Another Putin Disaster
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Poor Putie. His house of cards is crumbling down.
The West can 'cripple' Russia's economy if it imposes sanctions over Ukraine: Expert
Quote:IF anyone in the (Biden* administration)(Deep State) has a clue about Russia's advantages, that may be why they're creating a narrative foam in the m$m about the about Russia's non-existent 'aggression' in Ukraine ... Belarus ... Poland ... wherever ... to gin up an excuse to take action NOW. Because Russia's advantages are only going to grow over time compared to the US and Europe. And the (Biden* administration)(Deep State) idiots think a nuclear confrontation is winnable.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Who is this idiot? If Russia shuts off gas to Europe, Europe will crumble.
Russia holds all the cards. It has a strong military advantage. And unlike the west, it has hardened its economy to be food and energy-secure, hardened its financial system to be independent from the west, does not depend on western loans, is running a budget surplus, and has a robust and equitable trade relationship with China.
The USA depends on continuous loans from The Fed and continuous emissions of printed money to pay for imports, and continuous demand for USA bonds in order to prop up its ever-expanding debt. But the region that will really suffer is Europe. If the EU thinks it will be standing upright after a serious tiff with Russia, they're fantasists.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Wrong again comrade.
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Go Joe...
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The EU is spending €195 billion because it is feeling magnanimous toward America. The EU is cutting down on CO2 emissions to save America from droughts, floods, hurricanes and climate change, since America can't/won't decrease its burning of fossil fuels and forests, and the EU is punching Putin directly in the face (by not purchasing Russian fuel) because of his invasion of Ukraine, since America can't/won't punch Putin, either.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's amusing watching Ted celebrate fabricated victories he played no role in regarding things that have zero impact on his life or the lives of anybody in his vicinity that tolerate his existence.
Good for you, I guess?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
What's it like in your ivory tower two?
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There is an interview about all the things that the USA should be doing, but isn't. Instead, the EU is doing it for the USA. A few words from the interview:
Deploying more clean energy technology in Europe makes clean energy cheaper in the US, in China, in India, in Africa, and everywhere. I’ve written about this extensively in the past. In How to Decarbonize America, and the World, I argued that the most effective climate policy of all time was Germany’s early subsidies of solar power, when that was a tiny, ludicrously expensive industry, because that scaling of industry made solar cheaper for everyone on the planet. In Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap I documented how every major data set of solar cost shows that increased scaling leads to exponential price decline, in a way that can be measured and forecasted using Wright’s Law / learning rates.
More at https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-ramez-naam-futurist-author
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:There is an interview about all the things that the USA should being doing, but isn't. Instead, the EU is doing it for the USA. A few words from the interview:
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The EU is spending €195 billion because it is feeling magnanimous toward America. The EU is cutting down on CO2 emissions to save America from droughts, floods, hurricanes and climate change, since America can't/won't decrease its burning of fossil fuels and forests, and the EU is punching Putin directly in the face (by not purchasing Russian fuel) because of his invasion of Ukraine, since America can't/won't punch Putin, either.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's amusing watching Ted celebrate fabricated victories he played no role in regarding things that have zero impact on his life or the lives of anybody in his vicinity that tolerate his existence.
Good for you, I guess?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
What's it like in your ivory tower two?
T
Deploying more clean energy technology in Europe makes clean energy cheaper in the US, in China, in India, in Africa, and everywhere. I’ve written about this extensively in the past. In How to Decarbonize America, and the World, I argued that the most effective climate policy of all time was Germany’s early subsidies of solar power, when that was a tiny, ludicrously expensive industry, because that scaling of industry made solar cheaper for everyone on the planet. In Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap I documented how every major data set of solar cost shows that increased scaling leads to exponential price decline, in a way that can be measured and forecasted using Wright’s Law / learning rates.
More at https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-ramez-naam-futurist-author
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Absolutism, or a governing advocacy of a rule by absolute standards or principles is not how America works. In a democracy it takes a constant back and forth to accomplish the growth of an idea or change one's philosophy. And Economics always plays a part. Democracy always leaves itself wide open for anyone to criticize its disorder of function. In other words, it’s easy to point out its flaws to promote one's own sense of superiority.
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Apparently-Ailing Putin Surrounded By Docs, Kremlin In 'Chaos,' Says Ex Brit Intel Official
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/apparently-ailing-putin-surrounde
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And now, another POV ...
Quote:Nah. The UN and western M$M will memory-hole the entire racket. And other nations already know about the USA's biological experiments because they have probably hosted some themselves... vaccine-testing, drug-testing, bioweapons-research ... a lot happens in nations like the Philippines and Brazil and Georgia... and China.
Escobar: Russia Rewrites The Art Of (Hybrid) War
Sunday, May 22, 2022 - 04:00 AM
Authored by Pepe Escobar,
Hybrid War is being fought predominantly in the economic/financial battleground – and the pain dial for the collective West will only go up...
The ironclad fictional “narrative” imposed all across NATOstan is that Ukraine is “winning”.
So why would weapons peddler retrofitted as Pentagon head Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin literally beg since late February to have his phone calls answered by Russian Defense Minister Shoigu, only to have his wish finally granted?
It’s now confirmed by one of my top intel sources. The call was a direct consequence of panic. The United States Government (USG) by all means wants to scotch the detailed Russian investigation – and accumulation of evidence – on the US bioweapon labs in Ukraine, as I outlined in a previous column.
This phone call happened exactly after an official Russian statement to the UN Security Council on May 13: we will use articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on the Prohibition of Bioweapons to investigate the Pentagon’s biological “experiments” in Ukraine.
