Russian Economy Falling Apart...and the Right loves Putin

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Russia is already into a second recession this year and the Ruble continues it's tumble downward. Multiple local governments in Russia are already defaulting on their debt and the Russian standard of living has fallen dramatically in the last 2 years.

But since Putin sent warplanes to Syria against the US (ie against Obama...) the Right is in a romantic showmance with Putin and glorifying him any chance they get for destroying ISIS (which he isn't doing...) and being the "brave leader" that Obama isn't supposedly.
 
The private intelligence firm Strategic Forecast or Stratfor, made this prediction last June. It is part of an annual forecast where they give a decade long prediction of how the world is changing. Here is a clip of what they predicted for Russia:

Russia will collapse ...

"There will not be an uprising against Moscow, but Moscow's withering ability to support and control the Russian Federation will leave a vacuum," Stratfor warns. "What will exist in this vacuum will be the individual fragments of the Russian Federation."

Sanctions, declining oil prices, a plunging ruble, rising military expenses, and increasing internal discord will weaken the hold of Russia's central government over the world's largest country. Russia will not officially split into multiple countries, but Moscow's power may loosen to the point that Russia will effectively become a string of semi-autonomous regions that might not even get along with one another.

"We expect Moscow's authority to weaken substantially, leading to the formal and informal fragmentation of Russia" the report states, adding, "It is unlikely that the Russian Federation will survive in its current form."


... and the US will have to use its military to secure the country's nukes.

A deactivated Soviet-era SS-4 medium-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile.

Russia's nuclear-weapons infrastructure is spread across a vast geographic area. If the political disintegration Stratfor predicts ever happens, it means that weapons, uranium stocks, and delivery systems could end up exposed in what will suddenly become the world's most dangerous power vacuum.

The breakout of Russia's nuclear weapons stockpile will be "the greatest crisis of the next decade," according to Stratfor.

And the US will have to figure out what to do about it, even if it means dispatching ground troops to secure loose weapons, materials, and delivery systems.

"Washington is the only power able to address the issue, but it will not be able to seize control of the vast numbers of sites militarily and guarantee that no missile is fired in the process," the Decade Forecast states. "The United States will either have to invent a military solution that is difficult to conceive of now, accept the threat of rogue launches, or try to create a stable and economically viable government in the regions involved to neutralize the missiles over time."


Interesting to note that Stratfor stated this prediction would occur in a ten year window, so I don't know if the scenario is accelerating or if their estimate is counting this kind of event as a precursor to the actual event.
 
the Right is in a romantic showmance with Putin and glorifying him any chance they get for destroying ISIS
To nobody's surprise, the OP fails to give any cites or references to back up his statements. Unsurprising, since it's a blatant lie.

Yet another conservative-bashing thread where some hysterical liberal makes up lies, pretends conservatives believe them, and then bashes them for it.

(yawn)

You people are sounding like a broken record. Again.
 
Well he is a rather handsome man...
Putin....jpg
 
the Right is in a romantic showmance with Putin and glorifying him any chance they get for destroying ISIS
To nobody's surprise, the OP fails to give any cites or references to back up his statements. Unsurprising, since it's a blatant lie.

Yet another conservative-bashing thread where some hysterical liberal makes up lies, pretends conservatives believe them, and then bashes them for it.

(yawn)

You people are sounding like a broken record. Again.

What are you talking about? There is a link to Yahoo Finance that illustrates and explains the problem. Are you normally this vapid or is this a special attempt to look stoopid?
 
the Right is in a romantic showmance with Putin and glorifying him any chance they get for destroying ISIS
To nobody's surprise, the OP fails to give any cites or references to back up his statements. Unsurprising, since it's a blatant lie.

Yet another conservative-bashing thread where some hysterical liberal makes up lies, pretends conservatives believe them, and then bashes them for it.

(yawn)

You people are sounding like a broken record. Again.
The OP gave a link, go read.
 
Lybia fell apart. Iraq fell apart. Iran is desperate. Syria is a disaster. Lebanon will soon be destroyed by Israel. Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Jordan are being ignored. Afghanistan is besieged. The US is led by a weak kneed moron. Everything is up for grabs.
 
Ruble Crash Casts Pall Over Rates as Food Prices Bring No Relief

Russia is already into a second recession this year and the Ruble continues it's tumble downward. Multiple local governments in Russia are already defaulting on their debt and the Russian standard of living has fallen dramatically in the last 2 years.

But since Putin sent warplanes to Syria against the US (ie against Obama...) the Right is in a romantic showmance with Putin and glorifying him any chance they get for destroying ISIS (which he isn't doing...) and being the "brave leader" that Obama isn't supposedly.

yawn. that poor poor Obambam. everyone just doesn't LUV him. how can that be. waaa
 
All is doomed.

The RCs are going to take over Jeremiah's pentecostal church and her a nun.

All is doomed! :lol:
 
I have a friend that flew air force planes around Russia during the Reagan administration. And they had these great big antennas hanging out the back that monitored every call that was going in and out of Russia.
That;s how Reagan was able to snooker Gorbachev. He knew that Russia was on the verge.
Maybe jugears is doing the same thing
 

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