Who is "doomed"?

[Hummin]

Just now, thaibeachlovers said:

The west doesn't own the M E so why does it need "God's fist"? We haven't had borders there since they became independent. All the west has been doing is causing mayhem and death and destruction. Is that what you want?

It doesnt matter who is ruling, one part will always be the dog and sacrificed, and thats what you do not understand. 

 

It the palestines was given the rights, the jews had been in the same position as them. All parts is willing to do war crimes for their own interests. 

 

There is no saints in this game

[thaibeachlovers]

1 minute ago, frank83628 said:

Do the US or Iseael pay reparations for any of their destruction in the Middle East

A very good question.

Let's see how they justify it being "different" for Russia.

[Hummin]

2 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

Do the US or Iseael pay reparations for any of their destruction in the Middle East

Europe had rebuilt Gaza and Libanon how many times? How many Palestinian refugees in Europe or world wide? 10 million?

[frank83628]

46 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Europe had rebuilt Gaza and Libanon how many times? How many Palestinian refugees in Europe or world wide? 10 million?

How about the US or Israel?

[TedG]

10 hours ago, frank83628 said:

No need, Russia moved to them!

The illegal invasion which is taking down Russia. 

[Lacessit]

Food inflation in Russia is 10%. A lot of shoplifting of butter.

 

The ruble is at 104 to the USD. It hit 115, before the central bank froze foreign currency transactions on November 28. Before Ukraine, it was 60 to the USD.

 

Bank interest rates on deposits are 21%. The home mortgage interest is 26-28%. Homes are unaffordable for the average Russian.

 

The Russian demographic is collapsing. Men who would be siring children are either migrating to avoid  the Ukraine meat grinder,  or are being sent there. Recent fatalities are more than 1000 men a day.

 

Worldwide, there are 102 men to every 100 women, on average. In Russia, there are only 87 men per 100 women.

 

The Russian education system broke down in the mid-eighties. Most technicians and engineers from before that era are retiring.

 

I don't know about doomed, but those kind of facts would resonate with any economist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[frank83628]

2 hours ago, TedG said:

The illegal invasion which is taking down Russia. 

I think you'll find Russia has taken the territory it wanted....

 

hey, what do you think of the US's new friendy terrorists in Syria, sorry I meant freedom fighters, all of a sudden the USA is pals with ISIS.

[frank83628]

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Food inflation in Russia is 10%. A lot of shoplifting of butter.

 

The ruble is at 104 to the USD. It hit 115, before the central bank froze foreign currency transactions on November 28. Before Ukraine, it was 60 to the USD.

 

Bank interest rates on deposits are 21%. The home mortgage interest is 26-28%. Homes are unaffordable for the average Russian.

 

The Russian demographic is collapsing. Men who would be siring children are either migrating to avoid  the Ukraine meat grinder,  or are being sent there. Recent fatalities are more than 1000 men a day.

 

Worldwide, there are 102 men to every 100 women, on average. In Russia, there are only 87 men per 100 women.

 

The Russian education system broke down in the mid-eighties. Most technicians and engineers from before that era are retiring.

 

I don't know about doomed, but those kind of facts would resonate with any economist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homes are unaffordable for the average UK & US too, 6 or 7 x their salary compared to 2.5, 20yrs ago. 

Shop lifting of butter....haha, 

In the UK the have locks on the razor blades, cheese and meats. They even have electric toothbrushes under lock an key in tescos here.... you fool.

[saintdomingo]

On 12/13/2024 at 7:43 PM, swissie said:

Quote: "Gigantic loss of life and material.Economy slowly falling apart".
Proportionally higher in the Ukraine. Russian economy not falling apart.

Quote: "How much have they really gained"? = 1/4 of the Ukrainian territory so far.

 

Yes but other than that sissies how are they doing.?

[VBer]

37 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

Shop lifting of butter....haha, 

Locked butter is a known fake.

Here is the video of Australian guy walking in several shops and filming that the butter is freely available without any locks or devices. But those who want to believe to propaganda they don’t want to check any information. 
YouTube

 

[STALINGRAD]

Inflation is currently at 8.9%. Interest rates are 21%. The ruble is in a steady decline. Endless supply of Human Resources? The government pays couples to have children. Swissie Doomed? I’m not sure but the economy factually doesn’t look to hot.

[fasteddie]

18 hours ago, TedG said:

Then, they can move to Russia. 

They are in Russia 😊

[TedG]

2 hours ago, frank83628 said:

I think you'll find Russia has taken the territory it wanted....

 

hey, what do you think of the US's new friendy terrorists in Syria, sorry I meant freedom fighters, all of a sudden the USA is pals with ISIS.

The goal of the war was to turn Ukraine into a vassal state.   

[TedG]

2 hours ago, frank83628 said:

I think you'll find Russia has taken the territory it wanted....

 

hey, what do you think of the US's new friendy terrorists in Syria, sorry I meant freedom fighters, all of a sudden the USA is pals with ISIS.

Did you brag about Pukin keeping Assad in power?   LOL.

