The problem with democracy is that it quickly degenerates into idiocracy. Look at the USA and Western Europe - this is some kind of den of homosexuals and drug addicts. Okay, Biden is an idiot senile, but his advisers and assistants are not much better. Western politicians have been shredded and turned into clowns and political prostitutes who engage in populism and lobbying for the interests of large corporations (which is veiled corruption). Don't tell me this is a good role model because it isn't.
Yeah who needs freedom, it's overrated. Give peasants a five year plan and they'll steal everything that's not bolted down, drink it all away, and the TV will tell them that they live better than the rotten West. In the homeland of democracy in ancient Greece, each democrat had several slaves. Modern Western democracy is not far from its progenitor. Winston Churchill once said that: “democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried”. I do not idealize Putin, but you do not idealize Western democracy either, whose welfare is based on the robbery of former colonies. Has Russia managed to manufacture anything more complex than a pair of socks yet (if that)? Seems like you're having trouble with everything from cars to basic food packaging. Russia has eased safety standards for cars produced on its territory, such as dropping the requirement for airbags, after Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine caused a shortage of electronic components and car parts. In a decree signed on May 12, the Russian government announced a list of reduced requirements to certify some types of new vehicles produced in the country.
It includes the production of cars without Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) sensors, airbags or Emergency Locking Retractors (ELR) for seatbelts. The decree is in effect until February 1, 2023.
Izvestia: milk and juice producers warned of a reduction in the range
Manufacturers of dairy products and juice in Russia warned of the possibility of a reduction in the range due to a lack of aseptic packaging. This was reported by the Izvestia newspaper, citing the largest company in this field.
In other news, China doesn't want Russian-registered Boeing/Airbus planes in its airspace (those are the stolen leased planes). So cheap crap from China will also get increasingly difficult to acquire. https://www.rbc.ru/politics/27/05/2022/6290b53a9a7947300bc0fc87Oh and before you say "railroads" - Siemens pulled train maintenance contracts so it's gonna be back to 1960s there too. That's what Russia's "full force" looks like. Well, then Russia will have to liberate, in addition to Donbass, Germany or Japan.  |
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Biden is not governing the US silly boy.
Give him a break, Russia has had maybe ~10 years of not-entirely-authoritarian regime in its entire history. He doesn't know any better. The problem with democracy is that it quickly degenerates into idiocracy. Look at the USA and Western Europe - this is some kind of den of homosexuals and drug addicts. Okay, Biden is an idiot senile, but his advisers and assistants are not much better. Western politicians have been shredded and turned into clowns and political prostitutes who engage in populism and lobbying for the interests of large corporations (which is veiled corruption). Don't tell me this is a good role model because it isn't. |
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There is no winning strategy for Putin. And time works against him - he doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to make new tanks, missiles etc at the rate he's expending them.
Russia has this shoe polish for ten Ukraine in store. Yes, bad things have been said, need to invade them all and make friends kill their children. That'll teach them to not say bad things.
Pyccкий миp in its most delusional form.
When kids misbehave, good parents punish them. And bad parents indulge in childish pranks and raise bastards with a sense of their own impunity. |
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None of what you say disproves anything of what I say. If a Russian decides to sign for service, he must be aware that this is an ugly war, with many resemblances to the trench war of WWI and also know that the moment the US decides that it has been enough there will be nothing between him and a guided bomb. Do you have any doubt that US can stop this war whenever they wish?
I doubt Biden is able to find his own dick in his pants to piss. |
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The operation will not end until this map is restored. Run to Siberia now, lol.
The problem of Ukraine is in the small scale of ambitions. Your wettest fantasies don't even extend to the Urals, and Russia thinks in categories from Lisbon to Sakhalin. You chose an opponent from a different weight class, bunny. Russia is being exposed as weak militarily. It still has a stockpile of nukes, but is vulnerable to invasion/attack.
