Posted on 07/09/2023 10:55:43 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Those measures have contributed to the flight of millionaires and everyday workers, who have left the country to look for better opportunities, significantly hurting the nation's output and productivity. And though Putin has made a show of Russia's economic strength, his actions have only bought Russia more time, researchers warned.
"That resilience is nothing but a Potemkin façade, sustained not through genuine economic productivity but rather through shaking down the entire country for pennies to direct towards war," Sonnenfeld and Tian said. "Putin can continue to sustain his invasion of Ukraine this way, but in doing so, continues to rip off his own people. In avoiding outright economic collapse by mortgaging Russia's future, he grows more unloved by his people and is thus increasingly weakened.
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Go figure.
Yep, Uke "Enlightened", Elite, Far Leftist, Homo Nazis.
Now THAT figures.
Putin has always been a leech and the leech now is killing its host.
—”Even if I had been married in the largest most ornate church structure in existance, the thing that floored me would have put all that as nothing extra special:”
I fully understand your point and do not disagree.
The chapel is an homage to the grunts from SAE going back to the US Civil War. About an acre of stained glass depictions and lists of those who gave all.
For me, it is a very special place.
I met my wife at a friend’s wedding at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, a very nice venue.
Sadly his marriage didn’t last. Happens.
Thank you.
Not all heroes wear capes. 😀
Putin is doing what he does best. Stealing the money of hard working Russians and successful Russian Corporations. Putin is nothing more than a Coward and common Thief. He is a dead man walking with a target on his forehead.
“Thank you. Not all heroes wear capes.”
Thanks! With JR’s posting, it does look like the Operatives are going to have to migrate back to Reddit, or whatever their day job is.
__”Putin has always been a leech and the leech now is killing its host.”
This a good description of Putin’s attempt to become an emporer.
You sound like a frightened child.
Between the early 2000's when China joined the World Trade Organization, and about 2016, the USA sent 50,000 factories to China. What do you expect the consequences would be?
You are less functional than doddering Joe Biden.
And all you have is name calling.
Really. And Yale is a bunch of elitist globalist fools. Anyone who believes anything out of that institution is not too bright.
“JR’s posting, it does look like the Operatives are going to have to migrate back to Reddit”
Hopefully, very, very soon!
—”Those dumb Ruzzians. We would never do anything that dumb like that, would we?”
Our great leaders have “invested” trillions in giving free stuff to non-citizens in a vote-buying plan, and a trillion or so to deadbeat loan recipients, and a few billion to solar cell factories that never made many cells, and...
Historically the US economy had the resilience to recover.
Time will tell.
“Hopefully, very, very soon!”
Agree!!! The more people who are zotted for posting (spamming) articles they know are likely false, the better for FR.
Momma say she ain’t leavin’ for nuthin’.
You ain’t leavin’ are ya Momma?
Hope not,you sure can stir up a ruckus!
“Hopefully, very, very soon!”
I realize that, but we are told of how WW 2 drove America to prosperity, and the global warriors have been selling us that line since. War = Prosperity.
—”WW 2 drove America to prosperity,”
Not exactly the full story.
For the full story, you will need to hear it from the legendary “one-armed economist”.
A few quick lines.
The economy is sometimes called a rolling monster; too fast and you are thrown off and eaten, too slow and everyone starves to death.
Short term, assuming you have reserves and good credit, war will goose the economy, but the sudden stop will be painful.
One of the many reasons the US economy kept going after the second world war, was a near doubling of the workforce.
Adding women, blacks, and anyone that could do the job made many white guys even wealthier!
Providing a great number of jobs, creating consumers to purchase even more products and more job creation...
And everyone liver happily ever after, or something like that.
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