I mean, they are the experts.
Actually, question here: how many wars has Russia won that they actually started?
Afghanistan was a shit show as per usual. Russo-Japanese war was a loss, though I believe the Japanese started that one.
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how many wars has Russia won that they actually started?
We can play this game, but we're required to do the US next.
Almost as though starting a war is consistently a bad idea for your country.
it takes one to know one
Pots and kettles...
Russia also mocked the EU for not joining this war and not helping the USA.
I don't get it, is Iran their ally or not? Why would they want Europe to attack Iran? Oh right, they need a distraction from Ukraine and they don't give a fuck about a single ally.
The new allies are Russia and the USA.
"Russia"'s allies are not other coutries, it's other elites. No country is allied with any country. It's just that the elites agree on what they should do to get away with more shit.
It's always an alliance of convenience amongst authoritarian states.
Russia doesn't care about the US either, the only reason they put Trump in charge is because he is a devisive fuck up loser and would cause the most chaos.
Though if Putin really wanted to destabilize the US into oblivion, he would have "leaked" documents about hacking voting machines to achive a Biden win in 2020. Not that it is at all true, but that would have tipped the MAGA extremist projection over the edge and caused them to errupt into a mass of violent thugs that would have made the Jan 6th Imsurrection look like a picnic.
If Russia has the unredacted Epstein files, releasing those would truly destabilize the world.
Since the unredacted haven’t been leaked, this conclusion either means no one has them OR class solidarity amongst the Epstein class is more important than destabilizing the world.
irans war greatly benefited RUSSia, IN THAT THEY CAN recover the money they lost on the ukraine invasion since the oil prices are so high right now.
Ironically the USD:rouble rate is rising the last several days.
The rubles "value" is not very predictive of its real value because no one uses it. It's like if I print and exchange "Valmonds" with my friends for 10€ a piece (having my "central bank" buying them back for 10€50 to keep "the price" high), doesn't make them actually valuable.
Afaik RUR was following the oil price quite closely for many years until 2022, seeing as oil exports dwarfed everything else. Since then, the Central Bank of Russia did a lot of trickery to control the rate. However, the rate was pretty stable for weeks at ~70 rub/usd, after USD:RUR has fallen a bit — until the last few days, precisely when oil price should've risen, and idk what caused that. It's jumped to 84 rub/usd in about four days.
Russia didn't stop selling its oil, it even kept selling it to Europe through middle-men.
Proof or crawl back.
- This took 5 seconds to find, im not going to actually go through my bookmarks, because I know you'll dismiss everything as propaganda or whatever. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-vladimir-putin-russia-fuel-imports-india-war-in-ukraine-price-cap-sanction/
I mean relevant quantities, of course.
And barring slovakia and hungary, we know about those aholes. Still, we're so low on any russian energy import comparing to 2022 it's just crumbles left.
because I know you'll dismiss everything as propaganda or whatever.
Called it
Is no one considering that Russia has a uniquely qualified perspective when it comes to failure? Game recognize game...
The people in power who lie about every war are probably also lying about every war btw
Funny, even mentioning Ukraine in a post title starts a tankie fest. Fellas working overtime, I see
Yeah, they are in overdrive recently. Had one calling me an imperial pig for saying that the Iranian regime, a theocratic dictatorship, are not the best of guys.
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