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I'm waiting for Trump to send weapons to Russia at this point.

the price of oil is low and Russian refineries can’t refine and deliver vast amounts of oil due to attacks.

Though Russia has in the past found effective ways to get around what would have truly been crippling financial situations. They have been very resourceful in the past. It just gets harder and harder each time . They are just in a worse situation in all ways year on year.

This time they will get past it, but they are getting depleted. I just don’t see them ending the war until the choice is out their hands.

Media has fallen off a cliff in the last few years. Nobody but some of the older, more respected institutions do anything but publish rage-bait, pandering nonsense and clickbait headlines and filler stories meant to get grabbed by algorithms in content aggregation social media sites so they get traffic. It's doing all of us a lot of harm being fed just the shit we want to hear, it's literally why we have people arguing about the shape of the Earth right now.

I was thinking the same thing, so I looked them up:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/national-security-journal-bias-and-credibility/

I guess it's real. Just not popular.

The truth speaker.

Oh joy, china will effectively own russia at some point without having to even have a conflict for it. I really dont want china as neighbour.

Yes, it does.

I haven’t seen that same willingness. China is willing to profit from Russia and wants a non-western aligned source of raw materials.

They seem to be giving just enough support to stop Russia from collapsing.

It’s possible for china to give Russia enough aid to basically cause Ukraine to capitulate. I just haven’t seen much to indicate anything near that support.

That money isn't free though. There are consequences attached to it.

Xi seems willing to prop up Russia indefinitely

Definitely not.

Remember: China wants it's former territories back that Russia took over during what China calls "The Century of Humiliation".

Xi wants Russia's war with Ukraine to continue for as long as possible, because the longer the war goes on for, the weaker Russia becomes, and the easier it will be for China to take back that territory.

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Don't forget about Uncle Donny!

Why would they, though?

That was the most surprising thing I read in this article, though:

Even The People’s Republic of China (PRC), which was seen as a potential lender at one time, has turned down Russian requests for government loans.

Yes but sanctions take years to take effect because they accumulate over time.

They've been slow rolled which has slowed the effects, but Ukraine's "kinetic" sanctions have accelerated the effects back up.

Money is fictional anyways. If they want to, Moscow can print literally arbitrary amounts of Rubels. There’s no way they’re gonna bankrupt.

Germany printed more money during a certain world war...

It didn't work out great for them

If I’m not mistaken, their inflation and interest rates are already crazy high, nearing 20%. Yes, they can print even more money, but it won’t give them more resources from abroad, and they’re already nearing the point where they might spiral into hyperinflation.

Fun fact: The closest English equivalent might be "Roderick".

But names have a funny habit of doing that. Nothing for decades, then it becomes a fashion and everyone and their pets have the same name, and then back to obscurity again. Rinse and repeat.

They can't print usdies or yuan. And they sure as hell can't make a microchip.

I'd say since 2 months into the war.

Fuck Russia, fuck Putin, but those headlines can be interpreted as : "It's useless to keep fighting they're gonna collapse anyway". Sometimes I wonder if it's some astro turfing