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Nothing to see here. It's fake news. russia strong. Resistance is futile... ROFL
Noice
Isn't Russian economy based mainly on oil export? If that's true, then it should collapse soon. I a little bit doubt that it'll actually happen soon, though.
They are spending their export earnings, to import refined petroleum products now, ROFL. And you better believe that Ukraine will be targeting import facilities and infrastructure soon....
Imagine an oil economy that has to import oil products, hehe. What an unmitigated fail that ruzzia, and their midget dicktator is.....
The Russian economy now is largely based on providing war mateiriel. Russia's export earnings are heavily dependent on fossil-fuel exports, though, and they have to import both finished and raw materials to keep military production going. Those have to be paid for, and hardly anyone wants roubles.
It's hard to get definite info from there, but some experts* say the economy is way worse off than what they show the West.
OTOH China is helping them...
* and I mean that unironically.
That's quite probable. Also even help from China is probably not sustainable. Let's hope it crumbles, the sooner the better.
Makes sense.
From China and Belarus apparently.
Time to focus on other parts of their infrastructure.
And putin. Someone should take that fuck out.
Being such a midget runt, makes him a hard target LOL.
Not for lack of trying I'm sure, but he's a paranoid little fucker.
Didn't he have a bunker somewhere no one know? Unless someone he trusted do it, there's no way to be close to him to actually do it.
Nah. This works. It's a good focus to keep.