Quote from: Branko on August 27, 2022, 07:14:16 AM

Quote from: be.open on August 25, 2022, 09:08:39 PM

Quote from: paxmao on August 25, 2022, 08:40:31 PM

I do not expect much of an answer, but just to humour you, direct and clear: RF cannot defend the land that has stolen from Ukraine and is shameful to see how a theoretically superior army cannot achieve anything but marginal gains during the last months. Hope that is clear enough.

I have already spoken here many times and I will say it again - time works for Russia. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have not carried out a single successful offensive in six months, Ukraine simply does not have the opportunity for offensive operations. Russia can and knows how to attack, but saves a limited human resource. The situation now seems to be a stalemate, but the approach of winter plays into the hands of Russia. August is still on the calendar, and Europe is already in hysterics. I'm glad you're able to joke under these circumstances. Grin

He's joking because UK along with USA cheers not only for as many Ukrainians and Russians deaths, they like weakening EU, too.
Brexit didn't happen randomly

Weakening EU has always been a too convenient "side effect". As usual lots of fog of war, and shit throwing of daily announcements by both sides. But money is one constant that tends to cut right through the fog. If i may quote myself back from May:

Quote from: DaRude on May 18, 2022, 06:37:22 PM

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Janet Yellen confirmed it’s unlikely the US will allow Russia to continue making bond payments on its foreign-currency debt

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-18/yellen-confirms-russia-debt-payment-license-extension-unlikely

Ahh the, you default because i won't accept your payment, logic. I'm not sure if USD can be militarized anymore than this, so they decided to totally kill USD as a global reserve currency, how much of the US debt do they expect China to buy up after such antics? US cannot run on balanced budget especially now, so Yellen will need to force EU (Germany/France) to start propping up USD at the cost of EUR. USD/EUR parity incoming. Scholz and Macron are set up to be played hard, guess that's why they're running around the way they do

So here we are parity happened. How's EU doing

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Europe’s fertilizer crunch is deepening with more than two-thirds of production capacity halted by soaring gas costs, threatening farmers and consumers far beyond the region’s borders.
“We are extremely concerned that as prices of natural gas keep increasing more plants in Europe will be forced to close,” said Maximo Torero, chief economist at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. “This will switch the EU from being a key exporter to an importer, putting more pressure on fertilizer prices and consequently affecting the next planting season.”
About 70% of capacity is offline, according to Fertilizers Europe, which represents most of the continent’s producers.
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This week, large producers, including Norway’s Yara International ASA and CF Industries, curtailed or halted output. “We confirm we are reducing and stopping production of some fertilizer plants in the different EU sites and this for economic reasons,” a spokesperson for Borealis AG said in an emailed response to questions.
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The industry must also contend with US and European Union sanctions on potash sales from Belarus and China’s move to rein in shipments. Trade in Russian nutrients has suffered from many shippers, banks and insurers self-sanctioning, as well as difficulties in servicing exports from Russia, a big supplier of every major type of crop nutrient.
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Millions of people across Africa already face starvation and a projected 7% decline in global fertilizer next season

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/europe-deepening-fertilizer-crunch-threatens-193821567.html

EU production is undercut ✓
Starvation in Africa ✓
Prevent Russia from delivering while blaming Russia ✓
Keep claiming that RU sanctions don't effect food shortages, and it's UA that fed the whole world ✓

Now let's check how the largest producer of freedom fertilizer in US, CF Industries NYSE(CF) is doing, huh only up 46% YTD with only $20,5B market cap. And Exxon Mobil is only up 50% YTD. Well, who needs VW when they can have a FORD, BMW and Mercedes when there's Cadillac and Tesla, Airbus when there's Boeing. I'm sure US can spare extra mittens, blankets, and scarfs to EU.

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British consumer price inflation is set to peak at 18.6% in January, more than nine times the Bank of England's target, an economist at U.S. bank Citi said on Monday, raising his forecast once again in light of the latest jump in energy prices.
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Consumer price inflation was last above 18% in 1976.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-inflation-hit-18-early-2023-citi-forecasts-2022-08-22/
USD/GBP parity is next. Just remember it's not NATO's article 5 that protects Europe, it's apparently Ukraine Huh

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