RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 13, 2024 at 10:01 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2024 at 10:07 am by Leonardo17.)
(March 8, 2024 at 10:35 am)pocaracas Wrote:(March 8, 2024 at 10:16 am)Leonardo17 Wrote:
500+ companies have gone bankrupt in Russia since the starting of the war. The economy is really not as resilient as Putin would want his electoral basis to believe:
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/russi...47655.html
Not sure that's the flex that yahoo wants it to be...
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintellige...r-79967180 Wrote:US bankruptcies hit 13-year peak in 2023
There were 642 total filings in 2023, significantly above the previous two years and marginally more than in 2020, which saw a flurry of COVID-19 pandemic-related filings. Although investors expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates as early as March, companies will still have to contend with relatively high interest rates and robust wage growth in the near term.
Many people have fled the country. And only around 10% of those who remained actually believe in the propaganda of the Kremlin.
Even their military Industry is not doing so well. They are increasingly relying on 30-40 years old weapon stockpiles from the Soviet era because they are becoming less and less able to produce newer weapons.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/russi...17539.html
+ They are attempting to buy back some of the military equipment they sold to third countries.
Still: Many fear, (and that includes Pope Francis) that Ukrainian resistance might collapse too soon because of the dire situation on the frontline.
Still others (like Zelensky) are saying that Russian advance has been halted + Now Ukrainians are building their own “Dragon teeth” defenses that should stop a major Russian offensive that might happen this summer.
This is a bit weird: How come Russia has already built very robust defenses in occupied Ukraine and the Ukrainians are now racing against time to build their defenses now?
Russia cannot attack NATO. It’s as simple as that. Still I think Emmanuel Macron has had it with Putin. I think he is simply exasperated and that’s his way of saying it
And that’s a man who said that he “admired Donald Trump” and that “Russia should not be humiliated”.
Putin is reckless. He even threatened the British PM Boris Johnson with a nuclear strike while talking to him on the phone.