Quote from: myshownow on August 28, 2014, 01:05:41 AM

You should apply as a gossip columnist in a lowbrow tabloid, they sell better than the Western mainstream press. Actuall, all these small tidbits are irrelevant because the bigger picture is moving fast, it is making all the delusions irrelevant. But we'll go to the bigger picture last, I'll just teach you proper - and civilized, fair- logic first.

Quote from: blablahblah on August 27, 2014, 12:22:50 PM

My simple analysis says that Russia is in a bad situation. They are highly reliant on gas exports, and they just buy everything they need from the EU or Asia. Meanwhile, Europe is developing shale gas and other alternative energy sources, and that's putting pressure on Russia's energy dominance in the region.
Russia's GDP: 2 billion
EU's GDP: 14 billion
need I say more?

Well, your simple analysis is way-off because it is basically dishonest and just following the talking propaganda points given to you by your propaganda paymaster .Russia is not in a bad situation after all the Western sanctions because it is more financially stable than the highly-indebted Western countries and it really doesn't need the Western financial system because the world's financial system is already pulling away from the Western monopoly (and this is the fact which is making the hegemon US insane that's why it's flailing irrationally now), while the Western countries are drowning in debts and have anemic economies that the simple Russian counter sanction staggered them. Russia didn't show signs of recession all throughtout the sanctions (it grew in the last quarter by .8%) while even Germany just shrunk by .2% in the last quarter. Notice that despite the talks of Russian soldier entry into Ukraine lately, nobody is talking about sanctions anymore. Have they realized nobody is intimidated by them anymore and that they have become laughingstock? In fact, people are now talking of something more surprising, I will mention below for the climax.

The GDP figures you mentioned are useless because a person with $100 is poor if his debt is $1,00,000. Just like America with an inflated $17 trillion GDP but with $220 trillion unfunded liabilities (look at Princeton studies) hidden in its books. Germany has a $3.3 trilion GDP-PPP for 2013 which is smaller than Russia's $3.4 trillion GDP-PPP (according to WOrld Bank figures for 2013, Russia is the richest country in Europe per parity purchasing power) but Deutsche Bank alone has $70 trillion in derivative liabilities. UK has an official $2 trilion economy but its unofficial debt is $16 trillion, etc. So just stating the GDP figures which one can look up in the NSA-controlled Wikipedia is simplistic, only a simpleton will believe that the major European players & particularly the US are not insolvent because they are really insolvent, their liabilities are far, far, far bigger than their incomes. That's the reason America has been relying on the printing of money (which the ECB might be forced to do now because the EU is in the cusp of triple-dip recession). That's the reason the Western sanctions did not work because it was basically a comedy show put up by bankrupt countries, threatening to deny funds which the country they were sanctioning had in abundance (Russia has a very low debt, only $800 billion compared to the US' $220 trillion unfunded liabilities & has the third biggest reserve behind China & Japan). The Western sanctions were intended just to show they are powerful, relying on their propaganda machine to create the hype of their power- but look what happened, they fell flat on their faces & the world laughed. The bankrupt Western countries have become comedians (if I were a producer, I would give them the showbiz name- The Wannabe Powerful, or better yet, the Has-beens)

The Ukraine crisis is a desperate effort of the US to cling to its empire. It is failing. It was able to stampede the EU countries to issue economic sanctions against Russia after the CIA initiated the MH17 false flag but then, after the simple Russia countersanction, it exposed their real weakness. The EU countries are all reeling. They can't sanction anymore. The latest false flag (the Russian soldiers entry; 400 Ukrainian soldiers entered Russia but Russia returned them the next day but the Ukrainians made an issue of merely ten soldiers, and judging by the corny dialogue that was given to the soldiers for the propaganda video, it was obvious they were done to gather momentum for the next hate round and consequently sanction. It fizzled because everyone will not suffer for a distant bankrupt country called Ukraine.

So will the US still hold its empire intact? Not for long. It is breaking. Faced with sure economic dive, the most powerful leader in the EU is having second thoughts .
Merkel Slams US Hegemony? "America Can't Solve All The World's Problems Anymore"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-27/merkel-slams-us-hegemony-america-cant-solve-all-worlds-problems-anymore

This is all about the battle for the Anglo-American empire. If Germany goes, the rest of the economically depressed EU follow. The Ukraine comedy will soon be forgotten.

So look beyond Ukraine now. Faced with a sinking economy & the US' ire, the German show has begun.

It's doesn't matter high or low debt numbers. Real money is only interest rates. And russia is a economical failed state atm