Punishing Russia With Sanctions
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Originally posted by second:
The Ukraine war is creating a jobs crisis in Russia
The Russian unemployment rate, which hovered around 4.6% in the first quarter of 2022, is likely to rise to 9% by the end of the year, according to a survey of analysts that Bloomberg conducted in April. Simultaneously, Russian year-on-year inflation shot up to nearly 18% in April. The combination will lead to a cost-of-living crunch that will hurt the average Russian citizen as well as the economy. According to a leaked document, Russian’s finance ministry expects the GDP to shrink by 12% this year, erasing a full decade of economic growth.
In February, 3 million Russians were unemployed. A further 2 million jobs are at risk this year, according to a report from the Center for Strategic Research, a think-tank in Moscow.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220517010701/https://qz.com/2166086/the-
ukraine-war-is-creating-a-jobs-crisis-in-russia/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I wouldn't worry about Russians.
Gas prices here are insane right now. FED rates are increasing. Any wage growth that occured in the last two years have been wiped out and then some. Unemployment is coming home soon.
Democrats are done.
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Quote:I have been hearing your words from other mouths since 1962. The people who were running their mouths would die poor and insisting that their sad lot in life was the fault of Democrats in faraway DC. The poor couldn't understand that it was their boss, standing right in front of them and their local retailers and bankers, taking all their money. It was NEVER the Democrats in Washington DC who were making these people poor. But poor people couldn't understand what is obvious to rich people who are taking poor people's money. Poor Russians follow poor Americans when Russians blame the EU and the West for Russian poverty rather than rich Russians, such as Putin, who are gathering all the wealth for themselves. If there was a vote today, Russians would reelect Putin because poor Russians are that stupid:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I wouldn't worry about Russians.
Gas prices here are insane right now. FED rates are increasing. Any wage growth that occured in the last two years have been wiped out and then some. Unemployment is coming home soon.
Democrats are done.
President Vladimir Putin’s ratings have soared since the Russian invasion of Ukraine
https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2022/4/1/23006505/putins-approval-ra
ting-in-russia-skyrocketed-after-ukraine-invasion-83-percent
Vladimir Putin's approval rating in Russia monthly 1999-2022
https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-rating-russi
a/
At their highest rating point, Presidents of the US don't achieve Putin's numbers at his lowest point. Russians are stupid to admire Putin, but what would you expect from the biggest country in the world that has an economy smaller than Canada and only slightly larger than South Korea? Russians have to be stupid to be this poor.
https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The Ukraine war is creating a jobs crisis in Russia
The Russian unemployment rate, which hovered around 4.6% in the first quarter of 2022, is likely to rise to 9% by the end of the year, according to a survey of analysts that Bloomberg conducted in April. Simultaneously, Russian year-on-year inflation shot up to nearly 18% in April. The combination will lead to a cost-of-living crunch that will hurt the average Russian citizen as well as the economy. According to a leaked document, Russian’s finance ministry expects the GDP to shrink by 12% this year, erasing a full decade of economic growth.
In February, 3 million Russians were unemployed. A further 2 million jobs are at risk this year, according to a report from the Center for Strategic Research, a think-tank in Moscow.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220517010701/https://qz.com/2166086/the-
ukraine-war-is-creating-a-jobs-crisis-in-russia/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Yes, that's what the sanctions are about. A complete take down of the Russian economy for decades to come.
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It appears the “no-limits” friendship Moscow and Beijing proclaimed weeks before Russia’s new war in Ukraine may, in fact, have limits.
In March, after the retaliatory sanctions against Moscow took effect, Chinese technology exports to Russia slumped.
My colleague Jeanne Whalen reported: “Chinese shipments of laptops to Russia fell by 40 percent in March compared with February, while exports of smartphones were off by two-thirds, Raimondo told reporters, citing the most recently available China trade data. Exports of telecommunications network equipment fell by 98 percent, she said.”
“The sanctions on Russia require companies worldwide to abide by the ban if they use U.S. manufacturing equipment or software to produce computer chips. Most chip factories around the world, including those in China, use software or equipment designed in the United States, analysts say.”
“‘I’m often asked, you know, are these export controls working? And I think the answer is an unmitigated, unqualified yes,’ Raimondo said. ‘I think they’re working because we have such a strong coalition of countries around the world participating in enforcing.’”
“The United States and 37 other countries designed the trade restrictions to cripple Russia’s military and high-tech economy after the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The rules ban the sale of computer chips, telecommunications equipment, lasers, avionics and maritime technology to many Russian buyers.”
In early May, Steve Holland, Trevor Hunnicutt and David Brunnstrom of Reuters reported “senior U.S. officials say they have not detected overt Chinese military and economic support,” though they remained wary of the relationship in general.
“‘We have not seen the PRC provide direct military support to Russia’s war on Ukraine or engage in systematic efforts to help Russia evade our sanctions,’ a Biden administration official told Reuters, referring to the People's Republic of China.”
