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    Russia and economic war by the west #2

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    Post  JohninMK Sat Dec 17, 2022 1:30 pm

    Tucker Carlson showed Americans how sanctions affect Russia

    ▪From January to September, Russia's trade turnover was $120 billion higher than in the same period of the previous year. Doubled previous record in 2008

    ▪The American reporter showed the shelves of our stores with genuine delight, converted his basket into dollars and was shocked;

    ▪He visited suburban shops and made sure that their assortment is richer than in some New York stores;

    ▪Jeremy Alfredo denies that Russia has returned to the Soviet era;

    ▪He stressed that the purpose of the EU and American sanctions is to make the life of ordinary citizens unbearable, so that they take to the streets and overthrow the government;

    ▪I talked to people and learned that there are three categories:

    1⃣Patriots - they fully support the SMO and are on the side of the authorities;

    2⃣ Liberals are against sanctions, SMO, but only because they are deprived of the usual benefits like Spotify and Netflix;

    3⃣ Apolitical people who do not notice any changes in life do not follow politics. Sanctions didn't affect them at all.

    ▪The reporter noted the low cost of fuel for the population. He singled it out: "they can go anywhere";

    The Tucker Carlson show noticed that sanctions harm the citizens of the countries that initiate them, not Russia.


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    Post  Hole Mon Dec 19, 2022 7:26 am

    Twitter news:
    Russia will not give consent to the construction of a trans-Caspian gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan Through Baku, Turkmen gas can be supplied to Turkey, and from there to Europe. All states of the Caspian five must give consent to the implementation of projects.

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    Post  ALAMO Mon Dec 19, 2022 7:56 am

    ▪The American reporter showed the shelves of our stores with genuine delight, converted his basket into dollars and was shocked;

    I watched that, both the material made in Moscow and the interview with Tucker.
    The point of shock was because in the US people are being told how about Russkie well die of hunger any moment because of unprecedented sanctions.
    They really are spreading this bullshit.
    So the guy was devastated by the fact, that some regional store far away from Moscow had a better supply of goods than he is used to in the US.
    When he came to the big store - actually French Auchan - the multiple of choices blow his head off.
    When Tucker saw a grocery part of the store that was huge, and freshly baked bread delivered to the shelf while still hot, his jaw just dropped. On live.
    And then, he saw that milk can be purchased in four fat content categories up to 4.5%, each in multiple types like UHT/fresh/seven brands each.
    The price factor was only secondary, he was shocked as well how cheap the things are. And that is quite interesting because most of the prices in Russia are quite similar to the let's say Polish or Czech or Hungarian level, yet the milk products are much more expensive. I would say double the price tag. I have no idea about the price ranges in US, but here you can have a 1l 3.2% milk for about $0.7, while it cost some 90RUR, so $1.3 ...

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    Post  AlfaT8 Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:21 am

    Link to this video please.
    Really wanna see some western tears.
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    Post  franco Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:00 am

    Revenues to the budget of the Russian Federation from energy exports for 11 months increased by 24%, to 2.39 trillion rubles(€35 billion EUR)-head of the Federal Customs Service

    https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1604794449200287744?cxt=HHwWgMDQoZGDsMUsAAAA

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    Post  flamming_python Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:29 am

    ▪The American reporter showed the shelves of our stores with genuine delight, converted his basket into dollars and was shocked;

    I watched that, both the material made in Moscow and the interview with Tucker.
    The point of shock was because in the US people are being told how about Russkie well die of hunger any moment because of unprecedented sanctions.
    They really are spreading this bullshit.
    So the guy was devastated by the fact, that some regional store far away from Moscow had a better supply of goods than he is used to in the US.
    When he came to the big store - actually French Auchan - the multiple of choices blow his head off.
    When Tucker saw a grocery part of the store that was huge, and freshly baked bread delivered to the shelf while still hot, his jaw just dropped. On live.
    And then, he saw that milk can be purchased in four fat content categories up to 4.5%, each in multiple types like UHT/fresh/seven brands each.
    The price factor was only secondary, he was shocked as well how cheap the things are. And that is quite interesting because most of the prices in Russia are quite similar to the let's say Polish or Czech or Hungarian level, yet the milk products are much more expensive. I would say double the price tag. I have no idea about the price ranges in US, but here you can have a 1l 3.2% milk for about $0.7, while it cost some 90RUR, so $1.3 ...

    Here in St. Petersburg, 2.5% (900ml) costs about 60-70rub. So comparable.

    Some places you can get milk for like 20-25rub, in this sort of plastic bag, and usually quite close to the expiry date. But those are great for making porridge or semolina on the cheap Surprised

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    Post  ALAMO Mon Dec 19, 2022 10:01 am

    @Alfa, check for Carlson Tucker show. It was this weekend I believe.

