The Kingfish posted:Seems like an insanely bad idea to just hand out thousands of guns to an untrained civilian population. That’s why you only do it when you’re out of options!
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Telsa Cola posted:Conscription was a thing up until 2013. Theres theoretically a lot of civilians in there mid twenties and up who theoretically know how things go down.
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KitConstantine posted:The whole city is on curfew until 8am Monday and I've seen reports of Kyiv cops politely visiting anyone with a light on. Oh absolutely, just surprised it took this long.
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The Kingfish posted:Seems like an insanely bad idea to just hand out thousands of guns to an untrained civilian population. Yes but enough about the US.
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steinrokkan posted:My brain no understand economic good, but wouldn't Russia's central bank assets be deposited domestically? As Russia needs to sell a lot of fossil fuels in dollars and euros and then buy goods in those same currencies a major part of their reserves will be banked with the Federal Reserve and the ECB so they don't have to covert them to roubles. This is why some currencies are called "reserve currencies" because countries maintain a large portion of their reserves in these currencies instead of their own.
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The Kingfish posted:Seems like an insanely bad idea to just hand out thousands of guns to an untrained civilian population. Ukraine has conscription, so a large percentage of men have already had basic training on how to fire and maintain these weapons.
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Dwesa posted:As someone else corrected me on this forum, it was even renewed after 2014 Thank you for the correction. With all the current info floating around about military service its hard to find the relevant info from a search.
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Alchenar posted:Yeah but it doesn't matter how much cash you have if the US and everyone else says 'we aren't taking your money'. (and also nobody else can take your money) OK, I'd assume they'd be able to convert through China or India even if America stopped taking their money... but I guess it's not that easy
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The Kingfish posted:Seems like an insanely bad idea to just hand out thousands of guns to an untrained civilian population. When Ukraine was owned by the USSR they got genocided, what kind of poo poo do you expect Ukranians to do, exactly? Marquess of Queensberry Rules it?
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# ? Feb 26, 2022 18:59 |
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steinrokkan posted:OK, I'd assume they'd be able to convert through China or India even if America stopped taking their money... but I guess it's not that easy I'd imagine if that were a possibility those countries would take an additional cut or whatever which is going to further gently caress your budget.
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# ? Feb 26, 2022 19:00 |
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Reports of thermobarics look to have not been exaggerated. for residential area in flames, but no bodies https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1497630987613884419?t=W26kP3U3oHP-zHHQ8e7apQ&s=19
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steinrokkan posted:My brain no understand economic good, but wouldn't Russia's central bank assets be deposited domestically? This is the correct answer. coelomate posted:Their central bank has reserves of foreign currency. Ostensibly such sanctions can dramatically limit the ability for that foreign currency to be used. Putin can get around, in a kind of laborious and painful way, a lot of the banking sanctions so far precisely because the Russian Central Bank stockpiled foreign currency after the initial sanctions placed on Russia after the annexation of Crimea—for just that purpose. If the Russian Central Bank is prevented from using and converting that currency by being denied access to other central banks, the Russian financial system is well and truly hosed and may collapse.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:As Russia needs to sell a lot of fossil fuels in dollars and euros and then buy goods in those same currencies a major part of their reserves will be banked with the Federal Reserve and the ECB so they don't have to covert them to roubles. This is why some currencies are called "reserve currencies" because countries maintain a large portion of their reserves in these currencies instead of their own. This is a good post. I think it was 10 years ago but I remember news stories about Russia and Gulf States trying to come up with an alternative to the dollar for trading your oil for exactly this reason.
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# ? Feb 26, 2022 19:01 |
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https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1497625853160742914 Russia is not blockading the city so civilians can just... steadily leave for the relatively well-supplied western regions; this would be one reason to do so well before a single Russian flag is raised. This seems likely to occur as pedestrian retail supply issues hit the eastern regions. Heroism holds off a tank; it does not restock a shelf. Those most pro-European by family, politics, and economics are most likely to move first, leading to a self-reinforcing political self-selection akin to the DPR/LPR. This dynamic is a medium-term one and may be completely undone if e.g., the expected assault on the weekend collapses in chaos, or completely routs Kyiv (say). But it's something to consider in terms of the "what happens if this grinds on" forecast. Partition of some kind seems only too plausible. ronya fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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pls translate for us outside of cyrrilosphere
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Two danish journalists have been wounded in an attack on their car. One of them has undergone surgery. Both stable. They work for the worst rag we have here in Denmark, hope they get paid well... And get home safe, ofcourse.
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KitConstantine posted:Reports of thermobarics look to have not been exaggerated. for residential area in flames, but no bodies Says 2 residential buildings, that they are unaware of any deceased, and also asks someone off-screen to dial ambulance.
