Watch the libs smoke all the copium now saying its temporary and soon Russia will collapse trust me bro

  • @KommandoGZD
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    Watching the absolute delusional hybris of the West in implementing this is spectacular honestly. Not only have they not managed to collapse the Russian currency and economy, they’ve strengthened the Ruble in pure numbers-value terms, but they’ve essentially created the Gas-Ruble that could well become the Commodity-Ruble. They’ve given Russia the tools to leverage the Ruble as a weapon against them, while crashing their own economies, undermining the Euro and thus undermining the Euro-zone and EU.

    How the fuck could they ever think this was going to work? Are they this incompetent, this badly advised or did the entire western economics discipline plus political class drink its own fucking kool aid making it incapable of assessing material reality correctly?

    I mean just read stuff like this. The EU is thinking about an oil embargo despite the government of its largest economy admitting it’d be “counterproductive” and suicidal for them to do so. Just amazing really. These policies aren’t grounded in any semblance of rationality anymore. They don’t accomplish anything, they’re harmful to themselves - why the fuck would anyone do this? Literal insanity.

    • Soviet Snake
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      Because it is all simulacra, which they think if they make people believe them so much it will become a reality, but buying out the media doesn’t change the material reality.

    • DankZedong A
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      I always think there must be something us normies can’t see. Something must be benificial for them in this situation. But I don’t see it. I think they actually fucked up this time lol. But backing down is not an option.

      This, or I actually fail to see the bigger picture here.

      • DankZedong A
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        But tbh companies are using this situation as an excuses to massively inflate their prices though

      • @KommandoGZD
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        Same. I’m just some random shitposting dumdum so I usually always assume there’s more to their actions and usually you can always make out some way it benefits at least a significant part of the capitalist class. Also it’s usually such an intellectually lazy explanation to just call them inept, dumb, etc. But currently…either I’m missing something entirely or they’re just massively fucking up for no good reason.

      • @peeonyou@lemmy.ml
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        I feel like this will only fuel rage against Russia as everyone else’s lives start to suck more. This will give NATO the mandate to topple Russia and then all the pain this caused will have been worth it as the pivot to war with China gears up.

      • @asdfghjkl
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        They are on war against Russia.

        It’s counter productive for them to be on war and keep buying things from the country they are on war against.

        They thought they would win the war. But they were wrong.

    • CritiGalDesist∞
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      Stop watching RT and Russian Propaganda! Russia is loosing big time. Their currency is worth less than toilet paper. The country will be split in many countries like Soviet Union after this war. We won’t let them control their nukes anymore. Putin is currently in the process of being overthrown. Their military is not even the second ranking in Ukraine. So stop bullshitting fake news and only watch BBC, CNN. You Russian Bot !

  • @cfgaussian
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    Russia is sitting on an enormous pile of fast growing foreign currency, especially dollar and euro, because of the immense trade surplus they are running while unable to spend much of it due to sanctions. With all of that they could easily pump up the value of the ruble much, MUCH higher if they wanted to.

    But in fact the sweet spot is considered to be between 70-80. Anything too much stronger and it would be to Russia’s detriment because an export heavy economy benefits from a weaker domestic currency. So in fact Russia is having to work hard to prevent the Ruble from becoming too strong. Same reason why China will never give up its capital controls.

    Ukraine is having the opposite problem by the way, their currency, battered by 8 years of neoliberalism and now with a war wiping out most of their economy, is on the verge of collapse and only being propped up some heavy manipulations (likely illegal) by the west in conjunction with Ukrainian oligarchs.

    • @SaddamHussein24OP
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      How dare you contradict the free and democratic truth? This is wrongthink, off to prison you go russian bot!

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    Removed by mod

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      Honestly, when i first read about the sanctions on Russia i was worried af. But seeing their countermeasures and how elegantly they handled it my respect for the Russians and Vlad has never been higher. Avant-garde

      • @SaddamHussein24OP
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        Indeed. Despite him being an anticommunist corrupt cuck, Vladimir Putin has done so much for the international communist movement, whether he intended to or not. He saved socialist Syria, helped China create a united antiimperialist bloc and now hes defeating nazism and NATO in Ukraine, bringing the collapse of imperialism closer each day. I hope that when the time comes for the Communist Party to return to power in Russia, he wont do stupid shit and end up like the tsar. I think he deserves a peaceful retirement. He earned it.

  • @Shrike502
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    Interestingly, the capitalists within Russia may not be in favour of this. For quite obvious reasons - they export things for dollars, but pay workers in rubles. So expect more “spontaneous protests” and general grumbling.