    Edit : I have just found it.



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    Post  Kiko Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:08 pm

    If the ruble weakens against the Euro, as it has happened more recently, then the EU price cap on Russian oil and gas exports will have zero effect for Russia's oil export companies & Gazprom in terms of rubles.
    Furthermore, the caps will induce a black market in the global oil and gas markets with its disruption, and will ultimately cause a rise in prices.

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    Post  Scorpius Mon Dec 19, 2022 4:58 pm

    https://www.auchan.ru/catalog/moloko-syr-yayca/moloko-slivki-molochnye-kokteyli-i-sguschennoe-moloko/moloko/

    https://dostavka.magnit.ru/catalog/moloko_syr_yaytsa/moloko?spcSecProductsWhatProd=moloko&sort=price_asc&page=2&spread=true

    https://dostavka.dixy.ru/catalog/molochnye_produkty_yaytsa/moloko_slivki/

    this is to the question of the cost of milk in stores. the average price is 65-85 rubles per liter. The cheapest you can take at a price of about 36 rubles per liter.

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    Post  GarryB Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:31 am

    Some places you can get milk for like 20-25rub, in this sort of plastic bag, and usually quite close to the expiry date. But those are great for making porridge or semolina on the cheap

    We used to buy the near expiry date milk for chocolate pudding and milkshakes... Smile

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    Post  ALAMO Tue Dec 20, 2022 2:16 am

    This milk in bags is a rare species in the EU. Haven't seen it for years as a regular supply. It is still produced, but I guess exported or something. It is the only product suitable to make sour milk, as the UHT ones will just spoil instead of getting sour.

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    Post  Hole Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:38 pm

    Clown show continues: Russia's Transneft has received requests from Poland and Germany for oil in 2023.
    From Sirius Report

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    Post  Kiko Wed Dec 28, 2022 4:19 pm

    In the United States revealed how Russia destroyed Washington's favorite weapon, 12.28.2022.

    Foreign Affairs: Russia and China End the Era of US Economic Sanctions.

    MOSCOW, December 28 - RIA Novosti. Russia and China have won a landslide victory in the fight against US sanctions, writes Foreign Affairs.

    According to the author of the article, director of global forecasting at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, Agatha Desmarais, the era of the "favorite economic weapon" of the United States is coming to an end.

    "The permissiveness with which Washington operated on these punitive measures provoked the resistance of the world," she said.

    As an example, the expert named the three most "convincing" responses from Moscow and Beijing to the US sanctions policy.

    Among them are the creation of bilateral currency swaps that allow Moscow and Beijing not to use the US dollar, the development of non-Western payment systems like the Chinese alternative to SWIFT CIPS, which has already been joined by more than 1.3 thousand banks from more than a hundred countries, as well as the gradual introduction of digital currencies.

    "It (digital currency. - Approx. ed.) Is protected from sanctions, since the United States does not have the ability to restrict the use of virtual money issued by the central bank of another country," summed up Desmarais.

    After Russia launched a special military operation to liberate Donbass, the United States and other Western countries increased financial pressure on Moscow. This plunged Europe into an energy crisis and led to higher fuel and food prices. The Kremlin called the actions of Washington and Brussels an economic war, but stressed that they were ready for such a scenario.

    https://ria.ru/20221228/sanktsii-1841890786.html

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    Post  ALAMO Wed Dec 28, 2022 4:24 pm

    "Good luck" as was said in The taken Laughing

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    Post  kvs Wed Dec 28, 2022 4:59 pm

    Russia's unemployment rate has hit a historic minimum of 4.0%.

    https://cbr.ru/eng/statistics/ddkp/mo_br/

    This is around the limit for capitalist economies since the turnover in the job market is not instantaneous and other "friction" effects
    are present. Interesting how you do not hear much about unemployment rates in the west these days. This statistic used to
    get much more attention 30+ years ago.

    The unemployment rate is a metric of the real economy as opposed to GDP which is financial voodoo including debt repayment being
    counted as negative. In the real world it can only be negative if it siphons money from other sectors of the economy which results
    in, among other things, unemployment. Since the Russian unemployment rate fell in 2022, the real economy must have expanded.
    It does not have to be by much, but the negative GDP growth is total BS.

    Note also that nominal wages have grown by almost enough to cancel out the inflation for all of 2022. So the employment dynamics
    are not based on falling real wages.



