Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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“Russian authorities banned gasoline exports from March 1 to August 31 after dozens of drone attacks on Russian refineries.”
Keep up the good work!
Send more Artillery - and drones!
lol added a few myself
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ā President Trump has prolonged sanctions against the Russian Federation for one more yearā
Oh boy šis going to be conflicted with this oneš
š still canāt read the room maybe he thinks he is on DU or blue sky š
Joe Blogs released a video on YouTube yesterday, where he analyzes the recent sharp rise in value of the Russian Ruble this year to date (from 112 to 88, against the dollar - over 20% since January first).
Bottom Line: The Russian Central Bank has gone on an intense spending spree to support the ruble - spending at a rate of about $30 Billion per year. It is not due to any improved economic or trade effects, nor to the improved political prospects of an end to the war.
This is a huge expense on their limited foreign exchange reserves. It does not seem sustainable long term, so it may be geared toward a near term political objective during peace negotiations. It risks a big snap back drop in the value of the ruble, when that spending stops.
What exactly are they buying the rubles with, foreign reserves, goldā¦.
Meanwhile they are printing rubles to pay for his war.
Seems like a good plan
āPresident Trump has prolonged sanctions against the Russian Federation for one more yearā
Aside from happy talk for Putin from Trump, the bottom line is that the USA continues to take Russia’s former Natural Gas market share due to sanctions.
Putin needs a deal. Trump is working to shape an aftermath favorable to the USA, not one where we are again left holding the bag to pay the bills for others. It is actually a significant opportunity to take more for the USA.
“What exactly are they buying the rubles with?”
The Central Bank buys/exchanges foreign currency with the whole Russian banking system on a constant basis. The banks get rubles from the Central Bank, for the foreign currency they receive from customers.
The Central Bank kind of vacuums up a lot of foreign currency that is circulating in the Russian economy, mostly from foreign trade transactions, like oil sales.
“Meanwhile they (Russians) are printing rubles to pay for his war.”
Yes, they are still on an inflationary tear, printing rubles (expanding their money supply) at a fairly hectic rate. About what we did at the height of COVID, for a single year, they are continuing to do, year after year after year.
The Central Bank keeps extending additional new loans to banks and the Government (buying Government bonds) with newly created rubles, which the banks and Government then spend or loan out to others.
Would you happen to have a meme for this, thatās the ārealā broadside lol
Forbes reports today (27 Feb 25):
Ukraineās F-16s Are Firing Missiles, Lobbing Glide Bombs And Jamming Russian Radars
The Ukrainian Air Force is gradually assigning the jets to more dangerous missions.
“Laden with Ukraineās best air-to-air missiles, precision glide bombs and radar jammers, Ukrainian air force Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters have departed their comfort zoneārelatively benign missions intercepting Russian cruise missiles and dronesāand are increasingly targeting Russian forces along the 800-mile front line of Russiaās three-year wider war on Ukraine.
More and more photos and videos are appearing online depicting ex-European F-16s streaking over Ukraine, including the most dangerous eastern part of the country. Some are equipped for air-defense patrols, with pairs of AIM-9 infrared-guided missiles and AIM-120 radar-guided missiles along with three underwing and underbelly drop tanks for extra fuel.
Others have equipment for riskier bombing raids: twin pylons carrying eight 250-pound Small Diameter Bombs as well as a centerline AN/ALQ-131 electronic countermeasures pod, all complementing the four air-to-air missiles and two drop tanks.
The latter loadout allows single-seat, supersonic F-16s to engage Russian targets in the air and on the groundāboth from scores of miles awayāwhile also detecting and jamming Russian radars and surface-to-air missile batteries. āThey act as āflying air defenseā with advanced missile warning tech,ā the pro-Ukrainian Conflict Intelligence Team analysis group noted.
The AN/ALQ-131 ECM pod is a new and critical capability for the Ukrainian air force, which entered the wider war in February 2022 without significant aerial jammers. That exposed Ukrainian jets to withering Russian missile fireāand resulted in heavy losses early on. The Ukrainians have written off nearly 100 jets, many of them in the chaotic early weeks of the wider Russian invasion.
The 85 F-16s Ukraine is getting from Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway and Belgium are much better-equipped than the countryās pre-war force of ex-Soviet MiG and Sukhoi fighters. In addition to the AN/ALQ-131 jamming pods, which were initially programmed by a team of U.S. Air Force specialists, the F-16s have the option of carrying Pylon Integrated Dispensing System and the Electronic Combat Integrated Pylon Systems: PIDS and ECIPS.
PIDS ejects metal chaff and hot-burning flares to spoof incoming radar- and infrared-guided anti-aircraft missiles. ECIPS houses passive defenses to complement the active chaff and flares, including the AN/ALQ-162 jammer for defeating radars on the ground, as well as an AN/AAR-60 missile warning system for triggering the passive defenses.
All these protective systems do not make F-16s invulnerable. The Ukrainian air force has already lost one F-16 out of the roughly 16 it has so far received from Denmark and The Netherlands. The jet crashed under mysterious circumstances during an air-defense patrol back in August, killing its famous pilot Oleksiy āMoonfishā Mes.
But the AN/ALQ-131 in particular can āgive you a pocket of air superiority for a momentās time to achieve an objective that has strategic importance and impact,ā a U.S. Air Force official explained.”
Ukraineās F-16s
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No mention of HARMs. I wonder if they have run out of HARMs.
“I wonder if they have run out of HARMs.”
Maybe drones are just cheaper. They seem to still hit Russian AD assets.
Excellent point.
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"There are a number of problematic issues, and in the current form of the draft, the president is not ready to accept it."
The moveā¦ā Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 22, 2025
Neocon thesis: Russia is evil and anyone not willing to destroy Russia is themselves evil and likely a Russian.
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