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One question is, can you counterfeit Russian Rubles in large scale quantities? Since you can steal a presidential election electronically, can you steal Russian gas with electronically manufactured counterfeit Russian Rubles?

If Trump were in office, there would be no war in the Ukraine. There would be peace, and the US wouldn't be destroying itself and taking much of Europe along in that destruction... as Biden is doing to us right now.

European gas importers quietly surrender to Russia and begin buying gas in RUBLES… while the West’s economic warfare scheme disastrously BACKFIRES

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The West is quietly surrendering to Russia, as the Kremlin holds oil and fertilizer as leverage over the West. At the same time, the Biden regime is threatening to send more U.S. weapons and military equipment (up to $20 billion worth) to Azov, the Nazi brigades fighting in Ukraine.

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With Trump we would be now using white suits and gas masks all over the globe.

What the real news is:

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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said European companies will be able to pay for gas in rubles without breaching sanctions, apparently dismissing European Union guidance to the contrary.

So the minister of Italy says something, which is "can" and you take it as Europe saying yes? You have open the box, now add 1 +1 here.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/exclusive-eu-considering-curbing-russias-rights-imf-over-invasion-sources-2022-03-04/

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European Union officials are examining curbing Russia's influence and access to finance at the International Monetary Fund following its invasion of Ukraine, six officials told Reuters.

https://www.ft.com/content/2aef066b-3cdb-49c2-9258-38575b4ad799

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The proposals will be published next week, as EU leaders rush to break their dependence on Russian oil and gas following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The commission has already said it thought the EU could drive down Russian gas imports by two-thirds this year and has urged member states to replenish their gas storage facilities ahead of next winter.

Keep hold of those Roubles very hard, put them under your blanket. They will go up right? What could go wrong?

So you think you know what some imaginary future would have been with Trump, right? We're seeing YOUR Trump future being played out by Biden right now. And all the evidences of Trump in the past showed a Peacemaker who made America stronger.

On the other hand, what Putin can do or not do is questionable. Are the reports of his nuclear capabilities in the waters around the world true? If they are, you might destroy Russia, but the cost would be so bad that you might as well simply kill yourself. Trump would never have let the situation go to the point where Putin might get scared enough to use his nukes.

And Russia... Russia only needs one more thing to win everything... PEOPLE. Russia owns Siberia, and Siberia has so much material wealth that they don't need anything from the rest of the world.

Furthermore, Russia has the history of the world just like all the other governments do. Communications around the world have provided this knowledge of the past to everyone. Russia knows what works in war and what doesn't. They know what holds a nation together and what doesn't. They know how to appease their people to get them to willingly work for their homeland (unlike Lenin and Stalin and the Bolsheviks). Biden knows this all, as well. But we don't see Biden endearing any average Americans to his ways.

Russia has everything to gain and nothing to lose in a game of standing up to the rest of the world. If Russia's hand is forced, we all go back to the middle ages, or the stone age.

Well, it certainly seems that YOU can make YOUR bold assumptions, but I am not granted that opportunity. Very typical of a Trump supporter. Anyway, Trump is not the POTUS and there is another thread in politics where you can rant as much as you like.

You may want to read about the scenarios that are built around the possibility of using nuclear weapons. While it is something that I would not like to test, it is not an immediately "all nukes in", there is escalation and chances to stop. Again, there are YOUR bold assumptions, that cannot be wrong because they are inspired by your God (Trump I assume).

Your argument about Russia being a country that could be fully autonomous industrially is right in the principle. The USSR was quite disconnected (apart from the COMECON, which was not of much use). The problem is that the rest of the world is perfectly able to grow faster by commerce, growing on the exchanges of strengths, etc... Which is one of the reasons why the USSR disintegrated, despite having all natural resources at their disposal.

As simple as this, interconnexion creates competitivity and markets, autarky brings corruption, kleptocracy, inefficiency and the inability of keeping up with an adversary. Again, many of those traits exist in Russia and that is why it has been unable to bring more countries into its sphere of influence pacifically and the reason why Ukraine is being invaded.

You miss the point entirely. Anybody can predict this or that about Trump and any future. But since Trump isn't the POTUS, those predictions don't matter one bit.

What matters? The thing that matters is that Biden is POTUS, and all the bad things Trump naysayers predicted about Trump are happening under Biden... and probably worse.

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