doo 3w ago • 75%
I'm not saying they have easy choices. Or good choices. But they do choose. We all do. I'd even say life is all about making small, imperfect choices.
doo 3w ago • 88%
Around 100 have joined non-Russian institutes in order to continue their physics research work with Europe’s particle-physics laboratory.
Not exactly "completely out of your control", I'd say.
doo 1mo ago • 83%
In the other hand, if digging good and settling oil to India were enough, they would not need to raid their savings this hard.
So maybe it's not that critical to demotivate India from Russian oil...
doo 1mo ago • 100%
My impression is that it's exactly what Ukraine is doing by attacking oil refineries and reserves - make russia decide wether to sell or use themselves for the war.
2.5 years to halve the reserves, the spend cannot be linear and I also don't think they need to get to zero to have a collapse. > ... The economy is being funded by the cash reserves, which increases inflation, which leads to another round of interest rate hikes to combat inflation, which makes it harder to borrow money, which is necessary for economic growth. Eventually, the cash reserves will run out. It took 2.5 years to deplete half the Russian reserves. Russia withdrew $37 billion to cover deficits in December 2022. It withdrew $20 billion to cover deficits in December 2023. It only has $54 billion left.
doo 2mo ago • 100%
I do hope that the industry taking it will just slightly delay devaluation and boom! more inflation.
doo 2mo ago • 100%
You mean they will go for printer go brr?
Yes, please!
doo 2mo ago • 100%
They also held 293.189 tonnes of unallocated gold, compared with 298.84 tonnes on August 1, 303.579 tonnes on July 1 and 329.795 tonnes on June 1.
So they sold almost 40 tonnes of gold in 4 months? I approve that trend.
doo 2mo ago • 100%
It's good that they can just print more rubels to fill the gap! /S
doo 2mo ago • 100%
The facts are:
- russia spent a lot of effort trying to ban it
- eventually they "convinced" durov to cooperate to fight terrorism and removed the ban
- in russia fighting terrorism is applied to anything
Yes, I don't have evidence that the messages are accessed, only that the access is given and that all of that is happening in a country with a blatant disregard to law from the government.
doo 2mo ago • 83%
I would be surprised if it's not.
russia tried to take control over it for a while, until
On 18 June 2020, the Russian government lifted its ban on Telegram after it agreed to "help with extremism investigations". https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/telegram-russia-ban-lift-messaging-app-encryption-download-a9573181.html
Which means they have access to all messages.
doo 2mo ago • 89%
Yes.
On 18 June 2020, the Russian government lifted its ban on Telegram after it agreed to "help with extremism investigations".
Which means KGB has full access to all messages.
doo 2mo ago • 100%
They didn't say which exactly human health is not threatened, so all is good and correct as I'm sure there's at least one senile psychopath who's safe from that smoke.
doo 2mo ago • 100%
I think the main factor to the collapse as well as to why it was taking this long was the speed of communication. Those vassals had the luxury of 10 messages a year from the boss.
Interestingly, when it comes to (hopefully soon) collapse of russia, there are two parts to it. First are the instant communication channels that are useful to the crash and second is the human hierarchy that pootin uses (and has to) to get information. So he's at the Ottoman speeds of processing information, but at the modern speed of attack.
doo 2mo ago • 100%
As a protest, Hungary should sever all relations with the terrible totalitarian EU.
Also I think they should consider moving into russia - there should be enough vacant space.
doo 2mo ago • 100%
No, I meant an accessory as in:
An accessory is a person who assists, but does not actually participate, in the commission of a crime.
doo 2mo ago • 63%
Of course we cannot. I agree with you that nobody is born evil or a criminal (even psychopaths are not guaranteed to become serial killers).
By all means, if not for propaganda, we would live in a very different world.
But the unfortunate fact is that they did consume enough of that propaganda to do nothing, or worse, follow the orders.
Yes, they are not criminals by nature, but what they do is crime or at least they are an accessory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)
doo 2mo ago • 85%
the answer is - it doesn't matter. the biggest learning from the nazi germany was that you don't need the entire population of a country to be homicidal psychopaths. all you need is a small group of those psychopaths, control or media, propaganda and you get a perfectly functioning system where normal everyday folks go to their normal everyday jobs.
just those jobs are in gestapo. or in maintenance of gas chambers. or making food for the equally confused soldiers.
of course, we should avoid civilian casualties as much as we can (but apparently russian army is not required) but the system needs to be stopped.
russia has cancer. chemoterapy is not a pleasant procedure that affects both ill and healthy cells. the alternative is, unfortunately, to allow that cancer to spread to the entire planet.
doo 2mo ago • 100%
I believe the trick to avoid getting encircled is withdrawing before one gets encircled
doo 2mo ago • 88%
Ukraine doesn't need that land. russia cannot afford not defending that land. The moment it gets too "expensive" for Ukraine, they withdraw. But that will only happen after russia invests heavily into actually recovering their territory.
It's like in chess when a knight is attacking two pieces at the same time. The one on defense can only choose a smaller loss.
Which is a win for Ukraine.
If anything, russia is showing clear signs of sunk-cost fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
In today's #vatniksoup I'll talk about Russian Nazis and introduce Russian neo-Nazi movements and paramilitary groups like Rusich and PMC Wagner. They're best-known for being funded by the Kremlin and being responsible for the "denazification" in Ukraine.
So basically, we're waiting for a (hopefully very soon) systemic collapse of moscovite army since they bet both their attack and defence on artillery
what's crazy is that Ukraine already neutralised (killed and wounded) 100% of what was the entire pre-war army of the moscovites (around 900K), 100% of non-reserve tanks and now getting close to 75% of artillery. https://minusrus.com/en
+44 artillery is very very good news. for moscovia the artillery is the main offensive and defensive tool.