“As well as steering clear of directly backing Russia's war effort, China has avoided entering new contracts between its state oil refiners and Russia, despite steep discounts. In March its state-run Sinopec Group suspended talks about a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/asia-bound-biden-gets-welcome-
news-on-russia-china-trade/ar-AAXqD1I
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Yellen: Not legal for U.S. to seize Russian official assets
BONN, Germany, May 18 (Reuters) - The United States does not have legal authority to seize Russian central bank assets frozen due to its invasion of Ukraine, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday, but talks with U.S. partners over ways to make Russia foot the bill for Ukraine's post-war reconstruction are starting.
Yellen also said it is likely that the special license granted to allow Russia to make payments to its U.S. bondholders would not be extended when it expires next week, leaving Russian officials a fast-narrowing window to avoid its first external debt default since the 1917 Russian revolution.
Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine is the central agenda item at this week's gathering of Group of Seven finance ministers, and Yellen is calling for increased financial support for the war-torn country, which the World Bank estimates is suffering $4 billion in weekly physical damage.
"I think it's very natural that given the enormous destruction in Ukraine, and huge rebuilding costs that they will face, that we will look to Russia to help pay at least a portion of the price that will be involved," Yellen told reporters here ahead of this week's meetings.
Some European officials have advocated that the EU, the United States and other allies seize some $300 billion in Russian central bank foreign currency assets frozen by sanctions. The assets are held abroad, but remain under Russian ownership.
"While we're beginning to look at this, it would not be legal now in the United States for the government to seize those" assets, Yellen said. "It's not something that is legally permissible in the United States."
U.S. Treasury officials have also expressed concerns about setting precedents and eroding other countries' confidence in holding their central bank assets in the United States.
https://www.reuters.com/world/yellen-not-legal-us-government-seize-rus
sian-central-bank-assets-2022-05-18/
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Keep talking about this right up until November.
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Quote:President Herbert Hoover had 4 years to rectify the Great Depression, but he did nothing and yet he received only 7,060,023 votes fewer than FDR. Trump received 7,052,770 fewer votes than Biden, almost the same number as Hoover.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Keep talking about this right up until November.
In the years after the election, Hoover claimed FDR was a Communist and Social Security was a Communist plot. Hoover claimed that there would not have been WWII if he were President and that the war would have been won sooner by himself. And every year the number of Democrats in Congress decreased because there were voters who believed what Hoover was saying. Hoover even set up an Institution to keep saying the same falsehoods after Hoover died. Hoover outlived FDR by 19 years, thanks to not having the stress of performing a job, but having the freedom to run his mouth. Hoover and Trump have a lot in common. The people who believed Hoover's falsehoods have much in common with Trump's voters.
U.S. economic performance under Democratic and Republican presidents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_under_Democrat
ic_and_Republican_presidents
Trump Is Right About One Thing: 'The Economy Does Better Under The Democrats'
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/11/07/trump-is-right-about-
one-thing-the-economy-does-better-under-the-democrats/?sh=474ccdd56786
Why does the economy do better when Democrats are in the White House?
Interpreting the post-war economic growth gap
https://www.aeaweb.org/research/why-does-the-economy-do-better-democra
ts-white-house
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Institution
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Putin Loses Another Close Ally as Russia Closes in on 100 Days in Ukraine
Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, has left his position as a Kremlin adviser, according to a Monday report by Reuters.
The media outlet cited two people close to the situation as saying Yumashev, described as a key element to Russian President Vladimir Putin's rise to power, quit his role in April. He is the latest of several prominent Russian officials to resign since Putin launched his war on Ukraine that will hit the 100-day mark Friday.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-loses-another-close-ally-as
-russia-closes-in-on-100-days-in-ukraine/ar-AAXTx7o?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=b65fe559cf484f7cb0067c8307f3cf31
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:President Herbert Hoover had 4 years to rectify the Great Depression, but he did nothing and yet he received only 7,060,023 votes fewer than FDR. Trump received 7,052,770 fewer votes than Biden, almost the same number as Hoover.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Keep talking about this right up until November.
Fake mail in fraud votes.
I'm happy it happened. Republicans and more specifically, Trump himself would have been left holding the bag of a crap economy brought on by Democrats and the Legacy Media with the Covid terrorism they perpetuated against all of mankind for two years.
Now all of the blame is falling right where it fucking belongs.
I hope you're proud of them for stealing the election. You'll never see a Democrat in charge again for the rest of your life after 2024.
Things are about to get a LOT worse for everybody. Not just until November, but for a long, long time from now.
Thank you Democrats. You've finally managed to wake up the sheep. After decades of wondering how you would ever go about doing such a thing, I really started to believe that it wasn't even possible anymore.
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Originally posted by THG:
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Fuck your Tick Tocks, stupid.
You haven't been right about one single thing since I got sober.
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