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Can Russian citizens have Euro denominated bank accounts with a Russian bank?
Yes, and the increases to interest rates have only limited effect.
Nobody will trade with them in rubles, so anything imported is paid for in another currency. This just keeps getting more and more expensive as the ruble falls.
This is where having $300billion of their original $600b frozen is painful for them, harder to prop up the ruble. They also are spending huge amounts on the war effort special military operation.
Investors not buying rubles isn't because they thought the interest rate of 19% was too low (and 21% will now entice them). It's because they cannot spend them anywhere.
Haha! Putin hoped Europe would freeze when they cut off the gas, now it looks like Russia is in for it this winter.
21% now, economy stronk
Nice footage here of drone war
The world seems increasingly agnostic towards the playbook now being openly used by the likes of Trump and Musk. The idea that whole populations would react in disgust at blatant disregard for civilised norms seems to have disappeared, and their likes just run with it now, feeling completely immune. It's as though we're past the tipping point with Trump, where criminal convictions, associations with rapists and traffickers, connection to attempted violent insurrection just don't raise eyebrows anymore. In fact he seems to be inviting more and more accusations, in the hope I assume that people will become so snowblind by the sheer volume that they'll be unable to distinguish fact from rumour and will just give up caring.
Twenty years ago, the stories in the papers this month alone about Trump and Musk would have buried them forever. Now, I just can't see it making a difference. I'm honestly now at the point where I presume Trump is getting re-elected. The Democrats, after 8 years, still don't know how to take him on. Which all spells disaster for Ukraine and any other nation at the mercy of military aggression from more powerful neighbours.
putin is an evil that will seep into any gap
latest WSJ piece about Elon being Putin’s little b****h
edit: they are on a roll
Russian maintainer removed from Linux kernel.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/linus_torvalds_affirms_expulsion_of/
A good rule of thumb is that when Putin/the Kremlin says something, the opposite of that is true.
Was it one of the flights to or from Kandahar?
It was early in Putin's reign, but yes he changed his tune later.
Think one of the porters walked on Lavrov's foot live on camera on purpose when Putin was speaking in front of him, the way he couldn't blow his fuse.
When was that?
Because Bush seems to at least have had the capacity to revise his assessments, and seems to have been much stronger in words and acts than Trump wrt Putin.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-slams-russias-invasion-of-georgia/
"We helped airlift Georgian forces from Iraq back to Georgia. We delivered assistance in military aircraft to try to send the message that this was something that threatened a wider confrontation with Russia. As you know Condoleezza Rice famously outed Sergey Lavrov when Lavrov told her his objective was to overthrow the Saakashvili government and take Tbilisi. She went public and tried to establish that it was a red line and I think in some sense, it did deter Russia from going further."
https://civil.ge/archives/249301
Think I saw another video clip of Lavrov barking at a functionary at another one of those intl. gatherings where Russia is still welcome. Seems to have a short fuse.
I suppose it is draining having to shovel loads of shít every day for Putin, who (perhaps?) won't allow him head off into the sunset.
I remember Bush saying he looked into Putin’s soul and liked what he saw.
You can see whose been on the beach and who's hiding in a bunker there 😁
You're literally posting the words of Vladimir f*cking Putin? Seriously?
It's one thing to post the likes of Marsheimer, Musk or David Sacks. But Putin himself??
Jesus Christ. Instant ignore list addition. Thanks for the heads up.
Da, tis so
kremlin scutter
I think overall the US cocked up on Ukraine…. First Obama, then Trump, now Biden….
Putin saw a hesitant West and has taken full advantage
Sounds like the pincers on that cauldron in Kursk have been closed
I see the way some coal mines are closing in Russia and cities are already reporting shortages of coal.
Russian blood feud getting more bloody me thinks
10,000 Koreans will only replace the 10,000 Russian casualties that will be out of action by the time the Koreans get to the front line. Then they'll all be dead in a week.
There will be no western ground troops for goodness sake the west won't even provide Ukraine what it needs to win equipment wise.
Very true. The Iranian drones, missiles, North Korean shells and missiles have been condemned by the west and pretty much that's all that happened. Zero repercussions for Russia, Iran or NK.
You now how armies from 2 nuclear powers involved and the west is still seeing granting permission for Ukraine to use long range missiles as an escalation 🤷🏻♂️
I don't see how NK troops in Russia, seems to be confined to Kursk for now, is a big escalation when millions of NK shells been dropped on Ukrainian towns wasnt viewed as an escalation.
that’s a good point
Ukraine don’t need more troops as
Zelensky should reply with “fine we are going to build nuclear weapons then” which would only take them few weeks apparently
Or if there is ever a breakthrough by Russians and complete rout is imminent
Then bomb the crap out of Orbans villas etc hence forcing NATO to invade and occupy Ukraine, better than being occupied by Russians, did wonders for Germany
So it's all Biden's fault?
