For me personally, it’s enough for now that this year in Kyiv, for the first time in many years, there was no traditional torchlight procession in honor of Bandera. It is still unreasonable for Russia to take Kyiv now - together with Kyiv, it will have to take all the huge debts of Ukraine, which it has managed to do since the beginning of the special operation.

Wagner is volunteers mainly from among the former prisoners. I don’t care what they believe and whether they believe in anything at all, I am of the opinion that the exchange of Wagnerites for Ukrainians, which has been taking place in the Artyomovsk direction for several months during fierce street battles, is beneficial for Russia and unprofitable for Ukraine.

As I understand it, a cauldron was formed there for at least 400 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who heroically continue to resist without much chance of success after losing control over the dominant height. Good job Wagner.

It seems that Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny spoke well of Gerasimov, saying that "read all his books."

Debt can hardly be considered good if the debt burden exceeds 100% of GDP. Such debt is difficult to service, especially during periods of rising key rates, and almost impossible to repay. Almost all of the world's top 10 countries, except for Russia, have a debt burden exceeding 100% of GDP, and almost all of the top 10 countries have a catastrophic trade deficit. The largest economies in the world are giants with feet of clay. "Shaky" as you said is a good word.

In Russia, the service sector is underdeveloped, which in developed countries gives up to 70-80% of GDP. Also in Russia, the habit of living in debt is less developed, which also negatively affects the absolute figures of GDP, but is favorable for a healthier structure of the economy.

Your information is out of date. According to recent data, in terms of GDP, Russia rose from 11th to 9th place in the world over the year, overtaking Italy. But data on Ukraine is difficult to find, according to various estimates, its GDP fell from 30 to 37% over the year, and in terms of GDP, Ukraine now neighbors Ethiopia and Sri Lanka.

And all this is unimportant, because it is not the size that matters, but the structure of GDP. In the GDP of developed countries, a large volume is occupied by services and derivative financial instruments. Therefore, it is incorrect to directly compare the GDP of Italy and Russia, although they are close in size. Just as it is incorrect to directly compare the GDP of Ukraine and Sri Lanka, although they are also close in size.

Now it’s like the global financial crisis, poke your finger at any country and see how well things are going, everywhere you will find problems similar or even worse than in Russia - and this is without any sanctions. It's just the nature of the moment.
Medvedev was definitely wrong in at least one point of his forecast - having predicted the possible collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system, he did not take into account that it collapsed back in 1976.

Let's take a sober look at things and call them by their proper names. How many people actually froze to death or died of thirst from interruptions in the supply of heat, water and electricity due to Russian missile attacks on the power grid? One hundred? Thousand? No, the death toll is close to zero. What kind of genocide is this? Common everyday inconvenience. Don't be dramatic.

I just realistically assess the situation, it seems you are dreaming and fantasizing here. Europe is now almost completely demilitarized, its armories are almost empty. She would be happy to increase the supply of military aid to Ukraine, but she cannot. And an increase in military spending by 1% of GDP does not solve this issue in the near or even more distant future, because GDP percentages cannot shoot. And Europe cannot accelerate military production, because it is in a state of severe energy shortage and is more concerned about how to survive this winter on the accumulated gas reserves in storage facilities, and then how to fill these storage facilities again by next winter. Europe is not able to defend itself, it is forced to rely on an external security guarantor. Today it is the USA, tomorrow it may be Russia. Europe will fall under anyone who turns out to be stronger and spreads her legs herself. After the Second World War, this position is familiar to her.

Nonsense. It is not Russia, but Zelensky who is engaged in the genocide of the Ukrainian people. It is he who consistently pursues a policy of "fighting to the last Ukrainian" and it is he who has legally banned himself from peace negotiations with Russia. This is the genocide of the Ukrainian people. Even if Zelensky achieves success in his strategy and continues his senseless war without a chance of success until the last Ukrainian, the Ukrainian people will not completely disappear from the face of the earth, if only because there are several million refugees from Ukraine in Russia and no one is oppressing them here.

I am surprised by the schizoid behavior of your behavior here and the behavior of your supporters in a virtual uncompromising struggle against Russian aggression. You are almost simultaneously boasting about the numerous successes of Ukraine on the battlefields, which, they say, a little more and the victory of Ukraine is not far off. And while complaining about the genocide. Decide already, is Ukraine winning or is it being systematically destroyed?

You are so saturated with Western propaganda that you don't even notice it. What kind of genocide are we talking about? Rocket attacks on energy facilities began in response to the Ukrainian terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge. The strikes themselves are targeted, civilians do not suffer directly from them. The schedule of missile strikes on power facilities is designed in such a way that power engineers have a chance to restore the supply of heat and electricity in a short time after each strike, which actually happens in practice. Basically, the suffering of civilians in Ukraine from strikes on energy facilities is not fatal, it's just everyday inconvenience. There would have been fewer of them if the priority for the supply of electricity had not been shifted in favor of the enterprises of the Military Industrial Complex. This is the choice of Ukraine and Russia is not responsible for it.

