Posted on 06/10/2024 6:03:54 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
Well, well well.
The Canuck sounds like The Hollywood gang who threatened to leave
The U.S. if Trump won in 2016.
Trump won, but they never left.
Canuck threatened to leave FR if Jim didn’t do what Canuck wanted.
Yet, heeeeees Back.
>>>>Canuck threatened to leave FR if Jim didn’t do what Canuck wanted.
Yet, heeeeees Back.<<<<
The foreigner NEVER left...not even for a nanosecond.
“I’m on my way out of FR too, it’s not fun anymore”
The Robinsons provide the technology and the tolerance.
We must provide the reasoning and the cash.
My brother to his dying day loved the written word.
I have come to love the English language, and others.
This is what happened during World War II to the Japan and German as their economies were destroyed by the Allies. As their economies shrunk, and the resources and labor needed to run the war grew, all parts of the economy had huge increases in cost and time. This caused increasing delays, inefficiencies and mistakes in production and ability to run their countries and war efforts. The result was their economies simply burned out.In a post on X some days ago, he explained what this 'toxicity' means: "If the cost of replacing material losses (in such a way that the speed of replacement is in balance with the speed of losses) is no longer within the scope of the financing of the state budget, then a system becomes unfinanceable. This unfinanceability is toxic for a system because it causes the system to collapse in the medium term (unless the war is won)."
This is now catching up to Russia. Their main source of revenue, oil and gas, is decreasing while having higher production costs. The war in Ukraine is increasing government consumption of all resources, especially the lives of young men. A million middle class and skilled labor Russians having fled the country only makes this worse. Then there is the corruption in the military where Shoigu and the top of the Russian military embezzle 20% of military spending and corruption is normal all the way down to the lowest ranks.
Niven states that Russia is big, but Putin is not strong. Ukraine isn't going to win as much as Russia is going to economically burn out and lose. When Russia burns out, Putin's political position will weaken, which is what he fears. Weakened strongmen do not last long in Russian politics.
Oh, I’m stealing that.
“We’ve got him now!”
LOL!!! I stole it from kiryandil.
You can tell your stories, but Russia isn’t going away or going to collapse anytime soon.
They border Ukraine and have time & geography on their side.
Thank you - For how long have we referenced that movie?
LOL
I was soooo expecting the cat
It is very hard for a system operating within the auspices of a central bank to collapse.
The Soviets had a central bank that was constrained in money creation by law. Money created must align with the Interior Ministry’s 5 year plan. They needed more money and foolishly locked themselves into believing money had to conform to any meaning.
Russia’s CB is not similarly constrained. They are empowered to do what Bernanke did when the entire US system was at risk. Just create money and distribute it.
It doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to keep the wheels turning.
LOL
Is that originally from an actual show where that woman was actually pointing at the cat?
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and no, she wasn’t pointing at the cat [Smudge the cat].
Oh LOL
The zeepers got those old yellow stain blues.
Referencing that movie is a tradition here.
RUSSIA TAKES 3 TOWNS!?! Tide turn again at Kharkiv Front; More fronts activates - Ukraine War SITREPDPA War (Defense Politics Asia)
3 hours ago - retreived 11 Jun 2024 at 0310.
Oh for goodness sakes. The mess boys ate the missing strawberries. Nothing nefarious at all.
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