Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value

Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by yks on Sunday February 27, 2022 @09:44PM (#30495729)

Have you followed the events at all? He is high on his own propaganda and surrounded by incompetent yes-men, their tactics and logistics are a joke, long-term strategy is 100% bad news for Russia. At this point it's even questionable that their nukes work.

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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by chrononaut on Sunday February 27, 2022 @10:11PM (#30495927)

You may not agree with his moral choices (clearly, few do, including me), but his actions have been at least rational: https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4

I don't think that disputes anything you wrote though. Just being additive.

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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by yks on Sunday February 27, 2022 @10:20PM (#30495984)

They are "rational" only if operating inside of a certain set of axioms, e.g. "NATO is a threat to Russia". I don't think that's a given, NATO was a threat to the communist regime but they didn't care much about modern Russia, that is, until Putin decided to make "being an enemy of NATO" a raison d'être of his regime and, through massive propaganda campaigns, the Russian Federation as a whole.

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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by colordrops on Sunday February 27, 2022 @10:52PM (#30496209)

Russia wanted to be part of NATO and the US didn't allow it.

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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by pixl97 on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:49AM (#30499256)

With the way Russia behavies with its UN veto power, I can completely understand why.

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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by colordrops on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:34PM (#30504768)

Have you not seen how the US behaves with its UN veto power? They are the most egregious by far. Just look at how often they stand alone regarding Israel/Palestine issues.

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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by foverzar on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:58AM (#30499331)

Can you elaborate?

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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by pixl97 on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:58AM (#30499840)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42743587

https://theconversation.com/how-russias-un-vetoes-have-enabl...

https://reliefweb.int/report/world/does-russia-s-veto-mean-c...

https://news.un.org/en/story/2017/02/552362-russia-china-blo...

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-boycott-...

Not to say that other countries have not pulled some shit with UN veto power, but it's pretty much a meme with USSR/Russia

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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by mpfundstein on Sunday February 27, 2022 @10:25PM (#30496035)

excuse me but where did you get this extra ordinary intelligence from?

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