The unemployment rate in Russia is now at a very low level, it seems to be around 3%.

By investment, you probably mean external investment. Russia completely manages without them, investing funds from the National Wealth Fund or borrowing on the domestic market.

I believe that the current state of the Russian economy is quite satisfactory. Of course, it was not possible to completely avoid a fall in GDP in 2022, but it amounted to just over 2% at the end of the year, although a fall of 12% was predicted in early spring. The inflation rate at the end of the year was about 12%, which is comparable to the inflation rate in the European Union and much better than the inflation rate, for example, in the Baltics. Things are not going great, but much better than they could be.

It will be a great success if Europe manages to avoid a big war next year. Everything that is happening in Ukraine now is, by and large, not a story about Ukraine, it is a struggle for the redistribution of spheres of influence in Europe. Russia is not satisfied with the current state of affairs, in which Europe is actually occupied by the United States and is under the protection of NATO. According to Russia, this is a threat to its security and generally destabilizes the situation in the region. I think following the results of the special operation in Ukraine, continental Europe will pass under the military protectorate of Russia. That is, Russia will be the guarantor of security in Europe and ensure stability in the region.

I think that Ukraine will have to surrender. Most likely, the peace treaty will be signed not by Zelensky, but probably by Zaluzhny. Zelensky is likely to be eliminated by Western intelligence services, this is waste material, a political corpse.

I asked where did you get that for a country in the BRICS group anything less than growing the GDP by 5% is an absolute failure?

Curious to know the source of this statement, where did you get it from?

And I, in turn, got bored with the topic of Ukraine, at least against the backdrop of the recent World Cup.

Yep, almost painless. It seems that Europe suffers from anti-Russian sanctions much more than Russia. For "twice torn to shreds" the Russian economy feels just fine.

Many in Russia are of the opinion (including myself) that the special operation to liberate Donbas should have started eight years earlier. But in fairness, I note that not only Ukraine used this time to strengthen its combat capability, but also Russia - to diversify and minimize the risks associated with Western sanctions. Russia's disconnection from SWIFT, Visa and Mastercard in 2014 would have been a disaster for the financial sector, and in 2022 it went almost painlessly. From a food importer in eight years, Russia has become a major exporter. Therefore, I am not inclined to dramatize about the hypocrisy and duplicity of Merkel, in this world everything happens only on time.

Personally, I enjoy watching the matches of the current World Cup, there are very interesting football confrontations. For example, Morocco's victory over Spain today was impressive and unexpected.

Да это обдолбанные героином косплейщики из нацбатов, их надо реабилитировать физическим трудом на свежем воздухе на урановых рудниках. По крови такие же славяне, родственников не выбирают.

На них то зачем? Это же наши братья-славяне, хоть и ёбнутые. Их надо просто лишить финансирования, тогда тяжелые наркотики быстро закончатся и их постепенно отпустит. Поэтому не забудь сегодня проголосовать на Госуслугах за вмешательство в промежуточные выборы в конгресс США.

Вот если демократические глобалисты-рептилоиды опять сохранят большинство подтасовкой результатов голосования - тогда конечно хуёво. Но и это не повод бомбить Украину, надо бить по центрам принятия русофобских решений - а это Лондон и Вашингтон. В крайнем случае можно для демонстрации силы разъебать нахуй Токийскую агломерацию, как раз мы с Японией до сих пор в состоянии войны, поэтому большого дипломатического скандала не будет. Да ипонцам один хуй и не привыкать, у них то цунами, то Хиросима. Дзен-буддисты хуле.

Say thanks to paxmao.

An alternative reality is being created by the efforts of the Ukrainian Center for Psychological Operations. All these Butches, eaten dogs, raped grandmothers, stolen toilets are the fruit of the diseased imagination of drug-addicted fighters of the information war.

Where does Ukraine get good missiles from? Both are shitty.

Вот ты то конечно не смог благоразумно промолчать, когда увидел тайный кодовый шифр про слабоумие и отвагу. Болезный, прими эту пилюлю горькой реальности - тебя сотоварищи расхуярило вхлам дешёвыми персидскими мопедами и теперь тебе придётся срать в пакет при свете керосиновой лампы до самой ослиной пасхи. Но порассуждать про ядерное оружие тоже хочется, понимаю.

Видал кстате интервью ейное недавно? Грета то подросла малясь, поумнела, теперь ей даже лишняя хромосома лоб почти не жмёт - надо говорит демонтировать всю мировую капиталистическую систему и сразу будет всем счастье. Сиськи правда маленькие пока, но это наживное.