Now, Zelensky is essentially demanding $750 billion for reconstruction of war-torn areas of Ukraine, that are held by the Russians. LOL.
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He'll probably get it. Ukraine, as an artifact of being an 8+ year playground of ZioNazi corruption, has a loooooot of dirt on a loooooot of globalist types. Some truly grotesque stuff too as these people have bizarre tastes that most normal people cannot even imagine. Like you say also, at this stage in the monetary system implosion any excuse to print up and hand out trillions of dollars is welcome and necessary. You see the difference: Zelensky is evaluating the cost of reconstruction and asking for aid (demanding? seriously?) Adolf Putin is simply grabbing the money from their citizens by banning them from transferring it abroad. I wonder what some of the people posting here would feel if their government decided to impose such a measure. But it is ok because it is happening for the citizens of the RF... no problem. Well, gold is not accepted now either. Even if you "win", you loose. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/27/business/russian-gold-imports-ban.htmlDon't be silly, the limit on transfers from Russia is now one million dollars per day. ps An interesting article about how the Ukrainians sold two French Caesar howitzers to the Russians.  |
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In the meantime, after the capture of Lisichansk and the complete liberation of the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic, Putin sent the Center group for rest and planned rotation. Groupings West and East continue to conduct a special operation in Ukraine.
Translation: Adolf Putin sent the "center" group to their deaths (thanks for the fertiliser) and now has to bring on another truckload of cannon fodder including signing a law admitting 60 year old (I wonder if they know that they cannot stop the fight every hour to take a leek) and compulsory conscripts from the Donbas (hey officers, do not turn your back). . And Germany is already close to hysteria, a week later the Nord Stream is closed for scheduled repairs, and the Siemens turbine has not been returned. Scholz hit Lithuania in the nose for the blockade of Kaliningrad and transit will have to be resumed. Lithuania is offended. |
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Realistically there's no point changing now, they've already got all the data they needed  .
Most of these systems work of recommender algorithms. It's like how you can have the same thought of other people at the same time and how the likelihood of your thoughts being the same for a specific point in time is proportional to how well you know that person. Recommender algorithms essentially come up with an angle based on a lot of data about you and then try to work out who else has a similar angle and pushes content they like towards you (it's a lot more accurate and picks up data from more people when there's millions or billions of users). the use of the word angle is because a sizable amount of trigonometry goes into producing these algorithms. I have disabled recommendation systems wherever possible. The good news is that this is possible everywhere, although recommendation systems are usually enabled by default. The bad news is that your news feed will become less interesting after this, and the ads will become less attractive. The good news is you'll waste less time and buy less junk you don't need. You have no chance of defeating self-learning artificial intelligence while sitting at home in a comfortable chair in a bathrobe and house slippers. But you can prevent it from learning from your behavior on the network, and this is not even too difficult. It’s strange for me to talk about this on the Bitcointalk forum, but it seems that a new generation of cryptocurrency users has grown up who don’t know about cypherpunks. |
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In the meantime, after the capture of Lisichansk and the complete liberation of the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic, Putin sent the Center group for rest and planned rotation. Groupings West and East continue to conduct a special operation in Ukraine.
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The increase in the price of fuel in dollars and euros is due to the fall in the value of the dollar and euro against the ruble. If you scroll down a little on your link, there is a graph of the price of fuel in rubles and it has not changed much over the year (AI-95 + 1.27%, Diesel + 9.3%, LPG -19.11%). |
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Russians used their superb science to resurrect dead Snake Island defenders...can you point at better than that Ukrainian
gesture? Ukrainians just want to kill without warning instead
Do you want a fresh Russian joke? Very near future. Paris. Russian tanks on the Champs Elysees. Tankers are sitting in the chantan cafe, drinking freshly brewed coffee, eating croissants, and one of the tankers says:
- Oh, it's a pity that we still lost the information war... |
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You are lying
No, you are constantly carrying the slogans of the Kremlin propaganda. And that's a total lie  You spent 24 hours to find an article that says something completely different, and you are trying to present it as proof that you are right No need to twist the situation and manipulate the information again. Once again, I repeat for you - China (for sure) and very likely India (I can’t check, but I’m sure that it did the same in this situation), they buy out EXTRA oil at a dumping price, which now does not enter the EU in the same volumes. Chinese brokers are voicing a price of about $40 per barrel. Like it or not, it's a fact! Listen less to the Kremlin's propaganda, and spread it less - this is information garbage! This is not true, and in the link I provided above there is a price chart for Russian Ural oil. Your unsubstantiated statements are groundless, take the trouble to provide a prooflink or stop spreading deliberately false information on the forum. |
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This is not true, stop spreading false information. The real price of Russia's oil contracts with India and China is unknown to you, because this is classified commercial information. According to rumors from sources close to reliable, it is known that the maximum discount for Ural oil was 30-35% in the spring and the average transaction price as of April 1 was $80.5 per barrel (Russia's budget for 2022 was drawn up at the rate of $44.2 per barrel).