Does anyone in the world feel the strength to attack weak defenseless Russia? I don't see a line of applicants. All Russophobes have fled to the corners and are barking at Russia from a safe distance, only Ukraine is taking the rap for everyone. |
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Russia is not a winner of this war, no matter the military outcome.
I don't understand, can you explain what you mean? Remember back when Russia invaded all of Ukraine and tried to "decapitate the government"? Remember how everyone, including Western media and most or all posters in this thread, including myself thought it would not take long for Russia to accomplish their objectives? Remember how, after failing to take the capital quickly, they spent weeks trying to encircle Kyiv? Remember how you thought they were intentionally not completely surrounding it to allow civilians to leave and "all who remained and did not lay down their weapons would be destroyed" and "it would be foolish to think otherwise"? Remember how you were sure there would be a parade in Russian controlled Kyiv on victory day? Remember how during all of this, Putin made a new law making it illegal to even call the war a war, because that would imply Ukraine posed some sort of threat to Russian soldiers? Remember what happened after all that? How Russia had to retreat, the flag ship of the Russian Navy was sunk, thousands and thousands of Russian soldiers were killed, and even Russian bloggers imbedded with the military that normally relay the State approved propaganda began criticizing the stupid decisions being made by those in charge? I think that's what he means. I still do not understand. Any good winning strategy must be flexible so as not to depend on any particular tactical setback. Putin certainly has a very good, flexible and winning strategy in Ukraine. Even if events do not develop according to the scenario that you yourself have come up with, and does not fit into the time frame that you have set for yourself. I have already said above and I will repeat now - time works for Russia. Russia can well afford to advance slowly, grinding Ukrainian reinforcements approaching the front with artillery from a safe distance and destroying military equipment supplies from the West. Russia may well allow even to stop the advance completely and spend the winter to look at developments on the economic front - how Europe will react to the shortage of gas and food. A special operation is not a sprint, but a marathon. We're in the second phase of the operation now, and there could be a dozen of them. There is a high probability that the operation will not end in Ukraine and Russia will also have to demilitarize and denazify the Baltic States, Finland and Poland - their rhetoric towards Russia has been very aggressive lately. |
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Where did I say Russians or the people of Russia? This is Adolf Putin and the bunch of Psychos that conform his government and the army, not the Russians as such. You are perfectly aware that what I say is true. Moscow never wanted any development in the eastern regions. They get plenty of cheap labour and army cannon fodder and giving these people an opportunity would shift the power balance from Moscow. What did you think? That the rest of the world does not know about how Adolf Putin manages Russia?
Not only I am not Russophobe, but I seem to be the only one here who is trying to let young people in Russia what happens when they sign or are forced to sign into Adolf Piutin's army - They are sent to be grinded and burned. If any of their friends and relatives read this, at least they cannot say they did not know.
Your repeated repetition of the same thought becomes tiresome. It seems this is from the Goebbels manual, that if you lie a hundred times, then the lie becomes the truth? There is no mobilization in Russia, professional soldiers are involved in the operation. There have already been four waves of mobilization in Ukraine, and now the fifth one is underway. Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 have a difficult choice - to die, go to jail or be captured by Russians. Russian men have a simpler choice, you can continue to live as you lived before. |
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Russia is not a winner of this war, no matter the military outcome.
I don't understand, can you explain what you mean? |
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I recommend focusing less on the reports of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to avoid painful disappointments. By the way, quite recently you, choking with joy, talked about the American M777 howitzers, and so - they could not withstand the collision with reality and were not combat-ready. The Ukrainians never really managed to shoot accurately from them. |
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PS. By the way, a question! It turns out in Russia the genocide of all peoples, except for the "Russians" so to speak? The state language in Russia is Russian? Where is Tatar, where is Hebrew, where is Ukrainian and Udmurt? Pure water genocide is obtained!
