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Sanctions Push Russia Near First Foreign Default Since Revolution
Wall Street Journal ^ | 6/26/2022 | Caitlin Ostroff

Posted on 06/26/2022 8:11:57 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

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To: WMarshal

LOL! Russian manufacturing “leadership”...

Lada Granta Has No Airbags or Radios: Russian Car Safety

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/lada-granta-airbags-radios-russian-car-safety/

Russia resumes car production with stripped-down Lada Granta

https://www.autoblog.com/2022/06/10/russia-lada-granta-begins-production-ukraine-war/

Lada Granta Classic ‘22 Revealed, Poverty-Spec Model Doesn’t Even Have Airbags

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/lada-granta-classic-22-revealed-poverty-spec-model-doesn-t-even-have-airbags-191405.html

It’s 2022 But The Lada Granta Classic Is Built Without Airbags And ABS. It’s also missing the electronic stability control system and seat belt pretensioners.

https://www.motor1.com/news/593367/2022-lada-granta-no-airbags-abs/https://www.motor1.com/news/593367/2022-lada-granta-no-airbags-abs/


21 posted on 06/26/2022 8:48:16 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
It takes a bit of time to compensate for the sanctions but even by your own comment I see that they are still producing the Lada Granta in spite of sanctions and they will overcome the deficits in their supply chain. They will likely just reverse engineer the products that they were importing from the west and build them themselves because - what have they got to lose?

It is sad to see an idiot saying idiotic things.

22 posted on 06/26/2022 8:51:59 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

What will they do when they aren’t allowed to get the money owed to them?


23 posted on 06/26/2022 8:54:06 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: WMarshal

Russia = Craphole country.

When Russians buy the new model of Lada Granta, they must agree to sign a contract that states that the car will never be driven outside Russia as it will not pass any foreign safety or environmental regulations.


24 posted on 06/26/2022 8:54:31 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Whatever MaxistMaximus, you comment like a lunatic leftist - all emotion and no logic.


25 posted on 06/26/2022 9:00:42 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: WMarshal

No Shirt Buttons, No Airbags, Buggy Smartphones: Russia’s Economy Enters The ‘Twilight Zone’

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4074075/posts


26 posted on 06/26/2022 9:01:31 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

“$100 million in dollars and euros to bondholders”

That’s not much for a country. You’re right, it’s because they aren’t allowed to pay, not because they can’t.


27 posted on 06/26/2022 9:03:23 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: marcusmaximus

I’m certain the Russians will be buying Chinese smart phones for a while, made by the same people that manufacture the iPhone..... Most of the sh1t that is being sanctioned that you are bragging about isn’t even manufactured here anymore, it is idiotic.

Now call me a “dirty RuZZian” like your fellow idiotic neocon travelers.


28 posted on 06/26/2022 9:05:24 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Just send oil and gold.


29 posted on 06/26/2022 9:06:41 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: WMarshal
"Today I am attending the G1 Summit..."


30 posted on 06/26/2022 9:06:54 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
Did you ever get the feeling that you guys are crooked?

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31 posted on 06/26/2022 9:08:51 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: marcusmaximus

Russian geopolitics is driven by its demographic collapse, the state religion of ancestor worship for those who sacrificed in the Great Patriotic War, nostalgia among elder Russians for the international prestige of the Soviet Union, centuries-long denigration of Ukrainian language and culture, and the fact that without Ukraine, Russia cannot be the Eurasian empire projecting power towards Europe, or for that matter central or east Asia.

As “Putin’s brain”, Alexandr Dugin, wrote in 1997:

Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning. It has no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness... Ukraine as an independent state with certain territorial ambitions, represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics

By 2014 Russia had Crimea, its military port of Sevastopol, and claims to fossil fuels below the north Black Sea. The population there very much considered themselves to be Russian, rather than Ukrainian, since 1956. The Donbas conflict could have remained a largely frozen one, and Putin could have used it as a means of a negotiated settlement, making concessions there to achieve Ukrainian and international recognition of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. By 2017, Russia had more influence in the world than at any time since 1989. It had demonstrated that it could win proxy wars in Syria, and that it could manipulate politics in the democracies through oligarch money and “active measures” targeting Hungary, England, the United States, and elsewhere. It was winning.

