U.S. Army General CAPTURED in Mariupol with AZOV Nazis!

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  1. Poohbear

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    Did you count the death toll yourself? :roflol::roflol::roflol:
     
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    Especially for you. Rocket launch "Sarmat". Later, the video shows multiple warheads. (The feeble-minded only recently shouted about "Putin's cartoons." Here they are - "cartoons". Enjoy.)
    No one in the world can make such rakta. The United States is developing, but lagging behind by a decade. Other countries have not even come close to creating such a rocket.

    None of the modern and even promising air defense systems in the world can shoot down this missile. This missile can strike any country, even through any of the poles.
    In general, look at the characteristics of this rocket on the internet. (If you don't find it, I'll tell you.)
    And you write some nonsense about the fact that the Russians cannot create processors. There was no urgent need. But these are all solvable issues.
    In 1945, the most terrible war in the history of mankind ended, Russia was in ruins, 28 million of the best people, of the most able-bodied age, died defending their country ..... And 15 years later, Gagarin flew into space for the first time in the history of mankind. Not a citizen of the United States, where there was no war on the territory of the country, and the United States received economic super-benefit from the war, but a citizen of Russia - Comrade Yuri Gagarin. Also, the Russians were the first in the world to create a nuclear power plant immediately after the war (and during the Cold War), the Russian icebreaker fleet is the best fleet in the world ... etc. And this is all high technology.
    So you don't have to worry about the Russians. All of them will be fine.
    Not too much attention was paid to the development of IT technologies in Russia, because there was an opportunity to buy everything you need. Now there are very large injections of funds in this sector. (by the way, if you, for example, as an IT specialist lived in Russia, then now you would be flooded with all sorts of benefits and financial injections. You read Russian, so you can see what benefits IT companies and individual specialists receive now in Russia)
    And the simplest solution - the United States lifted the restriction on the supply of telecommunications equipment and software to Russia. That is, the Russians have no problems in any case.
     
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    Do you understand at least a little about economics and the concept of "GDP"? I don't think you not understand this.
    Simon Kuznets, the author of the term GDP, believed that it was too stupid to focus on this indicator. And this indicator can be used in a very narrow sense and very rarely. But politicians saw an opportunity for PR and began to howl around the GDP.
    I'll explain.
    Example #1.
    The capitalization of Facebook is higher than the capitalization of Gazprom.
    Facebook will disappear and no one will notice. Gazprom will disappear and there will be an apocalypse all over the world, including the USA.
    Look at what is happening in the EU now about gas supplies. And this is on condition that the Russians did not cut off the supplies. The EU is falling into an economic hole. (if Facebook disappeared in the EU, no one would notice.)
    Example 2
    Suppose you are the owner of an auto concern.
    You buy parts to assemble a car through a network of resellers. Naturally, the price of spare parts is high - the cost of a car is high - GDP is growing.
    You buy parts from the manufacturer. The cost of spare parts is low for you - you can produce cars at a low price - GDP is low.
    Example 3
    You bought a dog house for $100. Then you resold that dog house for $500, the person who bought the dog house from you resold it for $1,000. As a result, GDP = 100+500+1000 = $1600. But the fact is that the house for the dog, as it was alone, remained alone.
    Comparing the economy of Facebook, dog hairdressers, waiters and salesmen to an industrial economy is silly.
     
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    You can see for yourself what people think about the Russian army.



    South Ossetia. A referendum on joining Russia is scheduled.

     
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    You are hurt by this fact. But the reality is just that. - There is a huge trade surplus in Russia. Currencies overabundance.
     
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    Whoa---everyone really loves how the Russians are destroying cities and murdering civilians. How silly I've been!
     
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    Do you just post made up stuff like that without any sources on a routine basis?

    BTW, who is this "American General" who was "captured" in Ukraine?
     
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    Here are the facts of the matter: the ruble is being propped up by Putin's foolish measures. Russians can only withdraw a set amount from their bank accounts, and only in rubles, not foreign currency. This is to forestall Russians selling the ruble. Foreign investors can't sell their Russian investments for fear the bottom will drop out of the Russian stock market. Meanwhile, Russia is getting ready to nationalize foreign assets.
    https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/sp...s/russia-nationalise-assets-foreign-companies
    Outright theft may make Russia richer in the short term, but the war is only temporary. Investments go down when risks go up all else being equal. Putin is shooting himself and Russia in the foot.
     
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    Did you?