Here in India, the oil companies are reporting that they are paying somewhere around $70 to $80 per barrel for Russian crude oil, which would indicate a discount of $30 to $40 per barrel. But a part of this discount is eaten up by higher freight charges and insurance cost. What is attractive here is the fact that payments are being made either in Indian Rupee or the UAE Dirham, which is convenient for India. Even after all the additional expenses, the Indian refineries are in net profit of at least $20 per barrel, which translates to tens of millions of USD per shipment from Russia. Agree with you completely! You are telling the truth, everything is correct. But this is contracted oil under old contracts. Now, in connection with the refusal of the EU to buy oil in a terrorist country, these volumes are bought out by some countries at a price of about $40 per barrel. And this is also true! So don't worry, everything in your data is correct. And soon India will improve its situation even more, you will buy oil from the Kremlin for 10 dollars, they will still have nowhere to put it, and nowhere to store it! Well, the status of Russia as a terrorist country and a pariah country will give you unique discounts . |
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Sanctions need time to bite, everyone was saying how sanctions don't work as Iran is doing...great  All objective analyzes say that Russia will start feeling sanctions only in 2-3 years, provided that those who imposed them actually implement them. But what few mention is that Russia and its rulers have never cared too much for the common people, and are willing to sacrifice human lives and the standard of their people as long as it takes to achieve their goals that are now more than clear, creating great Russia within its historical borders. Every day I hear about war crimes happening in Ukraine unseen since World War II (and crimes are undoubtedly happening), but everyone has obviously forgotten what happened in the Balkans 30 years ago when Serbs committed far more horrific war crimes in Vukovar and Srebrenica (and hundreds of other places) for which they were rewarded today with accession negotiations for EU entry. I'm just wondering how long it will take the world to start pretending that nothing happened, 10 years after the war or maybe a few years more?I think Europe will only need one cold enough winter to get all the renewable energy shit out of its head. |
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The probable reason for this is the wrong status of the shopping center in Google, there was a note that the shopping center is not working.
Russian military using Google maps to carry out missile strikes might be in the top 100 (well, top 1000 for sure) of the most idiotic Kremlin troll scripts As for "not working"... if you look at Google maps right now, Silpo shows as "temporarily closed" but some other stores show as "open", with business hours etc. There is no overall "status" for the mall itself as far as I can tell. So it's an absurd excuse no matter how you look at it. And even Silpo status could have been set after the mall was destroyed, which would make a lot more sense than this excuse. In essence, that is, what to say, except for attempts to insult? Zelensky lied that 1,000 civilians died in the mall. The director of the shopping center showed criminal negligence by clearly instructing employees to ignore the air raid signals. But only the Russians are to blame for everything, who would doubt it. |
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There were two separate missile hits in the area, one to the shopping mall, another to an industrial building about 500 meters away (next to a park). There is no indication the the industrial building had a military purpose but even if it did, there was no ammunition detonation or widespread fire. The mall did not catch fire from the industrial building because there are many undamaged structures between the two locations. Basically everything Russian media said about this attack is false.
