Russia & Ukraine

The strength or weakness of a currency is completely unrelated to whether it holds reserve currency status or not. And please don't bullshit your way out of this. You said stupid things about the Yuen and Rupee. Has nothing to do with the euro or dollar. Russia can change any amounts of yuan or rupees it desires in the international currency market for euros or dollars or rouble.

Just shows how clueless you are about international finance.

How is that strength looking

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I remember in late 90s when Erin Burnett was such a doll on Bloomberg
I was watching financial news only because of her

now I can't see whose face is more disgusting hers or Zelensky. Looks like the both have huge hangover.
Zelensky is narc everybody know that. He can't even sit quitely for 90 secs though

While I agree Putin is weak still looks like transgender US generals even weaker

Name one transgender US general.

What is with your Putin brown nosers and obsession with LGBTQ? Seems the only reason you support Russia is because they are bigots.
 
How will they lose?

More like how will they stop losing?

More Russian soldier deaths than Ukrainian , more civilians deaths in Ukraine (not great for public opinion - even in drunkin' Russia), more military firepower coming from NATO over time while Russia has to rely on 3rd world countries, etc etc.

Even tRumpus would say "you're fired" if Putin was on Apprentice.
Russia has as many troops as the US

Here is a good report about Russia weapons
Russia Isn’t Going to Run Out of Missiles
https://www.csis.org/analysis/russia-isnt-going-run-out-missiles
 
Russia has as many troops as the US

Here is a good report about Russia weapons
Russia Isn’t Going to Run Out of Missiles
https://www.csis.org/analysis/russia-isnt-going-run-out-missiles


One of the main reasons that Ukraine is harassing Moscow, Belgorod, Crimea etc is to force the Russians to move more troops and air defenses there and keep them out of Ukraine. That's actually working pretty well. And after the Prigo insurrection, Putin called lots of troops back to Moscow.

The problem as always is that - although that strategy is working- the Ukrainians are always outnumbered in troops and equipment. They are smart though to not get sucked into trying to cross over the minefields regardless of how frustrating it is for the TV watchers. They have to preserve troops - sending kids into the meatgrinder is something the Russians do. Then they rinse and repeat. Ukraine can't afford to do that and also does not have the desire to do that- unlike the Russians. Ukraine seems to be compensating by going back to their strategy last winter which is to concentrate on taking out rail, bridges, and ammo depots rather than going into the meat grinder. There are hundreds of thousands of Russians in those defense line trenches but if they are not supplied they will feel it sooner or later.
 
At the start of the Ukraine war maybe. Not no more.

Last big war the US lost a lot of lives was VietNam - 58,220 over more than 15 years

Russia has lost about that many over the past 15 months.
Russia lost a lot more than that.
 
(Semafor)


Ruble’s fall accelerates


Russia’s ruble fell below 100 to the dollar, its lowest level since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A growing reliance on imports, falling exports, and surging military spending pushed the currency down, a long-running drop that has accelerated in recent weeks. The ruble plummeted following the February 2022 invasion, but recovered thanks to a spike in prices for Russia’s energy exports. Goldman Sachs economists warned that the combination of factors driving the ruble lower would also constrain Russian economic growth, while the economist Joseph Politano wrote in his newsletter that the country had “survived the initial wave of sanctions, but as the war continues it is becoming a larger draw on Russia’s limited pool of economic resources.”
 
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