%% SHE has lot of good rebukes like that; she + her family left the evil empire= russia. [Edit ,she seems to be very mistaken about WHO + AR15s, but mostly accurate anyway.....] Strangely, she does not seem to try to promote evil empire-russia , like so many in media do; maybe that's because she lived there + did not like it.
So who is going to build ships for Russia. Quick answer: No one. China shipbuilders cast off Russia, yielding to Western sanctions after blacklisting https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-...yielding-western-sanctions-after-blacklisting
Russia's "war economy" can work for a short period of time, but is not sustainable in the long term. Eventually the increased taxation, declining oil and gas revenue, printing of money, robbing of social benefit funds, and decreased trade will catch up with Russia and its government war expenditures causing a fracture in government budgeting with an associated economic fallout. Russia struggles to control finances as Ukraine invasion spending soars https://kyivindependent.com/russia-...tem-under-control-as-military-spending-soars/
LOL, I almost choked with my covfefe, when I saw the source kyivindependent. BS starts from the very beginning - the name here.
So can't deny the budget figures and information contained in the article. There are many other sources showing the demise of Russia's economy -- many of them found in this thread.
Here is the Catch-22 for the Russian Banker -- if you don't reveal you payment methods then counter parties outside of Russia could never send/receive payments. When you do reveal the payment methods then sanctions can readily shut down the transactions. Oh, poor Vlad is going broke. So SAD. Here is a solution - Get the f@ck out of Ukraine and the sanctions will stop. A top Russian banker says Russia's payment methods should be a 'state secret' because the West keeps shutting them down so fast https://www.businessinsider.com/rus...ment-mechanisms-state-secret-sanctions-2024-7
Putin fanboys don't want to believe articles in western publications about the demise of the Russian economy. Well -- let's hear it directly from Elvira Nabiullina, the head of the Russian central bank.
Imagine what $38/bbl oil and the lifting of all the EPA bs on new LNG processing facilities would do to Vlad. Or... we could joust with more windmills. And solar farms. If we want the war to go on for another 20 years. In the end... since the beginning of time... money always wins. Cut the head off of Putin's golden hen, and Ukraine will be just fine.