DIY-HP-LED
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Update from Ukraine | Breaking News! We Got our Men out!
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Update from Ukraine | Breaking News! We Got our Men out!
DIY-HP-LED
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Are you advocating we nuke Russia to immediately solve our problems? Seems they are being a real pain to in the ass to everybody and should be dealt with quickly. After WW2 we have a rules based global order and it is getting more rules based all the time and those rules are applying to America too. America currently only controls about 20% of the global economy, down quite a bit from the post war when they feed and reequipped a lot of Europe and even Japan, then Korea, which was a UN war, not an American one.7 June 2022
Cost of living, Data, Expatriate management, Inflation
- A 20% rent increase cements London’s position within top five most expensive cities in the world, while a 12% increase in rental costs sees New York overtake Geneva to secure second place
- Food prices soar across the globe due in part to shortages created by the war in Ukraine, but worst is unfortunately yet to come for UK
- Sunflower and palm oil shortages drive up cost of cooking oils by a quarter on average globally*, and by more than double in Beirut, Tehran and Sarajevo -compared to a 4% annual increase in the UK
- Petrol prices climbed on average 37% y-o-y across all cities, compared to a 23% rise in London. The world’s most expensive petrol is still found in Hong Kong, at £2.26 per litre – up from £1.87 last year
- Russian cities remain stable in ranking despite sanctions. Prices soar by 17% in Moscow, but city falls one place to 62nd globally due to weak rouble
- Rising prices and a stronger currency push Luanda, Angola, up 108 places in the cost of living ranking
- Ranked in 207th place, Ankara, Turkey is now the cheapest city in the world for expats and tourists, after falling 5 places from 2021.
London is the fourth most expensive city in the world during global cost of living crisis
www.eca-international.com
Who are the sanctions and this war actually hurting?
Economic interdependency and free trade prevents wars and was the capitalist system set up after WW2 to do this, it has since become the global system. It is also based on international law and Russia broke a real big one with the imperialist invasion of Ukraine, hence the sanctions by so many countries. The higher the tech and the more complex, the more international and diverse the supply chain becomes, not just for weapons and other high tech, but for the mundane too.
Lucky Luke
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I said ages ago that if US, Russia and China nuked each other the world would have a great starting point again.
But yet we still have wars and Free trade seems to involve tariffs.
I've since been told that just 10 modern nuclear bombs could possibly cause the sun to not reach the earth and human race would be dead soon after. Not sure if that's true or not.
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Lucky Luke
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Just lines on a map that are constantly rubbed out and redrawn.
Lucky Luke
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MAKFA?
is the No. 1 pasta manufacturer in Russia, a federal player in the wheat flour segment and a major cereal producer.
Did you see how international business is back in Russia.
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DIY-HP-LED
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It would take hundreds of warheads and it is not certain it would happen, there have been many above ground nuclear tests in America during the forties and fifties. The brits even nuked nearby Oz!
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Lucky Luke
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Brits nucked OZ and the Yanks nuked Pacific islands over and over and don't forget the French, but are not the bombs much more powerful?
Either way im glad Oz is not nuclear armed.
But then if we wont all die then for sure, Russia, China and America can go nuke each other. We can start again without nuclear weps. World would have a much less population which is a nice starting point.
Roger A. Shrubber
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if its the number one pasta manufacturer in russia, how does that effect international business?
and they can't make pasta out of stolen Ukrainian wheat?
none of what you just said makes any sense...
Lucky Luke
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So all of that is stolen Ukrainian wheat? None of it is Russian wheat?
O you didn't get to 13 and a 1/2 minutes yet? You will see then.
DIY-HP-LED
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Actually the big ones are usually capped at half a megaton and have selectable yield down to a few kilotons. Big bombs aren't efficient, a 500 kiloton fusion device will destroy any city on earth and wipe out it's population, makes compact MERVs for ICBMs. First strikes on nuke sites can now be done with precision conventional weapons, using stealth cruise missiles, they can hit within a fraction of a meter.
Lucky Luke
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More made up lines on a map changing
Lucky Luke
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More made up lines that forgot about the earlier lines of this one 
DIY-HP-LED
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It has only been since the second world war that we had a rules based international system with the soviet Union's nominal participation. Since China opened up and the USSR collapsed it has become a global rules based system that has somewhat stabilized, but is still evolving. This war is a major test of that economic rules based system based on the legal framework of the UN and other international organizations. As we have more liberal democracy we should see more socialism as technology progresses and work becomes a privilege. The global population should also fall rapidly over the next century and a lot of heavy polluting industry will be in space. Capitalism needs growth and expansion and the moon and solar system is where it will happen. How capitalism reacts to a shrinking population will be interesting as wealth grows ever faster, it is not a zero sum game, but an expanding pie.
We get screwed pretty good by the super rich if you look at a chart of wealth distribution, but every spring there are mountains of perfectly good things being thrown away during clean up in front of middle class houses. Go into most homes and you will see a pretty nice place with a paradise for a back yard and people with decent jobs, these are not the people who cause revolutions, these societies evolve as liberal democracies with expanding inclusion and a trend towards social justice.
Roger A. Shrubber
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i think this is all more hot air from the russians...how the fuck are they going to fight a two front war, with one front being a NATO member? they're having a lot of difficulties taking a small piece of Ukraine, NATO would stomp their asses...
Lucky Luke
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This is pretty interesting
DIY-HP-LED
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Yeah, but they have 85% of ground combat power in Ukraine and about 100 BTGs left, almost all of them severely mauled. Let's see how things look in a couple of months.
hanimmal
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How does it feel to be so cucktastic about everything?
Interesting how much stronger the Ruble was before they started attacking democracies across the world. It is a shame Putin has been hurting the citizens of Russia for so long.
Horselover fat
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Well it sure is not a great success for them.
The ruble is strong because they sell oil in ruble, but can't import anything. They have huge trade surplus. Russia only produces and exports raw materials. They import all technology. Or used to anyway.
harris hawk
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We all need to pray - becasue World War Three (WWIII) is going to start meaing thet nexy thing is the A-BomB -we all need to pray for huminity. to be truthfull WWIII has already started !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Help Us