Larry Johnson? Who is routinely wrong on pretty much everything? The guy who — just shortly before the 9/11 attacks — publicly said that America had nothing to fear from Osama bin Laden? The guy who altered an interview with John Kerry to defame him? The guy who threatened a FReeper here on FR? That is your source?
Give it up, kid: You are foundering.
And what else would I expect from a cognitively impaired lazy old coot such as yourself. You of course make no attempt to challenge anything of substance because it is a very accurate assessment. Instead, you attack the source with irrelevant smears from over 20 years ago. And you include more of your idiotic yet strangely humorous insults against me. What a hoot!
I do appreciate your link that said the Russians were offering big discounts to Indonesia's minister of tourism, Sandiaga Uno. It turned out however that this was either a used car sales type tactic or just meant to keep the West from hounding Indonesia because the crude sold by the Russians at discount prices had a 30% under the table type surcharge added. Would you buy a used car from Putin?
“The Russian economy is now slated by the IMF's latest economic outlook to outperform Britain and Germany this year. Russia posted a record current account surplus of $227 billion in 2022, up 86% from 2021”
Thank God that despite my advancing years, unlike you I am still able to argue like an adult.