Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then lost in service with its new owners, it is only added as a loss of the original operator to avoid double listings. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it's not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
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Biden was more concerned with the political impact to American consumers...don't attack ruzzia's petroleum infrastructure.
China is going to have a big decision to make...trade with ruzzia or trade with U.S.A.
“There are financial “weapons” that President Trump can and most certainly will use against ruzzia.”
A/The big one, is the price of oil.
OilPrice.com reports today:
“During his last presidency, Trump maintained Brent oil prices between $40-$80 per barrel to support U.S. shale profitability and economic stability.
Trump leveraged threats such as troop withdrawal, ending military assistance, and the NOPEC bill to counter Saudi Arabia’s attempts to inflate oil prices.
In his second term, Trump is likely to continue prioritizing domestic energy independence through aggressive drilling and maintaining strict control over oil prices.
One of President-elect Donald Trump’s key achievements when first in office was keeping the benchmark oil prices within a very carefully managed range – ‘The Trump Oil Price Range’. The lower part of this is US$40-45 per barrel of the Brent benchmark, which is the price at which the bulk of U.S. shale oil producers can breakeven and make a good profit on top. The upper part is US$75-80 per barrel, which ties into historical data showing that a gasoline price of under US$2 per gallon has been most advantageous for U.S. economic growth. This US$2 per gallon level has historically equated to a West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price of around US$70 per barrel. And as WTI has also historically traded at a discount of between US$5-10 per barrel to the Brent oil benchmark, this US$70 per barrel of WTI price equates to around US$75-80 per barrel of Brent. Judging from Trump’s comments on the campaign trail and in his ‘Agenda47’ blueprint for a second term, his view that oil prices should continue to be heavily influenced by the U.S. in such a way has not changed. And given these factors, his handling of the OPEC members of the OPEC+ oil cartel, and their de facto leader Saudi Arabia, will be much the same as it was in his first term in the top job...
...(During his first term) Trump ordered that the ‘No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels’ (NOPEC) Bill be made fully ready to be passed into law at minimal notice, as a further deterrent to be used against Saudi Arabia. The NOPEC Bill would make it illegal to artificially cap oil production or to set prices, as OPEC does under the leadership of the Kingdom. The Bill would also immediately remove the sovereign immunity in U.S. courts for OPEC as a group and for every one of its individual member states. This would leave Saudi Arabia open to being sued under existing U.S. anti-trust legislation, with its total liability being its estimated US$1 trillion of investments in the U.S. alone. The U.S. would then be legally entitled to freeze all Saudi bank accounts in the U.S., seize its assets in the country, and halt all use of U.S. dollars by the Saudis anywhere in the world (oil is denominated in U.S. dollars, of course). It would also allow the U.S. to go after Saudi Aramco and its assets and funds, as it is still a majority state-owned production and trading vehicle. This would mean that Aramco could be ordered to break itself up into smaller, constituent companies that are not deemed to break competition rules in the oil, gas, and petrochemicals sectors or to influence the oil price.
Consequently, although oil prices are likely to trend to the downside under a Trump presidency given his pledge to “Drill, Baby, Drill”, any attempts by Saudi Arabia and OPEC+ to push them above the top of The Trump Oil Price Range are likely to be met with an extremely robust response from the Presidential Administration.”
I don’t think that BRICS expelled Russia. Seems like a scam.
The symbol chosen for this supposedly official currency for the South African portion is the killing of Afrikaaner leader Piet Retief and his men by the Zulu King Dingane in 1838. The killing of Retief is an important moment in the history of South Africa, culminating in the Zulu defeat by Vootrekkers at the Battle of Blood River. It is also extremely politically charged and was used by the National Party and apartheid architects as anti-African propaganda for decades. The day the battle was fought is remembered today as the public holiday Day of Reconciliation, where South Africans celebrate national unity across ethnic groups.
Why would the New Development Bank choose this symbol of ancient trauma to represent new economic progress for South Africa? Likely it didn't at all, and the bill is a fake.
Conservative Indian users on social media are also sharing their disappointment that the Taj Mahal was chosen as the Indian symbol since it was built by a Muslim emperor. While others are saying a more modern symbol of economic progress should have been chosen instead.
https://htxt.co.za/2024/10/official-brics-currency-mockup-revealed/
De-dollarization is one of Putin's priorities because trading in local currencies would mean that a heavily sanctioned Russia wouldn't be beholden to the Western US-dollar-dominated global financial order. But it's not easy to move away from the greenback. The organizers of the BRICS summit have advised foreign attendees to bring cash — specifically US dollars and euros — to the event in the Russian city of Kazan.
Most Russian banks will only take US dollars or euros — which Moscow has deemed “toxic currencies” — to exchange for rubles, according to a guide on the summit's website.
