28 Feb 2022, 6:32 pm
cyberdad wrote:
But stock markets always bounce back.
I suggest you don't sell your borscht shares just yet.
28 Feb 2022, 6:39 pm
Pepe wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
And I wish there would suddenly, like right now, become a raging epidemic of Russian soldiers going "Wait a blankety-blank minute, what the ever loving hell are we DOING????"
"And we're not getting paid enough for this!".
Russian ruble now worth 0.0097 USD.
Make the country that has pootin its leader pay for the invasion.
Isn't this the porpoise purpose of sanctions?
No, those are intended to create hardship that would lead to unrest and possible challenge to the regime.
The thing is, it doesn't work with Russians who are quite apathetic to hardship. They just become more suspicious of the source.
28 Feb 2022, 6:57 pm
r00tb33r wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
And I wish there would suddenly, like right now, become a raging epidemic of Russian soldiers going "Wait a blankety-blank minute, what the ever loving hell are we DOING????"
"And we're not getting paid enough for this!".
Russian ruble now worth 0.0097 USD.
Make the country that has pootin its leader pay for the invasion.
Isn't this the porpoise purpose of sanctions?
No, those are intended to create hardship that would lead to unrest and possible challenge to the regime.
The thing is, it doesn't work with Russians who are quite apathetic to hardship. They just become more suspicious of the source.
Less income.
Less money for the war effort.
"SWIFT" is hurting big time.
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28 Feb 2022, 6:59 pm
Pepe wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
/|Putin has a fresh clone ready to slip into when his present body gets too rickety.
Damn that cloning technology!
Sith dark science.
28 Feb 2022, 7:10 pm
Pepe wrote:
r00tb33r wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
And I wish there would suddenly, like right now, become a raging epidemic of Russian soldiers going "Wait a blankety-blank minute, what the ever loving hell are we DOING????"
"And we're not getting paid enough for this!".
Russian ruble now worth 0.0097 USD.
Make the country that has pootin its leader pay for the invasion.
Isn't this the porpoise purpose of sanctions?
No, those are intended to create hardship that would lead to unrest and possible challenge to the regime.
The thing is, it doesn't work with Russians who are quite apathetic to hardship. They just become more suspicious of the source.
Less income.
Less money for the war effort.
"SWIFT" is hurting big time.
Doesn't work that way. Russia is self-sufficient in terms of arms production, and the companies are state-controlled. Domestic cost of arms won't really increase as it does not convert into or relate to foreign currency. It's only a widening the gorge in foreign trade. Arms trade is not foreign to Russia.
Russian state income comes largely from energy exports, and sanctions largely avoid it, as foreign powers are dependent on the imports, they'd be hacking at the branch they're sitting on otherwise.
All the sanctions are doing is pissing off the average consumer trying to buy imported gourmet cheese at the supermarket. This bit I explained earlier, it's not effective enough.
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28 Feb 2022, 7:16 pm
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28 Feb 2022, 7:35 pm
28 Feb 2022, 8:05 pm
28 Feb 2022, 8:40 pm
r00tb33r wrote:
Pepe wrote:
r00tb33r wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
And I wish there would suddenly, like right now, become a raging epidemic of Russian soldiers going "Wait a blankety-blank minute, what the ever loving hell are we DOING????"
"And we're not getting paid enough for this!".
Russian ruble now worth 0.0097 USD.
Make the country that has pootin its leader pay for the invasion.
Isn't this the porpoise purpose of sanctions?
No, those are intended to create hardship that would lead to unrest and possible challenge to the regime.
The thing is, it doesn't work with Russians who are quite apathetic to hardship. They just become more suspicious of the source.
Less income.
Less money for the war effort.
"SWIFT" is hurting big time.
Doesn't work that way. Russia is self-sufficient in terms of arms production, and the companies are state-controlled. Domestic cost of arms won't really increase as it does not convert into or relate to foreign currency. It's only a widening the gorge in foreign trade. Arms trade is not foreign to Russia.
Russian state income comes largely from energy exports, and sanctions largely avoid it, as foreign powers are dependent on the imports, they'd be hacking at the branch they're sitting on otherwise.
All the sanctions are doing is pissing off the average consumer trying to buy imported gourmet cheese at the supermarket. This bit I explained earlier, it's not effective enough.
I beg to disagree.
There were a number of factors that brought down the soviet union.
The economy was one of them.
I am a lot older than you.
I remember reports in real-time where there was a case of cannibalism in the soviet army because they weren't being paid.
I am not saying pootin's army will collapse overnight, however.
But the sanctions will in all probability continue for some time if pootin does subdue Ukraine.
pootin's main lifeline is china, but even with that, the russian economy will be hurting, and pootin's military power will be put under considerable stress.
28 Feb 2022, 8:53 pm
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28 Feb 2022, 10:44 pm
01 Mar 2022, 1:27 am
Misslizard wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
They want to clone an army of ancient warriors.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... ient-army/
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... ient-army/
It is said stalin had a similar "vogel" (stupid idea), but that may have simply been disinformation.
Quote:
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin wanted to rebuild the Red Army, in the mid-1920s, with Planet-of-the-Apes-style troops by crossing humans with apes. . . Stalin is said to have told Ivanov, ‘I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.’
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/pr ... rwarriors/
They will ride bears into battle.
Bear Calvary.
Would this be the bear necessities?
02 Mar 2022, 12:11 am
Pepe wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
They want to clone an army of ancient warriors.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... ient-army/
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... ient-army/
It is said stalin had a similar "vogel" (stupid idea), but that may have simply been disinformation.
Quote:
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin wanted to rebuild the Red Army, in the mid-1920s, with Planet-of-the-Apes-style troops by crossing humans with apes. . . Stalin is said to have told Ivanov, ‘I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.’
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/pr ... rwarriors/
They will ride bears into battle.
Bear Calvary.
Would this be the bear necessities?
Balu?
02 Mar 2022, 2:40 pm
Everyone get your brooms out for operation bind Putin. 
https://wildhunt.org/2022/03/occult-pra ... raine.html
02 Mar 2022, 3:57 pm
Misslizard wrote:
Everyone get your brooms out for operation bind Putin.
https://wildhunt.org/2022/03/occult-pra ... raine.html
https://wildhunt.org/2022/03/occult-pra ... raine.html