I have not studied this episode in detail, I will say a few words from what I know. The missile attack on Kremenchuk is atypical for this operation, for several reasons. Usually such strikes are carried out at night to minimize the risks to the civilian population, this strike was carried out during the day. The probable reason for this is the wrong status of the shopping center in Google, there was a note that the shopping center is not working. The second curious moment - the blow was delivered by old x22 cruise missiles, which are not very high-precision (according to the passport, the spread can reach 500 meters, if you are not lucky to get in different directions of the normal distribution - which apparently happened in practice). Well, the director of the shopping center, of course, is also to blame for the fact that there was no evacuation of people during an air raid signal. It is apparently pointless to talk about the zero effectiveness of the missile defense system against old missiles suitable only for disposal. I think both sides of the conflict should take some lessons from this episode for the future. I'm sorry that civilians suffered, it was not planned. |
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The largest investment institutions in the world have a mandate that uses those ratings and now they will sell all the RF debt and will not buy any more.
How do you imagine it, to whom foreign investors can sell Russian bonds now, who will buy them? With its destructive actions, the West itself robs its investors, preventing them from making a profit that Russia is ready to pay. Russia has all the payments in its hands, the money for the coupons has been transferred, both in dollars and in rubles with the possibility of exchanging them for dollars. Further it is the problem of the West how to deal with their investors who want to return their money. Russia has fulfilled its obligations in full. All this hysteria around a technical default was created with one goal - to find at least some legal hooks for withdrawing the frozen funds of the Central Bank of Russia. Well, good luck. |
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https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61929926This is a technical default on the debt, although is not the common case - not having enough to pay - apparently is due to sanctions. The Russian Federation does have 100 million to pay, is that the government is unable to get them to the creditors, they argue. The RF debt has becoming de facto toxic, even if its central bank has enough to pay, it may explode in the hands of whoever owns it or trades it. It is irrelevant if the debt can actually be honoured, only the vultures and bottom feeders will now lend to the RF. And now.. let the Kremlin trolls break free.. There is no default, not even a technical one. The statements of the rating agencies in this case are an empty phrase, for a default a quorum of investors is needed who could not get their money, but there is none. |
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Russia has a lot of resources to make European countries helpless, the dependence of many European countries in Russian oil and gas makes Russia not afraid to invasion of Ukraine and maybe other countries will be the same as Ukraine, Russia understands that to build a gas pipeline requires a cost and time is needed and time Long time, of course it is interesting if we continue to follow the development of the conflict involving Russia.
You have heard enough of the fantastic propaganda of the Russian media and politicians. The reality is much simpler and more trivial. Russia has only gas, oil and timber. Through the sale of which they live. Everything else is a backward misunderstanding. Oil is now bought from them for a penny by China and India. The real price of transactions is about $40 per barrel. The forest is also cut down by thousands of hectares every day in China. So far, only gas remains, which is somehow still sold in the EU. But soon this stream of income will also be reduced. At the same time, there are still a lot of countries where oil and gas are produced. They are ready to supply it to the EU. Of course, some work is needed to change the supply scheme and a little finishing of the infrastructure... At the same time, those countries suffer from the economic terror of Russia, in the EU... where the rulers sold their countries and the interests of countries, for handouts from the Kremlin! Such is the fate of the villain) But after changing gas suppliers, Russia will be left with its own gas, but without everything else - currency, technology, quality goods and equipment. By the way, they have nowhere to put their gas - they will have to stop production ... And all because in Russia almost all oil and gas revenues go to thieves and crooks like Putin and his friends. But for the development of the country they have long "put a big device" (I'm sure you understand which one. ). As they say - forward to the stone age This is not true, stop spreading false information. The real price of Russia's oil contracts with India and China is unknown to you, because this is classified commercial information. According to rumors from sources close to reliable, it is known that the maximum discount for Ural oil was 30-35% in the spring and the average transaction price as of April 1 was $80.5 per barrel (Russia's budget for 2022 was drawn up at the rate of $44.2 per barrel). |
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Russia is the world's third-largest oil producer, behind the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, and the world's largest exporter of crude to global markets. It is also a major producer and exporter of natural gas. So, it is impossible if EU prospect a Russian gas ban.
If EU not able to import gas from Russia, then the country stops, the economy stops, cannot heat the houses, cannot run the economy.
When they impose sanctions, then they have to make sure that those sanctions are hurting more those against whom they impose the sanctions than themselves.
