Display MoreSushko is a bit sus but it seems accurate.
BRICS WILL DESTROY DOLLAR HEGEMONY ANY DAY NOW!!!
-Zerohedge, probably.
I've been reading about Russia making the yuan their base currency. Good luck with that.
Russia is fucked.
Display MoreSushko is a bit sus but it seems accurate.
BRICS WILL DESTROY DOLLAR HEGEMONY ANY DAY NOW!!!
-Zerohedge, probably.
I've been reading about Russia making the yuan their base currency. Good luck with that.
Russia is fucked.
They should rename their currency "Rubble"
I've been reading about Russia making the yuan their base currency. Good luck with that.
Russia is fucked.
That's because with dollars and Euros unavailable they have no other currency to trade with and no one wants theirs.
There are claims that Russia is doing A OK and that definitely isn't true. It's also true that sanctions have not been followed very well at all. The truth usually lies somewhere in the middle of the claims. Where is tougher to figure out with a lying and closed Russian government.
there's always a way around sanctions, but the currency issue is a real big one for them.
Drone wars are scary..
QuoteA Russian battalion keeps a daily log of what time a Ukrainian FPV drone arrives at their positions, and when artillery strikes occur.
I don’t know if this is a new record, but 290 FPV attacks in a single day is pretty impressive. pic.twitter.com/9xCqoYF2hK
— Roy\uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDE6 (@GrandpaRoy2) June 14, 2024
US Navy entered the chat
QuoteLadies and Gentlemen please welcome our newest guest to the party-BLACKCAT6 pic.twitter.com/8aZP8gMyuy
— ????? ?k?a???! (@ConnieLingus123) June 14, 2024
Russian exiles are making a mark in the Caucasus and Central Asia
People and businesses are flooding into the region
Jun 13th 2024 | Almaty
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, some speculated that the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) would turn away from their old imperial overlord. After all, Vladimir Putin’s revanchist obsessions could turn south. China, already an important economic partner of Central Asia, could push for stronger ties. Or the West could try again to lure it into its sphere of influence.
Nearly two and a half years on, the picture is more mixed. All three countries in the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) and the five in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) have refused to endorse Russia’s war in Ukraine. Last year China replaced Russia as Central Asia’s biggest trading partner. Feeling betrayed by Russia, Armenia is re-aligning more firmly with the West.
However, many of these countries are having it both ways. All five Central Asian leaders attended Russia’s victory-day parade in Moscow last month. Georgia’s rulers are tightening their links to Russia. Energy ties between Central Asia and Russia are expanding. When Mr Putin visited Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital, in May, it was announced that Russia would build Central Asia’s first nuclear power plant.
Russia’s presence in the CCA has grown in other ways too. Since 2022, Russian people, firms, cash and goods have poured in. Easy immigration laws and political neutrality have attracted Russians evading sanctions, dodging conscription and seeking international finance. The benefits are mutual. Russia’s war has helped several CCA countries grow faster and gain geopolitical heft. Last year their economies grew by 4.9%, surpassing pre-war forecasts.
The CCA has become a hub for Russian trade, providing a lifeline for Russia as it faces 20,000 economic sanctions. Almost every country in the CCA has boosted imports from Europe, China, the UAE and Turkey, while expanding exports to Russia. The CCA’s share in non-hydrocarbon exports in 2022 to the EU, Russia and America rose by 25, 22 and 53 percentage points, respectively, according to the IMF. German exports of cars and spare parts to Kyrgyzstan, a backwater in global terms, soared 50-fold between 2021 and 2023.
Serving as a trade conduit to Russia does not fully explain the CCA’s trade boom, though. Both regions have emerged as crucial transport alternatives. Traffic along Russia’s northern corridor, the main route connecting China to Europe by land, has plummeted since 2022, while trade along the middle corridor across the Caucasus and Central Asia has more than quadrupled in volume, says the IMF. In February the EU announced plans to invest another €10bn ($11bn) in it.
The Caucasus and Central Asia have also benefited from the hundreds of thousands of Russian emigrants, or relokanty, who have fled from their homeland. They are mostly young, educated and wealthy. As they transfer money out of Russia, the CCA has received an unprecedented surge of remittances (see chart). A wave of Russian tourists has brought cash, too. Russians have opened at least three times more businesses in Georgia since 2022 than in the previous 27 years combined. In Kazakhstan Russia now accounts for 41% of foreign-owned firms, up from 32% in 2021.
All the same, the war has dented Russia’s standing across the CCA. The share of Kazakhs who view Russia “very favourably” fell from 50% in 2017 to 17% in 2023, according to surveys by Central Asia Barometer, an independent research outfit. In Kyrgyzstan, which depends more on Russia, the drop was from 65% to 45%. The influx of relokanty has pushed up inflation and house prices, raising tension in big cities. “Because of them, prices have gone up everywhere,” moans a lawyer in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Last year 79% of Georgians had a “strictly negative” view of relokanty.
