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SYSOP    5/24/2015 7:56:09 AM
 
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keffler25       5/24/2015 10:57:14 AM
It is not traditional to make a confessional speech in Russia. The only time bad news is admitted in public is ex post facto and everyone knows already, and THAT only when things are so far gone SOUTH that you are whistling Dixie to penguins.    
 
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trenchsol       5/24/2015 12:08:09 PM
I know nothing about this from the other sources. However it appears to me as if Medvedev is asking lawmakers to approve some bill which might provide additional funding. Taxes ?
 
 
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Spiky    prolonged warfare   5/24/2015 2:11:34 PM
Wow, I'm surprised. Need for additional funding and approval from the political powers is the obvious connection. LOL... the usual ancient solution-of-destruction: more, much more, taxes, fees, appropriations, and forced donations from the private sector.
 
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Nate Dog    Crimea   5/24/2015 7:21:10 PM
Surely conquering Crimea was worth more than $100 billion long term?
Raw assets alone would be worth close to that, never mind a permanent warm water large port and unlimited naval access to the bosphorous and med...
Russians are doing rather well.
 
 
 
 
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trenchsol       5/25/2015 11:36:27 AM
Costs of Crimea are probably only a fraction of overall costs of Ukrainian campaign. It was all over soon and there was no resistance. Most of it went to Donbas, I think.
 
 
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keffler25       5/25/2015 12:57:27 PM
Most of it went to Putin and his fellow KGB gangsters. 
 
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Nate Dog    That imbecile   5/25/2015 7:14:55 PM
The moment he announced that the good citizens of Crimea no longer had to worry about re-paying banking institutions and any money loaned to them was now forfeit to them, clearly, Russia and especially Crimea were headed for an enormous recession. I think we're at the very very top of a slippery slope, at least as far as the Crimean economy.

Putin is many things, but economically he's a buffoon. Our entire banking system works on a bunch of promissory agreements.  They only work because we keep to them. The second that stops it initiates a collapse. Luckily, we've established government institutions to ensure that doesnt happen. Putin removed that from Crimea. 
Stupidity. Ruin a financial institution? Who cares, its Ukranian. You don't need to pay the bank back its money. Everybody rejoices. Bank refuses to release cash of rest of Crimeans, they cry blue bloody murder. Its all the same money in a giant merry go round. Pull a slice out of the pie, it flies apart.
 
Putin and his idiot cronies should know better. As they say on GOT. His little council grows smaller by the day.
 
 
 
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keffler25       5/25/2015 7:36:36 PM
You expect a command economy thug dictator to understand contract law and the principle of a service for fee obligation?
 
 
 
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Nate Dog    I expect at least one of his economic advisors to   5/25/2015 8:19:53 PM
But being a thug, he likely killed all the ones that told him what he didn't want to hear. Their replacements likely learned from their predecessors errors and have come to agree with him on the brilliance of his plan.
 

I dont know, maybe i do expect better from him, he's been around long enough, has seen a few recessions in his time. I expect better. You can't be an idiot and have managed to steal a country from a few hundred millions citizens. Only, how can he all of a sudden have lost his brain?
 
 
 
 
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keffler25       5/25/2015 8:45:14 PM
To paraphrase someone famous... It is much easier for a civilized man to regress to the savage, than for a savage to imitate the civilized man.**
 
** Leonard Nimoy acting the part of Mister Spock in the Star Trek episode "Mirror Mirror" written by Jerome Bixby. 
 
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