Russian peacekeeping forces enter Ukraine

[jusplay4fun]

I hear Amber heard is a secret Russian spy.

You heard about Heard?

[jonesthecurl]

I've completely ignored this story. I have Heard Immunity.

[jusplay4fun]

I've completely ignored this story. I have Heard Immunity.

Jonesy with ANOTHER good one..!

(btw: totally OFF the topic of this thread, but I will blame Qwert for that...)

[riskllama]

I hear Amber heard is a secret Russian spy.

You heard about Heard?

1.9/10

[Dukasaur]

Methinks the llama is prejudiced. That was worth at least 7.4/10.

[jusplay4fun]

Methinks the llama is prejudiced. That was worth at least 7.4/10.

Yes, Jonesy had the better one, AGAIN..!

[HitRed]

Russia considers gold standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tvquSVdO38



Possible step to de-dollarizatiom

[mookiemcgee]

Russia considers gold standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tvquSVdO38



Possible step to de-dollarizatiom

I've seen quite a smattering of articles setting up the pivot to 'commodity' backed currency which you posted a week or so ago. It does make a ton of sense for the east to begin to turn the rudder on this though. i think any 'de-dollarization' will happen slowly, but its going to be a consistent theme this decade

[jusplay4fun]

I hear Amber heard is a secret Russian spy.

You heard about Heard?

1.9/10

My LEAST Funny Joke has more joy than ALL the turnips in Llama's cellar. Does Llama even try to deliver a joke?

Username: riskllama
Occupation: getting goatfucked. being hard & joyless, like a russian turnip.
Interests: avoiding the goatfuck. agricultural pursuits. also, soup.

[jusplay4fun]

As Sunday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day:

Congressional Democrats met Ukrainian leaders in the capital, they announced on Sunday. The Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials on Saturday for three hours to discuss American support for the war. Pelosi, the most senior American official to visit Ukraine since the war began in February, said the topics of discussion included "security, humanitarian assistance, economic assistance and eventually rebuilding when victory is won."

About 100 civilians were evacuated from a Mariupol steel plant. Of the thousands of civilians still trapped in the besieged port city, about a thousand are believed to be sheltering in bunkers beneath the plant. Previous attempts to evacuate the civilians have been thwarted by repeated Russian shelling.

Officials in Odesa imposed a curfew. Officials in the southern port city say the enforced curfew will extend from Sunday night through Tuesday morning after warning of possible sabotage in the city. In the past, pro-Russian activists have mobilized for protests and unrest in the city on May 2 each year. Russian ground forces are now fighting just a few hours away and Russian naval vessels are blockading Odesa's port.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/01/1095830805/russia-ukraine-war-what-happened-today-may-1

[riskllama]

I hear Amber heard is a secret Russian spy.

You heard about Heard?

1.9/10

My LEAST Funny Joke has more joy than ALL the turnips in Llama's cellar. Does Llama even try to deliver a joke?

Username: riskllama
Occupation: getting goatfucked. being hard & joyless, like a russian turnip.
Interests: avoiding the goatfuck. agricultural pursuits. also, soup.

2 storey floaters don’t have cellars, ya moron…

[Qwert]

As Sunday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day:

Congressional Democrats met Ukrainian leaders in the capital, they announced on Sunday. The Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials on Saturday for three hours to discuss American support for the war. Pelosi, the most senior American official to visit Ukraine since the war began in February, said the topics of discussion included "security, humanitarian assistance, economic assistance and eventually rebuilding when victory is won."

About 100 civilians were evacuated from a Mariupol steel plant. Of the thousands of civilians still trapped in the besieged port city, about a thousand are believed to be sheltering in bunkers beneath the plant. Previous attempts to evacuate the civilians have been thwarted by repeated Russian shelling.

Officials in Odesa imposed a curfew. Officials in the southern port city say the enforced curfew will extend from Sunday night through Tuesday morning after warning of possible sabotage in the city. In the past, pro-Russian activists have mobilized for protests and unrest in the city on May 2 each year. Russian ground forces are now fighting just a few hours away and Russian naval vessels are blockading Odesa's port.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/01/1095830805/russia-ukraine-war-what-happened-today-may-1

nancy Pelosi...........i think Zelensky will be very uncomfortable to speak with these person, she have some quite weird hand behaviour (creepy) .
I mean does America dont have younger people in high positions?

[riskllama]

I just watched on the YouTubes that Putin does in fact have cancer & will be undergoing some type of surgery shortly. he’ll be handing over the reins to some rando I’ve never heard of until he recovers. that being said, I wouldn’t 100% believe this until a “major” news source confirms this, tho…*shrugs*

sounds like an excellent opportunity to stage a coup, don’t it?

