Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "EU preparing sanctions against countries that help Russia evade penalties, potentially hitting China" video.

  1. What matters is that Russia's federal budget revenues from oil and gas have fallen 64% year-on-year. For a gas station that masquerades as a country, that's nothing short of disastrous. Russia is forced to plug the budget deficit by tapping from the national wealth fund, set aside for pensions. In other words, Russian pensions go up in smoke in Ukraine. If anyone, the Russians should take to the streets and protest against Putin's "pension reform".
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  2.  Bang 4 Buck  The Russian state is going bankrupt, smarty-pants. OK, I rarely indulge whataboutists, but the fuss around raising the debt ceiling in the USA is a game that their politicians play with such regularity, that the only remarkable bit about it is that you find it remarkable.
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  3. English please.
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