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Is this true? Let the Thread Man speak.
Is this true? Let the Thread Man speak.
Lots of rumors and speculation as to whether or not RUS will outright declare war and attempt a mass mobilization.
It would be not smart, and I doubt they would even have the capacity to do so. I am certain they do not have the capacity to do so effectively. Any effort will be hamstrung by corruption and incompetence, like everything else.
Good reasoning on both sides (it will---it will not). I guess we will get to see.
If they do so, their pool of 18-20 year olds is a bit low. They would have to draw on men in their 20s and 30s, who have jobs presumedly.
not good for the economy as a whole.
Krauts
Nothing confirmed yet.
Doesn't really matter who has more, tbh... the exact moment they launch a nuke, tactical or not, is the end of that regime in Russia. They know that, that's why nobody takes them seriously.
GO---PUTIN---GO!!!
Germany still ain't over the ass kickin'
they suffered by Russia 77 years ago!!!
tee, hee!!!
Now wait a second, daddy-O; you just took me off your Ignore List the last 2 days and was speakin' sweetly to your old Dale.
Now you're gettin' cozy with CC, and tellin' whoopers.
lmvictoriousao!!!
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AN OLDIE, BUT A GOODY...
CHARGE!!!
Jaime Galbreath on the emerging multipolar order
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspe...ti-polar-worldA tentative conclusion is that the dollar-based financial system, with the euro acting as a junior partner, is likely to survive for now. But there will be a significant non-dollar, non-eurozone carved out for those countries considered adversaries by the United States and the European Union, of which Russia is by far the present leading example – and for their trading partners. China will act as a bridge between the two systems – the fixed-point of multi-polarity. Should similar harsh decisions be taken with respect to China, then a true split of the world into mutually-isolated blocs, akin to the coldest years of the Cold War, would become a possibility. However the consequences for the Western economies in their current state of dependence on Eurasian resources and Chinese production capacity would be exceptionally dire, so it seems unlikely (though who knows?) that policy-makers in the West would push matters that far.
In the present crisis, political leaders in the West have been under the most extreme pressure to wield powers that they do not have, in order to display a resolve that they may not feel. Their reactions must be judged through the prism of this pressure and the requirements of political survival. They have, so far, managed to refrain from taking fatal military risks, while deploying the full force of information-war assets, and concentrating on a sanctions regime that is part of a well-worn toolkit, demonstrably more costly in the Russian case to its designers than to its target. The evolution of political pressures is difficult to predict, and a catastrophic turn, leading toward general war, would not be without precedent. Threats to Transnistria or, even more, to Russia proper at Kaliningrad, are portents of the catastrophic possibilities.
But, for sake of argument, let’s assume that the end of the world does not happen, and that relative restraint prevails until the fighting dies away in Ukraine. It appears that the next turn of the global financial screw will occur in Europe, most notably in Germany, as the implications of high energy prices and perpetually short supplies become clear. Germany’s compe iveness is tied to Russian resources and Chinese markets; its politics and financial links are with the Atlantic alliance. Though stranger things have been known, it is hard to believe that Germany would permanently subordinate itsindustry, technology, commerce, and general welfare to Washington and Wall Street, even for the sake of the high principles now being so eloquently stated by her politicians and press. The tension between economic and political forces can only grow over time, leading either toward deindustrialization or toward a new relationship with the Eurasian East – a new Ostpolitik, so to speak. The advocates of this approach on the German Left have been crushed, which means that the policy itself can be taken up, after an interval – perhaps quite short – in some other part of the political spectrum.
That being so, while the dollar/euro-based global financial order is unlikely to fall immediately or in a single cataclysm, it seems plausible that it will lose exclusive hold over at least one more major participant and her economic satellites – perhaps sooner rather than later. And then there is another, in the background, ever-quiet, that almost-forgotten third-largest economy in the world, Japan. While anti-Russian sentimentthere appears strong, what will happen, as time moves on, is anyone’s guess
Enjoy yourselves these last couple of months nigs
Cause its buy buy time when this summer is done...
Is that the guy who has been wrong about everything?Enjoy yourselves these last couple of months nigs
Cause its buy buy time when this summer is done...
Where's Lav? Where's Lav?
the second order effects could put the war as such in the shade
LavGOAt is out doing LavGOAT thangsWhere's Lav? Where's Lav?
Lav wants that ticket to Siberia to be FIRST CLASS!LavGOAt is out doing LavGOAT thangs
LavGOAT is the Ginobili of Russia. Will do his own damn thang and Pop(Putin) will complain but let him. Pop knows Russia ai t going nowhere without Prime LavGOATLav wants that ticket to Siberia to be FIRST CLASS!
Where's Lav? Where's Lav?hater!!!LavGOAt is out doing LavGOAT thangs
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