[HitRed]

Russian Army

[Maxleod]

I just watched on the YouTubes that Putin does in fact have cancer & will be undergoing some type of surgery shortly. he’ll be handing over the reins to some rando I’ve never heard of until he recovers. that being said, I wouldn’t 100% believe this until a “major” news source confirms this, tho…*shrugs*

sounds like an excellent opportunity to stage a coup, don’t it?

I've seen that too. Seems like fake news in a media war (I also read hat he has Parkinson so...) But maybe it's true. I don't know, seems convenient to weaken people's perception of Putin.

[HitRed]

The Russian ruble hit a 52-week high of 65.85 RUB/USD while trading today. So it's higher now that before the war started.

[bigtoughralf]

The Russian ruble hit a 52-week high of 65.85 RUB/USD while trading today. So it's higher now that before the war started.

Picture of Biden preparing his next package of sanctions against Russia:

[Maxleod]

PAPER TIGERS LIVES MATTER.

[jusplay4fun]

The Russian ruble hit a 52-week high of 65.85 RUB/USD while trading today. So it's higher now that before the war started.

How sanctions are affecting the Russian economy
World Apr 23, 2022 12:06 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two months into the Russian-Ukraine war, the Kremlin has taken extraordinary steps to blunt an economic counteroffensive from the West. While Russia can claim some symbolic victories, the full impact of Western sanctions is starting to be felt in very real ways.

As the West moved to cut off Russia’s access to its foreign reserves, limit imports of key technologies and take other restrictive actions, the Kremlin launched some drastic measures to protect the economy. Those included hiking interest rates to as high as 20%, instituting capital controls and forcing Russian business to convert their profits into rubles.

As a result, the value of the ruble has recovered after an initial plunge, and last week the central bank reversed part of its interest rate increase. Russian President Vladimir Putin felt emboldened and proclaimed — evoking World War II imagery — that the country had withstood the West’s “blitz” of sanctions.

“The government wants to paint a picture that things are not as bad as they actually are,” said Michael Alexeev, an economics professor at the University of Indiana, who studied Russia’s economy in its transition after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A closer look, however, shows that the sanctions are taking a bite out of Russia’s economy:

— The country is enduring its worst bout of inflation in two decades. Rosstat, the state’s economic statistic agency, said inflation last month hit 17.3%, the highest level since 2002. By comparison, the International Monetary Fund expects consumer prices in developing countries to rise 8.7% this year, up from 5.9% last year.

— Some Russian companies have been forced to shut down. Several reports say a tank manufacturer had to stop production due to the lack of parts. U.S. officials point to the closing of Lada auto plants — a brand made by Russian company Avtovaz and majority-owned by French automaker Renault — as a sign of sanctions having an effect.

— Moscow’s mayor says the city is looking at 200,000 job losses from foreign companies shutting down operations. More than 300 companies have pulled out, and international supply chains have largely shut down after container company Maersk, UPS, DHL and other transportation firms exited Russia.

— Russia is facing a historic default on its bonds, which will likely freeze the country out of the debt markets for years.

Meanwhile, Treasury officials and most economists urge patience that sanctions take months to have full effect. If Russia can’t get appropriate amounts of capital, parts or supplies over time, that will cause even more factories and businesses to shut down, leading to higher unemployment.

It took nearly an entire year after Russia was sanctioned for seizing Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014 for its economic data to show signs of distress, such as higher inflation, a decline in industrial production and a slowdown in economic growth.

“The things that we should be looking for to see if the sanctions are working are, frankly, not easy to see yet,” said David Feldman, a professor of economics at William & Mary in Virginia. “We’ll be looking for the price of goods, the quantity of goods they are producing and the quality of goods. The last being the hardest to see and probably the last to appear.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-sanctions-are-affecting-the-russian-economy

[HitRed]

Munich Agreement

The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. It provided "cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory" of Czechoslovakia, despite the existence of a 1924 alliance agreement and 1925 military pact between France and the Czechoslovak Republic, for which it is also known as the Munich Betrayal. Most of Europe celebrated the Munich agreement, which was presented as a way to prevent a major war on the continent. The four powers agreed to the German annexation of the Czechoslovak borderland areas named the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. Adolf Hitler announced that it was his last territorial claim in Northern Europe.

[bigtoughralf]

Frequency of posts in this thread is cliff-edging. Western media hate machine has clearly started to move on to something new.

[HitRed]

20 EU countries paying in Rubles

[thegroover]

After losing a brigade in a failed attempt to cross a river the Russians are now withdrawing from Kharkiv after achieving their aim of losing the battle……..

This war seems to have proved one thing. The Russian army is not able to fight against a half decent opponent.

[HitRed]

National gas price average hits new high at $4.47 per gallon
Diesel also hit its own highest recorded cost at $5.56

Putin might be loosing tanks but he’s making bank.