Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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Europe heading for recession as cost of living crisis deepens
Can you please explain as to why Rouble is trading at a higher value today that 2014.What we have there is a classic case of selective/misleading news:
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The apparent exchange rate strength of the rouble is no boon for Russia, they are paying monumental interest rates to maintain that exchange rate and they still have huge inflation. Additionally oil is priced in $s regardless of whether it's sold in roubles, yuan, rupee or sheep. This mean that Russia receives less roubles per dollar per barrel. So whilst the price of oil is $90/bbl now vs $80/bbl pre war, because there are 60 roubles per $ now instead of 80, Russia only receives the rouble equivalent of what it would have got for a $67.5/bbl price pre war. Russian energy sales pay government wages and war costs in roubles, so they now have less roubles to pay the same wages and greater costs, and the wages will be worth less too because of the above chart.
🚨🇩🇪#Germany continues to be a weird country.
— Terror Alarm (@Terror_Alarm) September 5, 2022
Thousands of Pro-Russian terrorists in the German city of #Cologne took to the streets demanding the government to stop supporting Ukraine and to open both Nord Stream 1 and 2! pic.twitter.com/0iEMIf7OUm
These are not necessarily pro-Russian protests. They can quite clearly be understood as common sense protests .@SamRamani2
— OneQuantumLeap (@OneQuantumLeap) September 5, 2022
People do not want to pay through the nose for their energy and do not want to support an inwinnable war, one instigated as a proxy war the US/ NATO. https://t.co/SddY06z4xC
Last tweet sum it well for me, even staying as neutral or sympathetic to Ukraine cause there comes a time where this war hit common people far away from Ukraine so much that some will go onto protest. Not judging by right or wrong moral right etc etc, just that there should a be voice to it.
It isn't. In 2013 there was 30 roubles/$ at 5.5% interest rate and 6% inflation, now there is 62 roubles/$ at 8% interests and 16% inflation. That's what Putin has gained through being a dickhead.
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And in the EU there is a voice to it, in Russia they have 16% inflation but adding voices to it leaves you in prison or falling out a hospital window.
We know such a decree was put for male aged 18-60 in february-march, later possibly amended to include over-60 people also.
What does this signify, if true?
Further, given a large volume of Ukraines manpower drawn into war, how are they managing the farming & produce in the vast parts where fighting is not there? I saw a report that Russia is right now in the midst of a record harvest season, which is indeed possible looking at the weather they got this summertime in past 30-40 days, prime time for harvest. Pakistan got major flooding. We India have closed major export for now.
I refer these tweets, USA despite having some capability will never feed the masses of Europe, let alone Africa & other regions.
Lyuba, a farmer and all-around amazing person from #Mykolaiv region, standing in front of the grain her family has been able to harvest in spite of Russian occupation and shelling – and which she can’t sell now, because of #Russia’s blockade of #Ukraine’s ports. #UkraineWar pic.twitter.com/Dulwfoca5n
— Guillaume Ptak (@guillaume_ptak) September 4, 2022
Against expectations, global food prices have tumbled, averting fears of global food crisis (for now)
— Agathe Demarais (@AgatheDemarais) September 5, 2022
• Bumper wheat harvest in Russia partly explains drop in prices
• Yet prices may well rise again, as droughts affect crop yields and fertilisers prices look set to rise pic.twitter.com/1bhaKzxPND
🇷🇺Russia, No.1 #wheat exporter in the world, has a reserve of 44 MHA of unused agri land. This is a unique gift for future generations. This season, Russia plans to harvest a record crop but cannot deliver it to countries in need due to hidden sanctions @antonioguterres @FAODG https://t.co/dVwSZnXETw
— RUSGRAIN UNION (@rusgrain) September 2, 2022
Women liable for military service will be banned from leaving Ukraine from October 1https://t.co/Is58soTvxy
— JOHN NOBLE (@JOHNNOB35752453) September 5, 2022
The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the crisis of media censorship
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— ddlg ✙ (@u_me_reality) September 5, 2022
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A powerful arrival at the positions of the #Russsian Rashists.👌👈#Ukraine #Ukrainian #UkraineKrieg #UkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar #stopPutin #UkraineCounterOffensive #Donbas #Kherson #cherson pic.twitter.com/zJ4qAPcQFW
Amazing how people complain about the West so so much, when in Russia press freedom never existed with or without a war.The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the crisis of media censorship
Throughout the Ukraine war, press in the US and most of Europe have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real world.
yeah , it does not happen else where.
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according to @BMD no such thing is happening, its only they have been banned from drinking more vodka as it from russia but they still can dance & sing disney looney tunes..
Russian accounts say the invasion army recaptured Kostromka from Ukrainian forces yesterday after it was four days under Ukrainian control. Let's see who is right this time.
— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) September 5, 2022
Source video: pic.twitter.com/vGGL4Wcl0R
Some reports like this keep coming up. Obvious volatile situation in frontline areas.
🇺🇦💥Air reconnaissance unit corrects the artillery fire of #Ukrainian #M777 howitzers from the #Leleka UAV.#Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineRussianWar #UkraineWillWin #UkrainianArmy #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/qRmf18gAGF
— 🇺🇦 UkraineNewsLive🇺🇦 (@UkraineNewsLive) September 5, 2022
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Today
Russia switches off Europe’s main gas pipeline until sanctions are lifted
Josep Borrell, the EU’s chief diplomat, on Monday acknowledged that certain political factions in the bloc wanted the EU to drop its support for Ukraine, push Kyiv into a ceasefire and abandon sanctions against Russia to ease economic pressure on European countries. He said those views were “not representative” of the position adopted by member states. Borrell spoke after protests in recent days in Czech Republic and Germany against the rising cost of living and comments from Czech politicians on Monday calling for a new attitude from the EU. Borrell, speaking alongside Ukraine’s prime minister in Brussels, said there is “clear, complete, unwavering support of all [EU] governments to our position”.
Curious how the next few weeks will go.
Is it possible the Ukraine knows this well, ie the EU member states getting into political turmoil, and it is only going to increase in recent days, hence the need for a rather desperate counter offensive so they do not turn off support? We have seen reports of Ukraine mobilizing & committing most of its tanks & gears.
Putin approves new foreign policy doctrine based on 'Russian World'
So now Russia has decided it has the right to invade nearly anywhere under this doctrine.The silly b*stard has dug reincarnated the Brezhnev Doctrine:
Putin approves new foreign policy doctrine based on 'Russian World'
President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved a new foreign policy doctrine based around the concept of a "Russian World", a notion that conservative ideologues have used to justify intervention abroad in support of Russian-speakers. The 31-page "humanitarian policy", published more than six...us.yahoo.com
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