Maybe someone should start a site called Warbook.
Communist Tool
Looks as if not all “homophobes” are politically incorrect after all.
The crisis is suddenly filtering into peoples daily lives, says Bill Browder from Hermitage. 55pc of consumer goods in Russia are imported and these are doubling in price. People are buying anything they can that keeps its value.
Vedomisti reports that there is a de facto run on banks as depositors pull what they can from ATM machines, fearing the guillotine at any moment. Soviet queues are appearing again.
Its going to be worse than the default crisis in 1998. This time you have a situation where the West is against them, says Browder. Russian companies are shut out of the global capital markets. The country cant turn to the IMF because Washington will block it. There is no lender of last resort.
Bloomberg reports that Putin asked his key advisers at a secret meeting in February whether Russia had sufficient foreign reserves to withstand a showdown with the West if it annexed Crimea. They assured him that Russia could weather the storm.
The article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is worth a few minutes.
The question is when will Putin depart and how?
And now with its links with the NSA Facebook has become part of powerful repressive governments. It was Satan after all that voiceed the phrase “If you can’t beat them, join them.