"If the war doesn't end soon, the West will not only move ahead with plans to end energy dependence on Russia, it could also deploy the roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian central-bank funds to rebuild Ukraine's economy."
“The country is entering what is likely to be a very tough period as the impact of the sanctions gradually sets in, she says. “Everyone is running out of spare parts, export markets have disappeared, many [companies] cannot continue production,” Ribakova said, citing evidence form a recent Russian central bank report.”
The head of the Russion central bank is a Soros puppet, trying to upset Putards with this.
Probably not a good idea to rejoice in the pain being suffered by the Russian people due to Putin’s catastrophic bad decision and American retribution. The Sicilians are not the only people who savor revenge.
Soon Russia is going to lose a large amount oil production, due to having to shut wells that are in Siberian permafrost. Very difficult to restart those.
There’s a guy that runs a YouTube channel called Mentour Pilot. He’s a 737 pilot based over in Europe somewhere. He’s done several videos about what is happening with Russian civilian aviation and what is likely to happen due to the sanctions. Good stuff, fairly in-depth. Short version: in the short term they’ll be ok, mid to long term Russian civilian aviation is impaled on a shaft with a helically wrapped inclined plane...
All while the Russian Ruble has recovered well - maybe even stronger than the pre-Ukraine invasion. China is bolstering them.
What gets me about the articles celebrating the poor Russian economy is the absolute lack of awareness of the type of trouble most people in the west are in. Who cares about the Russian situation when so many people here are under water, cost of living is absolutely unsustainable. No one seems to care. It’s crazy.
I see the exact same editorial BS as we do when MSM discussed January 6, Impeachment(s), George Floyd, etc... They make sure to use their correct adjectives right at the beginning, to frame the argument for the sheeple.
The movement has already begun in the form of the Abrams accord and more recently the Negev summit.
There have been delegations to Turkey offering Erdogan economic salvation in return for Turkish anti Iranian and anti Russian action. That will include Syria and a dismissal of Russian and Iranian troops.
It will include a coalition effort to speedily develop trans Mediterranean pipelines to forever end the possibility of Russian oil blackmail on Europe
Although not acknowledged by the American MSM, the process is well under way
We are depending on China for spare parts. This could be us one day.
1. How much of this is real and how much is propaganda?
2. Russians are used to dealing with things on a daily basis that we would lose our minds over.
3. Much of the world embargoed Cuba for decades and they survived well enough to be a pain in the neck to the US.
4. A lot of countries are participating in the “crush Russia” party line, but many are not. My guess is that it will take some time, but Russia will find a way to survive just fine.
What in the world is this nutjob talking about? Has she stopped to even take a look at the West’s predicament caused by the sanctions. No fertilizer for crops, no food for man or feed fro animals, no fuel for deliver trucks, farm machinery, factories, or homes, dead chickens everywhere, translating into fewer eggs and meat. That’s just a few crisis off the top of my head. What is she thinking-drinking?
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I don’t know, everybody was celebrating and joking about the crash of the Ruble a few months ago, but now the Ruble just hit a 2 year high against the “surging” US dollar yesterday. Seems like anything said or written by the West is totally unreliable. I believe Russia will find a source for chips just like we find a source for drugs.
The Russians may be in big trouble due to lack of spare parts...but so are we. We have thousands of trucks, tractors and heavy duty equipment sitting idle due to lack of parts (sometimes as simple as $50 sensors without which their machinery cannot operate). What we in the West have done to Russia’s military is being done to us by the Chinese shutdowns and the nearly complete supply-chain disruption that occurred during Covid (and from which we had only partially recovered until the latest Chinese shutdowns). So perhaps we can gloat a bit...but we would be much better served by trying to fix the very big (and worsening) problem that we are facing.
On March 15th, we told Russia only had days left to win the war before it ran out of resources:
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-army-days-away-running-out-resources-military-experts-say-1688025
Military experts and former commanders have said that Russia's army is days away from running out of resources, with what was intended to be a swift seizure of key Ukrainian cities turning into a drawn-out war.
These claims are as ridiculous as the ones environmental Chicken Littles have been making for 50 years.
Do you ever begin to doubt the propaganda you're being fed from the Biden regime and the liars in Ukraine? The Ukrainians have been caught lying over and over again for the "ghost of Kiev" lie to the lie about the Russians leaving civilian bodies out to rot in Bucha.