[MicroB]

On 12/13/2024 at 3:13 PM, frank83628 said:

Those ethnics Russians in the east do

 

The idea they are all "ethnic Russians", or Rus, is a myth.

 

They are descendants of colonists. Like Germans in the Sudetenland and Poland. And cut from the same cloth it seems. The first waves came at the turn of the 20th Century, from the most impoverished parts of the Romanov Empire. In that Empire, Russians were top of the pile, so those colonists would have been less likely to have been Rus. Earlier, Catherine the Great settled Christians from the Ottoman Empire in the Donbas, which means Greeks, Syrians, Semites. Serbs were also brought in. But it was Soviet practices in the 50s and 60s that rubbed out any tribal memory. People were "encouraged" to speak Russian without an accent. donbas was a sparsely inhabited region. It was drilled into these later settlers that they were not Ukrainian nor Russian, simply "people of the Donbas". Those who are pro-Russian are feeling allegiances based on Soviet notions of citizenship.

 

I take it you would support Chinese annexation of Taiwan, Singapore, parts of Thailand, because they are "ethnic Chinese" and that justifies it.

 

Those in the East are descendants of mining colonists, and while Russian speaking, not all are "ethnically" Rus.

 

1991 Independance Referendum

 

A solid majority voted to send a solid FU to Moscow, even in Crimea,

 

18% identify as "ethnically Russian". But the reality is Stalin did not selectively bus in Russians, he bussed in Soviet citizens, many of whom have forgotten their heritage.

 

Putin has taken a cue from previous dictators. He has invented a history, like Himmler created the idea of a "Volk". Its about as fictious as Ivanhoe. And , like Hitler and Himmler, he has mislead a people, who are fearful of change, with some simple stories.

 

 

[MicroB]

7 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Food inflation in Russia is 10%. A lot of shoplifting of butter.

 

The ruble is at 104 to the USD. It hit 115, before the central bank froze foreign currency transactions on November 28. Before Ukraine, it was 60 to the USD.

 

Bank interest rates on deposits are 21%. The home mortgage interest is 26-28%. Homes are unaffordable for the average Russian.

 

The Russian demographic is collapsing. Men who would be siring children are either migrating to avoid  the Ukraine meat grinder,  or are being sent there. Recent fatalities are more than 1000 men a day.

 

Worldwide, there are 102 men to every 100 women, on average. In Russia, there are only 87 men per 100 women.

 

The Russian education system broke down in the mid-eighties. Most technicians and engineers from before that era are retiring.

 

I don't know about doomed, but those kind of facts would resonate with any economist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Russian healthcare is crippled. Before Putin's War of Aggression, about 90% of medicines and 80% of medical equipment was imported. Firstly, healthcare is mostly not subject to sanction. The exception is certain dual use equipment blocked by the US State Department, which means replacement medical lasers.

 

But sanctions, and increased cost of shipping, means the availability of medicines has decreased.

 

Early on, Putin put a challenge to Russian industry to backfill the supply gaps. They have failed to do so.

 

On the one level, medicine inflation is quite modest; prices are up 4% in 2024. But Russian government healthcare procurement has declined. And the availability of medicines has fallen by about 10%. Before the war, most Russians used private medicine, mostly paid out of pocket. It was a growing industry, because State healthcare was so lousy (one of the memorable disasters of Russia's Pandemic, was when they decided to daisy chain ICU patients to save on ventilators. A leak incinerated the ward). When the war started, Putin prioritized the state for medical supplies. The private sector was all but dead.

 

The decline in the availability of medicines but only a modest inflationary impact means that there has been increased imports of cheap generics, probably from India and China, and a much narrower range.

 

Hospitals in the regions bordering Ukraine have been ordered to form combat brigades; essentiallt doctors and nurses are being co-opted as field medics, with a concomitant decline in the availability of medical services to citizens.

 

Headway, a Russian Analytics company, has noted the biggest cuts in the Federal budget are in purchase of medicines to treat severe illnesses. ie. mortality rates from cancer and heart disease, will tick up. There is a 20% decline in these medicines. DSM believes the healthcare budget has been stripped to pay for increased armament spending.

 

I recall that before the Aggression, Siemens had won the contract to overhaul the switchgear of the Russian Rail network. The network is still largely a decrepit Soviet era system. That work all stopped. Siemens won the contract because Russian companies were incapable of fulfilling the requirement.

 

Russian army reserves, and most of the armament factories, thanks to WW2, are in the Far East. The Rail Network is absolutely critical to the integrity of Russia.  It takes 6 days by train to get from Moscow to Vladivostok, and a brutal 118  hours to drive there. The road isn't mile up mile of shiney highway, but mostly potholed single lane, sometimes without a tarmac surface. In winter, the road is impassable. If the rail system fails, the Far East becomes cut off from Moscow. Obviously this affects the movements of goods and peoples, but it also affects the integrity of the Russian Federation.

 

Then headlines like this:

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-trains-derailment-mystery-1925131

 

Its not the work of Ukrainian special forces. Its indicative of a rail network under pressure.