I’ve seen several posts from someone who isn’t a tankie that far right types were included in the governing coalition that emerged after the most recent revolution, including the “Social National Party”. Their influence allegedly declined and they no longer hold much power.
Maybe Putin is as dumb as trump. Brother from another mother? Would explain a lot.
Memo to the World: Once this Russia/Ukraine thing is over, Saudi could use a little attention
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You’re not wrong, but the West has to get their oil from someone, and they all suck.
Just a little persuasion amongst ‘friends’ to act right
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If that’s not bullshit, I think they’ll actually get some takers.
Looks like that’s about $50k. Doubt they’re paying that to each soldier.
5 million rubles when the currency is going to shit has to be a troll out of them (apparently this is 47k right now but we’ll see how long that lasts)
More likely is that people are buying bitcoin because they think that the Russian situation will help it. Russia can just go through China. I strongly doubt that the Russian central bank opened a binance account.
Seems possible that Ukraine’s main problem is going to become indiscriminate bombing. If the troops continue to stall Putin is just going to start bombing the shit out of the cities (which he got away with in prior wars but this time he is bombing sympathetic white people).
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Dude, average annual wage over in those there parts is like something like $5-10k. It’s a ridiculous offer.
They are not exactly trying to bribe NL500 zoom wizards here.
If they got every soldier to lay down arms they would save more than $5 billion in damage, not to mention human life.
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The always excellent Matt Levine:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-28/russia-s-money-is-gone
As of Friday Russia had about $630 billion of foreign currency reserves, a large cushion designed to allow it to withstand economic sanctions and prop up the value of the ruble. But “foreign currency reserves” are not an objective fact; they are mostly a series of entries on lists maintained by foreign-currency issuers and intermediaries (central banks, correspondent banks, sovereign bond issuers, brokerages). 1 If those people cross you off the list, or put an asterisk next to your entry freezing your funds, then you can’t use those funds anymore.
Just take it out of Putin’s $630b, along with the rest of the wartime reparations, I suppose.
Look, Vlad, look at all the damage you caused! Gonna have to pay for it now, I’m afraid.
Number sounds very high.