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Amusingly, The Hill, of all news outlets, had a piece suggesting sanctioning the central bank even before the invasion:quote:The Russian economy is open, and the ruble is convertible, both backed by the FX reserves. But these reserves are largely electronic book entries in the Russian Central Bank accounts with the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and similar Western institutions and clearing houses. There are no physical bonds and certificates. In the language, Western government bonds and other securities and sovereign deposits with Western central and commercial banks are dematerialized and uncertificated. Of course, this would hurt economically vulnerable Russians the most, and that wouldn't be good, so hopefully if they go this route, it will cause the Russian leadership to cut bait quickly.
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Dwesa posted:pls translate for us outside of cyrrilosphere Yeah it says you don't get famous pop culture references
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Dwesa posted:pls translate for us outside of cyrrilosphere You have my sword And my bow And my javelin
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The Kingfish posted:Seems like an insanely bad idea to just hand out thousands of guns to an untrained civilian population. Irregulars can be surprisingly effective. Determined irregulars more so. As long as they get a uniform with a gun.
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Dwesa posted:pls translate for us outside of cyrrilosphere You have my sword And my bow And my Javelin
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:You have my sword Needs to add a low IQ hobbit with a German flag offering his helmet.
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the popes toes posted:Irregulars can be surprisingly effective. Determined irregulars more so. As long as they get a uniform with a gun. I’ve seen absolutely nothing to indicate they are giving out uniforms. All the pictures are of dudes with AK-47s walking around in jeans. Not good.
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The Kingfish posted:I’ve seen absolutely nothing to indicate they are giving out uniforms. All the pictures are of dudes with AK-47s walking around in jeans. Not good. You should tweet your concerns to Zelensky.
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The Kingfish posted:I’ve seen absolutely nothing to indicate they are giving out uniforms. All the pictures are of dudes with AK-47s walking around in jeans. Not good. Good for who? Kinda dicey talking about who and who shouldn't defend where they live so it really isn't a useful conversation at this moment, I don't think.
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ronya posted:https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1497625853160742914 Well the news in Poland today is that we have already took in 80k in civilians across the border. We've also seen 20k Ukrainians go back home to fight, their workforce here is massive. Those numbers will only grow, the goverment expect a milion of migrants, but that is underselling it i think. It's also something that we're be worrying a lot more in the coming weeks - for example, the construction of the Warsaw Metro is halted, as half the workforce left to fight for their homeland, and those that remained refuse to work with the Belarus workers.
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The Kingfish posted:I’ve seen absolutely nothing to indicate they are giving out uniforms. All the pictures are of dudes with AK-47s walking around in jeans. Not good. They do use yellow armbands and helmet bands and hats, which is pretty good.
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The Kingfish posted:I’ve seen absolutely nothing to indicate they are giving out uniforms. All the pictures are of dudes with AK-47s walking around in jeans. Not good. its too bad Russian fascists started a war putting them in this level of existential danger
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https://twitter.com/Bundeskanzler/status/1497632817450266632 Germany appear to be sending 1000 anti tank missiles and 500 Stingers to Ukraine.
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ZombieLenin posted:https://twitter.com/SalehaMohsin/status/1497574435280367622?s=20&t=daSSbI0STLaR7zk9KyqJOw If true this might actually force Putin to the negotiation table and save thousands or tens of thousands of lives. Do it, cowards. You can unfreeze the assets as soon as there is a peace deal
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EvilHawk posted:https://twitter.com/Bundeskanzler/status/1497632817450266632 Folks, bullying German chancellors just works.
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Pook Good Mook posted:This is a good post. I did a master's degree focused on the Russian economy about 13 years ago and that post is basically all I remember from that time
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I did a master's degree focused on the Russian economy about 13 years ago and that post is basically all I remember from that time Finally my Dinars will come through!
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Folks, bullying German chancellors just works. Yeah thats a ton of support. I dont remember if they ever gave exact numbers for past arm shipments from other folks but thats a significant amount of desperately needed equipment.
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https://twitter.com/menscher/status/1497407833431674882
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ZombieLenin posted:https://twitter.com/SalehaMohsin/status/1497574435280367622?s=20&t=daSSbI0STLaR7zk9KyqJOw I really hope Putin realizes just how hard he miscalculated thinking he could lie to the world and pull off an easy little war of expansion.
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Bellingcat is logging reported and verified croudsourced military sighting and incident locations Filterable by date, country, army, etc. https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1497581992350736391?t=l-hTq38kfvRsqOCeGmD7OA&s=19 Not a whole lot from today yet, but shows movements going back to January
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RedSnapper posted:Yeah, it's surprising how many Poles show actual, not just vocal, but financial and material support for Ukraine (three people I know have actually offered to house refugees). Those did not pass the paper beg test.
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