What part of it is 'sinking'? It increased its oil exports. It increased its other resource exports. Europe is still buying Russian gas and oil, except through India and its now called 'Indian oil'. It achieved independence in a lot of things that it was buying from the West, mixing it with homegrown products and global south imports. The sanctions HIT EUROPE MORE, with all the European companies losing their market share in Russia and their market share being taken over by Russian companies and Chinese ones.
The references are from REUTERS, none other than one of the Angloamerican establishment mouthpieces that sells every war including how they sold the WMD lies, and some aggregate of Wikipedia articles that are tangential and supposed to be relevant?
Here's what's relevant:
https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/fragile...
> This isn’t uncommon in a war footing [4]. Labour and necessities are diverted to the front, raising prices for both. That squeezes disposable income, which moderates price growth in luxuries. The effect, if you’re measuring with a pre-war basket of goods, is rising real earnings and falling disposable income.
None of that is applicable to the actual reality that Russians themselves report, you are just flat out theorizing what 'should happen' with absolutely no connection to the actual reality.
Everything you say and believe is in line with things like 'ghost of kiev', "ukraine will reach Moscow in a month", "Russia wanted to conquer Ukraine in 3 months but it couldn't", "Chinese economy is set for a hard landing (yet) again" and all that sh*t.
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Really, you people live in la la land. Your worst enemy is not Russia or China. Its you and your delirious 'I prefer to believe what I like to hear" attitude.
Downvote this post. It will make the reality go away.
Russia is in the early midst of a complete demographic meltdown even before the war.
The invasion Ukraine happened cuz this is the last disposable generation Russia could muster for invasion.
Of course this is just hastening their demographic decline in the next 10 years.
Combine that with the fact that it hastens the adoption of EVs and the moving off of fossil fuels, everything that Russia thinks it's achieving in this war is leading to it's more rapid decline in the next decade.
That. Therein lies the problem that destroys the Angloamerican-led world order and the countries that are under its yoke from within: You prefer a certain version of reality that appeals to what you believe and feel. As a result, you literally ignore anything that contradicts those and amplify whatever supports those - which allows your establishment to literally lie to you to get to believe what YOU want to believe. Because, even if they tell the truth, you wont believe it ANYWAY, and you will do it...
> it's a short-term result.
...like this. All the indicators show the contrary of what you currently believe. You even went much further than the majority of the population and actually acknowledged that this may be the case, and the situation may be different than what you believed. BUT, you STILL gravitate back to your preferred reality by rejecting the contradicting indicators, by labeling them 'short term'.
They are not 'short term'. The entire world order changed. NYT admits it, Reuters admits it. But you, the public, WANT the reality to be otherwise. It wont.
https://www.reuters.com/world/brics-poised-invite-new-member...
> The invasion Ukraine happened cuz this is the last disposable generation Russia could muster for invasion.
The invasion of Ukraine happened because it was the last project of Brezinski and his proteges are still running the US foreign policy. He outlined how it should happen, and it was implemented precisely how he planned it before he died.
> Combine that with the fact that it hastens the adoption of EVs and the moving off of fossil fuels
Another delirium, that lives on the lie that the Angloamerican media sold to its public by saying that Russia was "an oil rig posing as a country". Its not.
One lie supporting another, one lie being used to reject the uncomfortable reality when the numbers and actual events contradict it, gravitating back to the PREFERRED, false reality because, well, it makes you people 'feel good'.
I'll leave you to your denial.
Revenues are down [1].
> Here's what's relevant
You're linking to a paper on bank runs. We had a bunch last year, and another a few months ago.
You didn't notice? That's okay. Most Americans didn't notice either.
(That said, I appreciate your citing a source. You'll note that the authors suggestions were recently implented.)
> None of that is applicable to the actual reality that Russians themselves report
Real disposable income is down. According to Russia.
[1] https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Russian-Oil-is-Fu...
The compounding problem for Russia is that not only is the war killing a million plus people. Probably by the end of it it scared off 5 million other people in emigration and probably 20 million more in the coming years
The compounding problem is that the said number which doesn't even make sense, is reported by its enemies, who also sold things like the nonexistent Iraqi WMDs and ghost of kiev. Who also said that Ukraine would be at Moscow's gates in a month. And yet people like you still keep believing their sht. No wonder you people cant get out of the knee-deep sht that you put yourselves into.
You people are delirious. You buy into things because you like what you hear. Then you end tits up, unable to make sense of how you ended up in the sh*t pits that you end up in, and start somewhere to throw the blame at.
But then again, what a convenient situation to end the imperialism that has been propagated by the Angloamerican-dominated West for the last 200 years. There cant be a worse external enemy to your countries than your lying elite and the foolish public who believes in their lies.