Still, Russia’s influence in the CCA remains strong. Last month Georgia’s ruling party pushed through a controversial “foreign agents” law, which would require NGOs with a fifth of their funding from abroad to register as “bearing the interests of a foreign power”: it has sparked protests and many Georgians call it the “Russia law”. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan still depend heavily on remittances from emigrants in Russia. Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy company, owns all of Armenia’s gas networks.
And Russia is making life harder for its exiles. Two new laws let it confiscate the property of Russians who “discredit the army” and the passports of those who disobey the military call-up. Some are returning home as a result. Russia’s government is also getting stroppier in public. Western efforts to persuade Central Asia to curb rerouted trade have irked it. “My colleagues told me that they are outraged by such flagrant impudence and insolence,” said Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, at a regional meeting last month in Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital. Central Asia’s leaders sounded eloquently non-committal. ■
https://www.economist.com/asia…caucasus-and-central-asia
This may be the beginning of the revolution..
Quote?? Russian Ministry of Finance is increasing the minimum price for VODKA, BRANDY & COGNACDisplay More
The new minimum retail prices per 0.5 liter are:
VODKA: 299 Rubles (+6.4%)
BRANDY: 403 Rubles (+7.5%)
COGNAC: 556 Rubles (+7.5%)https://t.co/3ZWigM40NS pic.twitter.com/3MLQy9vCPW
Prune60 (@Prune602) June 14, 2024
QuoteNotice how we don't see many BTR-80s anymore? they have gone form being 30% of BTR losses down to about 10% pic.twitter.com/91rJADZjhZ
Richard Vereker (@verekerrichard1) June 14, 2024
The occupiers are tightly blocked at the Aggregate Plant after an absolutely useless operation in the Kharkov direction in which they suffered heavy losses without achieving their goals.
For two days now, units of the Russian Armed Forces have been trying to release their troops at the Aggregate Plant, but all attempts have failed. The Russian garrison at the plant is constantly exposed to Ukrainian air bombs and artillery.
The number of wounded and killed at the plant is growing. Delivery of medicines and supplies is not possible.
Russians who read our channel, this is for you.
Invite your brothers-in-arms to surrender in full force.
The Ukrainian side guarantees that the prisoners will be treated with dignity, and the wounded will be provided with medical care.
Otherwise, sooner or later all the occupiers at the plant will be destroyed! The relief forces will continue to suffer heavy losses in wounded and killed.
https://t.me/kharkiv_1654/9375
Units of the Russian Armed Forces are surrounded on the territory of the aggregate plant in Vovchansk
For 2 days, invaders have been trying to unblock their own, but all attempts have failed.
The number of wounded and killed is growing due to the bombing and artillery fire. It is impossible to bring in medicine and supplies.
Quote??Units of the \uD83C\uDDF7\uD83C\uDDFARussian Armed Forces are surrounded on the territory of the aggregate plant in VovchanskDisplay More
For 2 days, invaders have been trying to unblock their own, but all attempts have failed.
The number of wounded and killed is growing due to the bombing and artillery… pic.twitter.com/Vaagcvg6Wq
— Cloooud |\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@GloOouD) June 15, 2024
The first batches of artillery ammunition purchased at the initiative of the Czech Republic are already arriving in Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said that the Czech Republic had transferred more than a million shells to Ukraine through various channels.
— BLYSKAVKA (@blyskavka_ua) June 15, 2024
A few million rounds of 155mm annually will go a long way in orc mitigation. It will take a minute though.
QuoteThe Telegraph is reporting that the Russian troops surrounded in Vovchansk have surrendered. https://t.co/J9ADgbtxZ4 pic.twitter.com/guRDCqulcu
Malcontent News (@MalcontentmentT) June 15, 2024
Moral is fine
what a fucked up mess. Russia is the fucking worst. Evil, shitty people.
The "uprising" in 2014 with around 20% support was totally not organized and run by the Russians.
Also Russians..
This is the guy convicted of ordering the shoot down of the civilian airliner MH 17 using a Russian military BUK missile system. Despite the missile remains being found on site and recordings of him bragging about doing it the Russian gov interduced multiple alternate reality claims about how it was a Uke conspiracy to frame Russia.
Next month it will be exactly one year since the arrest of retired FSB colonel, commander of the Crimea detachment and the Slavyansk garrison Igor Strelkov.
Strelkov's controversial personality created supporters and enemies around him, a man of the most difficult fate, who always took risks and adventures in the name of abstract and intangible values. You can say whatever you want about him, shout at the top of your lungs about hatred of this historical figure, but no one can dispute the fact of his coolness - before going to military service, the man fought as a volunteer in two wars, and far from home, thousands of kilometers away. The man rose to the rank of colonel and received the Order of Courage. The man stood at the origins of the creation of the militia in Crimea and annexed the peninsula to Russia. The man led a legendary detachment that entered Slavyansk and Kramatorsk and created history before everyone’s eyes, thanks to which today Russia received Lugansk and Donetsk. An operation that has no analogues in Russian or European history. A man sentenced to life in The Hague and fought with barefoot militia against the regular army.
