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Putin's Crown Jewel Forced Into Fire Sale Amid Record Losses
Newsweek ^ | 5/9/2024 | Brendan Cole

Posted on 05/13/2024 3:16:33 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

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To: marcusmaximus

A good rule is to recognize that anything coming from an American MSM source is in effect coming from the Deep State, specifically the CIA. The narrative will conform to what the rulers want.


21 posted on 05/13/2024 7:38:37 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Prove it. I have seen the US carry on more wars that Russia has. The USSR was a totally different story.


22 posted on 05/13/2024 7:40:09 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
You who claim to be America First need to realize that America is trapped on a planet with some very bad people on it. People whose business model is to take whatever they covet by brute force; and against whom America must defend when they do it, and where they do it, every time. Fail that obligation, and America will fail as a nation. Not only for ourselves, but for Europe, the cradle of our Western civilization. So am I an American patriot? Damned right I am.
23 posted on 05/13/2024 7:41:34 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Oh yes, and I am well aware of it. In fact, some of those very bad people have control of this nation currently. Time for you to see that. They are evil people with evil intentions. wake up to that reality, and perhaps we can start to fight the enemies from within who present us with far more danger than does Putin or Russia.


24 posted on 05/13/2024 7:46:26 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Allegra

That was my thought to. 🙂👍


25 posted on 05/13/2024 7:48:48 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Allegra
BTW here's a photo of him:


26 posted on 05/13/2024 7:53:38 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

“What you fail to accept is that Putin was seeking a peaceful solution”

You mean he wanted to peacefully invade and annex Ukraine? And HOW DARE the Ukrainians oppose Putin’s peaceful armed invasion? And HOW DARE they be offended by Putin’s cowardly sneak attack into Crimea in 2014?

No, sorry. My husband fought the Russians and he killed some of them too. Now I want their evil empire put to a final end so they no longer pose a threat to anyone else ever again.

“Furthermore, you try to disparage me as someone that hates this country”

You do this all on your own and with no help needed from myself.


27 posted on 05/13/2024 8:12:05 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: marcusmaximus
What Gazprom doink?

Gazprom move new HQ, 703 meter tower, in St. Petersburg. Finish relocation project and sell real estate holdings in Moscow area.

https://t.me/gazprom/1547

Gazprom

Taking into account the completion of the relocation of the Gazprom Group companies to St. Petersburg, PJSC Gazprom announces its intention to sell a real estate complex in Moscow.

The following facilities are planned for implementation:

- office buildings at 8 Stroiteley Street, building 1 and 65 Novocheremushkinskaya Street;
- non-residential premises on the first floor in a residential building at 71/32 Novocheremushkinskaya Street;
- non-residential office premises on the 1st, 2nd, 4th floors in the building of the Danilovsky House Business Center at 4A Novodanilovskaya Embankment;
- production and technical base on Obrucheva Street, ow. 27, bld. 2-5;
- property complex of a parking lot for 96 cars at 30 Kakhovka Street;
- Imperial Park Hotel & Spa sanatorium and resort complex in the settlement of Pervomaiskoye, Rogozinino village.

To organize the display of objects, please call +7 (812) 609-76-22 and +7 (812) 609-76-32.

t.me/gazprom/1547

https://www.upstreamonline.com/finance/gazproms-new-st-petersburg-hq-plan-gets-spiky-response/2-1-1018629

Gazprom's new St Petersburg HQ plan gets spiky response

Some residents of Russia's second-largest city pan gas giant's proposed 703-metre tower

Vladimir Afanasiev
Moscow
Updated 2 June 2021, 03:40

Gazprom has reached for the sky, unveiling plans for new headquarters in St Petersburg in one of the world's tallest office towers.

The Russian state-controlled gas monopoly revealed details of the proposed behemoth during a meeting between chief executive Alexei Miller and St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov.

The plans would involve a move from the company's current headquarters — the Lakhta Centre in the western Russian city — to the new 703-metre-tall building.

The proposal has surprised some residents, many of whom had vehemently protested against it.

The Lakhta Centre already includes a 462-metre spike-shaped tower, which some residents have complained excessively dominates the historic cityscape of St Petersburg and its fortresses.


28 posted on 05/13/2024 8:26:53 AM PDT by woodpusher
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To: MeganC
You're hopeless little girl, because you are stuck on utterly stupid. You also refused to even read what I stated, because you are also a lazy person who believes she has all of the answers, only all you really have is a pocketful of propaganda that you spew forth like projectile vomit. Reality is something you avoid like the plague, which at some point in time will catch up to you. Shame that you cannot accept the truth. because ignoring the truth is extremely dangerous for all of us.

