Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Yeah I've been watching USD/RUB for a good while now - being a dictatorship with extraordinary monetary controls (and their central bank person actually being smart and not a lackey) dragged it back under the 100 mark and kept it there, I'll be curious to see if they can stop the drift this time. If it goes above 100 and stays above - things could get interesting

It’s not a good sign for Russia alright. The head of their version of a central bank has said that the sanctions are making things difficult for them. I really hope the US or Israel don’t decide to go after the Iran oil facilities like they are threatening. If they do, they will drive up oil prices which will help Russia tremendously. What we need is low oil prices so Russia will be without a large source of income.

A traitor is only loyal to themselves.

It could be anyone, however it mentioned a link to Loyalists so it could be someone in FG who would rather closer links to Britain than the EU. FG afterall once traded as the Commonwealth party.

400m euro from Netherlands for research and development of larger drones in Ukraine

Na F-16’s kondigt minister Brekelmans in Oekraïne actieplan drones aan

https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/10/05/na-f-16s-kondigt-brekelmans-in-oekraine-actieplan-drones-aan

Tijdens een bezoek aan Kharkiv en Kyiv maakt minister Brekelmans bekend dat Nederland haar voortrekkersrol in de steun aan Oekraïne blijft invullen door ongeveer 400 miljoen euro beschikbaar te stellen voor een actieplan drones. Ook bevestigde de minister dat de eerste toestellen van 24 toegezegde Nederlandse F-16’s aan Oekraïne zijn geleverd.

a week after Ukrainians made it clear they have domestic capacity for millions of drones per year but are constrained by availability of funds

As the article linked after says though, Russia (or the USSR in it's previous incarnations) has suffered more from financial austerity internally that on foreign policies (i.e. war). The kremlin will worry because losing bodies doesn't seem to affect the Russian morale, but inflation through the roof may just bring the war back home as the rural serfs of the Russian federation realise sacrificing bodies isn't guaranteeing their way of life regardless.

Yes it will take longer to pinch those at the top, but that doesn't mean it won't happen, and the real question is will we have to wait that long for it to happen, or will the Russian people eventually realise that they are being bled dry for the select few at the helm. Yes the russians have a mindset for imperial obedience as we've seen, but they are also well known to throw a coup once in a while also.

Big hack on Russian state media

Mega hack shuts down Putin’s online state media

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“Ukrainian hackers congratulated Putin on his birthday by carrying out a large-scale attack on the all-Russian state television and radio broadcasting company,” a Ukrainian law enforcement official familiar with the matter told POLITICO.

“Employees complained that all information on the servers has been destroyed, even backup copies, online broadcasting and internal services do not work, there is no Internet and telephone connection,” he added."

why women only- apart from one man . Are they all war widows or what. ? They look somewhat to9 senior for their husbands- if still alive- to be at the front!!

As I said ... my posting history is there to see ...

And as I said, not gonna waste my time. It really doesn't take 2 years worth of posts to detect a pattern, ya know?

Im not here to spoon feed you information you are able to look up on your own

I wouldn't read it anyway. Again, time.

I suggest you go back to February 2022.

You actually believe that anyone will waste that much time with you?… You think very highly of yourself…

Long before you showed up on this thread

Wow… you actually looked me up? Doing a bit of opposition research are we? That's ok. Some of us are actually on to your tricks. It's a very old bag of tricks… :/

So apparently Putin went ahead and destroyed his own mansions, too afraid now to visit the Black Sea

The Russian economy is not doing better than Japan and neither is the currency. Also an important part of the story is how unsustainable the efforts to prop up the currency are.

The Japanese economy though is on a very dangerous precipice so it's no "win" or "gotcha" to claim you are doing better than Japan.

Surprise surprise ..... multiquoting nonsense

And I didn't need to look you up .... As I said I'm here since day 1 of the invasion... I know the regulars

I'm glad he clarifies at the start that he is an actor….although it becomes clear through the video!

they are less than 1% of global supply not even in top 20 producers in 2023

What they Iranians going to do? Attack Kuwaiti, UAE, Iraq, Saudi originating ships? Yeh great plan there to turn the whole of the Middle East (countries that all have 50 year newer equipment) against them

And worse piss off India and China and everyone in east Asia whom get majority of their oil from this region, the US now barely imports anything from the gulf (and would funnily enough benefit greatly from instability there, just look at what’s happening to us oil major stocks)

Neither can Russia ramp up to replace Irans output as 1. Their infrastructure is getting older and older with no investment (when not being blown up spectacularly by Ukrainians) and 2. They are sending oil workers to die in mud ditches and 3. No one wants to do business with them for obvious reasons, even their buddies in China said “feck off” to Siberian pipeline dreams

And that’s before we get to Russian oil which has to traverse Red Sea (next to Israel and Saudis) and doesn’t magically teleport to its destinations in Asia as there are no pipelines

The Saudis have been repeatedly making noises last couple of weeks (links earlier in thread) that they are pissed off with Russia for not only breaking opec+ agreements but also arming their enemies in region, the last couple of times Saudis got pissed off like this and drove prices into the ground the Russian economy imploded, late 80s led to USSR collapse and late 90 had their economy beg IMF for help

Daily oil usage 2023: ~100mn barrels a day

Unlike yourself who invents figures to suit your anti western narratives I backup my statements with facts

Iran daily oil production 2024: 1.56mn a day

a six year high

https://www.ft.com/content/00bb5653-e9aa-4af1-8f9e-705137947b32

Care to do the math on what percentage that is @eoinbn ?

BTW in 2019 Russia produced 10.3mn a day, down to 9.4mn during Covid and 9.5mn in 2023

They now made production figures a state secret 🤫

Sold does not mean produced. There are 90m Iran's and they use oil.

At least you have acknowledged your 750,000 barrels per annum was total BS. Progress.