Xi is in Russia today. He and many other World leaders representing a majority of the population meet each other. It is a phenomenal result of Biden's politics. An effort to isolate the regime failed miserably. It is a logical result when idiots are trying to rule. Even scarier is a fast process of de-dollarization. The next is Kamala, which will lead us to misery. No, thank you. Go to hell with your plans.
Biden has been an example to the world that genocide and supporting genocidal regimes is acceptable in warfare.
The US has now acknowledged North Korean troops are in Ukraine (they have been very conservative about it): https://united24media.com/latest-ne...resence-of-north-korean-troops-in-russia-3227
That's the story Russia wants to tell to little fanboys, and is completely false as evidenced multiple times on this thread already. True inflation in 2024 is landing north of 25%. For sure, support from China has enabled Russia to not lose already. Another factor is drip feeding support, the most cheap option would have been to throw out Russian forces in March 2022.
So let's see what happens to Russian soldiers after they are given back to Russia in a prisoner exchange. Oh... they are immediately sent to their deaths in meat wave assaults because Russia does not like soldiers who were captured. Russian soldiers sent to suicidal assault after prisoner exchange https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/u...reviously-captured-in-pokrovske-50460478.html
Rostec CEO says most Russian companies will go bankrupt at current rates: https://www-moscowtimes-ru.translat..._sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp "Most Enterprises Will Go Bankrupt." Rostec CEO Warns of Threat of Collapse of Russian Industry 8 часов назад Updated: 8 часов назад Russian industry is under threat of mass bankruptcies of factories, Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov said on Wednesday. According to Chemezov, who heads the country's largest state industrial holding, the problem for the manufacturing sector is the sharp increase in interest rates on loans, which "eat up" all profits and do not allow investment. "If we sign contracts for products whose production cycle is more than a year, then, naturally, the maximum advance payment we receive is 30-40%. The remaining funds for producing these products must be borrowed. And with such an interest rate, all the profit that we anticipate is eaten up by the interest that we are forced to pay to the bank," Chemezov said (he was quoted by RBC) . “If we continue to work like this, then most of our enterprises will go bankrupt,” warned the head of Rostec. He noted that the Central Bank interest rate in Russia is already a "record". Since last summer, the Central Bank has raised the rate seven times, bringing it to 19% per annum - the highest level since the first weeks of the invasion of Ukraine. At the meeting on Friday, October 25, the Central Bank rate will be raised again, to 20%, most economists polled by Reuters are sure. And banks are preparing for an even sharper step - to 21% per annum, which will be the highest Central Bank rate for Russia since 2003. Official statistics from Rosstat do not yet see any problems in the industry that has gone on a war footing: the country's output volumes increased by 4.5% year-on-year in January-August. And the government has included another 2% growth in production in the draft budget for 2025. However, rising loans pose risks, write analysts at Gazprombank's Center for Economic Forecasting. According to their estimates, half of all corporate loans in the economy have a floating rate tied to the Central Bank's key rate. This means that along with the tightening of monetary policy, companies' debt servicing costs are growing and there are risks that businesses will not be able to pay off and will need restructuring, the Center emphasizes. In 2025, the Central Bank's rate may rise to 22-23%, Finam analyst Alexander Potavin does not rule out. The main reason is the trillion-dollar injections into the military-industrial complex, which pose a threat of accelerating inflation, he points out. Russian housing rates 25%: Russia will be having severe problems with its economy by H2 2025 as previously noted. Zelensky knows that. Trump doesn't.