Says the guy who is blaming Biden for raising gas prices, the "liberal media" for revealing Trump's praise of Putin, Biden for the Afghan withdraw that was orchestrated by Trump, the Oxford English Dictionary for getting definitions "wrong" which makes HIM look like a dope, mathematics for also making him look like a dope b/c he can't understand them.
Yeah, 'cuz it works in one day.
WTF are YOU talking about?
Wrong thread. Everyone here complaining about gas prices is a Trumper.
I really do hope they work and I’m proven to be an idiot, but I have seen 0 reason to believe that anything we do with sanctions will stop this. There is a proxy war going on behind the scenes with numerous countries that we need to win, which are the things we don’t see in real time but become history. We don’t seem to know our enemy very well from the outside looking in. Our media reporting seems to be stuck in 1980. Hopefully that’s just because we simply lack information. We might be kicking Russia in the *** in some way that we can’t see. Surely we have cyber warfare going on by now.
I’ve seen numbers of reports that Russia is blocking exports of other products.
That’s not really how the economy works in Russia. These old dinosaurs know how to do a Cold War. They removed them from the swift payment system, but that won’t really stop them from selling their oil anyway, which has been their main export for a long time. Price per barrel of oil is high, which makes up for a certain percentage of lost exports in other areas. Russia doesn’t prop up their businesses as an integral part of their economy traditionally, although in recent years they’ve tried to emulate some of what China does and use private industry more. They are set up structurally though to be a non-monetized command economy, which we will drive them back to by sanctioning them. The iron curtain is being put back up.
They export ~8M barrels a day. If sanctions hit fully, that’ll fall to less than 3M/ day.
I don’t know. Decades maybe. Could be next month. If they fail in Ukraine, they’re screwed. If they win in Ukraine, they’re screwed. The motive bothers me. The meetings Putin had with leaders of countries in the months prior to this bothers me. His meeting with Xi, where Putin was “reportedly“ asked to wait until after the Olympics to invade, even though waiting until after the Olympics, with the ground thaw that happened, posed a huge strategic military disadvantage to Putin, is odd. His tanks have been stuck in the mud for weeks now. Something just doesn’t add up here. The motive for Russia isn’t really clear, but its probably not to just blow up a few Ukrainian cities and become a pariah state without a larger objective.
Similar theme in a fiction I’m reading, written by a veteran. Russian leader has brain lesions and is losing it, but when lucid he plots with former enemy of state to bring Russia back to its former glory.
I’d read that. What book?
I think it was a Jack Carr one. Not quite Tom Clancy, but a decent read.