    Where is your evidence?
     
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    1. Russian Trade Surplus Surges Amid Rising Tensions https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-trade-surplus-surges-amid-rising-tensions
    2. 1. Roger L. Cloutier. It is the English-language news agency that reports that they have submitted a request to the Pentagon about where this general is located. Usually the answer comes soon and detailed explanations of the situation are given. This time the Pentagon was silent - which is already UNUSUAL!
    And there is still no information about this general. At the same time, a ridiculous post appeared on Twitter, allegedly from the general, but no one saw the general himself and the Pentagon is silent.
     
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    Still posting fake news, I see. We've been over this Cloutier clown, not to mention Zero Hedge.
     
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    Are you seriously? Russia is preparing to nationalize foreign assets in response to Western actions. First the West blocked Russian assets. Russia has given time to change their minds, but feeble-minded Western politicians are incapable of thinking. These degenerates thought that only they could do it, but others could not. It turned out that a boomerang flew to them.
    I wonder why the Russians did not immediately block the property of countries unfriendly to them on the territory of Russia.
    Russians are amazingly humane people. If it were my will, I would immediately cut off the supply of energy, food, fertilizers, metals .... and everything else, without which the West is waiting for the Middle Ages.
    The fact that Putin is the president of Russia is incredible luck for the West. He is patient and sometimes inappropriately humane.
     
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    Zero Hedge is a noted kook "news" source. Its content cannot be trusted. Corroborate their claims with other sources. So, the Pentagon has to respond tpo nutjob websites, or it's magically verified? That's, uh, "interesting".
     
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    You don't like the source? Here is the Russian government website - Russia's foreign trade surplus in January - February 2022 rose to $46.2 billion https://tass.ru/ekonomika/14026819?...utm_campaign=yandex.ru&utm_referrer=yandex.ru
    Don't like this one too? Search here - the official website of the Central Bank of Russia https://cbr.ru/
    Or if you don't like the information, you declare it fake and your mood gets better? But the fact from this will not cease to be a fact.
     
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    Some reality for you:


    Start at 8:10. This guy goes over the actual economic situation in Russia, short-term and long-term. Some key points:
    • Anyone expecting the Russian war economy to collapse tomorrow is wrong
    • Russia had been preparing to endure a conflict for some time
    • Seems to have defied expectations - shares, currency, trade deficit
    • But it is necessary to look beneath the surface
    Heading to 9:28, we come to some details about what is going on beneath the surface, so to speak, and he begins with the Rubble and how it is being propped up. Points he goes over here:
    • Initially, Ruble went into terrible shock (130+ to the USD)
    • Seems to have recovered
    • Not all is as it seems:
      • Capital controls
      • Forced conversion
      • Central bank support
      • Interest rates
    • Trade volumes are also suppressed
    At 10:10, we come to a summary "step to step guide to saving the Ruble":
    • Buy it yourself
    • Bribe people not to sell it
    • Force other people to buy it
    • Ban a bunch of people from selling it
    • Make it hard for people to de facto sell it via imports
     
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    We'll see.
     
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    You won't see, because

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    It is your photo? Do you do yoga? Or is it your special exercises?
     
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    Russian assets have been frozen by the West, not nationalized. There is a huge difference.

    The West would make it without Russian oil and food. There is oil and coal elsewhere. Food too. Russia doesn't have a monopoly on anything and its tech has been a joke since before the end of the Cold War.

    Yes, like the time he fired the Fifth Bureau and sent its head, Colonel General Sergei Beseda to Lefortovo Prison. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022...telligence-general-in-lefortovo-prison-a77301
    Russian leaders never got any better than the tsars, and we all know how nice they were. Still, I expect the Russian everyday people are nice enough.
     
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    And Russia will not invade Ukraine
    but Russia wants to get the Nazis.
    And Russia is winning the war
    but Russia is not actually having a war.
    And that missile cruiser just caught fire
    but we are going to get even on the Ukrainians in any case.
     
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    Those Russians living in Ukraine's Donbas and Crimea were in a for a bit of nasty surprise when they
    found themselves under Russian laws and Russia's Ruble and Russia's living standards.
    Hell, they didn't expect that. In Crimea it's five years jail for speaking against the invasion. No-one did
    that to you when Ukraine ruled these areas.
    Wots gonna' happen with Ukraine is in the EU and having a ten fold greater standard of living, not to
    mention to ability to speak your mind or chose your government?
     

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