Perhaps you will be very surprised, but in Russia 37 languages have the status of a state language. You can give them whatever status, Adolf Putin is a Russian ethnic supremacist that despises all the minorities, which are for the main part excluded from the government ranks and decisions. Not only that, the lowest ranks of troops and the ones that are sent to die in suicide missions are mostly from the eastern regions. The people from Moscow and St Petersburg are underrepresented in the lower ranks and certainly underrepresented in the death toll. Also, the conscription service in Russia excludes precisely the people who have best contacts and more money by simply not recruiting people who can afford to go to University. Those who have the right contacts can join the officer's schools and -believe it or not - are excluded from going directly to conflicts as they are "training". This is how madness inside the madness works in Putin's Reich Tzardom. Already it seems you don’t know what to come up with in your attacks of chronic Russophobia. For some reason, tattoos with a swastika are on the Ukrainian Nazis, and the main villain here is still Putin. |
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From June 1, the Government, as part of supporting the population, increased pensions for pensioners by 10% (for the second time in a year, the previous increase was in January) and the minimum wage by 10%, on which the salaries of state employees directly depend.
Well.. as a result of sanctions and embargoes, crude oil is now trading in the $120 per barrel range. And the Russian treasury is getting tens of billions of USD in forex inflows every month. So the government has some room for maneuvering, despite a large part of the reserves being frozen by the west. IMO, they should take care of the massive decrease in the population first. A decade ago, the government launched certain incentives (maternity capital) for parents who are having their second or third child. I am not hearing about this nowadays. The family support program continues to operate and even expanded, now maternity capital in Russia is also provided for the birth of the first child. |
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Inflation was brought under control and the ruble was deflated last week. Therefore, the Central Bank of Russia took measures to weaken the ruble - lowered the key rate, and also reduced the limit on the mandatory sale of exporters of foreign exchange earnings from 80 to 50 percent and increased the sale period from 90 to 120 days.
Prices in stores rose from the initial sanctions shock, then stabilized and even crept down. Gasoline in Russia has fallen in price since the beginning of the operation, the prices for utilities have not changed. There are no empty shelves in grocery stores. In general, hunger riots do not threaten Russia.
Sounds nice. And probably in theory or in other countries it works like that. Then a couple more questions. - why the prices for products do not decrease, and moreover - grow. For example, the network "Mir Vkusa", in Moscow, I know for sure that revaluation is carried out almost daily, and all products are only getting more expensive. This is just a real market example. These are the most expensive grocery stores in Moscow, and maybe in all of Europe, with a focus on uncompromising quality of products. - weakening of the ruble, beneficial to exporters (such as Rosneft and other resource sellers), but categorically not beneficial to importers and the population. Like it or not, but in almost everything, from wrapping materials to flavorings, from consumables to assemblies, Russia imports, which means that everything will be reflected in the cost of mass products. Reflected in the form of price increases. It turns out that they gave preference to Rosneft, shifting the entire burden on their already impoverished population? And there is still a decrease in the volume of hydrocarbon supplies and a decrease in income from these transactions ....
