Punishing Russia With Sanctions

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THG

Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:31 PM

Tens of thousands of Russians freeze as hot water pipes burst around the country

Tens of thousands of people across Russia are currently living with no heating or hot water following an unprecedented wave of infrastructure failures.

Even large cities like Novosibirsk and Vladivostok, as well as the suburbs of Moscow, have experienced burst hot-water mains, ruptured heating pipelines, and crumbling municipal infrastructure. These incidents have escalated since the beginning of 2024, with temperatures dropping to -30 degrees and below in some parts of the country.

Borrow From Your Home While Keeping Your Current Mortgage Rate

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/tens-of-thousands-of-russ
ians-freeze-as-hot-water-pipes-burst-around-the-country/ar-AA1n2pJZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=16c04403b2e844ae916b4c0a7254c446&ei=75

Sad...

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THG

Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:34 PM

Vladimir Putin is scrambling to contain soaring egg prices as Russia grapples with a Soviet-style economic headache

Vladimir Putin is battling red-hot inflation, with the price of eggs and other basic foods soaring.

Soviet-style queues have formed with Russians trying to build up large stockpiles.

The Kremlin has responded by slashing import duties and buying eggs from Azerbaijan and Turkey.

As the war in Ukraine rages on, Vladimir Putin has another battle on his hands: the one to rein in soaring egg prices.

End the war. Russia, get out of Ukraine.

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THG

Thursday, January 18, 2024 5:05 AM

China Banks Tighten Curbs on Russia Over Fears of U.S. Secondary Sanctions, Report Claims

China’s state-owned banks are tightening the screws on funding to Russian clients, likely because they’re scared of catching heat from U.S. secondary sanctions, according to a Bloomberg report.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/china-banks-tighten-curbs-on-r
ussia-over-fears-of-u-s-secondary-sanctions-report-claims/ss-AA1n8stn?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=0443d74b3ce545bc9034df9bb0c31e3c&ei=54

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THG

Thursday, January 18, 2024 5:10 AM

India halts purchase of Russian oil amid Western sanctions

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/india-halts-purchase-of-russia
n-oil-amid-western-sanctions/ar-AA1n4ZFS

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, January 18, 2024 6:06 AM

I wonder what person with a Russian name killed Ted's kid or pissed in his Cheerios.

Why do you care so much?

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

SIGNYM

Sunday, January 21, 2024 12:37 AM

FROM NEWSWEEK

Quote:
How Russia Won the Sanctions War With the West | Opinion
Jan 17, 2024

It is now abundantly clear that Russia has defeated the Western sanctions regime that was intended to cripple its economy and force its withdrawal from Ukraine. Instead of collapsing, the Russian economy is growing rapidly. Russia's GDP grew by an impressive 5.5 percent in the third quarter of 2023. Final figures for the year are not yet in, but Russian GDP growth for all of 2023 should exceed 3 percent. Ironically, the Russians are doing rather better than those who imposed sanctions on them. In 2023, the U.S. economy grew by 2.4 percent while the German economy shrank, and the EU as a whole grew by less than 1 percent. Instead of withdrawing from Ukraine, Russia has increased the size of its invasion force from 190,000 troops in February 2022 to more than 600,000 today.

Between February 2022 and February 2023, Western countries imposed on Russia the most extensive sanctions regime seen since World War II. In all, several thousand sanctions on Russian individuals, businesses, and government institutions caused only a mild recession in 2022 which the Russians quickly turned around. How did they do it? Very simply. The Russians have a lot of gold, grain, oil, and friends, all of which they used effectively to defeat the sanctions. Any realistic war game could have easily predicted all of this.

And yet, neocons failed to notice the little speed bump on their road to World Domination?

