Russia and Ukraine

[The Grand Nudger]

You have to be a special kind of stupid to repeatedly link shit that demolishes your propaganda, though. At any rate, they got it more or less right as described in that link - from back in october. Russia had just gone through a bunch of drastic actions to try and prop up the ruble, which was expected create a growth bubble, that would then burst. OFC they thought it would burst at the end of this year.....but it burst at the beginning instead. So now you've got russia throwing everything they have at their war economy, because the only thing they can afford to do is pick on the only people who were poorer than them, even that isn't going to save their economy..and they're still losing the damned war, too. What a shitshow.