Another Putin Disaster
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:I just HAD to quote you because that's the delusion of the year.
Originally posted by THUGGER:
Every time you and sig post my name comes up; every time every thread.
You're such an ass. And a stupid one. And a crazy one.
I don't mention your name EVERY TIME I post.
THUGGER is stupider than an idiot. He's that laughable.
Russia is still the biggest player in disinformation, Facebook says
A Facebook report released Wednesday says that Russia is still the largest producer of disinformation, a notable finding just five years after Russian operatives launched a far-reaching campaign to infiltrate social media during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/russia-is-still-the-biggest-
player-in-disinformation-facebook-says/ar-AAKoO4b?ocid=msedgntp
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Quote:I just HAD to quote you because that's the delusion of the year.
Originally posted by THUGGER:
Every time you and sig post my name comes up; every time every thread.
You're such an ass. And a stupid one. And a crazy one.
I don't mention your name EVERY TIME I post. I barely mention you at all. Not even when you troll the 'Garden' thread.
And BTW how many scores (hundreds?) of threads have you started about Putin, or Trump, or both? How many hundreds (thousands?) of posts have you posted about Putin, or Trump, or both?
How do you compare me never starting any threads about you to you starting scores (hundreds?) about Putin, Trump, or both?
THUGGER is stupider than an idiot. He's that laughable.
And yeah, he posts so much about Trump and Putin, he MUST be madly, deeply, in obsessive love.
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Quote:BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Originally posted by THG: Russia is still the biggest player in disinformation, Facebook says [as reported by MSN, the people who brought you RUSSIA!!RUSSIA!!]
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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That award 100% goes to China right now.
We're not too far behind.
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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.
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Wow, what a disaster:
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Thanks to Sanctions, Russia Is Cushioned From Virus’s Economic Shocks
Years of economic isolation and bulging financial reserves have positioned the country to ride out the coronavirus panic and bounce right back.
By Andrew E. Kramer
Published March 20, 2020
Updated April 10, 2020
MOSCOW — Six years ago, the United States and the European Union slammed the door on Western bank loans for Russian companies, starving the country’s oil and banking industries of financing. The harsh measure, and others that followed, were intended to punish Russia for military interventions in Ukraine and Syria and for meddling in the 2016 American election to help Donald J. Trump.
Paradoxically, however, those sanctions and the policies Russia enacted in response prepared the Kremlin for what came this month: a universal dislocation of the global economy from the coronavirus pandemic and an oil price war that led to a collapse in oil prices and the revenues that Russia relies upon to support social spending.
Far from being a basket case, Russia enters the crisis with bulging financial reserves, its big companies nearly free of debt and all but self-sufficient in agriculture. After Russia was hit with the sanctions, President Vladimir V. Putin’s government and companies adapted to isolation and were virtually forced to prepare for economic shocks like the one hammering the global economy today.
“Russia will be a bit better off than other countries because of its experience, because of sanctions and because of reserves,” said Vladimir V. Tikhomirov, chief economist for BCS Global Markets, referring to the roughly $600 billion in gold and hard currency reserves the country has amassed.
To be sure, Russia has taken a hard hit from the collapse of oil prices, with the national currency, the ruble, losing about 20 percent of its value in recent weeks. Oil and natural gas account for about 60 percent of Russia’s exports.
It is still too early to predict how outbreaks of the virus will spread and how various governments will respond. Given the state of Russia’s ramshackle and underfunded health care system, the coronavirus outbreak could be catastrophic. With the state’s tight grip on the news media, many Russians suspect that the Kremlin could be hiding the scale of the problem or the extent of preparedness, hampering an effective response.
Still, some countries, Russia among them, seem better positioned than others. For Russia, that is linked to the Western sanctions.
Take, for example, a 2014 sanction limiting loans from Western financial institutions to a maximum of three months. Russian companies responded by paying down their debt so that total government and corporate foreign debt in Russia fell to $455 billion at the start of this year from $713 billion in 2014. By contrast, Western companies have taken advantage of low interest rates to run up trillions of dollars in debt in the past decade.
“Russia over the past six years has been living with a hostile foreign environment because of sanctions,” said Mr. Tikhomirov. When the virus threat passes, he said, “it’s possible things will come back to life faster in Russia than in other countries because there won’t be the negative drag of debt.”
The Russian government on Thursday published its plan to contain the virus and maintain economic activity. It said that all pneumonia patients would now be tested and that the country was making 100,000 test kits a day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/world/europe/russia-coronavirus-cov
id-19.html
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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Of course The less you have the less you have to lose. Too funny...
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Quote:Russia has a lot less debt, one thing that we have trillions of. We should follow their example.
THUGR: Of course The less you have the less you have to lose. Too funny...
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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New Russian hacks spark calls for tougher Biden actions
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-russian-hacks-spark-calls-
for-tougher-biden-actions/ar-AAKx98j?ocid=msedgntp
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What's your beef with Russia man?
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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.
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Beef Prices Rise, Shortages Feared as White House Confronts Russia Over JBS Meat Packer Hack
Meat prices were already on the rise as fears of shortages were amplified by the cyberattack that halted U.S. livestock slaughters by JBS, the world's largest meat processing company.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/beef-prices-rise-shortages-fea
red-as-white-house-confronts-russia-over-jbs-meat-packer-hack/ar-AAKCdZA?ocid=msedgntp
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