Posted on 03/18/2023 3:57:13 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
What’s known is that $250 billion in capital has left, equivalent to 14 percent of its GDP. One expert guesstimates that Russia’s economy has shrunk from the size of Italy’s to Chile’s in the past year — you wouldn’t know this based on bogus figures fed to the media by Moscow. Economist Janis Kluge of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) calculates that Western sanctions alone have also “basically shrunk Russia’s economy by 10 percent”, bigger than what happened in the 2009 financial crisis.
What is also known is that immediately after the invasion of Ukraine, an estimated 3.8 million Russians left, according to official figures published mid-year by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). In early 2022, there were three waves of departures, including middle class families, political opponents, draft dodgers, millionaires, and IT or other skilled workers... But even if most of these came back, the country suffered another exodus in the fall of an estimated one million after Putin’s announced military conscription. That scale of both mass migrations has also blown a hole in its economy.
.... In 2022, Russia’s military cost US$300 million a day and Moscow raked in US$800 million a day from energy exports. Since the caps began, revenues have fallen to US$200 million a day and head lower....
(Excerpt) Read more at kyivpost.com ...
Hopium is a helluva drug. You are getting high on your own supply Cuck Canuck.
March, March! March or Die!
Those aren’t receipts.
1. You did not bother to add up all the EU spending or spending commitments to compare to the US. Lazy AND untrustworthy. Compare the totals.
2. This is a report from over a year ago. Probably the first one that sounded plausible to you.
What you did not give is proof of (”the receipts”), was of depletion of US stocks of SAMs in Ukraine. So, the receipts please.
O/T: What happened to the former spelling of “rubles”?
It was too much truble.
America, fighting Russia to the very last Ukrainian.
The question arises whether the Western powers can sustain a military buildup in the long run. Manufacturing is not “green”. It requires mining, refining, and lots of power. Then there are the demands of the welfare state. France is experiencing a lot of civil unrest because their government is proposing raising the retirement age to 64. Especially if the war ends with a Russian defeat, the impetus to rearm will diminish.
The Iranian-Saudi Rapprochement Will Deal A Deathblow To The Dollar
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Saudi Arabia’s desire to join BRICS and the SCO, which are the most influential multipolar organizations in the world right now, could turn this scenario into a reality a lot sooner than even the most optimistic observers might have expected. All of this in and of itself will herald a revolution in geo-economic affairs, and that’s even without Saudi Arabia having yet to throw its full support behind the “petroyuan”.
Once this major oil exporter begins to sell its resources in non-dollar-denominated currencies like China’s, then the petrodollar upon which the economic-financial aspect of the US’ unipolar hegemony is predicated will be dealt a deathblow. The global systemic transition to multipolarity and the impending trifurcation of International Relations that will precede the final inevitable form of this process would unprecedentedly accelerate once this happens, thus further hastening America’s ongoing demise.
About those aforementioned processes, they were already made irreversible by the special operation that Russia was forced to commence in defense of its national security red lines in Ukraine after NATO clandestinely crossed them there and subsequently rejected Moscow’s security guarantee requests for politically resolving their resultant security dilemma. Over the past year, the New York Times was forced to admit that not only did the sanctions fail, but even the plot to “isolate” Russia did too.
These outcomes were largely the result of Russia’s example inspiring the Global South to rise up against neo-colonialism by refusing to comply with the demands placed upon them by the US-led West’s Golden Billion to unilaterally sacrifice their own interests simply to serve that de facto New Cold War bloc’s. India played the leading role in this respect due to its status as the world’s largest developing country, which gave comparatively medium- and smaller-sized ones the confidence to follow in its footsteps.
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methinks this is just wishful thinking on the part of Ukrainian leaders.
Doesn’t entropy eventually wind down and cease all activity?
It was always about regime change. Globalization sets require the natural resources of Russia and slave labor to acquire it. They weren’t planning on paying market value, so they must install another zelensky. Hey… maybe the next puppet leader of the world will be a transgender black woman who can dance with zelensky all the way to their private, offshore accounts.
Which Putin was happy to sell to Europe and the west.
Eventually we all will die. 100% guarantee.
If you mean meets or exceeds the 2% goal, then 9 countries meet that with others at the edge, like Romania at 1.99%, or France at 1.90, the highest for 2022 was Greece at 3.76%.
The numbers should improve for 2023.
” I thought propaganda dumps were usually in the evening when there are more viewers.”
If you haven’t noticed they work in shifts.
—> Russia is a police-state dictatorship,
Canada too
You also need to understand, that the U.S. leadership did not want a peaceful solution. They wanted this proxy war. Zelenskyy was all in for placing his nation into a war zone, and making his people fodder in the war to appease the world elite masters for his personal gain.
In the meantime, the Uniparty politicians clean up with their investments & kickbacks from the military industrial complex, while they rob you & I, whom they care not one wit about. Quit being their patsy & useful idiot.
Why do you think this country is galloping towards the shithole it's rapidly becoming? They don't care because their vaccines will eliminate most of this population as time goes by.
Wake up and start pushing back. They are going to continue until we start rebelling in very large numbers instead of idly allowing it to continue without pushing back. You are not helping Ukrainians one bit, but you are destroying yourselves along with your homeland. In the process you are doing what makes China become the world's most powerful nation.
Russia was not forced into any war. Why do you fall for this line of bllshit? You seem smarter than that. POS Putin invaded Georgia and Crimea. He had his FSB bomb Russian apartment buildings. This killed 50 or so. Putin pinned this on Chechen separatists to justify his all out war on them. He leveled Grozny to win. You don't see a pattern? He has a track record.
Snap out of it. Your Vlad Putin fantasies.
Romania needs to follow Poland’s lead and really build up their armed forces. It doesn’t look like Russia will take over Ukraine, but fortunes of war can change. Russia recognizes a Transnistrian Republic, a breakaway region of Moldova, an ethnically similar country to Romania bordering Ukraine. Better to be prepared than not.
Russia is in an extended population decline.
It doesn’t make sense to sacrifice thousands of men on the battlefield, along with millions of tons of hardware.
You sir, get the reward for the most ridiculous shovel full of Bull $hit I have ever seen on this site. I feel so relieved, now knowing since our population is a little over twice that of the Russians it’s ok that our national debt is 100 times larger. You’re a real card!
He knew what they wanted for him to do, which was to host a proxy war within his country, placing his citizens in danger and becoming fodder at the behest of the U.S., N.A.T.O., as well as, the elites at WEF & the U.N.
You cheerleaders need to wake up & really see what is going on here & stop being the useful idiots the elites see you as. You are the faithful who fall for their schemes to fleece you & keep you perpetually struggling to survive.
Yo are not helping the Ukrainians as you so foolishly believe you are doing. Instead you are enriching the really high stake criminals in the world.
In the process you re enslaving all of us. This is why we implore all of you to stop the BS, and to wake up. You even use the very words they use, to paint us as traitors who are supporting Russia. All we really are supporting is that we work towards a peaceful solution, before the war escalates into World War III.
Also, in the process you are weakening the U.S., Europe, N.A.T.O., to the benefit of China.
Keep it up, and you will learn the hard way what we are trying to warn you of. For thanks, you slander us.
None so blind as those who will not see.
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