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    Post  caveat emptor Wed Dec 28, 2022 5:57 pm

    For example, one, among several reasons, for GDP contraction would be people that left the country. They don't create any value in the country anymore opposed to last year. Also, since great majority of them is of productive age, labor pool got smaller by several hundred thousand people
    ( numbers vary from 500 thousand to almost a million people). Not to mention that they are mostly higher middle class and up.
    Over 140 thousand came only to Serbia. Their influence is so big, that they pushed upwards rental and sales real estate markets in Beograd and Novi Sad.

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    Post  Hole Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:31 am

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    Those f...ing sanctions.  lol1

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    Post  sepheronx Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:52 am

    It's almost as if the European elites didn't think that by removing themselves from russian market that Russians would look internally for similar products?

    It's funny that they think that if they leave Russian market that all of a sudden people will stop buying goods altogether. They really overplayed their hand and its funny to see end results.

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    Post  ALAMO Fri Dec 30, 2022 12:12 pm

    Bro,
    The Euro elites are blown away from any sense of reality for years.
    An EU deputy gets about around 10k euro of a monthly appliances, but that is just the beginning. They have money for everything, including 40+k euro monthly for "coworkers", 5k or so for "office operations" and so on.
    One of our eagles, while facing corruption charges, calculated with pen and paper that it was not a challenge "save" half a million E in less than two years.
    Those fukers are so corrupt, that some of them have been caught while getting back payments for "business trips with own car" while not having a driving license.
    My favorite thug was taking money and filling the papers with the cabrio car he junked two years earlier, and never owned a car whatsoever. All year around, Warsow-Brussel, with cabrio Fiat Punto that was 20 ears old when claimed Laughing Laughing
    And we talk the parliamentarians only, because the real money starts higher, in the EU commission.
    A regular European won't see such money ever. People in Spain or Italy are struggling to get a E2k monthly. Just ask Hole or other lads from used-to-be-wealthy Germany how much you can get there for a job ...
    Those illusory "elites" are incapable to make sane calculations because live in an alternative world they are creating.
    If something jumps out of the box - just increase the propaganda.
    Russkie must bend because they told them so. They won't be able to do anything, being incapable of doing anything.
    People are really being told here that Russia is on the edge of cannibalism, shops are empty and robbed etc.
    The same is in the US, which is why showing them bottom-stocked giant shops the Russie have leads to the dropped jaw on live.

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    Post  sepheronx Fri Dec 30, 2022 12:26 pm

    Yeah, Tucker Carlson had a program where going around in Russian markets, not even rich highly developed areas, and was shocked on not only how full the shelves are but also how much cheaper food was.

    Anyone who truly who believes that Russians were in breadwinner and empty shelves of the 90's, deserve to get screwed by their own authorities.

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    Post  kvs Fri Dec 30, 2022 2:54 pm

    The new aristocracy with the same contempt for the peasants and detachment from reality. The new monarchy is hiding in shadows
    and is not family based. They are wearing non-existent new clothes. This is a mental pathology when humans get everything they want
    and have no restrictions. Power does not corrupt, it just exposes the mental deficiency.

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    Post  Hole Fri Dec 30, 2022 3:11 pm

    "Russian oil or petroleum products after deep processing in another jurisdiction will not be considered produced in the Russian Federation, and, as a result, they will not be subject to the price ceiling."- US Department of the Treasury.

    lol1 lol1 lol1

    Looooosers.  Laughing

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    Post  Scorpius Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:30 pm


    "POWER MACHINES" HAS COMPLETED THE ASSEMBLY OF THE HEAD SAMPLE OF THE RUSSIAN HIGH-POWER GAS TURBINE GTE-170

    The Power Machines company has completed the assembly of the head sample of the Russian high-power gas turbine GTE-170. The turbine successfully passed the program of control operations at the assembly stand of the Leningrad Metal Plant, confirming the high quality of manufacture and assembly.
    https://power-m.ru/press-center/news/silovye-mashiny-zavershili-sborku-golovnogo-obraztsa-rossiyskoy-gazovoy-turbiny-bolshoy-moshchnosti-/

    Siemens managers are crying bitterly somewhere. Very Happy

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    Post  Scorpius Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:38 pm

    ALAMO wrote:A regular European won't see such money ever. People in Spain or Italy are struggling to get a E2k monthly. Just ask Hole or other lads from used-to-be-wealthy Germany how much you can get there for a job ...
    At the same time, Western lovers in Russia say that 2.5 k euros is the average salary in the EU, and that in more "respectable" EU countries it is normal to receive 4.5-5k euros per month.

    By the way, I earned 27 thousand euros in Russia in 2022 in terms of the current exchange rate. That is, on average, about 2.25 k per month AFTER taxes. And I'm not counting the purchasing power factor yet, because, you know, my monthly spending on housing, transport and food is maybe 700 euros in total.

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