Category: Containing Russia

Ineffective

Sanctions are ineffective…

This is not me, vatnik saying it but the manager of Amundi, the largest investment fund in Europe saying it.

From Reuters:

Amundi expects Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 1.5% in 2024 and by 2% in 2025, compared with 0.5% and 1.2% for the euro zone.

“It means that the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia — the major developed countries — are unable to sanction a country effectively,” Amundi’s CIO Vincent Mortier told reporters at a news conference in Paris on the fund manager’s 2024 outlook.

“That’s what it means. We can deplore it, but it’s a reality.”

The impact of the sanctions was visible in terms of asset-freezing for a certain number of people, Mortier said, but not so much on Russia’s imports and exports.

Major emerging economies under the BRICS umbrella (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as well as countries like Turkey and Kazakhstan benefited from the sanctions as Russia managed to move its exports away from Western countries, Mortier said.

“It’s a reality check. In the end, if we take stock of the war in Ukraine: Europe has suffered directly and strongly; for the United States (the impact is) neutral; but Turkey, Central Asia and Asia more generally have benefited,” he said. 

Coping With Russia Winning

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Many such statements out there. If Russia wins, the security in Europe will change, they might take the fight further to Central Europe.

The problem is that the Western narrative is that the Russian demands are illegitimate, and therefore Russian victory over the Ukrainians is not acceptable because that would mean seeking compromise with Russia. The Westerners have such a strong sense of superiority that all they demand from Russia is complete capitulation.

Ukraine in particular made any negotiations with Russia illegal. This is why, unless there is a regime change in Ukraine, the fight will last until a complete ruin. The idiots in Central Europe that think Russia ought to be stopped now might as well declare personal Jihad on Putin right now and get their asses to Ukraine and help the war effort.

But I doubt Russia will lose this, this is a matter of national security and therefore of utmost priority, Russia cannot come out of this defeated. I for one am looking forward to Russian victory and humiliation of the West.

Russia Bypasses Western Sanctions

Ramps up the production of rockets…

As a result of the sanctions, American officials estimate that Russia was forced to dramatically slow its production of missiles and other weaponry at the start of the war in February 2022 for at least six months. But by the end of 2022, Moscow’s military industrial manufacturing began to pick up speed again, American officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose the sensitive assessment now concede.

Russia subverted American export controls using its intelligence services and ministry of defense to run illicit networks of people who smuggle key components by exporting them to other countries from which they can be shipped to Russia more easily.

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Officials fear that increased missile stocks could mean an especially dark and cold winter for Ukrainian citizens.

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Russia adapted quickly with its own efforts to secure supplies of the needed parts.

Today, Russian officials have remade their economy to focus on defense production. With revenue from high energy prices, Russia’s security services and ministry of defense have been able to smuggle in the microelectronics and other Western materials required for cruise missiles and other precision guided weaponry. As a result, military production has not only recovered but surged.

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As a result of the push, Russia is now producing more ammunition than the United States and Europe. Overall, Kusti Salm, a senior Estonian defense ministry official, estimated that Russia’s current ammunition production is seven times greater than that of the West.

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In cases where Russia needs millions of one particular component, export controls can grind production to a halt. But the chips needed to make a couple of hundred cruise missiles would fit into a few backpacks, which makes evading sanctions relatively simple…

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Listen up Russophobic dog farts, Russia will always find a way…

Hat tip

Guenther Fehlinger

Guenther is an Austrian lobbyist for NATO. Austria is not a NATO country but it has a defensive treaty with my country that is in NATO. Austria in NATO is kinda redundant…

Guenther has a tendency to create funny maps of dismembered countries that threaten NATO and Western hegemony in his opinion.

Of course, he started with Russia. Because Russia is the enemy number 1 of NATO. Russia might be painted as shit and incompetent by the propaganda but they fear it the most…

But then other countries began being naughty…

Then came a thing called BRICS:

The people on Twitter have brought up responses to Guenther…

Funny that Guenther is an Austrian. I have called the Ukrainian nationalism “Austrian voodoo”. Ukrainian nationalism is a result of a successful policy of the Austrian government to promote disunity among the Russians and neutralize the Russian threat.

How the Union Leads to Ruin in Ukraine

Some Showdown in West Africa

Africa is a dark continent in that it is not interesting for the mainstream media. Nobody gives a fuck about what happens in Africa. But is Russia really trying to kick the French out of Africa for good?

From Wikipedia:

 thousands of pro-coup Nigeriens gathered in Niamey’s Place de la Concertation, in front of the National Assembly, and went to the French Embassy carrying Nigerien and Russian flags, with slogans such as “Down with France, out with Barkhane, we don’t care about ECOWAS, the European Union and the African Union!”, “Arrest the former dignitaries to return the stolen millions.”, and “Down with France, long live Putin!”.[48][49][50] The demonstrators also called for an immediate intervention by the Wagner Group.[49]

2023 Nigerien coup d’état

Finland Begins to Suck Dick

Similar story is with other EU countries…

The new Finnish government of the prime minister, Petteri Orpo published a new program intended to balance the Finnish economy in the time of crisis, the fall of industrial production, and the militarization of the country. NATO accession is an expensive pleasure that one needs to pay for.

The former government, headed by Sanna Marin (edit: her name sounds like some canned tuna brand) was forced markedly increase its military spending in order to become a member of NATO, the main article was the purchase of F 35 fighter jets.

Right with the news about Finland’s rapid accession, there was the information about the defens expenses being doubled in the upcoming year. Alongside receiving American armaments, the Finns have also agreed to release funds for the support of the administrative apparatus of NATO, to increase the military contingent two times, and also build a barrier on the border with Russia.

In the past, the Finnish government thought the Finnish economy would manage to cover the expenses without cuts to other budgetary expenses.

However, the fall of Finnish GDP has forced the new government to announce cuts to the social sphere. The Finnish government is looking at completely scrapping the living subsidy. And in the future, the conditions under which government assistance can be received will harden.

Meanwhile according to the University of Helsinki professor, Niko Määttä, because of the growth of budget expenses of the government of Sanna Marin, the government debt reached 146 billion euros. This deficit will be paid by several future governments of the country.

The new prime minister, Orpo said that the current state of the Finnish economy has turned out to be much worse than was previously thought.

Without significant cuts to the budget, Finland cannot do right now.

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