Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "What everyone is getting wrong about Russia's economy" video.

  1. Russia has been importing butter for years and years. Putin has lost his ability to import butter because HARD currencies are required. it's funny, but Putin's last source of butter has been UKRAINE. The butter is sold to the UAE, and only then flown up to Moscow. Cute, no? This long route becomes obvious -- right off the package label. (!)
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  2.  @DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL  This IS the CIA that couldn't spot the collapse of the USSR. Thanks, I got cha.
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  3. That's not true. The West can lock-up Putin by selling for hard cash those items that are so hard to give up: tobacco.
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  4. Nabiullina told Putin that his cupboard is BARE already. She is able to hold things together with chewing gum and baling wire.
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  5.  @dv8ug  Holy hll. Zelenskyy is getting FREE wealth from the West. He's able to pay his government payroll WITHOUT collecting taxes. It's NO WONDER that the Ukrainian elites are in Wonder Land. They've never seen anything like it. This is why the Caribbean is afloat with Ukrainian mega-yachts as I type. No-one is crazy enough to leave their war profits within sight of Ukraine.
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  6. Paul, let's cut to the chase. Elvira Nabiullina flatly told Putin a week ago that he was BROKE. He has no more cash. See how easy that was ? No analogy was required. Putin's banker told him he's busted -- and no-one will lend him any money, to boot. The latter point is why Putin is renegging on payouts to soldiers, to those conscripted, to those contracted, to those wounded. Putin is renegging on payouts to war-widows, too. See how that saves cash ? Yes, Putin saves !
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  7.  @rosschops9509  A 401K is a tax envelope that is massively used by the top 5% of Americans -- income wise. Do you think Washington will piss them off?
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  8. He's NEVER done such a thing in his life. Trump is going to force Zelenskyy to stand for re-election. Zelenskyy won't like it. It'll be 2020 all over again -- reversed.
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  9. Zelenskyy sabotaged Trump's re-election in 2020 -- in a major, major way -- got him impeached, in fact. Then Zelenskyy sat quiet as Biden slipped into office -- straight from his basement. With Trump out of power, Putin invaded Ukraine and Iran invaded Israel. Of course, both events were the direct result of Wise Biden panicking out of Kabul. Putin's invasion prep began within weeks, of course.
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  10.  @patwilson2546  Hirsute, though.
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