History will remember him under the name of Igor Strelkov. She has already cultivated him into one of the key personalities of the ten-year epic war with Ukraine. Whether someone likes it or not.
https://t.me/terrikony_donbassa/24147
This guy is a Russian officer
Secondly, we are stopping active actions in the Ukrainian direction (partially, we are replacing them by drawing Europeans into them) and are preparing all our forces for a future big war. The Third World War will begin in the years 26-29, it is inevitable and has no alternative. The old world military security system does not exist, just as there is no option for “peace agreements” that can now be implemented at all. Burying in Ukraine the remains of military potential, which will soon be needed for real, is nonsense. It no longer matters what mistakes were made and what we may wish for - without a global war there is not a single option for the future. As a result, new rules will be written and new borders will be established. According to her, and only according to her. But we not only do not prepare for it - we do everything to approach it completely unprepared.
Third, the powers of the military (I’m not talking about myself - that’s what the General Staff exists for). It is unacceptable to trash military generals for non-military mistakes. Keep the civilian rear guards with big gold stars for yourself - do whatever you want with them, but leave the military officers and generals for now. Complete transfer of military powers to the military - or the most total defeat, which our history has never even seen. The defeat of the Black Sea Fleet group is a direct consequence of the fact that civilians imposed their “commanders” and their “strategy” on the military. Do you know the main military secret around the Russian Black Sea Fleet? For political leaders, he is a pride and a symbol, but in military circles of the Russian Black Sea Fleet he is either an exile or a sawmill, where it is customary to dump those with whom the “worthy” flotillas did not want to deal. Political gloss and personnel slag. This is very mild and without unnecessary explanations. And what we see in the result is a completely predictable outcome. Just no conclusions. There is one more continuation here: a total ban on non-military leaders touching on military topics, the introduction of the death penalty by screwing scarecrowers with nuclear retribution onto an aspen stake, etc. Because it only makes the enemy laugh when a scarecrow with a mark in the military registration and enlistment office “little scoundrel” has not even seen a tank (it will either get stuck with its head in the hatch, or cannot reach the pedals with its small legs), but it spews out gigatons of red lines.
Fourth, an even greater strengthening of the military. It was precisely the “political” positions that led to the fact that the protection of rear facilities was so badly failed. The forces of strategic nuclear deterrence are being destroyed with impunity, any types of our aviation (including strategic ones) are literally being genocide at airfields, justifying the absence of all possible measures (from preventive to reaction) by the fact that we are not at war with anyone. On the one hand, such a step to strengthen the military carries some political risks, but on the other hand, at least the rules of the game will become clearer. In a country that has actually gone into a state of war, the military should dictate the terms, and not some “services” with incomprehensibly hypertrophied powers. And one should not think that the military will immediately engage in all types of clashes - they understand the cost of such actions, and therefore look at the situation more clearly.
Fifth, start addressing the issue of drugs and alcohol at the front. The death penalty can be introduced, special operations can be carried out against trading systems. There is someone there to fight with, and they also have strength. But if the situation with drugs and alcohol is not resolved, the army will end, even without war.
Sixth, a clear negotiation system. Any of our actions to involve the West as a participant in hostilities should lead to the fact that the West participates not so much in supplies, but in problems, as in the case of declaring unmanned zones on their territory. But in response, we must immediately identify the conditions under which a conditional “peace” is possible. Real conditions. In Ukraine it is impossible to find victory in the current war, but one can wait for a strategic defeat - in Ukraine, because of Ukraine but not from Ukraine, let’s say. At any cost, we need the opportunity to radically change the system of preparedness for a future global war.
But with the current state of affairs, we will sooner count to infinity than wait for positive news.
https://t.me/shouvalov/207
Article about what F-16s can objectively do for Ukraine.
Short firefight between Azov and a Russian probe. A Russian can be heard screaming.
Putin doing what Putin does best. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie….
EXTREMELY NSFW. Brutal drone drops on several Russians, definite kills.
WIth Orban now sidelined, NATO will take a more active role in Ukrainian supply and funding,
Four SDBs dropped on Russians at the aggregate plant in Vovchansk.
Russian T-62 destroyed by kamikaze.
Russian POV, soldier records a passing Ural truck fucked up by a Kamikaze.
Drone drops on Russians in swampy terrain near Kherson.
Several kamikazes destroy Russian SYNYTSIA EW system.
HIMARS smoking Russian Tyulpan mortar and crew.
Archival footage, International Legion in Bakhmut
“Talking only makes sense if there is something to talk about”. - Scholtz
Trainload of T-62s headed for Ukraine. Finally sending in the good stuff!
MAGYAR doing what MAGYAR does best. Kill Russians with glee.
Russians abusing two Ukrainian POWs in Kremmina.
3 Russian POV videos of their burned-out vehicles, complete with 1-2 very well-done Russians.
Reported as M777 counterbattery against Russian MSTA-B
Reported as an M777 counterbattery fire on Russian D-30
Kamikaze destroys Russian quadrunner and driver.
Burning natural gas storage in Saratov, Russia.
NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER play dead. Because they’re going to use explosives to check.