Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Translation: bobo can't hit us up for cheeseburgers or validation for his gas.
Vladimir Solovyov wants Russia to sink the USS Gerald R Ford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQrpoqVtvc&list=PLLWQyEN3YRo7bpdyPlWscpvx2O8qSu0T1&index=1
4 min Eng sub
I hope 47 is refilling our Strategic Reserve. I doubt that oil prices will go much lower, as that would push producers in more costly areas to stop pumping and drilling, and that would stop drill, baby, drill enthusiasm. How full are tanks at Cushing? Has China been borrowing our money to buy their reserves?
Regarding Chinese intentions. Other thoughts include: planning to invade parts of Siberia to reclaim land once controlled by China, and get some oil properties in the process. I suspect China is busy with the Xi problem and its solution. I also suspect their Taiwan wishes are on hold, as they reconsider the demonstrated weakness of Russia as affording a more auspicious possibility for action. The new conservative, hard line leadership in Japan also requires some thought and possible action/reactions.
I hope 47 is refilling our Strategic Reserve. I doubt that oil prices will go much lower, as that would push producers in more costly areas to stop pumping and drilling, and that would stop drill, baby, drill enthusiasm. How full are tanks at Cushing? Has China been borrowing our money to buy their reserves?
Regarding Chinese intentions. Other thoughts include: planning to invade parts of Siberia to reclaim land once controlled by China, and get some oil properties in the process. I suspect China is busy with the Xi problem and its solution. I also suspect their Taiwan wishes are on hold, as they reconsider the demonstrated weakness of Russia as affording a more auspicious possibility for action. The new conservative, hard line leadership in Japan also requires some thought and possible action/reactions.
Interesting report on probable Russian use of Estonian ferry wreckage. Possible solution, make wreck go big BOOM, problem gone. No more surveillance or training site for Russia.
Once again lower human losses, but higher equipment losses, and very high drone losses. Sign of continuing change in Russian tactics?
A few months ago, they stopped using heavy equipment in their attacks, as it is being knocked out by drones, and have instead been using smaller groups of soldiers who are doing everything they can to advance on motorcycles. This means a lot of fodder for the Great Meat Grinder.
Apparently also for the Steel Grinder. I hope Ukraine is able to salvage all that broken battlefield equipment for their steel mills and drone factories.
In Russia, it was proposed to imprison for a shortage of goods
Russians were warned that in connection with the fixing of prices for socially significant products, interruptions in the supply of a number of goods to retail chains are possible. This, in particular, is stated in a letter from the Association of Retail Companies (AKORT) to the head of the Ministry of Agriculture Oksana Lut.
It is expected that the list of socially significant products may include: meat, sugar, eggs, as well as vegetables and fruits. Retailers warn that the amendments proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture to the law “On the Fundamentals of State Regulation of Trade Activities” may create a situation where it will simply be unprofitable to purchase and deliver a number of products to retail chains.
The government considers such statements to be provocations. Some interlocutors proposed to introduce severe punishment for the owners of large retail chains if there is a shortage of socially significant goods. Up to criminal prosecution.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/6347
The Kremlin thus wants to ensure that there is a shortage of goods. No one dares to run a shop selling food if it means selling at a loss or ending up in prison.
Command economy, imprisonment… bringing all these oldies but goodies of Soviet Union great again. MSUGA
Still banging the wardrum about the Soviet Union, an entity that was dissolved in 1991?
There's dumb, and then there is our moron
“In Russia, it was proposed to imprison for a shortage of goods”
Shortages seem likely to seriously develop in Russia.
Gas shortages are already there, and the Government’s approach to them has changed tellingly. Instead of just relying on subsidies to keep retail prices down, there is serious discussion of price controls (for food as well).
That shifts the burden (and perhaps more importantly, the blame) onto businesses. The easier fixes have run their course, and there is not enough money left to continue using them. Now for the harder fixes, on the backs of the population - shortages, rationing, higher prices, higher taxes, forced mobilization.
“No one dares to run a shop selling food if it means selling at a loss or ending up in prison.”
How will it even be possible for farmers to grow enough food to sell to shops if there is not enough fertilizer produced, farm equipment, fuel to run that equipment, or labor to run the equipment since so many men have been sent to fill the meat wave quota? Aside from the obvious effects of warfare like less farm machine fuel, and labor, I suspect that need for explosives has probably affected the fertilizer issue. Anyone have info on that part of the problem? Also what has happened to spare parts for farm equipment, sanctions? Has Russia licked their part of the worldwide bird flu problem?
Unfortunately, the whole world is going to be affected, even us, as both Russia and Ukraine, formerly the bread basket of the world, are probably experiencing diminished harvests. I imagine 47 is happy that we are no longer the country of last resort for food and other aid as this need will be increasing in many poorer countries we have befriended in the past.
The so-called “engine of Europe” is coughing up smoke. Germany’s economy isn’t just slowing - it’s unraveling.
The hospitality sector, once the soft cushion of the Mittelstand, just posted catastrophic summer numbers: real turnover down 3.5% in August, even in peak holiday season.
The party’s over - restaurants, hotels, caterers all sinking in unison.
Behind the scenes, the industrial heart that powered postwar Germany has lost a quarter of its output since 2018.
Factories closing, firms fleeing, 270,000 manufacturing jobs gone in just over a year. The private sector shrinks; the bureaucracy swells by 50,000 new state jobs.
1.3 million private-sector jobs erased. Insolvencies up 27% in hospitality alone. The country’s on track for 25,000 corporate collapses this year - €60 billion in economic wreckage.
Berlin’s fix? Cut restaurant VAT back to 7%. A symbolic band-aid on a corpse.
Germany’s problem isn’t inflation - it’s exhaustion. Too many taxes, too much red tape, too little faith.
The beer’s still cold, but the optimism’s gone flat.
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