That's right, a weak ruble is beneficial for exporters and disadvantageous for importers. Now the Central Bank of Russia is looking for a comfortable equilibrium rate that suits both. At the same time, he does not have at his disposal the usual levers for managing the exchange rate of the ruble in the form of direct interventions in the foreign exchange market, since his foreign exchange reserves are blocked by sanctions. But it seems that other methods, such as changing the key rate, changing the conditions for the mandatory sale of foreign currency for exporters, and verbal interventions by the head of the Central Bank also work well. From June 1, the Government, as part of supporting the population, increased pensions for pensioners by 10% (for the second time in a year, the previous increase was in January) and the minimum wage by 10%, on which the salaries of state employees directly depend. |
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Russian, NATO and US would not be stronger after this war. The world economy was just recovering from Covid-19 pandemic before this invasion began. IMF recently cut growth projection in advanced economies by 1 percentage point to 3 percent in 2022 from January projections. While Russian economy is predicted to shrink by 8.5 percent, and in Ukraine by 35 percent.The point is that this war is very expensive to both parties and the sanctions is also affecting the economies of the two warring groups. Insinuating that that NATO and US will stop financing or supporting Ukraine because of lack of funds is far from the truth. Aids to Ukraine is a combined or coordinated efforts of countries with the most vibrant economies and you cannot compare these economies with a single Russian economy. In fact Russia would soon retreat because they never believed that the war will last this long and their budget for this war is really depreciating. Reconstruction would also affect both parties. Russia would have to rebuild some regions that will be ceded to it (this is one of the price to pay for peace) and NATO and her allies would spend so much on rebuilding Ukraine because that is one of the ways of encouraging refugees to return. China would be the next dominant super power because it is building its economy while others are spending in Ukraine. You don't understand anything about economics. Armed conflict on foreign territory is the best way to solve economic problems. Russia earns a billion euros a day on the export of hydrocarbons to Europe and loads its military-industrial complex with work, disposing of old weapons and ammunition with an expiring date in Ukraine for free. It's better than drug dealing. Then Russia will once again earn on this, restoring what it destroyed in Ukraine. The ideal business, ask the US - they regularly do this, fomenting armed conflicts around the world. |
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Unfortunately Russia will remain as a threat for the global peace and security.
Are you seriously? The West has robbed Russia by freezing its money and is now trying to find justifications to confiscate it. As Otto von Bismarck said: Do not expect that once you take advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russians always come for their money. And when they come, do not rely on the Jesuit agreements you have signed that allegedly justify you. They are not worth the paper they are written on. Therefore, it is worth either playing fair with the Russians, or not playing at all. You stepped on the wrong guy's foot, you'll have to pay for it. I'm Russian, I'll take all your Nutella and make you eat shit. This is my plan, try to stop me if you can. |
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Russia don't has much in its hand. Europe has came together to despise Russia for its war in Ukraine. Russian economy is being systematically choked by US and allies. Most of the European nations are only trying to just supporting US, even if they are facing short term challenge. By ensuring high cost of petroleum This in one way is also boosting the electric vehicles and will benefit US and europe more in future.
LOL.. dude, just look around. During the last 3 months, we have seen Russia seizing an area greater than 100,000 sq.kms, receiving around $60 billion in profits for their hydrocarbon exports and the Russian Ruble strengthening to levels not seen since 2014. And look at the other side. European citizens are reeling from all time high utility bills, large number of heavy industries are closing down and on top of that most of these nations need to take care of millions of refugees from Ukraine. And more importantly, emerging superpowers such as China and India refused to shun Russia, even under extreme pressure from the West. The hidden thing here is that, Russia has just one export : energy. If Europe decided that they are no longer working with Russia, even in the face of economic collapse, then it means that Russia will eventually grow smaller and smaller and will have money problems for sure. Plus, there has been so many Russian oligarchs who lost their assets and money at the same time as well, all taken from them. This doesn't mean that economic data shows Russia doing badly right now, you are %100 right that they are doing much better after the war, but this is mainly due to everyone slowly getting away hence making the price increase and why making Russia a short term profit. Do you really see nations getting any energy from Russia 10 years later? Of course not, then what will Russia sell to keep this economy? Cheap energy is the key to economic growth. If Europe does not need economic growth, China has already declared its readiness to buy all the released energy volumes for its economic growth. China has serious energy problems amid rapidly depleting coal reserves (think of the bitcoin mining ban and rolling blackouts). Europe seems to have serious energy problems now. |
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Red Estuary is taken. It looks like the eastern front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass has crumbled.
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PS. By the way, a question! It turns out in Russia the genocide of all peoples, except for the "Russians" so to speak? The state language in Russia is Russian? Where is Tatar, where is Hebrew, where is Ukrainian and Udmurt? Pure water genocide is obtained!
