Posted on 07/17/2022 3:00:06 PM PDT by AndyJackson
Is Russia worthy of being called a “great power,” let alone a superpower? Not to kick someone when they’re down, but it’s difficult to argue that Vladimir Putin represents anything other than a middling regional state, albeit the largest country in the world and one with nuclear weapons.
In the first place, until the Russo-Ukraine War, consider how irrelevant and inconsequential Russia was. For the most part, regarding international relations, Russia scarcely mattered. Moscow has nary a footprint in the Middle East (mainly Syria) and is nonexistent in Asia and other parts of the world. Russia has lost influence in India, Venezuela, Africa, and even North Korea.
Russia is barely a developed country. The most generous economic data gave the country a GDP of around $4.4 trillion in 2020, putting it behind Canada and South Korea, and barely ahead of Brazil and Mexico....
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Not what my friends who live in Russia say
Our state with the lowest GDP per person is Mississippi at $35,015 per person.
Russia GDP per person is $10,220.
It took her maybe a minute and a half at most to copy and paste that, and it actually shows the difference between the two worldviews - globohomo BS and Great Patriotic Russian cannon fodder.
Do a view page source, grab the html and paste it into a reply.
I do it all the time.
They've made the Youtube transcription into a pain for that [you can't lose the timestamp any more], but she used a tertiary site.
Kind of a cool lyrics site. I'll have to examine it further.
Looks like we haven’t gotten the actual story here yet.
Rybar
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Balkan gossip girl
🇬🇷🇬🇸🇺🇦I decided to look at the night to make inquiries about the arms company “Valir” , which transported some dangerous cargo from Serbia to Bangladesh on a Ukrainian plane that crashed in Greece .
The firm is young, but already acts as a partner of many large defense enterprises. For the implementation of foreign economic activity in the field of weapons and military equipment, it was registered by the Ministry of Trade in December 2019. Revenue for the pandemic 2020 is one and a half billion, for last year - as much as six and a half. An elite office in Belgrade, with a very small staff of about ten people.
Formally, the owner and director is Mladen Bogdanovich- today he took the rap to the media in an attempt to explain what and where the Ukrainian transport was taking. According to him, the export of ammunition intended for training of the Bangladeshi army was agreed in 2021. More Mr. Bogdanovich did not particularly light up anywhere, and almost nothing is known about him. At the same time, the Montenegrin media competently declare that Bogdanovich is only the formal owner of Valir doo, and the Balkan arms baron Slobodan Tesic is actually behind the company . Tešić is one of the largest arms dealers and has been under US sanctions for several years now, along with related businesses. For example, Vectura Trans, through which Serbian weapons ended up in Nagorno-Karabakh in the summer of 2020 and almost cost the Serbs partnership with Azerbaijan. What is interesting: Valir was registered just fifteen days after the Americans tightened sanctions against Tesic. And the contribution to the authorized capital amounted to only 100 Serbian dinars. @balkanossiper — setting global trends since June 28, 1914
Layers within layers.
The irony of the German Left pursuing the current hostilities is staggering...
[Which is why the EuroWeenies are deucing their drawers like a Biden over what’s going to happen on July 22nd, this Friday.]
Any more info, please? Thanks
“The irony of the German Left pursuing the current hostilities is staggering...”
Voila...Complacent Germans....2 + 2 = 5
Though do remember they were okay with all our “adventures” so long as they only had to “hold our coat”...:-) Right now they are holding the Ukrainians’coats...
Should this escalate and actually ever involve them I think we can count on the loudest rendition of “all we are saying is give peace a chance...:-)
I hate it when people do that "cryptic post" BS, and now I'm guilty of it.
This is also involved with the Siemens pump that Canada was holding on to "because sanctions".
Siemens Germany sent a pipeline pump to its Canada subsidiary for repair, and Turdeau's minions decided to hold on to the pump with a "sanctions" excuse.
This caused the Germans to get hot and bothered, because their gas flow was on the line.
Russia reduced the Nordstream 1 flow to 40 percent when Canada did its stupid pet trick a week ago or so, then Canada played games with the pump.
Oy
Sounds like fun coming up in Europe
Yes Russia is a great power. The United States is quickly loosing that distinction.
I remember reading early in the stalled move on Kiev, that the wheeled vehicles were breaking down because they were using Chinese tires that did not function well in the conditions in Ukraine. Apparently it was a trade of Russian fuel for Chinese tires. Seems Russia got the short end of the deal.
No but they have nukes and they are willing to use them. Their citizens do try to protest but they are ruthlessly crushed. Maybe Europeans can stop being woke and realize that they have Russians and Islamofascists living in their neighborhood. Or they can remain woke and get conquered. Their choice.
Pax Americana started after WW2. For several decades CEOs were earning from 20 to 40 times the pay of their lowest level workers. Then around 1980 a greed mentality seemed to inflict the business world and in the next decade CEO compensation jumped to levels 200 to 1000 times the wages of their low level employees. Complaints about the Greed mentality of corporate heads began to be heard. To support these outrageous wages, corporate heads sent businesses overseas so their extravegant pay could be paid on the backs of third world workers while keeping their stockholders happy.
Manufacturing in the US subsided, and salaries for workers that once were adequate failed to increase remotely like that of top corporate heads. Finally the bubble burst in 2008. I remember when the Goldman Sachs stockholders revolted at their Spring 2008 meeting and 43% voted for a proposal to have a stockholders advisory on executive compensation. The CEO, COO, and CFO were all earning more than $65million. While the proposal did not win, 43% was enough to scare management, and the next year the CEO was only paid $25million. Around the same period, my GE stock dropped from over $50 a share to $5 a share. When I read my annual report informaation I was very angry to see that in that same period 11 top employees were earning above $10million.
More recently we have seen how one drug company helped prevent our nation from learning how to use low cost and safe medicines and supplements to prevent Covid deaths. This was to keep people from learning how to help themselves, so they would be desperate to use the new experimental vaccines that the government would pay for to save their lives. How many hundreds of thousands of people died because of this corporate greed practiced between the time effective early treatments were proposed and vaccines were finally available?
This is indeed the arrogance that has been our undoing, creating much disturbance among the people of our country. The standard move is to blame it on Democrats or on Republicans, whan it is corporate greed and failure to understand this that is to blame.
“What U.S. states have higher GDP than Russia?
California has the highest gross domestic product among U.S. states. Vermont has the lowest. Russia’s GDP would rank fourth, behind New York and ahead of Florida.”
Thanks for info :)
“MediaKiller
We decided to make a small selection of “cutting” humanitarian aid and weapons in Ukraine over the past couple of months. As a conclusion, let’s say right away: they are stealing and selling Western aid throughout Ukraine, and the military, officials, as well as people proudly bearing the title of “volunteers” are involved in this.”
Source?
“They aren’t Communists anymore. Have you been in a modern Russian supermarket? Magnet and Tabris hold their own to any in the USA. Metro is great for Costco-style wholesale.”
Found in all of Russia?? or just Moscow ??
It was a feint to pin Uke forces around Kiev while the Russians shaped the Donbass to give the Ukes stuck in their trenches and fortifications because of the genius for American planning the mother of all artillery poundings -
It’s a lot of verbiage for “we bombed a concert hall”.
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