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[everton fan number one]

appreciated mate

Your man legs probably knows more than me.

It's difficult to predict as closing the markets is intended to prevent a crisis of confidence, rather than anything tangigble. It's to stop people selling off stock. The extent to which a crisis brought about by a war is different to say the 2008 or Great Depression crises. Maybe there would be more inherent faith in the market to recover. Or, if the swift thing stays maybe business is fundamentally less viable in Russia and the market's KO'd. Who knows lol.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Apparently he’s been at it for a while:

bad wool, him

 

[Yarrgh]

I would imagine it would mean the seizing up of money and investment, lack of clarity and confidence over the value of stock in Russia. Anyone invested in stock in Russia, including institutions, would get poorer too. Foreign investors would get spooked.

You'd have to be crazy to take a punt on Russian stocks. Can you even buy them now? What with swift going bye bye and all.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

RAF Typhoons operating over the black sea at the moment !

Let's hope they batter the Russian navy in Odessa then

 

[Lobster Johnson]

People whose job is to remove remains of the crew from destroyed tanks, my God, what a gruesome business

Some really fecked up videos circling around

why would you even want to watch that?

 

[stipe]

why would you even want to watch that?

Morbid curiosity. When i was younger and still on college, i remember various videos of Mexican Cartels beheading and especially "3 Guys, One Hammer" circling around that everyone watched

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I'm in North East Slovenia currently where half my family are from.

Lots of Jets flying over especially in evening time, can't see them but you can hear them.

Guessing they're flying over from Italy.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Morbid curiosity. When i was younger and still on college, i remember various videos of Mexican Cartels beheading and especially "3 Guys, One Hammer" circling around that everyone watched

Not my thing, but i'm not judging you. I have enough bad stuff printed on the back of my eyelids without adding to it on purpose.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

I'm in North East Slovenia currently where half my family are from.

Lots of Jets flying over especially in evening time, can't see them but you can hear them.

Guessing they're flying over from Italy.

I was in Bootle earlier to see a friend and it looks like they have taken some heavy shelling.

 

[stipe]

Not my thing, but i'm not judging you. I have enough bad stuff printed on the back of my eyelids without adding to it on purpose.

Not really mine too, but following this war its hard to avoid it, a lot of videos doesn't have any NSFW tag

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Just asked these, to the Russian apologist we have in that other forum, incredible. (though admittedly could be worse)

1. In your opinion, is Ukraine under foreign invasion?

2. If yes, are invasions always bad?

Just simple yes or no's would suffice really.

1. Yes, of course. The only way you can deny that is if you say Ukraine has no right to exist like Putin implied, but that is Russian nationalist gangsterism. Whether the current government has a right to exist is a different question.

2. No. For example the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978. Or the Soviet invasion of Nazi-Germany in 1945 . For me the thing here is that the Russians are definitely correct in recognizing the People's Republics and coming to their aid. The question is whether a full-blown invasion of Ukraine as a whole is justified.

 

[ste d' indica]

I'm in North East Slovenia currently where half my family are from.

Lots of Jets flying over especially in evening time, can't see them but you can hear them.

Guessing they're flying over from Italy.

Smashin country Slovenia, Ljubljana is one of my favourite cities.

 

[catcherintherye]

can you pls tell me Legs if you know how long can the Russian market remain closed? like for a week or even longer? As I read, if it remains closed rouble cannot go any lower, but there must be some headaches in the long run probs?

The Ruble can definitely go lower mate, even if the Stock Exchange remains closed.

The interest rate hike will strengthen, or rather steady the Ruble.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Indeed. The suggestion is that the Russian army is reorganising and changing tact, which could mean large scale and devastating attacks from land and air.

It all depends how far the rabbit hole they're willing to go because the Ukrainians are showing a strong resolve and supported financially and militarily.

If the Russians do eventually win, you can't see it being a simple occupation and they may lose even more troops, armour and air assets in the meantime.

The real fighting will still be in the East.

You can’t control a population of 40million who will willingly die for their freedom.

It’s unwinnable and the more I look into it the more I think Putin has lost his mind.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

The Ruble can definitely go lower mate, even if the Stock Exchange remains closed.

The interest rate hike will strengthen, or rather steady the Ruble.

the bolded, then why close it?