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'Everything has collapsed': Russia's draft tanks small businesses
yahoo ^ | 12 Oct 2022

Posted on 10/13/2022 2:12:46 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The space is usually overflowing with designers, programmers and young Russians working on their start-ups.

But since President Vladimir Putin announced a mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of young Russian men last month, the 33-year-old has lost much of his clientele.

"Many have stopped coming," he told AFP by phone.

Instead, they are filling the depleted ranks of Russia's army or they are among the tens of thousands of others who have fled south for neighbouring Kazakhstan.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: conscripts; crankedcrap; crankedspammer; crankedtroll; fled; russia; russianatrocities; russianterrorism; russianterrorists; russianwarcriminals; war
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“ For they sow the wind,

and they shall reap the whirlwind.

The standing grain has no heads;

it shall yield no flour;

if it were to yield,

strangers would devour it." Hosea 8:7

1 posted on 10/13/2022 2:12:46 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Live by the sword, die by the sword.


2 posted on 10/13/2022 2:20:35 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Are you actually quoting Scripture when posting a narrative concerning Russia, all the while the US, UK, and EU economies are unequivocally compared to the sinking of the Titanic?


3 posted on 10/13/2022 2:23:07 PM PDT by cranked
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Where have all the young men gone?

Gone to Ukraine, every one.

When will they ever learn?


4 posted on 10/13/2022 2:24:25 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: DUMBGRUNT

No word about Ukraine’s casualties. Guess there are none.


5 posted on 10/13/2022 2:27:06 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

Tank Girl and the Ghost of Kyiv resurrected any casualties.


6 posted on 10/13/2022 2:29:17 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“As Europe falls into recession, Russia climbs out”
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/10/11/as-europe-falls-into-recession-russia-climbs-out


7 posted on 10/13/2022 2:29:39 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Vermont Lt

Stop the Peter, Paul and Mary nonsense and start acting like man. ok?


8 posted on 10/13/2022 2:31:13 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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9 posted on 10/13/2022 2:37:20 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: cranked

—”Are you actually quoting Scripture when posting a narrative concerning Russia,”

I’m deeply sorry if I inadvertently offended you.

Just cuddle with your blanket in your safe space, your therapist’s receptionist might return your call in a few days.
Too bad so sad.


10 posted on 10/13/2022 2:48:33 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Being Christian, I see a very different picture. A Biblical hallmark: God commonly uses Evil to destroy Evil. Exactly what we have here.

Both sides are corrupted, evil. Support neither, support negotiations and Peace. No one has, just war, war, war….and yes the US is included with this immoral, corrupted leadership, falls into the evil category.


11 posted on 10/13/2022 2:50:49 PM PDT by delta7
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There won’t be any peace until the Russians go back to Russia. They can either do it voluntarily, or involuntarily, but it’s going to be war either way until that happens.


12 posted on 10/13/2022 3:00:12 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: JonPreston

“Stop the Peter, Paul and Mary nonsense and start acting like man. ok?”

Well, Pete Seeger did it originally, but it was not commercially accepted. Then of course, the most famous version was recorded by the Kingston Trio in 1961, and PP&M followed up with their cover in 1962. Before your time.


13 posted on 10/13/2022 3:02:13 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Russia really doesn’t have much small business in the western sense. It’s cities are pretty much empty of trade outside of shopping malls and markets.


14 posted on 10/13/2022 3:04:54 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: delta7

Both sides are corrupted, evil. Support neither, support negotiations and Peace. No one has, just war, war, war….and yes the US is included with this immoral, corrupted leadership, falls into the evil category.


There is nothing stopping Russians from going home and negotiating from Moscow. If they really wanted peace they would do that. Obviously, they don’t.


15 posted on 10/13/2022 3:10:56 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: ought-six

Russia is in for a catastrophic economic crash if the anecdotes in this story are typical.


16 posted on 10/13/2022 3:15:54 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: McGruff

No, they’re fairly well documented.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2022/10/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-3-october-2022#:~:text=Total%20civilian%20casualties%20from%2024,6%2C114%20killed%20and%209%2C132%20injured.

The figures are not news on their own because beimg a civilian in a war with urban fighting and aerial bombardment tends to result in lots of deaths, and bears shit in the woods. Cause of death is more likely to create a news story.

Russian troop casualties on the other hand tell a story on their own. They’re the aggressors. They had all the numbers on their side. Again, the count is less newsworthy than the circumstance.

Also, the contrast between the Ukrainians collecting evidence and the Russians never xollecting it.

According to Russia they can give a precise figure for Ukrainian casualties despite not counting bodies at all, but they have only been able to post numbers of their own casualties twice in 8 months and the last time they did it they used BBC estimates.

The BBC estimates are based on counting obituaries and new graves in Russian towns, so obviously don’t include the thousands of unrecovered corpses in Ukrainian fields, the uncollected dead in Belorussian morgues, and the rank and file that went down on the Moskva.


17 posted on 10/13/2022 3:16:47 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: ought-six

The Mills Brothers did it best.


18 posted on 10/13/2022 3:18:32 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: lodi90

—” It’s cities are pretty much empty of trade outside of shopping malls and markets.”

I’d never been to Russia before this mess started I wanted to visit Pavlov’s house and walk the two hundred steps that marked the days up to “THE HOMELAND MOTHER IS CALLING”.

Now probably not happening.

I do not know anyone that has visited Russia in many years, so I have to ask if you have been there in recent times.

Watched an interview with Nina Khrushcheva,(YES, adopted granddaughter) Professor/writer, who just returned from Russia.
The morale in Russia going downhill quickly.

Hear what a professor who just visited Russia noticed...

https://youtu.be/VxrvlcATOvo


19 posted on 10/13/2022 3:26:17 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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“The Mills Brothers did it best.”

I had no idea they did it.

I know the Brothers Four did it.


20 posted on 10/13/2022 3:26:26 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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