Now, after the widespread and well-documented war crimes, the greatest being initating a war of aggression, international regard for Russian culture is in the dumps. We will remember the rapes and genocide in Bucha, rather than Pushkin or Shostakovich. Europe will reduce its dependence on Russian fossil fuels as fast as possible. NATO, having rediscovered its purpose, will expand to embrace Finland and Sweden. Educated Russians are fleeing the nation. The Russian conventional military has shown itself to be a paper tiger, hollowed out by decades of corruption and ill-treatment of soldiers. Ukrainian military forces are exacting a toll, 3+ casualties for every one they suffer. And most of those dying for Moscovite glory are provincials and ethnic minorities who have have lost most of their autonomy under Putin, have nothing to gain from Ukraine’s defeat, and much to gain by seceding.

It’s a strategic blunder that will reverberate for decades, maybe centuries, to come.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/udaivl/drone_drops_grenade_on_a_russian_vehicle_warning/


32 posted on 06/26/2022 9:15:16 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: caseinpoint

If I were in debt, I would do everything I could to pay it off ASAP.

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But you don’t own a printing press.


33 posted on 06/26/2022 9:23:20 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58

True, I don’t own a printing press but no one owns me.


34 posted on 06/26/2022 9:26:15 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: marcusmaximus

your propaganda is so funny.
are you just trying to deflect from the ukes week of disaster?
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this is the most disastrous week for the high heeled boy with the camo pants and masculine T-shirt since his successful evacuation at Mariupol!
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Russian forces reportedly took control of the village of Bila Gora;
Russian forces reportedly took control of the village of Mykolaivka;
Russian forces mop up the Zolote-Hirske pocket; about 800 have surrendered so far and another 1200 are estimated to be trapped there.
A FUNNY STORY FROM THE ENCIRCLED POCKET NEAR THE POWER PLANT NEAR A TOWN THAT SOUNDS LIKE wHISKEY-vODKA. Two Uke armies had “a failure to communicate” and shelled each other.They successfully killed each others commanders.
The AFU were ordered to leave their positions in Severodonetsk.Attacks ongoing in L-chansk outskirts.
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[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 120-121 (23-24/6) Summary - Operational encirclement of Lysychansk region
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuCj3Jx0Two
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[ Luhansk Front ] Russia MoD declared capture of Severodonetsk, Borivske, Syrotyne & Voronove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NV2WV_tgTM


35 posted on 06/26/2022 9:28:14 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: WMarshal
They don't have to reverse engineer. GM partnered with Lada on this model


36 posted on 06/26/2022 9:29:18 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: dennisw

$1000 to FR if this happens by natural causes.

February 2023. Clock is ticking.


37 posted on 06/26/2022 9:35:04 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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To: marcusmaximus
And Putin can’t spend his rubles outside his own craphole country. LOL!

Except in South America, Africa, and Asia, this otherwise is correct.

38 posted on 06/26/2022 9:37:50 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: WMarshal

Their engineers are simply in the process of replacing now unavailable EU supplies of airbags, seat-belt retractors and whatever else is needed, with suppliers in Brazil, China, Indonesia or India.

They’ll have it all done within several months. Its a sad vignette of how the US neocons will destroy peace and 10,000 business and civil society connections between nations for their ridiculous goal of neo-marxist empire building.

When the propagandists and paid trolls like this marximus fellow have to resort to articles like this, you know they are desperate.


39 posted on 06/26/2022 9:44:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: CarolinaReaganFan

“Russia conquers village with 10 inhabitants after 4 month battle. Film at 11…”


40 posted on 06/26/2022 9:51:44 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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