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To: grey_whiskers

“your doubling down false statement about the what you falsely call the truth.”

What do you claim is not true? Do you claim that Russia is not printing a lot of rubles? That they are not running budget deficits? That they are not cashing out their financial reserves?

Russia is printing money, and burning it in a war, that provides no long term return back for the money.

It is paying a lot of people to work in the Defense industry, so the products can be blown up in Ukraine. A lot of money changes hands, and is then destroyed. It is like breaking a bunch of windows, and then crowing about how good business is for the repairmen. It is not making the country richer - they are borrowing against their future, and then squandering the money. They have become international pariahs, subject to more sanctions than North Korea.

In 1944, Nazi Germany had the fastest growing GDP in Europe, as they printed a huge load of money, and bought Military equipment and supplies with it - but their civilian economy (the real economy) was in a shambles. This is not the first time.

I guess that you just want to believe that Russia is magically exempt from costs of what they are doing, and just put your head in the sand, and call anyone who mentions it a troll. But that does not stop the costs from mounting on Russia. Guns vs. butter is a losing economic policy.

The Soviet Union used to look ten feet tall, before it collapsed, as did the Romanov Russian Empire before its fall. Russia has a history of such dramatic collapses, more frequent than other major countries. They are barreling down the road toward another one, if they can’t pull themselves off the course they are on now.


69 posted on 07/04/2024 7:13:48 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Keep telling yourself that, troll-boi.

And pray the neocons don’t start a nuclear exchange to keep Trump out of the White House.


70 posted on 07/04/2024 7:43:13 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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