Posted on 03/01/2022 10:14:42 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Millions of Russian citizens are already feeling the fallout of their nation's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, with lengthy queues forming outside banks as people scramble to withdraw money.
As missiles and shells rained down on Kyiv and Kharkiv, Muscovites were seen standing in huge queues reminiscent of the bread and meat lines of the Soviet Union while the rouble plunged to its lowest-ever levels.
The United States, Britain, Europe and Canada announced a raft of new sanctions in recent days - including blocking certain Russian lenders' access to the SWIFT international payment system - while the US effectively blocked Russia's central bank from transactions with the dollar.
This sent the Russian economy into freefall as the rouble dropped 30 per cent against the dollar, forcing the central bank to raise interest rates to 20 per cent yesterday while regulators refused to open the Moscow stock exchange this morning.
'I feel like I'm back in the USSR,' admitted Anatoly, 46, a space scientist, as he stood stoically at place number 152 in queue for a hole-in-the-wall cash machine supposedly dispensing prized euros and dollars.
He was in a gleaming Putin-era shopping mall, redolent of anywhere in the West, and one of hundreds around modern Russia.
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Maybe the Russian people will send Vlad off to have lunch with the Ceaușescu’s.
Welcome to the USA
You don’t know how lucky you are, boys!
I’m pretty sure Russian food is sold to Russians in Russian stores in return for rubles. What the dollar equivalent is won’t likely be a discussion as the cashier scans the ruble barcode on the dozen eggs container.
When you buy food at your grocery store, do you talk to the bar code reader about the ruble equivalent? It’s inconsequential for you and the Russian grocery shopping.
Some good Russians need to do Putin.
Not some non-Russians. Russians.
Change history, restore sanity to the Russian State.
It’s not too late.
Just think what the world would be like if Stalin had been taken care of . Mao, Hitler, Hirohito , Castro, Pol Pot . The Kims’ It’s a long list. We just tolerate them and let them carry on. Until the bitter end.
Why?
Behave like Soviets, live like Soviets.
Its consequential to anything imported.
The Daily Mail has become quite the purveyor of Western propaganda throughout this crisis, all objectivity in media goes out the window once “Cry, ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war” becomes the new mantra. I happen to believe this war was unnecessary and deliberately provoked by the US for geo-political and economic reasons, and had nothing whatsoever to do with “freedom”. With Ukraine being used as te sacrificial pawn. But soon expressing such thoughts will earn me the label of traitor and potential domestic terrorist the way things are going in this country. No deviation from the narrative allowed. Funny how we are suppose to be fighting Russians to maintain our freedoms, yet here at home they are working as quickly as possible to remove those very freedoms at the same time. I’m having a bit of cognitive dissonance trying justify such a conflicting state of affairs.
What’s the temperature on Mars? Is it raining?
Russia may be of the cusp of another win the war, lose the occupation syndrome. The Putin kleptocracy is not your grandfather’s USSR. In this technological age, Pravda no longer rules the communications roost of Russia. Russians have become a lot more cynical about their government as they are exposed to the information age. Demonstrations and protests seen there in modern times were unheard of under the old USSR. Putin picked the wrong victim to demonize when it comes to Ukrainians who are part of the Slavic family and culture, especially when Russians have to suffer economically from a crashing ruble and no access to foreign currency.
If you have food and oil, imports don’t matter much.
They’ll live lives just fine without iPhones.
Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out.
They leave the West behind...
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