_no_lo
nger_win_1013260.html

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

THG

Monday, February 26, 2024 11:49 PM (P)

T

2 YEARS OF WAR | Russian Economy Numbers Are Not Looking Good

THG

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 9:36 PM (P)

Russia's Space Agency Forced to Sell Off Assets as Sanctions Take Toll

Russia's Roscosmos space agency plans to sell off assets worth more than 11.4 billion rubles ($124 million) as sanctions imposed by the West over President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine continue to take a toll, local media has reported.

A representative of the company told Russian news outlet RBC that the decision was made after Roscosmos lost almost 80 percent of its export income after losing orders and key partners due to the war in Ukraine. This year, it intends to sell its "non-core" assets—more than 150 items including boarding houses and former sanatoriums, land and property complexes, and recreation centers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-space-agency-forced-to-s
ell-off-assets-as-sanctions-take-toll/ar-BB1j1RAt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=738411d4eae64fc9842e94340b54ca83&ei=120

Comrade signym, I'm laughing.

T

THG

Friday, March 8, 2024 5:36 AM (P)

Russia Hit By Tsunami of Bankruptcies

Russia has seen a sharp spike in corporate bankruptcies, according to a report that comes as Vladimir Putin looks to tax companies more to pay for his social program and the sanctions-hit economy continues to face turbulence.

The business newspaper Kommersant reported that in the first two months of 2024, corporate bankruptcies had increased by more than a half compared with the same period last year—and experts predicted an increase in insolvencies in future.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-hit-by-tsunami-of-bankrupt
cies/ar-BB1juuUj?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=268a35bb3ed64189a0ad058167208ec8&ei=67

Yup...

T

SECOND

Friday, March 8, 2024 6:12 PM (P)

No, Russia Is Not Winning

By Anastassia Fedyk and Yuriy Gorodnichenko | Mar 6, 2024

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/russia-not-winning-econom
y-strained-ukraines-is-recovering-by-anastassia-fedyk-and-yuriy-gorodnichenko-2024-03

Two years after Russia launched its full-scale war of aggression, Ukraine is still holding the line militarily, and even beginning to recover economically. As much as Vladimir Putin wants the world to think he has shielded the Russian economy from blowback, recent financial and economic developments suggest otherwise.

Russia’s economy has been showing signs of strain. A report from the US Treasury Department finds that Russia’s economy is 5% smaller than it would have been if President Vladimir Putin had not invaded Ukraine.

On Russia’s side, most of the economic losses are the result of its own mismanagement and Western sanctions. Analysts note that, due to military casualties and the exodus of individuals fleeing conscription, Russia faces a “demographic crisis.”

Anastassia Fedyk is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yuriy Gorodnichenko is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

THG

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 7:40 AM (P)

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 9:44 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
No, Russia Is Not Winning

Yeah. They are.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

THG

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 6:10 AM (P)

Microsoft says Russian companies will be forced off its cloud services within days

Despite recent reports that Microsoft was all set to ban Russian companies from its suite of cloud services from March 20, it turns out this still isn’t in effect, but should be by the end of March 2024 - this week - instead, after the company held discussions with IT platform Softline, one of its customers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-says-russian-compa
nies-will-be-forced-off-its-cloud-services-within-days/ar-BB1kvH9d?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=64fd2572cd1b4bb8b75bbec7eed077b0&ei=98

Good, because Putin and his cronies are cowards and pussies. Just like some of the posters here.

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THG

Thursday, April 4, 2024 6:05 AM (P)

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Putin's war economy 'has grown weaker' as West considers 'zero trade option

THG

Friday, April 5, 2024 12:48 AM (P)

Ukraine Closing In on Russian Money Bonanza

International momentum on both sides of the Atlantic is building for Ukraine to benefit from Russian assets frozen due to Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion.

The Restoring Justice for Ukraine conference in The Hague on Tuesday saw 44 countries back a special tribunal to address Moscow's ongoing aggression and support a move for "immobilized Russian sovereign assets" to be used to help rebuild the war-torn country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/ukraine-closing-in-on-russian-
money-bonanza/ar-BB1l4Zdk?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=1eccd484969a449490941733128cbef5&ei=18

Putin is reported to be overheard crying while saying, that's not fair.

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THG

Sunday, April 7, 2024 9:33 PM (P)

Major Russian oil refinery shuts down following Orsk dam burst

The failure was attributed to improper maintenance of the hydraulic structure, leading to the opening of a criminal investigation by the regional prosecutor’s office.

Situated near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan, the city of Orsk has drawn attention from Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who labeled the flooding as one of Kazakhstan’s most significant natural disasters in 80 years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/major-russian-oil-refinery-shu
ts-down-following-orsk-dam-burst/ar-BB1lduwb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=3d14543622044cc791074746c046f555&ei=28

A direct result of sanctions. No parts that are needed for upkeep and also because of educated people running away from Russia as fast as they can.

Laughing here comrade signym

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