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'Everything has collapsed': Russia's draft tanks small businesses
yahoo ^ | 12 Oct 2022

Posted on 10/13/2022 2:12:46 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The space is usually overflowing with designers, programmers and young Russians working on their start-ups.

But since President Vladimir Putin announced a mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of young Russian men last month, the 33-year-old has lost much of his clientele.

"Many have stopped coming," he told AFP by phone.

Instead, they are filling the depleted ranks of Russia's army or they are among the tens of thousands of others who have fled south for neighbouring Kazakhstan.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: conscripts; crankedcrap; crankedspammer; crankedtroll; fled; russia; russianatrocities; russianterrorism; russianterrorists; russianwarcriminals; war
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To: lodi90

“Russia is in for a catastrophic economic crash if the anecdotes in this story are typical.”

We could pretty much collapse Russia’s economy by ourselves if we resurrected our domestic energy industry and became the energy exporter we used to be.


21 posted on 10/13/2022 3:28:59 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Yes, I’ve been to Russia in the past few years. Deal with a lot of Russians here in Florida. I’ve never been to Chelyabinsk, though. It’s got a reputation as one the armpits of Russia. LOL.


22 posted on 10/13/2022 3:30:52 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Sounds like we need to bus them in some illegal aliens...


23 posted on 10/13/2022 3:33:49 PM PDT by farmguy
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To: ought-six

It does seem the loophole riddled sanctions are intentionally loose to prevent the Russian economy collapsing entirely. Putin will “accomplish” that anyway, though.


24 posted on 10/13/2022 3:34:33 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: JonPreston

There is no recording of theirs listed under the various groups that have covered it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Have_All_the_Flowers_Gone%3F


25 posted on 10/13/2022 3:35:36 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: lodi90

—”Yes, I’ve been to Russia in the past few years. “

Thank you.

When it comes to Russia, I feel like a blind guy listening to the other blind guys describe the elephant.


26 posted on 10/13/2022 3:35:40 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: ought-six

I might have that wrong, but I do remember all of the aforementioned. 😬


27 posted on 10/13/2022 3:37:36 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: MalPearce

Link is for civilian casualties, not military which is the subject


28 posted on 10/13/2022 3:38:02 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: lodi90

“It’s got a reputation as one the armpits of Russia”
Cosidering Russia itself is an armpit, thats something!


29 posted on 10/13/2022 3:41:10 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: JonPreston

It was one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar.


30 posted on 10/13/2022 3:41:37 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Your YouTube link led to an CCN interview of Junta Joe. No thanks.


31 posted on 10/13/2022 3:42:10 PM PDT by Nateman (If Mohammad was not the Anti Christ he definitely comes in as a strong second..)
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To: farmguy

—”Sounds like we need to bus them in some illegal aliens...”

I laughed, suspecting that Putin hates everyone, except pur sang Russians.


32 posted on 10/13/2022 3:42:19 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: lodi90

Minsk Agreement 2014, Ukraine reneged, started shelling the Donbass.


33 posted on 10/13/2022 3:44:27 PM PDT by delta7
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To: Nateman

—”CCN interview of Junta Joe. No thanks.?

With a proper diet and some training, you can develop a thick skin and rock ribs.

No need for a safe space and a therapist.


34 posted on 10/13/2022 3:46:30 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: Boogieman

There won’t be any peace until the Russians go back to Russia.
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Vlad is not giving up the Russian provinces, get used to it. There is nothing the West can do about it….and a lot Russia will do. Russia holds all the cards.


35 posted on 10/13/2022 3:47:15 PM PDT by delta7
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To: ought-six

Folk was my earliest introduction to music in late 50s. The Kingston Trio and PPM my favorites. Motown took over for me in HS with the British Invasion joining them in the 1960s. To this day the early 1970s are as far as my musical taste goes. The genre never grows old for me.


36 posted on 10/13/2022 4:06:43 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

I’ve always said that music died with the end of the 1970s, but with some pleasant resurrections in the 1980s. After that, dead and gone.


37 posted on 10/13/2022 4:22:05 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: JonPreston; Vermont Lt
Stop the Peter, Paul and Mary nonsense and start acting like man. ok?

Putin the evil dictator lived in the Kremlin
And killed and bombed his neighbors in a land called Ukraine.
Little Jackie paper loved that homicidal man
And killed his oligarchs according to his plan

Together they would travel on a boat called a yacht
while his people starved and died in wars about which they cared not.
Noble kings and princes would send weapons to Ukraine.
While Pirate ships for Putin would steal all the grain.

38 posted on 10/13/2022 4:30:38 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: JonPreston; Vermont Lt
This land was your land.
This land is my land.
I'll just annex it.
And now it's my land.

If you don't like it.
I'll bomb your cities.
And steal your children.
and bomb your cities.

Don't touch my bridge now.
Or I'll bomb you cities.
I'll rain down missiles.
This land was made for only me.

39 posted on 10/13/2022 4:57:45 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

LOL. Brilliant stuff. Are you a Nashville songwriter? Ha ha.


40 posted on 10/13/2022 5:20:03 PM PDT by lodi90 ( )
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