recitation of facts, actual events:
February 4 Olympics opens
February 20 Olympics closes
2/22 US announces first level of sanctions on Russia. Members of the EU and the members of NATO,each at their own pace, join and keep up the steady drip of FISCAL and ECONOMIC WAR on Putin’s bloody, destructive regime. Mirabile dictu, Switzerland defies a long standing tradition and freezes Russian assets
2/24 Russia begins invasion
2/26 Nato force for defense assembled
2/28 BP leaves Russia
Central Bank of Russia blocked from accessing 400 billion in ready reserves (
Rooskie petty cash for emergency
“This is a kind of financial nuclear bomb that is falling on Russia”
.Sergei aleksakashenko
Rouble sinks to all time low against dollar
Moscow interest rates hit 20%
March 2, ten days ago. Oligarchs Lebedev, Tinkov Friedman,A bramovich, some directly, some speaking between the lines, some speaking in "code"question or object to the war of choice in Ukraine
Exxon leaves Russia
Putin promises Rouble equivalent of $65000 to the survivors of each dead Russian soldier
It is unclear if this applies to Argentinian and Syrian mercenaries or just native Rooskies.
Sukhovetsky joins
Gerasimov and Kolesnikov as DEAD German generals, all Major Generals, apparently an “unlucky” designation. 3 dead generals in less than two weeks.
Royal Dutch Shell leaves Russia
Nike, Adidas, Puma all discontinue operations in Russia
March 8, Fitch downgrades Russian debt for second time in a week, declares:
""a sovereign default is imminent."
March 9, Russian stock market remains shuttered for 8th straight day. Gloomy outook
March 12, US ships MANPADS for immediately delivery to Ukrainian freedom fighters
VLAD EXPECTED:
To have Sanction proofed Russia
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That Russian soldiers would be greeted as Liberators
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That Zelensky would capitulate
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That the Ukraine army would quickly fold, and the citizenry would cower and obey
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Hubris, classic, eternal hubris
Pride goeth before the fall.
The velocity here is astounding.
And it may accelerate before it slows down
