It's a country with a GDP about a third less than Italy's. The main thing is oil/gas exports and others like grain/fertilizer, it will be tough, but the world seems to be taking steps in the right direction to reduce dependence on it's exports.
The American narrative is that those are Soviet era BioLabs they're helping to convert.
I see some of the armchair war cheerleaders are here
They have very low debt, so while in one sense this was sensible given they were planning the invasion, it might have been better to have been loaded up to the eyeballs in debt to western banks. A Russian default is not really something that western banks are too worried about at the moment. The have a debt to GDP ratio of something like 20% and their economy is relatively small, so it would be small beer compared to the financial crisis.
"I think I saw Russians"
"You didn't see Russians"
"I di..."
"YOU DIDN'T, BECAUSE THEY AREN'T THERE"
The invasion of Ukraine by the Russians is against International Law - if the Russian are seriously concerned about sticking to the letter of it. And of course no one would never believe the Russian would simply make up shite no?
Note how you have no evidence of anything. All it takes is for China or Russia to make suggestions (neither have evidence). This is how this type of propaganda works, it feeds on people's conspiratorial thinking, "there could be something going on". It's very effective.
They seem nice.
Looks like (further) conscription could be coming for Russia
The fact conscription is even a thing here tells you all you need to know about the mess the Russian military is in.
"March 10 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia's economy was experiencing a shock and that measures were being taken to soften the impact of what it described as an "absolutely unprecedented" economic war being waged against Moscow.
The West has imposed sweeping sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
"Our economy is experiencing a shock impact now and there are negative consequences, they will be minimised," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
He described the situation as turbulent, but said that measures to calm and stabilise it were already being taken.
"This is absolutely unprecedented. The economic war that has started against our country has never taken place before. So it is very hard to forecast anything."
Telling language in there
You missed the point, which is that the Russians bombed a courtyard next to an evacuated hospital, the courtyard was being used by Ukranian forces. And the media paints it as "Russia bombs hospital full of people, on purpose" and gullible people eat it up. Anyone with half a brain knows the devastation that actually bombing an active hospital would cause, and that wasn't it.
So here is proof that Ukranian forces are set up in civilian areas. If they get bombed and we see videos of a crater with swings and roundabout in the background, are you going to accept without quesion that "the Russians are bombing playgrounds" ? Or are you going to have a bit of cop-on and realize that some things are being misrepresented by the Ukrainians.
The more I'm thinking about it, the more I think China are in a win win situation here regardless of what happens.
They'll just keep egging the Russians on knowing we have the sanctions in place, they have them by the bollocks once their economy goes through the floor and they will have all the oil and grain they'll ever need.
"An American dog, a Polish dog and a Soviet dog sit together. The American dog says “In my country if you bark long enough, you will be heard and given some meat”. The Polish dog replies “What is ‘meat’?” The Soviet dog says “What is ‘bark’?”"
Hey Thanks for the Russian propaganda. But again you seem to be a day behind everyone else posting that ****.
I've been keeping an eye on this topic, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
They already had a failed repo attempt on one of the fleet.
https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-leasing/repo-aeroflot-a321neo-egypt/ ( main bulk of report behind a paywall)
And also how long they think this is going to last :/
The 101st Chairborne Division.
I'm not saying that anything you've said isn't correct.
I just don't see the benefit of making it hard to be able to see what the "other" side are saying.
There would be no need to be bombing playgrounds or maternity hospitals if they halt the invasion would there?
It's that thinking along with "we should discount wholesale anything pro-russian" that is slightly oxymoronic
I don't believe there is any international law that would allow a functioning hospital to be bombed, even if it had enemy troops on the roof. It would have to have been completely evacuated and no longer in use.
Russia is bombing civilians in Ukraine. They are using grad rockets on residential areas. They have been deliberately shelling humanitarian corridors. Every school and hospital they hit they will always claim there are "enemy units" or "Nazis" or "terrorists" there, that's Russian doctrine. You are trying to minimize it.
Switzerland asks do you require medical assistance?
I missed nothing other than you should be fcuking ashamed of yourself posting that shite here when Ukraine has been invaded by Russians. If you believe otherwise your the gullible one
The only eejits claiming the hospital was evacuated surprise surprise is the Russians. And yeah lots of them seem to have only "half a brain" and no morality. But that doesn't seem to stop them
And those Ukrainians are defending their city again the Russians who are bombing them. Capiche? or should I translate that to Cyrillic?
You seem to have missed the bit where Russia invaded Ukraine.
The NATO twitter account posted a nice image of a Ukranian soldier to celebrate womens day.... then pulled it down 5 minutes later when her Black Sun emblem was pointed out. A symbol widely used by neo-nazis, far-right, white-supremacists.
Interesting (well to me) article about these "bio labs" in Ukraine etc.
The invasion could also provide fodder for new disinformation narratives around the labs, Pope feared. The Russians, he said, “could potentially go to one of these facilities and fabricate something that they call evidence of nefarious activity at the facility.”
The pathogens in Ukrainian labs vary by facility, Pope said, but some can be characterized as presenting a concern in the Ukrainian environment. As an example, he cited African swine fever virus, which is highly contagious in pigs and has caused hundreds of outbreaks in Ukraine since 2012.
Some labs, he said, may hold pathogen strains left over from the Soviet bioweapons program, preserved in freezers for research purposes.
“There is no place that still has any of the sort of infrastructure for researching or producing biological weapons,” Pope said. “Scientists being scientists, it wouldn’t surprise me if some of these strain collections in some of these laboratories still have pathogen strains that go all the way back to the origins of that program.”
So if there's any nasty bugs associated with biological warfare around in Ukraine, they most likely originated in the Soviet bioweapons program, of which Putin's Russia is the successor state.
edit: Don't like to think about it but I do wonder if anyone really knows what might be stashed away somewhere in Putin's Russia on that front? I'm kind of doubtful he just got rid of it all, given his willingness to use the Soviet era chemical weapons to assassinate people.
No I don't have evidence. And not sure its true.
It was the words of the US themselves (victoria Nuland) that made me think that "there could be something going on"
Terrible shame that Russia doesn't have the right contracts with western governments and businesses like China and Saudi Aribia do, then they could open up concentration camps and bomb civilians into the dirt as much as they want. Although because Ukrainians are white it still might be a little less palatable than what's been done to Yemenis and Uyghurs.
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