Quote from John_Wensink:
They have also burned through approximately 60% of their cash reserves and look at the results.
IMHO Russia's only alternative to save itself it to start more wars to achieve complete control over energy supplies.
Quote from Cutten:
Check history. Whenever the government closes the market, only one of two possibilities:
1) the country just got taken over by communists, and the market will not open for decades
2) the government panicked. When it re-opens, almost no one has the cash and/or balls to buy. Therefore it's the bottom, classic definition of a discounted market in a panic. Buy with both hands and hold for years.
Quote from GermanTrader:
If you are a globalist thinker, it shows in your puke contrast of the West and Russia. You need to travel and stop your childish and gullible practice of believing the news. Go to Russia, like I did (I recommend Aeroflot unless you're a fat pig, in which case you'll have to take a Western carrier), and ask the old people there what really happened under Stalin, and how they really feel about the West. Contrast that with what their younger generation says about the West. Or just stay stupid & spoon-fed and die in fear like the rest of your PC kind.
Your view of common sense is laughable. The West did not put Stalin into power, after which he killed more of his own people than Hitler and Pol Pot combined times 10. Get a fucking clue. Go read history and come back with an intelligent response.
Quote from Ivanovich:
Come on, now Mecro. You can't blame the west on the way the pretentious novo-rich moscow women behave. There's a very real Russian behavior to it (that only developed when capitalism came to town).
Quote from Mecro:
Well, I'm just saying, the gold-digger mentality took new shapes & forms in USA. The russian women who are into that just took it to a new level. But at the same time, just take a look at US pop culture, the attitudes of most American women, it's sickening. Who wants to marry a millionaire show, millionaire match, etc.
There are two types of girls in Moscow. Those who just want money and those who just want to have some fun with cool guys. It's the same in NYC. If you are a guy and all you meet are gold-diggers, it's not them, it's YOU.
In Chinese kung fu there is a fatal move, when you are locked in a bear huge and you can not get out, you kill the opponent by running the sword thru you first.Quote from Landis82:
Ouch!
You can sure say THAT again!!!
Some would suggest that the USA has "engineeered" a global financial meltdown to teach the Ruskies a very valuable "lesson".
Kind of like attacking the Soviets, without using any planes, missiles, or tanks.
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