Even the Guardian thinks so. What's going on? How can we ever recover?
>There is, though, no immediate sign of Russia pulling out of Ukraine and that’s hardly surprising, because the sanctions have had the perverse effect of driving up the cost of Russia’s oil and gas exports, massively boosting its trade balance and financing its war effort. In the first four months of 2022, Putin could boast a current account surplus of $96bn (£76bn) – more than treble the figure for the same period of 2021.
>In every multilateral organisation – the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations – fears are growing of a humanitarian catastrophe. The position is simple: unless developing nations are energy exporters themselves, they face a triple whammy in which fuel and food crises trigger financial crises. Faced with the choice of feeding their populations or paying their international creditors, governments will opt for the former. Sri Lanka was the first country since the Russian invasion to default on its debts, but is unlikely to be the last. The world appears closer to a full-blown debt crisis than at any time since the 1990s.
The inability of Russia in 2022 to import tangible goods and service equipment, combined with the doubling in price of their primary export (oil) which they are finding 2nd world replacement buyers, has resulted in digital currencies stacking up inside the digital computers at Russia's Helmsroom.
Crazy to imagine how history books will speak of the genius of men like Putin and Xi and compare them to the doddering likes of trump and biden
Parker Collins
>genius Russia can't convert its foreign digital foreign currencies stacking up in its coinage house into Rubles and increase its buying-power, because ruble is pegged to gold, and they don't have the Gold.
Russia would have to untether the Ruble from Gold or else quickly convert the foreign currencies to tangible assets and services that have long shelf lives rather than be one time consumables.
>america became a fat, decadent empire where the leadership lived at the expense of their people. rather than uplifting those people, the political class exported industry to our developing nations thinking we would betray our own people and used minorities to attack the major racial group in america, finally, they imported additional minorities to replace white americans. the dying breath of the american empire was the betrayal of the white working class by the orange zionist they elected followed by the rigged election which installed a dementia patient as president. shortly after, the entire american empire imploded.
Cameron White
You're a retarded fucking asshole if you think any of this shit is organic. What the fuck dude. Your hubris is massive. In your mind the US and the west are making it easy for Russia, with their actions, and helping them, and continue to help them, and you think they're just too fucking stupid to see what is happening and will not change things for the better. What a low wit take. Did you ever for one moment stop to think? How about this question to roll around in your vacant head.
If the US didn't want these things to happen, why didn't they stop it from happening with their military that's more powerful, and better funded than the entire rest of the world's military might combined.
>oh no! Putin be bad! "take your trillion dollar army there then" >NO UP YOUR ASS! We want to help him by driving cost of gas up!
You know what the history books are going to say? "you're a dumbass sack of trash, and get what your deserve"
Zelenski is leading the ukrainian country to victory, paTriots of azov are researching the ancient nazi vril energy technology. Soon they will be able to free the allied demons confined in Chernobyl and achieve a great victory and defeat the evil Putin. Russia will be balkanized and NATO's values of democracy will free the oppressed community LGTBJGHDWRHJK+-=÷××€$//=???? who are fierce warriors who fight intensely since kiiiyyV. the end
>the US is unstoppable explains Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria...
Owen Lewis
>dementia patient as president Its just crazy. The whole america does not have anybody better than this probably hallucinating grandpa?
Michael Edwards
The Ruble isn’t tethered to gold retard.
Ethan Moore
>the entire rest of the world's military might combined. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jonathan Myers
no. politicians reflect the people. america is a dump full of junkies, trannies, and lunatics. there are some good people here, but there aren't enough good people to outweigh the human garbage that populates the country today.
Ethan Allen
I think we can all agree that Afghanistan is unconquerable.
Xavier Scott
>"take your trillion dollar army there then" And get nuked by the largest in the world nuclear arsenal mm?
I didn't say it was unstoppable. And why should I have to explain any of those wars to you? You know you're being disingenuous, and you also know that in all of those wars, the full might of the US military was not allowed to reign. If it had, those countries would be dust. Has it slipped by you that the US hasn't tried to win a war since the Civil War? It's pretty obvious, or should be by now.
Alexander James
This is what is going to happen, the victors are the ones who write the history.
Lincoln Morales
Putin will prove globalism a fraud. It doesn't matter how big the world economy is, if you produce the raw materials, you make your own rules.
Brody Barnes
What is so funny, Canada? You really don't think the US could take the world if it wanted? Germany almost did it twice with far less. Wars are fake. And by fake, I mean they're planned. If they weren't, they would go much differently.
Blake Foster
Putin is globalism. He's aligned with China. China is globalism. This is not hard guys.
Jeremiah Hernandez
They've proven that.
Wyatt Rogers
hehe that what russia stands for: 1. Capture a shilload of territories 2. Defend it 3. Sell raw materials 4. Drink vodka
Ian Clark
> Have trade surplus in 2022 > ... because you have nobody willing to sell you anything and all business is leaving your country > This is winning
Lol this is best Korea level delusional coping
Ian Ramirez
>allowed you mean the US couldn't drop nukes. that's because they're not strong enough to.
Jonathan Collins
>Russia is globohomo, goys *ahem* I mean guys! Not us and our puppet state jew ass of aids!
Technically they have rest of the world apart from EU and USA. That too EU will bend soon when they won't be able to cope with sky rocketing gas prices.
