You won't care about Gluten free if war or food shortages come anywhere near Ireland. You see this is why Western governments are so reluctant to get involved.
People calling for NATO to attack but still wanting their priveliged first World lifestyle. 👎
Most Russian citizens - civilians and soldiers - would never believe that story.
But, it won't be Russia that do it. It will be "the West".
Grain of salt and all that, but Iran does have a vast army and vast array of shia proxies. Basically, they're not short of fighters. They could easily lend a few thousands to Putin. If true, they would want something in return. My guess is either rubber stamp the Iran deal which is favourable to Iran, or sell fighter jets and/or S-400 to Iran
He'd probably dismiss it as NATO propaganda anyway!
They are in utter fear of their lives, so will sacrifice their lives out of fear, in order to what, save their lives?
Hmmm...
If only Putin had watched winter on fire.
how long is it on Netflix now 7-8 years?
I could have told him myself. I watched it in 2016.
It was the most bleak place i visited, and I’ve been to quite a share of shitholes.
It is bleak, but so was Ireland for many hundreds of years. People live the best way they can and they survive. What's your point?
It's a question of self-interest, not faith. It stands to reason that those generals know that a chemical, biological or nuclear attack in Ukraine would have also have a severe impact on their own country - are they really going to gamble on the direction of the wind?! Furthermore, no amount of censorship would prevent word of such an attack getting back to the streets of Russian cities - and many civilians would regard the effects of such an attack as being much worse than being put in the holding cells of police stations (assuming that police officers would still even be willing to arrest them in such a scenario).
Ye love the old "State media " don't ye.
When putin is laid out on a slab or whats left of him is gathered into a pisspot in Moscow they will come looking for his henchmen, then his apologists, and then .......his social media stooges!
I've been gluten free for just over a year. Has been transformative. 🙂
That’s actually the video that has me concerned.
Russia is a vast country, but most of it is sparsely populated. Something like 114 million of Russia's 140 million population live in European Russia, i.e. Russia west of the Urals. I'd be surprised if some Babushka out in some Russian village even knew a 'special military operation' was taking place. But in the larger cities and towns of Russia where people, especially younger people, suddenly find themselves cut off from the outside world - that may raise eyebrows. Most likely, everyone will be 'just fine' if 'just fine' means 'able to survive', but a lot of people in Russia have also become used to a standard of living slightly above that.
Not that Putin is overly worried about the little person. It will be the circle of Russian oligarchs who are relatively close to Putin and his 'allies' such as China concerned about their economic position in being associated with Putin and his war that will apply pressure to cease and desist.
Also, I think this concept that people in the West are weak from generations of luxury is fairly false. Even my own parents remember a time growing up that they had no electricity, raised their own livestock to eat and had no running water. We're not had several generations of cultural and economic luxury in this country at the very least, not by a long shot.
FSB proving their incompetence. They should have seen this coming and taken out Putin.
I read an article a couple of weeks ago but can't find it. They basically said the command structure is nowhere near like a western nuke nation. They said the "Kremlin has the final say". As in, they could advise him not to nuke, but he gets to decide.
The thing is we will be OK here in Europe in terms of food (even if we're all going to go involuntarily gluten free for a while)
But the sub continent is fucked if they stop the grain exports.
Do we still have those? No time like the present...
Had a friend who travelled by train through Russia in the 90s. He couldn't believe farmers were still using Oxen to plough the fields. Literally hadn't progressed in 100 years.
Watch the Julia Loffe video posted above. She thinks differently. The men he has surrounded himself with are in utter fear of him. His power is absolute. There is not many that can intervene
I saw a Russian analyst saying a default in 2022 would be three times worse than the 1998 one in terms of impact. I don't think they have any idea what is coming down the tracks.
My worry is that either way they will stop food exports, either because of the political advantage it confers on them, the epoch defining damage to Europe or just because their country goes to Shi7 and they go back to the Soviet Socialist Republic achievement of having the most fertile soil in the world and still no food.
Frankly I'm not concerned about Russia having to eat boiled wheat for years, it's the vast no. globally who depend on their fertilizer and food.
We may yet regret not having made Ukraine a NATO line in the sand.
They're still enjoying the ill gotten gains from Holocaust victims. Strange how most European countries were in recession and rations after the war, but Switzerland comes out sparkling. Pr*cks.
TLP,
Your answer is that some Russians are living like 19th century serfs and will be fine. They are not the ones the sanctions will hurt most but what % of the 140m Russians make up this self sufficient population?
Are any of these happy go lucky people living in Moscow?
I've said this before, they won't collapse. But Russia's ability to execute and sustain war under crippling sanctions will be very curtailed. They may not starve, but their poor performing army will become even poorer.
It doesn't really.
But large parts of the population are not self sufficient and happy to live off beets and bread
Switzerland need to be put in their box. They can play ball with us or them, not both. And if they want to play ball with Russian finances, well don't let them export anything into the EU. I can live without a new Rolex and a toblerone.
They can't get away with the **** they pulled in WW2. It's pretty much the exact same stuff. They'll look after and safeguard Russian finances, like they did with the Nazi's.
High fertilizer prices cause concern
A lot of people can't get a handle on what exactly Russia is. And that's understandable because for us here in Western Europe we have had several generations of cultural and economic luxury. As someone said before, think back to 1950s Ireland.
Russia is a vast country. Places like Moscow and other big cities are culturally lightyears away from the villages and towns further east and north. Self sufficiency is still a way of life for many people, as it has been for generations.
Sorry to dissapoint anyone here who thinks the Russians will soon be eating dogs or trawling through trashcans, but the vast majority of Russians will be just fine.
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