Going cashless isn't an option since it's not possible to use Mastercard or Visa cards issued outside Russia in the country. The two card issuers halted local operations days after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Russian forces continue to execute Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) amid a surge of recent Russian war crimes. The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office reported on November 26 that Ukrainian law enforcement officials opened a pre-trial investigation into the execution of five Ukrainian POWs by Russian forces in Petrivka (south of Pokrovsk) on November 13 in violation of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of POWs.[26] ISW has extensively reported on previous footage and reports of Russian servicemembers executing Ukrainian POWs and observed an increasing trend of Russian abuses against Ukrainian POWs across various sectors of the front that appear to be enabled, if not explicitly endorsed, by individual Russian commanders and unpunished by Russian field commanders and the larger Russian military justice system.[27]
Russian Mobilization and Force Generation Efforts (Russian objective: Expand combat power without conducting general mobilization)
A Russian milblogger complained on November 25 that Russian forces often operate artillery without coordinating between different Russian elements, highlighting significant communications issues between armored vehicle and infantry units.[82] The milblogger noted that Russian artillery units often operate independently and fail to reliably destroy Ukrainian defenses, particularly due to the insufficient number of small reconnaissance drones needed to create an effective reconnaissance-strike complex. The milblogger claimed that Russian technology is qualitatively lagging behind Ukrainian technology, giving Ukrainian forces tactical advantages including the freedom to maneuver.
Russian authorities continue to incentivize service in Ukraine through one-time payment offers, likely in order to avoid conducting another partial involuntary reserve call-up. Independent Russian-language outlet Idel Realii stated on November 25 that Russian authorities have sharply increased payments for volunteers signing contracts with the Russian MoD in Berezniki, Perm Krai from 150,00 to 400,000 rubles (about $1,421 to $3,971).[83]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-26-2024
The government has approved a resolution allowing regional authorities to conclude price stabilization agreements with producers and retail chains. The exception is goods whose prices are already regulated by the state, Interfax reports . “The decision taken will help maintain a stable situation on the domestic market and keep popular products available to citizens,” the government said in a statement.
Previously, this measure only applied to socially significant food products such as beef, pork, lamb (except boneless meat), chicken (except hams), frozen whole fish, butter and sunflower oil, milk, chicken eggs, granulated sugar, salt, black tea, wheat flour, rye and rye-wheat bread, bread and bakery products made from wheat flour, polished rice, millet, buckwheat, vermicelli, potatoes, fresh white cabbage, onions, carrots and apples.
https://t.me/astrapress/69287
Price freezes lead to shortages of goods and a black market.
Yup price controls always work 😎
Guess we know where camel toe was getting her policy advice from lol
But hey I hear all is well, Russian GDP is up, along with interest rates, inflation, ruble exchange rate, and bonuses to become part of the meat wave military
All is well and going according to plan, master strategist ….
Ruble 110
US sanctions on Russian banks, including Gazprombank, have led to a sharp drop in the ruble, now over 110 per dollar, the weakest level since March 2022. The new penalties target key channels of foreign-currency inflows, risking further economic strain as Russia faces growing FX shortages.
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1861734580069220466
https://www.investing.com/currencies/usd-rub
Falling faster than I thought last week, but there is information that affects the exchange rate. Ceteris paribus is not what to assume.
Russia Stock Market index MOEX CFD
https://x.com/The_Real_ITDUDE/status/1861388686459302377
thanks for the link
Historical graph https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/stock-market
More than 60 drones have been launched at Sevastopol. Explosions reported near the Saky airfield and Belbek airport, according to Russian media.
They also report the use of Neptune and Storm Shadow missiles.
Concerning 👀
https://x.com/maria_drutska/status/1861698756409806874
112.5 now, not sure Kremlin has anything left in the tank to avert a total collapse
Ruble Death Watch intensifies…
Maybe it is time to call a Priest.
https://x.com/SparkFella/status/1861606538235797681
I wish our situation was much better, but for sure this was not part of dear leader’s plan
GDP question, does higher inflation make GDP growth appear higher?
"Real gross domestic product (GDP) is an inflation-adjusted measure that reflects the value of all goods and services produced by an economy in a given year. Real GDPis expressed in base-year prices. It is often referred to as constant-price GDP, inflation-corrected GDP, or constant-dollar GDP."
So, when the ruzzian trolls claim that ruzzia's GDP is great, they are spewing ruzzian propaganda.
Thanks, it is funny how they tout low unemployment and higher than “expected” GDP as proof everything is fine.
Producing millions in munitions and equipment that is later blown up, higher govt spending on repairs to infrastructure and spending on military…. All = higher GDP, but is that a positive overall for Russian citizens????
The usuals say so 😂
Imagine trying to buy anything on a loan at 21%+ interest rates, let alone a business loan.
I have said for some time that Ukraine can not win militarily, it requires a political collapse of the Russian govt something akin to 1991 or 1917.
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