Basically China's enormous growth in this economy (post 2008).
No country has had more growth in this economy.
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No country has had more growth in this economy.
Which is again mostly produced by the BRICS and OPEC countries.
70% of Palladium is mined by SA and Russia. China, Russia and India are the top three producers of Aluminum, with China way ahead of the pack. China and Russia are the biggest producers of gold worldwide, etc.
China won't show their true colors in the current situation and IMO will play double game. One of the biggest problem in China is energy as mentioned, and Russia can give them resource at discounted price, so naturally they will take this opportunity. They already concluded a new 30 years deal with Russia for the supply of natural gas and building a new infrastructure.
Russia/China can also negotiate a fix price it's not like they will be window shopping in this scenario..
They've been tagged numerous times in replies to the tweet, so hopefully!
I love how the double game is that they'll shoot themselves in the face with a shotgun. Brilliant
What isn’t possible?
So good!
. What do you guys think he was after? Electronics store apparently. Batteries? Toaster? Cash?All that clip needs is the Curb your Enthusiasm music to kick in as he realizes he can't get in
When you're busy invading a country but you see they have a great sale on in the local electronics store.
Judging by the Russian armies intelligence so far he was probably targeting the electronics store for food.
Swapping out the institutional SWIFT kit for CIFS isn't really the problem, although that's in the £x millions alone. It's every other system expecting things in USD that would then come through in Yen. They'd need to figure out how to manage stuff on the general ledger before and after the switch and then everything that relies on the ledger, which is most things. All the treasury management stuff etc. And that's before you get into stuff like fraud systems.
This also shows that Kherson is still being contested given that the business the Russian guy appears to be fighting on Ushakova, which is one of the main drags in Kherson.
With doors that sturdy it's no surprise that they're struggling.
Right now it seems that Putin chose a soft appproach initially to not cause too much resistance by the Ukrainian and Russian people as well as the NATO. So while the attack is obviously reckless and disgusting, he still seems to consider the consequences of his actions and how they influence Russia's future. It would be a pretty big step from that to "you know what, screw it, I'll just blow up the whole world including Russia".
World Taekwondo federation has REVOKED Putin’s black belt.
The ugly bald guy is talking again in the UN. How I’d like to kick that fecker in the nuts!
Yes, people are realising the same thing is happening in the UK. Seems that many of those sanctioned will still be able to just shift their wealth about before much of this all kicks in.
Hitting him where it hurts, unless you're a black belt.
According to the FT:
"Russian World Bank adviser quits in protest at invasion of Ukraine"
His name is Boris Lvin.
Perhaps it's starting - the backlash so desperately needed.
"Russian World Bank adviser quits in protest at invasion of Ukraine"
His name is Boris Lvin.
Perhaps it's starting - the backlash so desperately needed.
Piss poor that
I think i could guess which bank by reputation if that's the cost. I've worked on most if not all of that list in projects just not in regards to Yen and i can't grasp the cost but maybe there's other factors in play.
For a full from scratch rebuild you might be right to be fair.
Yes but China was obviously coming from an extremely low base compared to the US. It's clearly had huge growth, but not devoid of its own problems, eg the parlous state of its property sector, which is about a third of its economy.
I watched this and he basically said that they'd been getting messages from sources since last year that Putin was basically reinforcing his dictatorship. But obviously that doesn't really help with his open source work. It did make them pay more attention to Russia. According to this source, Putin had boasted to a small circle of loyalists about going to war with Ukraine.
The warning they received last year is that a full dictatorship would materialize in March of this year. What was already known back then that there’d be a lot of discontent among the elites, there was already some thinking about a coup or disobedience. This is going to be increased manifold because of the unprecedented loses. Russia will be a different society in two weeks because of the actions of different actors re: sanctions. Again, a source said that people around Putin are freaking out and looking to secure their interests and looking at what they can do about Putin, but again this isn't something he can verify through open source investigation (obviously).
They specifically wanted to pay attention to false flags, to be able to debunk them which they did but basically also said that they were so bad that no one would be convinced by them. Putin went to war anyway.
Their focus is on archiving war crimes.
People close to Putin asses the nuclear threat as realistic even if analysts in the west don’t which scares him. It is unknowable through data.
Talking about the Russian casualties: conflict intelligence team is a Russian outlet that focusses on war crimes and activities, they are doing a bottom up approach where they look at sources with burnt out tanks and dead bodies. They found 700-900. He himself looks at destroyed airplanes, tanks etc. to get to an analytic number to get an idea of how many people were there before it was destroyed.
This is all starting to get a bit silly now.