I'll just leave this real picture of gas and oil production, and now you try to prove your statement World ranking of countries by oil reserves. Why stocks? Because this will show how small the share of Russia in its monopoly among the European corrupt countries dependent on Russia, financing the center of world terrorism in the Kremlin...! And the list objectively shows who will easily replace the supply of Russian oil ... So the rating is: 1 Venezuela 302,300,000,000 2 Saudi Arabia 266,200,000,000 3 Canada 170,500,000,000 4 Iran 157,200,000,000 5 Iraq 148,800,000,000 6 Kuwait 101,500,000,000 7 UAE 97,800,000,000 8 Russia 80,000,000,000 9 Libya 48,360,000,000 10 Nigeria 37,450,000,000 ... and where, Russia, on which the whole world depends on oil? )))) Say it's funny, does reality look against the background of propaganda? You are engaged in the substitution of concepts, first talking about the actual production of oil and gas, and then suddenly jumping to the rating of explored oil reserves. This is a cheap trick. In terms of real production, Russia is in the top 3 along with the United States and Saudi Arabia. |
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For now it seems the sanctions on Russia is having more negative impact on Europe and US than the sanctioned nation.
"For now" is the key word here. Oil and gas prices will drop when countries will start producing more of them. And Russia can't simply sell all the oil and especially gas that it was selling to Europe - there's no infrastructure or demand among its friends for that. Combine this with the discounts they have to make to make their oil more attractive, and you'll see that in next 2-3 years Russian fossil fuels revenue is going to drop. And that would be very painful, because that's 50-60% of Russian budget, as they don't have any significant high technology or service exports. Europe does not have the opportunity to wait 2-3 years for the sanctions to take effect on Russia, because it will not be able to winter the coming winter without energy supplies from Russia. |
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Your assertion about what you can "the eastern front" is just wishful thinking. A couple of villages do not make for "a front", but glad to see that you are re-calibrating your expectations. I do agree that the west should be throwing much more help to deter Adolf Putin from continuing the war.
The degree of your detachment from reality impresses me. It is unlikely that we are talking about a couple of villages, Zolotoe is taken, Gorskoye is being cleared, the flag of the LPR is over the administration building in Gorskoye (the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not even last two days in the boiler, heavy losses and many prisoners). Severodonetsk has been cleared completely, the fighting is now going on in Lisichansk. After the capture and cleansing of Lisichansk, the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic will be 100% completely liberated. Again, congrats for moderating your expectations. From "we are going to change the government, take Ukraine, remove their military" to... Great news my friends! Our army of psychos has managed to flatten yet another settlement! Where is the RF picture flag in Severo? Are you trying to jump over a city?Deteached for reality.. that is so funny. "the army of Ukraine did not last two days"... it has taken a month for the RF psychos to move the front a few kilometres at the cost of many RF soldiers becoming worm beds and an increased pressure from EU and increased support from the US (have you not heard? another 400M in aid). Your "glorious" army is "gloriously" slow my "deteached" friend and each day your Tyrant Adolf Putin has to foot another bill, Ukraine gets more and more aid and the RF will get more and more sanctions. You cannot afford this war at this pace. BTW, with a recession coming soon in most of the world and lower crude prices, the Ministry of Kleptocracy and Creative Financing will eventually have to explain to Adolf Putin that he may not have enough to pay for his deplorable attempt of being a page in history books. Severodonetsk was taken more than a week ago, with the exception of the Azot plant. The Russian flag at the entrance to Severodonetsk was installed on June 16. |
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I would not like to pedal the question of Lithuania in this topic, but I will still add a few words. Lithuania is the little rabid dog of the United States, which barks loudly in any direction the boss from Washington points to. Last year, Lithuania managed to quarrel with China, suddenly preoccupied with the issue of oppression of the Uyghurs and was about to open a representative office in Taiwan. Now she is trying to spoil Russia by interpreting the EU sanctions in her own way. Obviously, this is a provocation with the aim of causing an excessively harsh response from Russia. Well, at the level of verbal interventions, the provocation was a success. There are no real actions yet, we'll see. |
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