That was reiterated by Under Secretary-General of the UN in charge of disarmament, Thomas Markram, even as all ambassadors of NATO member countries predictably denied the collected evidence as “Russian disinformation”.
Shoigu could see the call coming eons away. Reuters, merely quoting the proverbial “Pentagon official”, spun that the allegedly one-hour-long call led to nothing. Nonsense. Austin, according to the Americans, demanded a “ceasefire” – which must have originated a Siberian cat smirk on Shoigu’s face.
Shoigu knows exactly which way the wind is blowing on the ground – for Ukrainian Armed Forces and UkroNazis alike. It’s not only the Azovstal debacle – and Kiev’s all-around army breakdown.
After the fall of Popasnaya – the crucial, most fortified Ukrainian stronghold in Donbass – the Russians and Donetsk/Luhansk forces have breached defenses along four different vectors to north, northwest, west and south. What’s left of the Ukrainian front is crumbling – fast, with a massive cauldron subdivided in a maze of mini-cauldrons: a military disaster the USG cannot possibly spin.
Now, in parallel, we can also expect full exposure – on overdrive – of the Pentagon bioweapons racket. The only “offer you can’t refuse” left to the USG would be to present something tangible to the Russians to avoid a full investigation.
That’s not gonna happen. Moscow is fully aware that going public with illegal work on banned biological weapons is an existential threat to the US Deep State.
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Especially when documents seized by the Russians show that Big Pharma – via Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and Gilead – was involved in several “experiments”. Fully exposing the whole maze, from the start, was one of Putin’s stated objectives.
More “military-technical measures”?
Three days after the UN presentation, the board of the Russian Foreign Ministry held a special session to discuss “the radically changed geopolitical realities that have developed as a result of the hybrid war against our country unleashed by the West – under the pretext of the situation in Ukraine – unprecedented in scale and ferocity, including the revival in Europe of a racist worldview in the form of cave Russophobia, an open course for the ‘abolition’ of Russia and everything Russian.”
So it’s no wonder “the aggressive revisionist course of the West requires a radical revision of Russia’sNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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Russians brought 100,000-200,000 troops plus heavy equipment (tanks, artillery, fighter-bombers) to their border with Ukraine.
NATO:The elephant labored, and brought forth a nouse. 28,000 troops; language barriers, snarled logistics, and poor integration.
I'm sure the Russians are shaking in their boots!
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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
So sad comrade. Russia has lost just about everything you've listed since they started their invasion.
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The higher-level rats are abandoning ship comrade.
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Control of the economy has always been a cornerstone of Putinism, but it came slowly in fits and starts. First, the oligarchs were targeted and brought to heel, and the public didn’t mind because the oligarchs were robber barons and hated villains. Yet the situation kept growing more complex. More and more people began ending up in jail for financial crimes as ruthless raids, often led by greedy officials, took over their businesses—as detailed in journalist Peter Pomerantsev’s chilling and brilliant book Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia.
By the time 2014 rolled around and Russian President Vladimir Putin seized Crimea, the reins began to be tightened in a more systemic manner, as driven by sanctions and growing Kremlin paranoia. Today, Russian officials speak openly of autarky and total state control of any company, foreign or domestic, that rebels against them. This is not realistic in the long term, but for now, the flailing Russian regime will attempt it anyway.
Putin seduced ordinary Russians by promising stability after the chaotic 1990s, and he delivered it. It’s just that his definition of stable is when everything is controlled by him, his friends, and their children. He “conquered” the oligarchs, sure, but for his own benefit.
Putin’s government threw some crumbs to the populace in the course of this conquest—but not out of civic duty. It was done to solidify Putin’s grip on power. Inequality in Russia only grew in the meantime, as an entire generation grew up in the shadow of Putinism—the same generation now being sent to kill and die in Ukraine. And why not? Putin and his circle have only ever viewed their fellow Russian citizens through the prism of disdainful feudalism.
As Russia suffers a continuous fallout from its decision to attack Ukraine, Russian officials will get more involved in business, not less. The corruption trough, the easy bribes and kickbacks, will not be nearly as plentiful, but a rapacious bureaucratic elite is accustomed to a certain lifestyle now—and they will bleed local businesses dry to maintain it.
The threat to nationalize companies departing the Russian market is only the beginning. Days before the invasion, a Russian Duma deputy made clear that confiscating ordinary people’s savings was potentially on the table should a financial crisis erupt. In a post-invasion world, this financial crisis is, of course, inevitable.
Today, for a Western business, staying in Russia doesn’t just mean supporting Putin’s war through tax money, though that is an obvious and important issue. It means full cooperation with authorities who insist that wiping out the country next door is a good and noble cause. It means accepting that your business exists only due to the good graces of Putin’s cronies.
This is the only way that business can be done in Russia because the Putinist nobility can’t have it any other way. It is not a free economy. It’s very clear that foreign companies can’t trust the Kremlin. A government in full fascist meltdown cannot be a good or even halfway decent partner. Executives trying to stick to existing deals or pandering to the hate around the invasion are giving a scorpion a ride and should not be shocked when it stings them.
A different case can be made for providers of essential products. Russian babies shouldn’t be denied their formula because their president is a murderous sociopath. But if you’re in the business of potato fries or glassware, energy drinks or dating apps, you can and should leave. Let the Kremlin develop its own dating app. Let Putin make his own energy drink—he can even pose shirtless on the can. Pale imitations of foreign goods are the least that his supporters deserve.
More at https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/18/west-russia-companies/
Download a free copy of Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia from the mirrors at https://libgen.unblockit.blue/search.php?req=Peter+Pomerantsev
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Nobody cares.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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