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In March of 2022, G7 member states froze $300 billion in Russian Central Bank reserves, about half of Russia's foreign currency reserves at the time. This was supposed to "turn the ruble into rubble." It did not. Instead, the Russian Central bank moved very quickly to peg the ruble to gold and backed this up with its massive gold reserves and production capacity. The peg was in force for barely three months, but this bought Moscow time to re-orient its energy trade away from Europe and adjust its overall economy to the sanctions.

Life Goes on in Russia
Almost immediately, Russia began to shift its energy trade toward China and India by offering discounts. Today, 90 percent of its crude oil exports go to these two nations. Europe, which used to receive 40 percent of Russian crude oil exports, now receives only 4 percent to 5 percent. To evade Western shipping and insurance sanctions, the Russians have assembled an enormous "shadow fleet" of oil tankers, buying and leasing hundreds of vessels that did not comply with sanctions. According to the International Energy Agency, Russia currently exports 7.5 million barrels of oil per day, only slightly less than Saudi Arabia.

Then the Russians got creative in their sanctions-busting by recruiting friends like Iran, Turkey, China, North Korea, and Kyrgyzstan to help transship high tech goods like microchips, as well as drones and automobiles. For example, imports of Western cars and parts to Kyrgyzstan rose by an amazing 5,500 percent in the first nine months of 2023.

Russia remains the world's largest producer of natural diamonds and a significant diamond exporter. Waves of sanctions have had only a limited effect on its diamond production and revenues. Finally, since the collapse of the Soviet Union's collective farm system, Russia has become the world's largest wheat exporter. Despite Western sanctions, Russia's share of global wheat exports actually increased over the past two years. Thanks to global warming, Russia has just had another bumper grain harvest and hopes for even more grain as Siberia warms. Putin does not care about polar bears. He has plenty.

NATO's wonder-weapons like HIMARS and Leopard tanks failed to fuel an effective Ukrainian counter-offensive. Diplomacy

Neocons don't do "diplomacy". They break treaties, agreements, and contracts; torpedo peace talks; and threaten military strikes and sanctions. They even blow up allies' energy su

SECOND

Sunday, January 21, 2024 2:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
FROM NEWSWEEK

Since major articles NEVER appear in western press without purpose, which elite faction does this represent?

The same economic truth works in both Russia and the USA. The gross national product of the U.S., as measured in constant dollars, grew from $88.6 billion in 1939 — while the country was still suffering from the depression — to $135 billion in 1944. Russia has started WW3 and it will get a similar burst of growth just the same as the USA got in WW2, at least until NATO or Ukraine starts a wholesale destruction of Russian manufacturing. Russia didn't prosper during WW2 because, you know, Nazis were very aware that destroying Russian cities reduces GDP. Germans seem to have forgotten how economies still work the same in 2024. No, Signym, Russia cannot stop that destruction unless it wants to be nuked. At the moment only Ukraine is even halfheartedly trying to destroy Russia's GDP, but Russia has gone full speed destroying Ukraine's.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-american-economy-during-world-war-ii/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Sunday, January 21, 2024 4:23 AM

Russia hasn't started WWII. It's our neocons and their dreams of World Domination.
Why are our troops in Syria?
Why are our troops in Iraq?
Why are our troops in Japan?
Why have we broken every treaty with Russia?

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Infographic: US military presence around the world

Upwards of 750 US bases around the world

According to David Vine, ??professor of political anthropology at the American University in Washington, DC, the US had around 750 bases in at least 80 countries as of July 2021.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-prese
nce-around-the-world-interactive

Can you blame other nations for wanting to defend themselves?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

SIGNYM

Sunday, January 21, 2024 4:32 AM

JUST SO, YANNO, THE MAIN POINT DOESN'T GET BURIED IN SECOND'S RED HERRINGS

FROM NEWSWEEK

Quote:
How Russia Won the Sanctions War With the West | Opinion
Jan 17, 2024

It is now abundantly clear that Russia has defeated the Western sanctions regime that was intended to cripple its economy and force its withdrawal from Ukraine. Instead of collapsing, the Russian economy is growing rapidly. Russia's GDP grew by an impressive 5.5 percent in the third quarter of 2023. Final figures for the year are not yet in, but Russian GDP growth for all of 2023 should exceed 3 percent. Ironically, the Russians are doing rather better than those who imposed sanctions on them. In 2023, the U.S. economy grew by 2.4 percent while the German economy shrank, and the EU as a whole grew by less than 1 percent. Instead of withdrawing from Ukraine, Russia has increased the size of its invasion force from 190,000 troops in February 2022 to more than 600,000 today.

