Posted on 01/07/2024 8:52:30 AM PST by USA-FRANCE
There are currently two wars that Russia is fighting: the kinetic one in Ukraine that receives all the attention—or at least received all the attention before the Gaza Crisis—and a financial one that remains relatively unnoticed. This hidden economic crisis is actually more important and relevant, and how Putin decides to address it will determine the outcome of the war on the field.
Apparently it’s a recently created YouTube channel. One among many. Could be a one-man operation from the kitchen table, for all I know. I tend to ignore sites like this unless there is an established track record (which this one obviously does not have).
I call sites such as this one GOS sites (i.e., “Grain-of-Salt” sites).
Right click on the "about" page, to read:
www.youtube.com/@MoneyBuildersTeam
23.4K subscribers
52 videos
3,445,533 views
Joined Sep 9, 2023
United States
Yup, this latest "financial" wizard is about four months old, with 52 videos -- about one every two days. Trying the route of "monetization" for funding. Start out with ads to begin with, and then seeks subscribers. Click bait, for those who just love click bait.
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The obvious question about the TLIG messages is are they real or not and Russia’s post Soviet transformation seemed to support what I had read in the messages.
For this reason, I had both new hope for Russia and for the validity of the TLIG messages, too.
If you are curious, you can read them here:
Prophecies on RussiaKnowing how people can backslide and fall back into old habits, old ways of thinking and old ways of living, I’ve been watching Russia for any signs of their slipping back to the dark side again.
Unfortunately, Russia’s war against Ukraine seems to be a major slide backwards and so now, with the TLIG messages in mind, I watch Russia and the world to see what happens next.
These are indeed interesting times!
I wish the rest of the world would cut us off from “essential imports,” so we would go back to producing them here
as of 1/7/2024 $1/90.93r
This cannot be good for Russia’s allies, Hamas, Iran and N. Korea.
Will you please get off the stupid Kaystone Pipeline band wagon. The company has given up on it, gotten rid of all supplies stockpiled for the job pending approval Even if approval could be gained some time in the future perhaps with Trump in office, he would be out of office again before any part of such a pipeline could be built. At any rate, big oil seems to be doing quite well in recent weeks. I was traveling in the week before and including Christmas and the economy stations in 3 states were charging from $2.96 to about $3.19 during the period. Actually around the same price as a gallon of milk at Walmart or other regular big stores.
Another important thing to understand about oil prices is that big oil will not drill and pump if the price of oil is below a certain price per barrel. I think the base price for North Dakota is around $80 per barrel. Also another danger is the risk of oversupply for the amount of storage available. During the Trump administration the price went so low and the supply became so great people were even being paid to take oil because no storage at major hubs like Cushing, OK, or on oil carriers was even available for a couple of days. I suspect current gas prices hovering around $3 are likely to represent what big oil is willing to have paid relative to their production costs. Big oil is not so interested in finishing off Russia and Iran as running stable, profitable oil fields here and elsewhere. The major oil prices for WTI (US) and Brent (North Sea) are in the $90 neighborhood which is good for Big Oil. Unfortunately, these prices are also good for Russia and Iran. My hope is that Russia will have ever increasing oil production problems as they suffer the loss of US oil equipment and expertise, from kicking us out of Russia.
Amen! Bidumb has declared war on oil, put regulations on steroids, and attacked supply chains every which way he can. Never have I seen someone work so hard to decrease supply. Marx would burn a little more approvingly if Hell permitted.
It will be like the early 70’s on steroids: hyperstagflation. Most Americans have never seen anything even remotely like it. And there will be no economic growth to help with the debt burden.
The Ruble is a manipulated currency that is not freely traded
MOSCOW, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the third quarter was confirmed on Wednesday at 5.5% compared with the same period last year, when it shrunk 3.5%, the state statistics service Rosstat said.
Russia's economy is on course to recover this year from a 2.1% drop in GDP in 2022, as the West imposed sweeping sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
In January-September, GDP grew 3% Rosstat said. In the first quarter of this year, GDP decreased 1.8% and grew 4.9% in the second.
All based on whether Saudi Arabia is the largest oil producer.
true, but it was ~61 last year
(Stolen from Greta)
Let me know when this video channel post one on the US Economy is about to implode….
I remember those days, I was just old enough to get mad about the increase of candy, cokes, comic books and then gasoline when I got my driver’s license.
But I’m afraid this time it will be much worse as the national debt will gobble up most of the government revenue.
“Hold on, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!”
“Now the US needs to open up Keystone and resume drilling and drive the price of oil through the floor. That will finish off Russia and Iran for at least a generation.”
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Absolutely!
Drill! Drill! Drill!
“Now the US needs to open up Keystone and resume drilling and drive the price of oil through the floor.”
The United States is producing more oil than any nation in the history the world, the price of oil has stabilized and OPEC has lost their ability to cut production and raise price of oil.
Now, why would E&P companies in the United States increase production and crash the price of oil?
LOL!
We do not really know.
There has been so much propaganda and gaslighting from all sides that it is almost impossible to see through the fog to what is really happening in Russia or the Ukraine. Even the leadership from both sides is being conned by their own propaganda.
It is quite possible for both sides to lose.
It is very obvious that the NATO wonder weapons have not turned the tide of war and the Russian artillery and drones were way more effective than expected. Also, the Russian commanders were willing to ruthlessly expend their soldiers like ammunition, and they had a lot more of them than the Ukrainians did.
The Russians were not very good at combined force operations, else Kyiv would have fallen in the first week of the "Special Military Operation". They reverted to "grid square obliteration" using artillery followed by human wave charges for their successes. Very traditional Russian tactics. That only works when you have a lot of extra men available.
It is also obvious that many traditional tactics of war are no longer viable. All armored vehicles can be killed by cheap drones, and so can exposed infantry, or even bunkered infantry. Drones keep getting ever more deadly, and so does precision guided artillery. Manned aircraft are basically targets for missiles.
Generals still think in obsolete terms, which are the equivalent of arranging men in a battle line and having them charge into machine gun nests, as they did in World War 1. Nobody can afford the kind of slaughter that causes.
If you can see enemy forces, you can kill them. And vice-versa. There needs to be a lot of thought about new tactics and strategies to deal with that.
I believe Ukraine will fall apart by this summer as the US fails to provide economic and military support. We are simply too broke to continue. So, Russian will have their victory in Ukraine. The prize has already cost them more than it will ever be worth.
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