In the other hand, if digging good and settling oil to India were enough, they would not need to raid their savings this hard.

So maybe it’s not that critical to demotivate India from Russian oil…

My impression is that it’s exactly what Ukraine is doing by attacking oil refineries and reserves - make russia decide wether to sell or use themselves for the war.

I do hope that the industry taking it will just slightly delay devaluation and boom! more inflation.

You mean they will go for printer go brr?

Yes, please!

They also held 293.189 tonnes of unallocated gold, compared with 298.84 tonnes on August 1, 303.579 tonnes on July 1 and 329.795 tonnes on June 1.

So they sold almost 40 tonnes of gold in 4 months? I approve that trend.

It’s good that they can just print more rubels to fill the gap! /S

The facts are:

• russia spent a lot of effort trying to ban it
• eventually they “convinced” durov to cooperate to fight terrorism and removed the ban
• in russia fighting terrorism is applied to anything

Yes, I don’t have evidence that the messages are accessed, only that the access is given and that all of that is happening in a country with a blatant disregard to law from the government.

I would be surprised if it’s not.

russia tried to take control over it for a while, until

On 18 June 2020, the Russian government lifted its ban on Telegram after it agreed to “help with extremism investigations”. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/telegram-russia-ban-lift-messaging-app-encryption-download-a9573181.html

Which means they have access to all messages.

They didn’t say which exactly human health is not threatened, so all is good and correct as I’m sure there’s at least one senile psychopath who’s safe from that smoke.

I think the main factor to the collapse as well as to why it was taking this long was the speed of communication. Those vassals had the luxury of 10 messages a year from the boss.

Interestingly, when it comes to (hopefully soon) collapse of russia, there are two parts to it. First are the instant communication channels that are useful to the crash and second is the human hierarchy that pootin uses (and has to) to get information. So he’s at the Ottoman speeds of processing information, but at the modern speed of attack.

As a protest, Hungary should sever all relations with the terrible totalitarian EU.

Also I think they should consider moving into russia - there should be enough vacant space.

Don’t tell anyone, but I suspect it’s a pc with a GPU. Maybe even a hard drive. Wild!

These are fantastic artillery numbers. Iirc, russia is an artillery-first military - e.g. shoot a lot or artillery, pause and check with soldiers, repeat as needed.

So the fewer of those they have, the more they rely on guided bombs (which require planes, which are few, wear off and they are steadily losing too) and meat assaults.

thank you. came to the comments to say exactly this.

cloud could be cheap, but it’s a lot of work, or at least attention. people get disappointed with the costs, paradoxically, because cloud is easy and, as you put, versatile. and often between any two options allowing to do the same thing, the easier one will be more expensive.

the biggest irony of the cloud is that many companies it seems, just like different species evolved into crabs, discover that all they need is a couple of own servers in a managed hosting environment, a CDN and outlook.

They actually do. 70% of russians support the war.

They started spending that money after starting the war, so it’s use is related to the war in question. Thus, when they will run out, whatever they were paying for (war related) will stop getting money.

It might not be a direct financing of the battlefield activities, but while the victory will be in the battlefield, the biggest chunk of the battle actually happens in preparation and logistics.

In other words, I’m hopeful that this will have a major impact on the invader’s ability to cause harm.

It would be 9 years, if only one linear factor was at play.

I believe it’s multiple factors, though.

One is that every plane taken out had its share of “work”, which is now distributed across the remaining ones. Which means they get worn out a little faster. Similar to how they have to cannibalise parts from one civilian aircraft to repair another.

Then I’m going they cannot maintain the usual production speed because if the sanctions. Add to that an increased need to repair since the plains are more heavily used. And I’d guess that repairs are fine at the same facility that produces them, this also reducing production speed.

In other words, I think it’s about snowballing and at this rate it could be way less than nine years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-34

Since 2006 they’ve built 150 units. That’s 8 units a year. Some were sold, some got lost.

As of 20 May 2023, there have been 20 visually confirmed cases of Su-34s being lost, damaged or abandoned by Russian forces since the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. 23 now, apparently.

At their price, with sanctions, with wear of the remaining ones, at this rate, they might not have any left very soon.

There are other ways of passive or active resistance that is not a direct confrontation.

In the end, it’s still a choice, I’m afraid.

Forced or obeying orders? There’s a difference, you know.