re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

JB is either insane or he is monetizing his posting efforts in some way, simple as that. I don't know what his actual status is but the latter type of posting will get you banned from most any forum and it doesn't have anything to do with "free speech" or more correctly unrestricted speech on a porvately owned forum.

He posted 5-6 times an hour for 16+ hours every day for months on end. His posts almost always included an embedded Tweet and a couple of graphs of his text. Try scrolling Twitter to find a Ukraine/Russia Tweet that hasn't been posted ad naseum, read it and watch any video, copy and embed it then add a couple of graphs of text. Do this 5 times in a row and see how much of an hour it takes. Then consider that 16 hours a day 7 days a week for months on end. If he wasn't directly monitized or engaged in self promotion he is stark raving mad and either unemployed or flat out stealing from his employer. He has claimed to be a murse and I believe an ED nurse, they simply don't have that level of downtime. Sure some but all day every day absolutely not.

Here is the reality: JB has no interest in being a member of the community. If Sir Winston went on a months long embed screed I would be concerned for him as a person, I would scroll past a lot of his posts, it would irritate me at times but I would never argue (outside of specific transgressions) that he should not be allowed to post because whether love, hate or ambivalence you can not argue he is not a memeber of the community. He posts about a wide variety of subjects and in the end he is one of us. JB is not one of us nor did he every give any indication he was interested in being one of us.

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Looks like they are going to get a lot less Iranian drones now.

Russia set up its own production facilities for the Shahed-type drones... though Ukraine has targeted them often. Hopefully an important component came from Iran, though...

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Denys Davidov discussed this shortly after the Israelis flattened the Iranian drone factory. It was earlier assumed that Russia was building their own Shahed-type drones now. This was due to the fact that the Iranian drones had originally been shipped to Russia via freight aircraft but these flights were significantly reduced about eight months ago. Yet the drone attacks from Russia continued and increased.

However people with knowledge of the complex guidance systems of these drones argued that Russia could not independently produce these systems yet. Importing electronics from China was problematic as these parts were not fit for purpose and had to be modified by the Russians. Which slowed down the process a great deal, as we can imagine.

As Russian drone attacks are increasing, they must be getting fit for purpose electronics from somewhere and that somewhere can only be Iran at present. But the freight air flights had been reduced to the point that very few drone attacks could be supported in this fashion. Therefore, contrary to the electronics supply issue, it was assumed that Russia was producing all of their own drones.

The answer to this problem was marine shipping on the Caspian, which doesn't lend itself to Western quantification as do flights. Many 'anonymous sources' within intelligence services believe now that these electronic components became too much of a logistical issue for Russian freight aircraft needed for other duties - and were not trusted due to lack of maintenance - and marine cargo vessels have been employed.

The Russians seem to be producing their own frames and detonation/explosives but are still dependent on the Iranians for the guidance electronics. And are importing the prop engines from China. So with the destruction of the Iranian drone production we may see a drop in drone production from Russia soon. At least that's the cope.

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Denys Davidov

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A coward that skipped his country as soon as the bullets started flying. Refuses to go back and fight for his country but instead sits safely in a foreign nation making money off of the war while brave men die at the front.

I can see you loving the Denys Davidov and Jake Broe types.

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Here is the reality: JB has no interest in being a member of the community. If Sir Winston went on a months long embed screed I would be concerned for him as a person, I would scroll past a lot of his posts, it would irritate me at times but I would never argue (outside of specific transgressions) that he should not be allowed to post because whether love, hate or ambivalence you can not argue he is not a memeber of the community. He posts about a wide variety of subjects and in the end he is one of us. JB is not one of us nor did he every give any indication he was interested in being one of us.

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What the hell?

This sounds like it came from one of those nuts on Reddit, Blue Sky or DU.

A member of the community?

He is not one of us?

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He posted 5-6 times an hour for 16+ hours every day for months on end.

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Is this actually accurate?

If so, holy shite

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Is this actually accurate?

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It's closer to 4 an hour, 16 hours a day, for the entirety of his account.

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Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Nabiullina said that the Russian economy had been expanding on the back of "free resources," including labor, industrial capacity, bank capital reserves, and liquid assets from the National Wealth Fund (NWF) — all of which are now reportedly nearing depletion.

"We grew for two years at a fairly high pace because free resources were activated," she said. "We need to understand that many of those resources have truly been exhausted."

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Russia's economy is now "on the verge of a transition to recession," Russian Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said at the same forum. Official data show that GDP growth slowed from 4.1% in late 2023 to just 1.4% in the first quarter of 2024, with the economy contracting quarter-on-quarter for the first time since 2022.

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I would say if your GDP drops 67% in one quarter, "recession" is not the applicable term. To be able to use that term you must have two things: an unlimited line of legitimate credit available; and something revenue-productive on which to spend it. In other words, a viable economy that can, with the right resources and professional guidance, recover at some future point. A Putin-directed economy...? Uh, no.

A 1.4% GDP means that only the military industrial input is left and since no outside party is buying this production, it depends on government sources of funding. These 'free resources', i.e. public money available for stealing, are being exhausted and are reaching or have reached their end. As above, "We need to understand that many of those resources have truly been exhausted."

These numbers - from Russian official sources nogal - also establish that the revenue from the shadow fleet oil exports is not nearly enough to maintain the government spending at current rates. The Russians are selling and moving oil, but are not profiting at the levels needed to defend the realm. In other words, the Chinese and Indians have the Russians bent over and spread on pricing. Sometimes capitalism can be cruel...

As we discussed earlier, the next item to come into play will be the family silver. The Chinese definitely have a record of buying into port facilities such as the Russian oil ports on the Pacific, the St. Petersburg, Tuapse and Novorossiisk oil terminals. But they are more than likely holding back because of security issues (with both Russians and Ukrainians). However, the waiting game will pay off as many of these facilities will soon be available for cents on a Yuan. Stay tuned campers.

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The United States is pressuring European allies to limit references to Ukraine in the final communique coming out of next week's NATO summit, according to several sources, a symbolic move that would signal a decline in support for Kyiv under U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.

Trump officials have pushed NATO allies to agree to limit mentions of Ukraine in the communique, the document issued at the conclusion of the annual conference that lays out the security alliance's priorities, according to multiple sources in Washington and Europe who are familiar with the negotiations.

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The US is pressuring European allies to stop talking about Russia’s crimes in Ukraine while Russia is intensifying its massacre of civilians. It’s utterly insane.

Countries that have the power to stop genocide but choose to look away are almost as guilty as those committing it.

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My friend Dmitrii predicted all of this in 2022 as he was setting up companies outside of Russia for capital which fled it. That is capital not profits. Former finance director of Gazprom which the know nothing here think is fake.

My Polish born grain company exec formerly with Continental Grain, then with Broad (SEC carve off when Cargill bought Continental), now ATG who has set up trading offices in Beijing and astounded by the corruption there. So he tells me last year that they cannot sell any lentils to Russia (from Canada) because Russia didn't have enough money to buy a bag of peanuts.

The only thing that doesn't take two weeks for Trump to produce is another scandal linking him to the Kremlin.

And Elon confirms it.








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