Russians are **** themselves now that they realised their ships are in range
Eh, maybe get your facts right about the oil grades. Sakhlin blend is lighter and sweeter than Brent and Ural is about the same API as what is pumped in UAE and Oman but is sweeter. If anything most Russian oil should command a slight price advantage due to its average lower sulphur on a straight API comparison. This is all dependant on what can be physically traded e.g. WTI is only tradable in US.
What about ‘ A Special Operation, Mark 2’ or ‘ Return the Compliment Operation’
16% inflation
-9% wage growth
-95% car sales
-16% gdp
-300bn in assets seized
300000 left country by mid March (statistics not offered since)
1500 companies left dismissing 600000 people
Yeh Russia is doing well
How devilishly clever master strategist, Russia's greatness will be secured by crushing its own economy. It's like Rumble in the Jungle: rope-a-dope on a national scale.
The EU it seems actually put up an informative infographic just in the last day, some fascinating graphs there
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/fr/infographics/impact-sanctions-russian-economy/
You mean that russia telling everyone that sanctions are having no effect isn't true? That can't be right, can it? Why would they lie incessantly about such things?
I'm awful silly to believe such information coming from russia and posting it for all to see.
a Su shot down by own Russian air defence
Su-icide its a su-icide
Yet according to some posters on here, the sanctions are not working....
Their airline industry seems to be in huge trouble as well - it may barely be functioning within a year and talk that it could take many years to recover.
I would imagine that with the Russians even more dependent on trucks to move the supplies to the front, targeting them might be a good idea. They're easier to knock out than tanks.
Twice the distance means twice as many trucks, means half the protection, and more opportunities for ambush.
I'd say we're looking at the better part of a decade from the moment the sanctions are lifted until Boeing, Airbus et. al. even start selling to Russian airlines again. Also, they managed to burn the entire aircraft leasing sector. The theft of hundreds of aircraft from lessors in the early days of the war means that any aircraft leasing companies will think long and hard about ever leasing out even a Cessna Skylane to a Russian company, let alone an A330 or A350.
Who ultimately has paid for these now worthless airplane stocks, insurance or the leasing companies? I've not heard of any leasing companies go bust.
Only Dublin-based AerCap, the world's largest aircraft leasing company, seems to have published any figures. They stated that they'd lost 152 aircraft in Russia and Ukraine, valued at 2.5 billion US Dollars. They seem to have absorbed that themselves, but given an annual revenue of 5 billion USD in 2021 and assets totaling 74 billion USD, the hit they took would be painful but likely not fatal. I presume that this experience has soured the Russian market for them though for the foreseeable future.
flower and crop beds are burning
Yes, I doubt the Russian public are even aware of just how much the regime has burned its bridges with the West. Even if sanctions were lifted, there's no guarantee anyone would be in a rush to do business with them again. Many companies will just think "That's a pariah state, let's steer well clear of them, they're bad for business".
Ditto with the sporting bans. I can see a scenario where even if the bans were lifted, many sports bodies and federations would simply refuse to compete against them or to travel to Russia.
Poor fellow
A Lada for your sons life
Seems fair
Not relatable. How much per Litre of Vodka can the coffin money buy?
Depends if you value your eyesight
anyways there’s a certain naval port and bridge to be in range soon
Sniper shot
Some shooting. Might even be able to repurpose the helicopter. 🎯
Does it have a built-in cd player?
That's the twin sons dying option.
Don't think there's a CD option, I think you're talking about the cassette tape option 😀
Is that not footage of a Russian helicopter which crash landed in Saint Petersburg?
Wouldn't be the first time you post tweets from random people which turn out to be false!
way longer than that. no one will lease them anymore. They will have to buy outright or make their own.
Hey, I can't research every link.
It's not just that. Boeing, Airbus, Embraer or whoever will likely ask for upfront payment or at least some form of guarantee or security before they even start cutting the first fuselage panels. As for building their own, given the recent issues with their MC-21 project, more precisely their engines and avionics, I doubt they'll make any rapid progress there unless they can purchase those components from abroad. And I somehow doubt that Pratt & Whitney, Rockwell Collins, Thales, Safran and other similar companies are going to be too keen on selling their components to any Russian company.
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