AverageUlyanovFan [any]
Do they mean dead, nazis, fleeing their country or sitting at basements hoping to not get shelled?
Since February of this year all Russian exporters had to sell 80% of foreign currency obtained through imports, now that’s going to be effectively 100% for non-friendly countries.
I suspect it’s some of the following:
- The seized National Wealth Fund was basically a scheme designed to devalue RUB by artificially inflating USD/EUR demand, making exporters’ expenses are lower, raising the profits of oil and gas sector. RF may be dropping the forced devaluation strategy both due to economic hardships imposed by sanctions and b/c there’s nowhere safe to put USD/EUR anymore.
- Having a private bank operating through larger part of the cycle means having more control over exchange rates and also allows to circumvent sanctions related to payments by making new banks if needed.
- This is a large Russia-Europe staring contest meant to elicit support for the one who doesn’t blink, and dedollarization that we’re so hopeful about isn’t actually in Putin’s plans.
WW2 is the only war in popular history where there was a clearly evil side as established by Nuremberg trials. So Putin = evil = Hitler.
Tbh even comparing Ukrainian army or Azov to Nazi is overstatement. What made Nazis terrifying is its economic power, ideological unity and expansionist policies. Holocaust is such an abhorrent war crime because it was high-tech genocide on industrial scale. Meanwhile those Ukrainian cosplayers can’t even unify their own country, their economic conditions have been plummeting since the fall of USSR and they suck so much their regions are seceding . That’s nowhere near real Nazis. All they have to show is some swastika tattoos and enough atrocities to guarantee the same cauldron in the hell if that exists.
Expectation: historic middle-class tax cut
Reality: historic middle-class cut
I absolutely like how free marketeers just assume they can make infinite lithium batteries for cars and the prices will stay low.