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9 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

 

Russia has one of the largest gold reserves from any country in the world, and will pay their imports most likely in US$, of which I guess they also have large reserves.

But I think someone else is in bigger trouble, with the winter at the front door.

 

This will prevent the bank from handling transactions related to energy trade which will mean European customers are unable to pay for Russian gas.

 

Say thanks again to the dement criminal in the White House

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What exactly does this mean?

 

The ruble has essentially been made illegal in western countries, Russia has been banned from Swift, transactions in that currency is difficult.

 

That means the exchange rate is irrelevant.

 

The IMF has upgraded their estimate of Russian GDP, Russians aren't pushing wheelbarrows of rubble to the bakery for a loaf of moldy bread.  Their economy is doing just fine.

 

Why, they even have a surplus of washing machines to catapult at the retreating nazis!

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2 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

Why, they even have a surplus of washing machines to catapult at the retreating nazis!

That's good one! 

Remark on that BS about russians looting everything including washing machines ))) #ROFL

 

so called "free-fall" is irresponsible style of journalism in UK (and other countries).

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On 11/27/2024 at 4:57 PM, NoDisplayName said:

What exactly does this mean?

 

The ruble has essentially been made illegal in western countries, Russia has been banned from Swift, transactions in that currency is difficult.

 

That means the exchange rate is irrelevant.

 

The IMF has upgraded their estimate of Russian GDP, Russians aren't pushing wheelbarrows of rubble to the bakery for a loaf of moldy bread.  Their economy is doing just fine.

 

Why, they even have a surplus of washing machines to catapult at the retreating nazis!

 

Russia still needs to buy imported goods - triangular arbitrage means, if my memory serves me correctly, that the value of the rouble against the Tenge, Yuan or whatever currency they wish to trade in will still reflect the USD value. Imported everything will be more expensive. 

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4 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

 

Russia still needs to buy imported goods - triangular arbitrage means, if my memory serves me correctly, that the value of the rouble against the Tenge, Yuan or whatever currency they wish to trade in will still reflect the USD value. Imported everything will be more expensive. 

 

Triangu-whuuua?

 

BRICS no need dolla, BRICS no use dolla.

 

They may trade in local currencies, use gold, trade commodities. use their replacement for swift, many options.

 

What imported goods do they need that can't be provided elsewhere?  They need nothing from the USA.  They are satisfied with two genders, and are not interested in regime change.

 

Dollar is reserved for personal hygiene purposes.  Those fiat bills can soak up more than just $36.5 TRILLION in debt!

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2 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

BRICS no need dolla, BRICS no use dolla.

 

They may trade in local currencies, use gold, trade commodities. use their replacement for swift, many options

 

That's great if the supplier trade only within BRICS, but in a global economy, that's unlikely. As for commodity trading, not many non government actors have the means to deal in oil. 

 

2 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

What imported goods do they need that can't be provided elsewhere?  They need nothing from the USA. 

 

Precision engineering, aircraft parts, high spec bearings, electronics - all the things that Russia is incapable of manufacturing domestically and must be procured from international players. 

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5 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Triangu-whuuua?

 

BRICS no need dolla, BRICS no use dolla.

 

They may trade in local currencies, use gold, trade commodities. use their replacement for swift, many options.

 

What imported goods do they need that can't be provided elsewhere?  They need nothing from the USA.  They are satisfied with two genders, and are not interested in regime change.

 

Dollar is reserved for personal hygiene purposes.  Those fiat bills can soak up more than just $36.5 TRILLION in debt!

How is the ruble doing compared to the brics countries?

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3 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

Precision engineering, aircraft parts, high spec bearings, electronics - all the things that Russia is incapable of manufacturing domestically and must be procured from international players. 

 

They have a space program that can reach, ummm........space, and a missile program that can go boomski.  I hear they even have piers that float!  Whatever they can't produce, they can get from China.  I'm shirley they'll do fine.

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30 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

They have a space program that can reach, ummm........space, and a missile program that can go boomski.  I hear they even have piers that float!  Whatever they can't produce, they can get from China.  I'm shirley they'll do fine.

 

I don't claim to be a Russia expert but I lived in Eastern Russia for 8 years, working on a Russian /European multi billion dollar oil and gas joint venture. The largest Russian content contribution to the project was... concrete. Everything high tech or precision engineered came from abroad. They may have a space program but I bet it relies heavily on imported technology and components. 

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1 hour ago, NoDisplayName said:

They have a space program that can reach, ummm........space,

 

Wasn't there a member here who claimed to be involved in that.

 

Sadly he has gone AWOL since November 5

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19 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

 

I don't claim to be a Russia expert but I lived in Eastern Russia for 8 years, working on a Russian /European multi billion dollar oil and gas joint venture. The largest Russian content contribution to the project was... concrete. Everything high tech or precision engineered came from abroad. They may have a space program but I bet it relies heavily on imported technology and components. 

 

I don't claim to be an expert either, but it seems to me that obsessively posting anti-Russian propaganda articles, much like obsessively posting anti-China screeds or anti-Trump hit pieces, is something to be ridiculed.

 

 

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With Russia STILL the world's second biggest oil exporter, where everything is paid in Benjamins, the rubles forex correction means absolutely nothing.

 

Despite the Nordstream outage and so-called embargos, Europe is still buying loads of Russian gas, it just comes the 'long way round' to get there. If not via southern Europe and Turkish pipelines, there's at least two, huge, Russian-owned but Hong Kong flagged, icebreaker-hulled LNG carriers traversing the Baltic to discharge gas into import pipelines in Zeebrugge. The Vladimir Rusanov departed there about ten days ago, and sailing back to Yamal for another load. Earlier this year, they started regular deliveries to Jiangsu in China.

 

One of the deals that was signed on the cusp of COP 29 in Baku was the 'rebranding' of Russian oil as Azerbajani oil so that the European importers can avoid those nasty sanctions for buying the stuff, something that India's Modi has absolutely no qualms about.

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7 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

With Russia STILL the world's second biggest oil exporter, where everything is paid in Benjamins, the rubles forex correction means absolutely nothing.

 

Despite the Nordstream outage and so-called embargos, Europe is still buying loads of Russian gas, it just comes the 'long way round' to get there. If not via southern Europe and Turkish pipelines, there's at least two, huge, Russian-owned but Hong Kong flagged, icebreaker-hulled LNG carriers traversing the Baltic to discharge gas into import pipelines in Zeebrugge. The Vladimir Rusanov departed there about ten days ago, and sailing back to Yamal for another load. Earlier this year, they started regular deliveries to Jiangsu in China.

 

One of the deals that was signed on the cusp of COP 29 in Baku was the 'rebranding' of Russian oil as Azerbajani oil so that the European importers can avoid those nasty sanctions for buying the stuff, something that India's Modi has absolutely no qualms about.

Let me hear you say the same when 47 tanks the USA economy 😂😂😂

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