Between February 2022 and February 2023, Western countries imposed on Russia the most extensive sanctions regime seen since World War II. In all, several thousand sanctions on Russian individuals, businesses, and government institutions caused only a mild recession in 2022 which the Russians quickly turned around. How did they do it? Very simply. The Russians have a lot of gold, grain, oil, and friends, all of which they used effectively to defeat the sanctions. Any realistic war game could have easily predicted all of this.

And yet, neocons failed to notice the little speed bump on their road to World Domination?

Quote:
In March of 2022, G7 member states froze $300 billion in Russian Central Bank reserves, about half of Russia's foreign currency reserves at the time. This was supposed to "turn the ruble into rubble." It did not. Instead, the Russian Central bank moved very quickly to peg the ruble to gold and backed this up with its massive gold reserves and production capacity. The peg was in force for barely three months, but this bought Moscow time to re-orient its energy trade away from Europe and adjust its overall economy to the sanctions.

Life Goes on in Russia
Almost immediately, Russia began to shift its energy trade toward China and India by offering discounts. Today, 90 percent of its crude oil exports go to these two nations. Europe, which used to receive 40 percent of Russian crude oil exports, now receives only 4 percent to 5 percent. To evade Western shipping and insurance sanctions, the Russians have assembled an enormous "shadow fleet" of oil tankers, buying and leasing hundreds of vessels that did not comply with sanctions. According to the International Energy Agency, Russia currently exports 7.5 million barrels of oil per day, only slightly less than Saudi Arabia.

Then the Russians got creative in their sanctions-busting by recruiting friends like Iran, Turkey, China, North Korea, and Kyrgyzstan to help transship high tech goods like microchips, as well as drones and automobiles. For example, imports of Western cars and parts to Kyrgyzstan rose by an amazing 5,500 percent in the first nine months of 2023.

Russia remains the world's largest producer of natural diamonds and a significant diamond exporter. Waves of sanctions have had only a limited effect on its diamond production and revenues. Finally, since the collapse of the Soviet Union's collective farm system, Russia has become the world's largest wheat exporter. Despite Western sanctions, Russia's share of global wheat exports actually increased over the past two years. Thanks to global warming, Russia has just had another bumper grain harvest and hopes for even more grain as Siberia warms. Putin does not care about polar bears. He has plenty.

NATO's wonder-weapons like HIMARS and Leopard tanks failed to fuel an effective Ukrainian counter-offensive. Diplomacy

Neocons don't do "diplomacy". They break treaties, agreements, and contracts; torpedo peace talks

THG

Sunday, January 21, 2024 9:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
FROM NEWSWEEK

Quote:
How Russia Won the Sanctions War With the West | Opinion
Jan 17, 2024

US adds 17 Liberian-flagged bulk carriers and oil tankers Russian sanctions busting blacklist

'Today’s actions once again demonstrate that anyone who violates the price cap will face the consequences. No one should doubt our coalition’s commitment to stopping those who help the Kremlin,' Adeyemo

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-adds-17-liberian-flagged-bu
lk-carriers-and-oil-tankers-russian-sanctions-busting-blacklist/ar-BB1gZ5Zp?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=882b15140dfb430bb06fc57c6065d84e&ei=191

These sanctions are meant to destroy the Russian economy for a generation at least. No hurry, their effect only grows.

tick tock

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