Russia - threadbanned users in OP

A rouble-rupee exchange mechanism absolutely has to be dollar or euro underpinned with a peg. A peg requires regularly going to the dollar market to hedge against volatility for two fundamentally sh*tty currencies.

This is economic illiteracy you're peddling.

You have a basic problem when you post the guff you've been posting. You presume everyone is as ignorant as you. They're not.

" chess master me bollocks... he should have just invaded Donbas and left Kyiv alone "

I detest Putins regime but from a military perspective the failed attack on Kiev has worked out in his favour to some degree.

In war it is often more important to keep your enemy pinned down in a place of no strategic importance whilst you can concentrate your efforts in an area you want to make gains. Military campaigns are littered with failed battles where feints were made in order to make a strategic move elsewhere.

By attacking Kyiv , Russia ensured that 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers (brave men one and all, I salute them) were tied down in the defence of Kyiv. Meanwhile Russia with superior numbers made advances in Eastern Ukraine, Donbas, Luhansk . Ukraine which has a great rail system could not free any men or arms from Kyiv to send to the East to bolster them , until it was too late and Russia had strongholds.

So from a chess perspective perhaps it was a sacrifice on one side of the board on Putins part so he could manouver a pawn up the other side of the board.

Perhaps he hoped to take Kiev or perhaps he just wanted to tie up Ukraine military there, whilst he went after the east.

I think that is also why he frequently still bombs Kyiv, just to keep them from moving resources East.

There will be no rupee-rouble exchange mechanism without a dollar or euro peg. That's a hard economic fact.

They are two of the most dogsh*t volatile currencies over the last two decades and that's not changing. You need to wake up a little bit. Economic reality doesn't care if Putin on horseback makes you want to touch yourself at night. They can try a mechanism without a dollar or euro peg, in fact I'd encourage them to try for sheer comedy value.

Fantasy land stuff about rouble reverting to gold standard 🤪

This is hilarity. Puffed up wet dreams of an anti Western trading regime may be what you're peddling, but the dollar system is the only game in town. And it will strangle Putin and his fellow travelers.

The Greenback is undefeated. You need to put down the crack pipe and pick up a textbook.

Registered yesterday. By what name did we know you by before? And how did you get scalded in the thread?

If you have "Russian friends" who are "anti Putin and anti war" where are they in diaspora making their voices heard against the war?

The Russian diaspora has a responsibility to speak the f*ck up and in numbers on the streets in Europe.

If indeed this is actually their position and not low-key sneaking regard for what Putin and his fascists are up to.

All we've got from them was a Z convoy on the motorway. They didn't even have the balls to stage it on a main thoroughfare with their feet planted as they know they would have got lifted out of it by Irish of all ages.

Electric sleep, you're a sneaking regarder. We know your position by your language and what actually excercises you in this thread. Kremlinite conspiracy and myth.

You only have a woolly 'anti war' stance because you know you'll get blasted out of the thread otherwise.

You're not pro-peace, you're pro surrender on Russian terms.

You'll learn as the piles of dead young Russian men start stacking up, and the returned bodies are overwhelmingly white Russians from the cities instead of Chechens, Tuvans and Dagestanis.

Russia has bitten off more than it can chew. It expected the West to shrug it's shoulders. Now the Putinist cadres know they're looking at the hangman's rope when the war and economy goes sideways. Few political elites will have earned the gallows as much as these sh*tbags in Moscow.

The fellow travelers and signal boosters in the West, though a disturbed minority will crawl back under their rocks by the year's end.

You say the greenback is undefeated . I say its 23 Trillion dollars in debt .

Its FACTUALY clear that Russia has filled part of the void created by sanctions with Eastern trade, a few more months and the upcoming winter will see how its working out for them.

Back to Russia , has anyone discussed the impact of sanctions on wood products, lumber and softwood imports. Russia was the largest exporter of lumber in the world, Belarus was also up there.

Russia accounted for 1/3 of sustainable forest managed wood products. Lots of illegal logging there, but also alot of sustainable forest managment. It appears the west will have to replace that with more lumber from other sources with no guarantee its from sustainable sources. So thats going to set the Climate Agenda back a bit, along with powering up the German coal plants.

Meanwhile China is increasing its imports of Russian softwood, and the west has no way of knowing that what they will import contains Russian timber.

In fact anyone who has stuff from Ikea most likely already has Russian timber in their houses.

It really is fascinating how the circular economy and globalisation connected us in all sorts of foreseen and un-foreseen ways.

Down with Putin, long live Ukraine . But it really is all so fascinating.

Electric sleep thinks there's an end to this tale where Russia can strongarm the EU into and the US to making peace on Putinist terms, and we all go back to normal.

High-order delusion.

It ends with the fascist and his enablers in a potter's grave, and the Russian economy crushed.

His precious wonderful Russian friends in diaspora have to put their money where their mouth is if they're so damn anti war, as well as their friends and family in Russia.

We've all seen the YouTube videos of Russian hipsters in Moscow smirking about the war. It's only when their friends start coming back dismembered in boxes that the penny will drop.

If that sounds cruel to delicate Russophile ears, how cute given the murder you have given passive assent to.

They're locked in a war that they started, the West and Ukraine will impose the cost, and the cost is a generation of Russian men and boys haunted by the fields of Ukraine. This is the logic of the war they started.

@Electric Sheep

A challenge for you. Marshall your Russian friends and family in Ireland you say are so anti war. Raise the banner of Russians in diaspora demanding Putin's legion of fascists go home unconditionally.

Are they willing? Do they even exist these peaceniks you insist want the war to end?

They carry the name of Russia in a foreign country. Where are their balls to stand up? Have them march on Orwell Road.