My husband fought the Russians and he killed some of them too. Now I want their evil empire put to a final end so they no longer pose a threat to anyone else ever again.

Tell me more. To my knowledge the US has never engaged Russia directly, militarily and this is just more of your propaganda.

Prove me wrong.

The US has indeed engaged in various military exercises and operations with Russia throughout its history, but never engaged them militarily, except for a few retaliatory strikes, that may or may have not caused a few deaths. But that would have been minor missile attacks that were sent more to make a point than to do real damage or harm. I think Trump even did so, once.

29 posted on 05/13/2024 8:36:27 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

“You’re hopeless little girl, because you are stuck on utterly stupid.”

And you’re a pathetic cringing milksop with all the intellectual agility of a small soapdish.

“Prove me wrong.”

I am not proving anything to you. If you don’t like what I said then that’s your problem and not mine.


30 posted on 05/13/2024 8:53:48 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: marcusmaximus
Meanwhile, there is a war going on and Ukraine's defense lines continues to collapse:

Russian Forces Storm Vovchansk & Capture 2 Villages Near Kharkiv | Central Netailove Captured

The Russians Captured Hlyboke And Lukiantsi | Heavy Clashes In Vovchansk. Military Summary 2024.5.13

32 posted on 05/13/2024 9:04:21 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Rockingham
Russia’s economy and finances are under serious stress

what steaming pile of propaganda. Russia's economy is growing faster than ours or most Western ones:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-23/russia-raises-2024-growth-forecast-as-economy-weathers-sanctions

Russia Lifts 2024 Growth Forecast as Economy Rides Sanctions

Economy Ministry says GDP will grow 2.8% in 2024, up from 2.3%

https://www.ft.com/content/21a5be9c-afaa-495f-b7af-cf937093144d

Russia’s economy will expand much more rapidly this year than previously expected, according to the IMF, as President Vladimir Putin’s military spending feeds through into wider growth. 

Gross domestic product is forecast to rise 2.6 per cent this year, more than double the pace the IMF predicted as recently as October, and slightly slower than the 3 per cent expansion estimated for 2023.

The Russian upgrade, by 1.5 percentage points, is the largest for any economy featured in an update to the fund’s World Economic Outlook, released on Tuesday.

33 posted on 05/13/2024 9:17:39 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: MeganC
And you’re a pathetic cringing milksop with all the intellectual agility of a small soapdish.

Is that the best you can do little girl?

I am not proving anything to you. If you don’t like what I said then that’s your problem and not mine.

I didn't think you would because it was all a lie to begin with. If it were true, then you would have been more than willing to prove me wrong.

Thanks for playing, clueless little girl.

Way past time for you to wake up though little clueless girl, because imminent danger is at our door and you are foolishly paying more attention to what they want you to pay attention to instead of what is happening to your nation, because you do not see.

None so blind as those who will not see.

34 posted on 05/13/2024 9:19:23 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

“Is that the best you can do little girl?”

No, but I have to keep it PG-13 for FR. So should you.


35 posted on 05/13/2024 9:20:29 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: Robert DeLong

Perfect! I’m saving that. 🤡


36 posted on 05/13/2024 9:22:59 AM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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To: MeganC
I used no curse words little girl. There is nothing scandalous with truth either little clueless girl.

Not sure why telling me about your husbands military involvement where he killed Russians, has to include profanity, or even graphic details.

37 posted on 05/13/2024 9:28:27 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Kazan

Kharkiv in 3 days! Bring your parade uniform!


38 posted on 05/13/2024 9:43:38 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Kazan

What Su-25 doink? Lol!


39 posted on 05/13/2024 9:47:49 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Kazan

There are four important negative details that merit consideration.

First, Russia’s nominal economic growth includes her military and war spending. These do not contribute to civilian well-being in a meaningful way even though they boost Russia’s GDP accounting.

Second, sanctions are beginning to bite and the effects will compound over time, especially on Russia’s civilian economy. Yes, China is helping subvert Western sanctions, but that help comes at a monetary and strategic price.

Third, Russian state finances are deteriorating as cash reserves are spent down to support the war effort. This injection of cash is helping spur Russia’s domestic inflation.

Four, to remedy a domestic labor shortage caused by military manpower demands, Russia is permitting massive Muslim immigration. This is compounding Russia’s internal security problems and aggravating Russia’s demographic decline.

If this seems counterintuitive, ask yourself whether war and spending on a war on the net benefits a country’s civilian economy. It really doesn’t — which is why peace is almost always preferable to war.


40 posted on 05/13/2024 10:09:05 AM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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