[elhombrelibre]

The big quote that makes it all clear is this.

"And this is only going to get worse. Russia, you see, is stuck in an economic catch-22. Its economy needs lower interest rates to push up growth, but its companies need higher interest rates to push up the ruble and make all the dollars they borrowed not worth so much. So, to use a technical term, they're screwed no matter what they do. If they had kept interest rates low, then the ruble would have continued to disintegrate, inflation would have spiked, and big corporations would have defaulted—but at least growth wouldn't have fallen quite so much."

[353FMG]

Don’t think it’s funny.

Remember what cornered rats do.

[GeronL]

“Tighten your belts, comrades!”

“We can live with less, for the glory of mother Russia!”

“We’ll break a few of you, for the common good”

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

And he doomed it, on purpose. And he and his cronies got some nice kickbacks in the process.

[Veggie Todd]

Sorry, Putin. Russia’s economy is doomed

And we'll be there soon, too.

[rawcatslyentist]

Not content with toppling #1 they want to knock out a few more. How is war not inevitable? How convenient to have us murder each other instead of them.

[hosepipe]

Actually “we” have really gone a looooong time without a World War..

The progressives must be pining for some blood...
You know.. just a few BILLION!...

The pikers Stalin, Hitler and Mao only murdered a few hundred million.. (that we know about)..

[DemforBush]

"That's why the combination of more supply from the United States, and less demand from Europe, China, and Japan has hit them particularly hard."

There's a certain wry humor in the possibility that the man who has been running circles around Obama on the world political stage (i.e. Putin***) might be undone by policies Obama has explicitly opposed (i.e. drilling our way out of high energy prices).

*** Just so we're all clear, I am NOT, nor I have I ever been, part of the (now mostly silent) FR Putin fan club. Putin is a bad guy with dreams of empire. I'm just acknowledging he's been quite the diplomatic foe over the last few years.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Nobody taught the KGB Terror Master to diversify.

[wardaddy]

Its hardly doomed but will take an oil price hit

Oil will go back up again

Traditional developing nations producers are just squeezing US frackers to see if they can slow them down

Or so this lady says....and I believe anything rolls off her lush gorgeous lips

[Berlin_Freeper]

1 US Dollar equals
65.60 Russian Ruble

[McGruff]

Who's doomed? Biden Pledges Aid as Ukraine Seeks $10 Billion to Avert Default

[Cincinatus]

A funny thing happened on the way to Vladimir Putin running strategic laps around the West. Russia's economy imploded.

Hilarious. Just like his arsenal of 30,000 thermonuclear warheads, all targeted at the USA.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Obama restarted the Cold War.