35 minutes ago, rabas said:

.. no! ... wait! ... I didn't say I was in space, I was in Russia! 😋

 

Ha ha well I kinda guessed you didn't go to space.

 

I too was in Russia for a very brief ( felt like forever was glad to get home )

2 weeks  in 1989.

I remember the empty shelf's and long queues for food ,drinking too much vodka

and a Russian girl going completely bonkers at me just because I smiled at her !

    ( A social faux pas  apparently,not mentioned in my guide book )

sat on the trans Siberian express  from Moscow to Vladivostok

changing times on my watch umpteen times  the country is huuuuuge !!!

 

But anyway  it was doomed then so surely must be even "more doomed" now  MSM  says so....

16 hours ago, rabas said:

But my point is not Russia bad. I admire both ways, innovation and brute force determination. My point is the human misery wrought by Russian leaders' perennial neglect of its own people. Economic doom if you will.

Always been so. The Tsar wasn't overthrown and executed for being nice to the peasants.

 

Which is in no way excusing the vile treatment of the peasants, just that it's always been that way in that unfortunate part of the planet.

On 4/9/2025 at 1:22 PM, rabas said:

 

Yes, Russia has always had ball bearing problems. The Soviets made big missiles with big nuclear warheads while America deployed smaller missiles like Minute Man with smaller warheads.  Why? Because the US invested heavily in high precision ball bearings that made their missiles far more accurate. How? High precision ball bearings are used in gyroscopes that make guided missiles far more accurate. Smaller US weapons could take out missile silos more easily than big old Russian weapons. It's always amazed me that all that high technology boiled down to ball bearings. 

 

Similar  high tech technology gaps exit today. The next revolution has begun with chip-scale atomic clocks (CSACs) so small they can be put in missiles. Such missiles can hit precise positions around the world without radio communication like GPS.  Again Putin's lack of a broad based economy leads Russia behind.  If Russia had a broad based civilian technology we wouldn't have Putin, or Putin wars. Russians and Americans alike would breath a sigh of relief. 

Hmmmmm. Seems that despite not being able to make ball bearings and having to use washing machine parts, Russia seems to have no problem sending missiles and drones to attack Ukraine.

Perhaps the inferior ball bearings in the gyroscopes can explain why the missiles seem to be hitting civilian structures instead of military targets.

The Rats are starting to eat each other. Actions like this were predicted.

 

https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/17/he-was-the-governor-of-russia-s-kursk-region-when-ukraine-launched-a-surprise-incursion-now-alexey-smirnov-is-in-jail-facing-embezzlement-charges

Good analysis of the collapse of VTB.

 

 

3bomb explosions in moscow

 

https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/23/three-explosions-rock-central-moscow-near-shopping-centre-22959276/

1 hour ago, 3NUMBAS said:

3bomb explosions in moscow

 

https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/23/three-explosions-rock-central-moscow-near-shopping-centre-22959276/

That article is 2 days old.

11 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

That article is 2 days old.

 

The bomb explosion today isn't though.

17 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

That article is 2 days old.

So they didn't happen, or don't count?

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/06/5/7515725/#
 

terminal decline