Punishing Russia With Sanctions
POSTED BY: THG
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 04:52
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Fuck Ukraine. 
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Frantic Putin desperately looking for allies as he calls on old friend Cuba
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1790239/putin-russia-cuba-oil-exp
orts
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Blinken bashes Russia on grain
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/aug/04/blinken-bashes-russia-
on-grain/
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Russia is broke.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, thE EU and the 5 eyes are shooting themsleves in the foot by sanctioning vital world commodities and all you can do is come up with an ignorant cartoon..
Got it!
Russia's currency hits the lowest level since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine
LONDON (AP) — The Russian ruble has reached its lowest value since the early weeks of the war in Ukraine as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its energy exports.
On Monday, the Russian currency passed 101 rubles to the dollar, continuing a more than 25% decline in its value since the beginning of the year and hitting the lowest level in almost 17 months.
President Vladimir Putin’s economic adviser, Maksim Oreshkin, on Monday blamed the weak ruble on “loose monetary policy” in an op-ed for state news agency Tass. He said a strong ruble is in the interest of the Russian economy and that a weak currency “complicates economic restructuring and negatively affects people’s real incomes.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-s-currency-hits-the-low
est-level-since-beginning-of-the-war-in-ukraine/ar-AA1ffz61?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=1b38b5f83eab468495f10c435a2309d4&ei=59
So sad...
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Originally posted by THG:
Putin can no longer compete with China on any level so he will be treated by China like he treats other lesser countries. Man has Russia fallen into despair and dysfunction. And man is it going to suck for Putin being told instead of doing the telling. China is telling Putin to come to us my pretty and he is, he is crawling to them.
Too funny…
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Who saw this coming? Germans when they realize they can march trough Poland again to fight Russians but this time they are good guys.
I see you going back and forth with Jack throughout these threads. The ignorant fool doesn’t realize he is an anarchist. He doesn’t believe in anything that would help a society to develop and thrive. It is left to others to do so despite him.
He believes, or thinks he believes in the organization of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation. A society without political institutions or hierarchical government. He is clueless to what keeps our society running to the extent it does. It is the institutions he criticizes that allow for his very existence.
There are many places on the planet where he could live out his beliefs. Places where governments cannot easily reach him but he is a coward so he’d never go. What that means is he will never live according to his delusional anti-social convictions. He will continue living in a box void of the skills needed to thrive himself in a society that works for a better good.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THUGR believes the M$M bc it tells him what he wants to hear. "Critical thinking" is a foreign concept.
Russia's central bank makes huge interest rate hike to try to prop up falling ruble
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia’s central bank made a big interest rate hike Tuesday, an emergency move designed to fight inflation and strengthen the ruble after the country's currency reached its lowest value since early in the war with Ukraine.
The ruble has lost more than a third of its value since the beginning of the year as Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its income from energy shipments. The flagging currency does not mean the Russian economy is in freefall — though it is facing challenges, including rising prices for households and businesses, according to analysts who study Russia.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-s-central-bank-makes-hu
ge-interest-rate-hike-to-try-to-prop-up-falling-ruble/ar-AA1fhU40?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=24370e4a3ba84cdf8a6cca5c4cd39858&ei=21
Because you denied and continue to deny what is really going on, I'd say it's you who lack critical thinking skills. I said this was going to happen since the war started. You fought me on that comrade. I wonder why?
tick tock
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Originally posted by SignyM:
Since you can't blame Russia for what it's done, or what it's doing right now, you stoop to blaming Russia for what you're convinced ... convinced, I tell you!... what Russian soldiers "will do" in the future.
Yanno, bc they have access to Russian TV on the battlefield, and have nothing to do but watch it, and take their orders from it.
/snark
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Who saw this coming? Germans when they realize they can march trough Poland again to fight Russians but this time they are good guys.
I see you going back and forth with Jack throughout these threads. The ignorant fool doesn’t realize he is an anarchist. He doesn’t believe in anything that would help a society to develop and thrive. It is left to others to do so despite him.
He believes, or thinks he believes in the organization of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation. A society without political institutions or hierarchical government. He is clueless to what keeps our society running to the extent it does. It is the institutions he criticizes that allow for his very existence.
There are many places on the planet where he could live out his beliefs. Places where governments cannot easily reach him but he is a coward so he’d never go. What that means is he will never live according to his delusional anti-social convictions. He will continue living in a box void of the skills needed to thrive himself in a society that works for a better good.
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My parents' religion has an explanation for what has gone wrong with people like 6ix, Signym, Trump, and Putin. I'm not a member of that religion, but I can still see that the explanation usefully describes the world of such sinful people as 6ix. Here it is in purified abstract form without a religious paint job or coating:
How America Got Mean, August 14, 2023, 6 AM ET, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-
education-formation/674765/
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
The Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith and a team of researchers asked young adults across the country in 2008 about their moral lives. One of their findings was that the interviewees had not given the subject of morality much thought. “I’ve never had to make a decision about what’s right and what’s wrong,” one young adult told the researchers. “My teachers avoid controversies like that like the plague,” many teenagers said.
The moral instincts that Smith observed in his sample fell into the pattern that the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre called “emotivism”: Whatever feels good to me is moral. “I would probably do what would make me happy” in any given situation, one of the interviewees declared. “Because it’s me in the long run.” As another put it, “If you’re okay with it morally, as long as you’re not getting caught, then it’s not really against your morals, is it?” Smith and his colleagues emphasized that the interviewees were not bad people but, because they were living “in morally very thin or spotty worlds,” they had never been given a moral vocabulary or learned moral skills.
Most of us who noticed the process of de-moralization as it was occurring thought a bland moral relativism and empty consumerism would be the result: You do you and I’ll do me. That’s not what happened.
“Moral communities are fragile things, hard to build and easy to destroy,” the psychologist Jonathan Haidt writes in The Righteous Mind. When you are raised in a culture without ethical structure, you become internally fragile. You have no moral compass to give you direction, no permanent ideals to which you can swear ultimate allegiance. “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,” the psychiatrist (and Holocaust survivor) Viktor Frankl wrote, interpreting a famous Nietzsche saying. Those without a why fall apart when the storms hit. They begin to suffer from that feeling of moral emptiness that Émile Durkheim called “anomie.”
Expecting
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