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Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy tricks and cash

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Re: Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy tricks and cash

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Post by lordfrito »

avn2109 wrote: post #39
olabyne wrote: post #23

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As a european, I think both of your "sources" seems dodgy and very US-libertarian biased (should I say Kremlin biased ?)

I'm not the GP and don't have a horse in this race, but is English Wikipedia widely considered "Kremlin biased?" That seems far fetched.

I would assume that most Wikipedia articles are biased by whatever interests have skin in that game (and deep pockets). For example, I'm sure the sugar industry has their hand correcting "misinformation" on Wikipedia pages related to the benefits of sugar.

Political articles on Wikipedia? I assume they're all biased. Some by groups I agree with, others by groups I don't.

Re: Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy tricks and cash

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Post by popilewiz »

throw903290 wrote: post #48

Call it what you want. Russia is switching from export to internal consumption. Getting something like 30 years mortgage on house, was unheard of until recently. If West can run quantitative easing for 15 years, why not Russia?

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Post by scohesc »

IgorPartola wrote: post #13
greggarious wrote: post #9

They're running out of things like missles and bombs though IIRC? Why don't we honor the Budapest agreement and let the Ukrainians finish off Putin's regime with US made weapons if we are going to play word games about the difference between NATO and a firm and unambiguous promise to defend a nation if they give up their nuclear weapons? The people of Russia don't seem to want this war, they are conscripted. (From wh…

Because nukes. If Ukrainians push into Russia (which to be clear, they can’t for many other reasons aside from weapons), Russia would launch nukes and that could make the entirety of Europe uninhabitable for centuries.

I've tried to stay mostly ignorant about the war for my own health - what has been released or talked about that makes people think Putin will launch nukes and destroy a bunch of land and cause untold death and destruction to numerous countries not involved in the conflict?

I'm not trying to be facetious or incidious with my question, feels like I need to worry more about paying bills and keeping my family fed but with nukes being talked about maybe I should be paying more attention.

Re: Russia’s apparent resilience is being kept up by policy tricks and cash

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Post by Nifty3929 »

throw903290 wrote: post #48

Call it what you want. Russia is switching from export to internal consumption. Getting something like 30 years mortgage on house, was unheard of until recently. If West can run quantitative easing for 15 years, why not Russia?

Because you cannot eat money, or live in money.

A country can QE forever, but this will not put food on the table or shoes on people's feet. If people want those things, they must either be produced or imported. QE doesn't help with either of those. Production is a physical act, not a monetary one.

And if you want to import from somewhere, then you need that nation's currency to do so. Which means that in turn you must have produced something to exchange for that currency.

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Post by mannerheim »

vlovich123 wrote: post #40
rich_sasha wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends to whom. To countries far away, but wary of, dunno, nukes going into the hands of terrorists, sure. To countries bordering Russia who are intimidated and threatened (or invaded!) on a continuous basis, this is a definite improvement.

I doubt that countries bordering Russia are keen to have failed chaotic states with economic problems on their borders. The refugee situation that will create is pretty intense.

There's no love for Russians in any of these countries; they'll just deport any refugees.

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Post by simplotek »

vlovich123 wrote: post #40
rich_sasha wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends to whom. To countries far away, but wary of, dunno, nukes going into the hands of terrorists, sure. To countries bordering Russia who are intimidated and threatened (or invaded!) on a continuous basis, this is a definite improvement.

I doubt that countries bordering Russia are keen to have failed chaotic states with economic problems on their borders. The refugee situation that will create is pretty intense.

> I doubt that countries bordering Russia are keen to have failed chaotic states with economic problems on their borders.

You're somehow ignoring that countries bordering Russia have already a failed chaotic state with economic problems on their border which also is systematically threatening with invasion, destruction, and genocide.

There are very good reasons why Baltic states are the highest per-capita providers of military and economic support to Ukraine.

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Post by fredophile »

user3939382 wrote: post #27
Kukumber wrote: post #20

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What parts of the Minsk agreements not being fulfilled led to Russia invading and who should be pressured to fulfill them? Since Russia claims they are not bound by the Minsk agreements why would there not being fulfilled lead to the current invasion? Should the current Russian government be trusted to keep their end of any deal involving Ukraine given their blatant breaking of the Budapest memorandum and the Russian-Ukraine Friendship Treaty?

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Post by cousin_it »

rasz wrote: post #31
IgorPartola wrote: post #10

As a Ukrainian, good! This war should have a long cost to Russia. They are certainly causing long term damage to Ukraine by destroying Ukrainian culture where they can, using rape as a widespread war tactic, and relocating Ukrainian children to Russia “for their own good” (see any recent ISW report for details). Having said that, the real thing that appears to have happened in this war is that Putin is a KGB stooge,…

>they are the only ones who genuinely are pushing for annexing what they call “so called ‘ukraine’” due to their strong nationalist beliefs. Basically they are the most ideologically aligned with Putin but also the most critical of his failures. The only loud protest voices coming out of russia seem to be complaining about loses, poor soldier conditions, not killing Ukrainians fast enough etc. Even so called ru oppos…

> The only loud protest voices coming out of russia seem to be complaining about loses, poor soldier conditions, not killing Ukrainians fast enough etc

The loudest protest voices I'm hearing are Navalny and Yashin, both very against Russian aggression, both imprisoned for it. Which voices are you referring to?

> Even so called ru opposition turned out to be all in on helping russian soldiers (TV Rain)

TV Rain didn't send any help to Russian soldiers.

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