Perhaps you will be very surprised, but in Russia 37 languages have the status of a state language. |
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You have listed the number of terminals in Europe, but how many are in Germany? At the moment - zero. Do not accuse me of lying if you are not attentive and do not own the subject of the conversation. ps The Central Bank of Russia today lowered the key rate by 3%, the ruble reacted with a noticeable decline. It is quite easy to weaken your currency, the reverse process is noticeably more painful and difficult. 0. If we talk specifically about Germany - yes, I agree, at the moment there are no terminals for receiving LNG in Germany, I apologize for the inaccuracy of the answer! But the lack of LNG terminals, namely in Germany, does not create a global problem for Germany related to obtaining LNG. Why ? Because: 1. LNG can be obtained from any neighbor, terminal owner that regasifies LNG. 2. Germany signed contracts for chartering four floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in partnership with utility companies RWE and Uniper. And this replaces the missing terminals at the first stage. 3. Germany, in partnership with the Dutch Nederlandse Gasunie NV and RWE AG, will build a terminals for liquefied natural gas to refuse Russian imports. As a result, 4 LNG terminals will be built. They will be located in the cities of Wilhelmshaven, Stade, Hamburg, Brunsbuttel. Those. Rented floating terminals will be used NOW, in the near future, for systemic diversification of gas supplies - 4 LNG terminals will be built. Moreover, two of them should go into operation in the coming winter - at the end of 2022 or at the very beginning of 2023. AND ? Where is the problem ?  The problem is the huge volumes of gas that Germany needs. This problem breaks down into several parts: the leased terminals are small, there is not enough free gas on the market to meet German demands, and there are not enough free tankers in the world to bring liquefied gas to Germany. And about the games with the ruble, or rather its stability - that is. "strengthening the ruble" - is it just manipulation? Or how to call a currency in which stability and strength is replaced by weakness in 1 day and by order? The strengthening of the ruble was caused by Europe's purchases of gas through Gazprombank with the conversion of euros into rubles on the Moscow Currency Exchange under Putin's scheme. And another question about the ruble - if it has strengthened so much, why did inflationary processes, even for the simplest products, of domestic production, rise sharply in price? And even after the strengthening of the ruble, mathematically almost 2 times (in relation to the peak), prices continued to grow, in rubles? For local products? Inflation was brought under control and the ruble was deflated last week. Therefore, the Central Bank of Russia took measures to weaken the ruble - lowered the key rate, and also reduced the limit on the mandatory sale of exporters of foreign exchange earnings from 80 to 50 percent and increased the sale period from 90 to 120 days. Prices in stores rose from the initial sanctions shock, then stabilized and even crept down. Gasoline in Russia has fallen in price since the beginning of the operation, the prices for utilities have not changed. There are no empty shelves in grocery stores. In general, hunger riots do not threaten Russia. |
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine since February has somehow resurrected some buried grudges between some countries as news circulating the world has it of China's plan to infiltrate Taiwanese military defense with the hopes of claiming it. Taiwan, a small island nation in coast of mainland China in East Asia, sharing borders with the Philippines and Japan, on a normal day are a city of lawyers, software engineers and blacksmiths, but then, the imminent threat of China to invade their city has had them changing course; men are now engaging in military training to enable them prepare for a possible attack by China. Has Russia succeded in encouraging other nations who have high military might to feel they can up and invade another sovereign nation whenever the urge arises?? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34729538I think a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan is very likely in a 2-3 year time frame, five years at the most. It is extremely unlikely that China will decide on this before the end of the Russian special operation, so now Taiwan can sleep peacefully. It is extremely unlikely that the United States will interfere directly in what is happening, because then they will have to deal not only with China, but also with Russia. The recent joint air patrol of Russian and Chinese strategic bombers in the South Asian region sent a clear message to the US and NATO. In Taiwan, China will do everything itself, but Russia will cover it. |
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