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The Ruble recovered because Russia instituted incredibly restrictive capital controls and raised interest rates to 20%. Basically, the Ruble is no...
On a side note, it looks like Russia's hold over some other traditional Russian allies is starting to crumble. The Central Asian countries have...
The unfortunate thing that isn't mentioned about that war is that despite the huge losses by the Soviets, the peace treaty that was signed still...
This isn't even blurring, this is all spelled out in the Geneva Conventions. The Geneva Conventions define combatant and civilian. Anyone who is...
They live a life that gives them access to the rest of the world but the poor are arguably much worse off today than the USSR. In the USSR, there...
I doubt this is based on new intelligence. A lot of this is posturing. The key message of this war has been to have Europe be the face of the...
India buying Russian crude isn't necessarily the issue. Not only does US produces significant amounts of oil but both of its neighbors to the...
Looks like the US finally brokered a deal to get Polish MiG-29s to Ukraine. Yet another reminder of why having a competent executive branch is...
You could really go back to 1994 when the US and UK signed the Budapest Memorandum. We've more or less been obligated to protect Ukraine since the...
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Yup and this is really one of the primary differences between the US and China. China has huge food security issues. They don't have the arable...
Its not just Russian weaponry. India's relationship with Russia dates back to its own independence. When India became independent, its founders...
This scenario is exactly why the US government pays out obscene amounts of money for farm subsidies and crop insurance. One of the main reasons...
Really interesting thread on the psyops around Russian paratroopers. Basically Russia thought Ukraine would fall over so they deployed...
Russia is in the process of closing off its borders. Several land borders have closed and planes are being routed back to Russia. Combined with...
The EU has a collective defense clause as well. If Finland and/or Sweden is invaded, you're still dealing with EU military intervention and...
St Petersburg doesn't count. Moscow and St Petersburg have always had a dimmer view of the Putin governments. Whenever we see spontaneous...
Armenia and Kazakhstan abstaining are actually slight positives. They're controlled so closely by Russia that this is actually a mild form of...
[MEDIA] So China, India and a few others abstain on condemning Russia but the Taliban vote to denounce Russia. What a strange moment in history...
I think Russia is basically cutting its citizens off from Western sources on the internet. Social media is slowly going black and now youtube is...
