• @horse_battery_staple
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    2518 days ago

    Until the oligarchs bleed more money than blood, it doesn’t matter how far the Russian economy falls. Even with them losing so much ground in Syria, Putin is going to push forward with the war and Cheeto Mussolini is happy to be bribed a few million to stop US aid and pressure Nato to help draw the new Ukrainian borders.

    Fucking ridiculous world we live in.

    • @[email protected]
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      1218 days ago

      It more about who’s blood and money is leaking out. They are fine with loss as long as it’s you common peasants.

      • @horse_battery_staple
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        918 days ago

        That’s exactly the point of my statement. It’s only down 10% against the Euro. Most the oligarchs have their money in private funds in the Seychelles, Switzerland, Panama. Check out the Panama Papers for a good idea of how little the Russian oligarchs care about the Ruble.

  • sunzu2
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    518 days ago

    Ohh no… Anyway.

    Fuck Russia and their obidient dog population

    At least in us we check our elites sometimes, these clowns will accept anything

      • sunzu2
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        118 days ago

        Well the Adjuster just denied claim to life to an officer of the regime

        And people are gloating over it. When was last time Russians made their regime uncomfortable?

        • @Frozengyro
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          618 days ago

          It’s a one off thing. After decades of being fucked.

          • sunzu2
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            018 days ago

            No doubt. But 1 is more than 0

            Also hopefully potential school shooters start getting better at picking their targets

            • @Frozengyro
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              318 days ago

              It’s essentially not more than one. And they won’t, that’s not why they do what they do. Most school shooters are kids from that school.

  • @Zer0_F0x
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    418 days ago

    I mean… It’s like 10% down against the euro since 2020, but it’s doing worse against the dollar, so basically the war has hurt the US the least so far? I’m not an economist by any means, please let me know if I’m misunderstanding something here but so far the sanctions haven’t done anything spectacular from what I can see from my Greek couch.

    • @Valmond
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      318 days ago

      The ruble is on a crash course downward trend, its downward trend in the 15d, month, 3m, 6m, year, 2y, 5y and so on and as economists say, it’s in a death spiral. This last week is what they call a dead cat bounce.

      Putin makes the russian central bank prop it up as good as they can, but after inflation& crazy 21% rates the only thing left is selling what they have for rubles (mostly yuan if I got that right) but that can’t go on forever because they are burning millions worth of $ a day ($50M ?) just to delay the inevitable.

      Putin is trying to stay afloat until Donald enters the white house, but all it shows is that the russian economy is in the toilet.

      The youtube channel “Econ Lessons” explains all this way better than me, with a nice backdrop. Or “Joe Blogs” russian economy videos too.