Posted on 10/08/2022 10:25:54 PM PDT by House Atreides
Kind of like the Daily Mail, Washington Post, NY Times, etc., etc., etc., Right?
The world desperately needs what Russia can produce.
That is the reality which cannot be erased with propaganda.
McDonalds got the Russians buying their food. They are still buying it, though from a Russian-owned chain that assumed the successful operations stupidly abandoned by a management of idiots.
What is astonishing is the Western world is intentionally destroying itself based on delusional thinking. Many of the world’s leaders are prisoners of theoretical nonsense dangerous to the lives and futures of everyday citizens.
I cannot think of such widespread, self-destructive madness EVER running wild like this before in the history of the world. Who destroys their economic prosperity over academic arguments, grounded in cultural hatred of Russia, feverishly insisted upon by a bunch of power-mad, Western fools?
Companies also lost when Nazi Germany declared war on Poland.
Uncle Vanyas has a problem getting potatoes
Russia has sold oil and gas at 40% discount to India and China
No, they aren’t buying as the Russian marshals had a shortage of potatoes. And they closed the restaurants
And the profiteers are like franchise merchants on the Titanic. They are making big money but don’t realize the ship will be sinking shortly.
The sanctions have always been a joke.
Intentionally.
“Anyone who made the decision to listen to Biden or listens to Biden or any of his advisors is a bigger moron than CornPop himself.”
I think someday and that someday may be soon, we will discover that CornPop is really going to be closer to the original Uncle Tom character than the bully ‘King Joseph’ describes.
This was my first thought when I first heard that western corps were pulling out of Russia. Russia hardly even felt it, and quickly became economically stronger.
Give me one example of how Russia became economically stronger with part shortages and now with manpower shortages.
If anyone actually believes this nonsense, convert all your US dollars to rubles for the long term.
https://www.travelex.com.au/buy-currency/rub-russian-ruble
Good luck with that.
"Customers visiting the rebranded Russian McDonald's are posting pictures showing moldy buns and expired sauce for fries"
https://www.businessinsider.com/russians-share-photos-telegram-moldy-buns-expired-sauce-rebranded-mcdonalds-2022-7
Good summary. I think there is mental illness induced by decades of prosperity. Reality has been displaced in the West with a narrative that will eventually destroy us.
I think they know that the ship of state sinks, and plan on 1) aggrandizing their wealth until that time, and 2) use the wealth to insulate themselves as best they can while others suffer.
Because it’s inconvenient, but a 40% discount to prices that were over $9.50 in September versus $4 in February for natural gas is still a good deal for Russia, and a 40% discount to $95 a barrel of oil is still far above the cost for Russia to provide it, when they were still making money on $25 a barrel of oil.
On the other hand, the scarcity has far more than doubled our gas costs here and in the EU, forced energy costs up that and far more.
It doesn’t hurt Russia like it did anyone else.
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