Comments by "Ghostlight X" (@ghostlightx9005) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

  1. Top 10 things that have gone wrong for russia since their invasion: 1) Large number of extremely significant international companies stopped doing business and moved out. They will never return. 2) Massive brain-drain of the country's most talented people (knock on effect of (1)) 3) Complete loss of international investment, likely never to return. Plus of course vast sums of their existing money seized and frozen in overseas banks, likely to be used for reparations. 4) Complete loss of their EU fossil fuel market. Pre-war, 86% of russia's fossil fuel exports were going to EU and its allies, and that represents 64% of russia's total exports. Gone forever. 5) Mobilization took 700k of the most productive people out of the economy when it could least afford to lose them. (About to be repeated?) 6) West can feel justified in continuing and increasing their sanctions, crippling the economy further. The longer the war goes on the tighter they can strangle russia and feel completely justified. 7) Complete humiliation and loss of reputation of the previously feared Russian military. Now a laughing stock. 8) Complete loss of reputation for the country itself. Now thought of as the Nazis of the modern era with their own modern-day Hitler; a reputation they will likely never lose. 9) NATO countries were galvanized and NATO came together in great strength and unity when they had kind of drifted apart. No one expected that. 10) Potentially multiple new countries applying to join NATO, most of them right on russia's border, united in their fear, distrust and out-right hatred of russia.
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  2. @MSD Group The answer to that is simple. It isn't true, you are listening to russians.
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  3. @MSD Group News just in.... in Jan 2023 the Russian economy has crashed to the biggest deficit in the country's history. Joe Bloggs has done a very comprehensive analysis on youtube of the newly published numbers, including why there is a confusion among some that russia is doing quite well economically, when it absolutely is not. People should go look at those numbers, they are extremely BAD (and they come from russia itself so it's likely the real numbers are far worse). And note none of this even reflects the major new EU ban and cap on refined russian energy products, which only came in 5th Feb 2023. In short, the February numbers are going to be significantly worse again. You simply cannot throw away 64% of your total exports and not have a crippling result on the country.
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  4. Because they know they'll be next for NATO's wrath if they do.
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