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Essay: Properly qualifying sources (view source)
Revision as of 04:52, May 14, 2025
, 04:52, May 14, 2025→This is what you call stuck on stupid
::::By the way, recently I sent Andy an email and here is an excerpt: "Andy, A quick note about one of our previous conversations. First, a good friend of mine is moving to the beautiful area of Crimea,Russia in 2025 and I am going to visit him. I will be visiting St. Petersburg, Russia too. RobSmith has never even been to Russia and he didn't even understand some of the basics concerning Russia which I reported on. Like any country, Russia has its good/bad aspects." [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:56, March 28, 2025 (EDT)
::::By the way, recently I sent Andy an email and here is an excerpt: "Andy, A quick note about one of our previous conversations. First, a good friend of mine is moving to the beautiful area of Crimea,Russia in 2025 and I am going to visit him. I will be visiting St. Petersburg, Russia too. RobSmith has never even been to Russia and he didn't even understand some of the basics concerning Russia which I reported on. Like any country, Russia has its good/bad aspects." [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:56, March 28, 2025 (EDT)
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== Is capitalism working in Russia? Its economy is ranked 131th freest in the world (mostly unfree - Heritage Foundation) ==
"Russia's economic freedom score is 52, making its economy the 131st freest in the 2024 Index of Economic Freedom." - Heritage Foundation.[https://www.heritage.org/index/pages/country-pages/russia#:~:text=Updated%20October%202023&text=Russia's%20economic%20freedom%20score%20is,countries%20in%20the%20Europe%20region.]
Russia's GNP ranking is 10th in the world.[https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/ranking/gnp-gross-national-product] Russia's GNP (nominal) per capita is ranked 65th in the world.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita]
Remember according to the international relations expert [[John Mearsheimer]], military might rest on economic might since it is expensive to field a military.
This is in response to the main page right post of "Putin's military industrial complex - when capitalism works." [https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/putins-mic]
[[File:Butter.jpg|thumbnail|center|400px|I used to be more interested in Russia, but the [https://www.newsweek.com/russians-resort-stealing-butter-amid-shortages-1976575 ButterGate] scandal put a damper on that.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia's war economy is well balanced to supply both guns and butter, but the price of butter itself is now soaring as surging inflation distorts parts of the economy. The price of a block of butter has risen by 25.7 per cent since December, according to the state statistics service.
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'The Armageddon with butter is escalating,' Russian economists claim on Telegram.
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See: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-wartime-economy-butter-price-inflation-1.7371742 Butter prices soar in Russia amid surging inflation in war economy], CBC News, November 2, 2024 and [https://www.newsweek.com/russians-resort-stealing-butter-amid-shortages-1976575 Russians Resort to Stealing Butter Amid Shortages], ''Newsweek'', October 29, 2024 ]]
:This File image page, https://www.conservapedia.com/File:Butter.jpg, which does not even appear in the [[Butter]] article, evidently was [https://www.conservapedia.com/File:Butter.jpg boosted by clickbots to over 1,000 page views] to promote [[User:Conservative]]'s Essays in [[Google]] results.
[[File:US dollar to Russian ruble graph November 2024.png|thumbnail|750px|center|In 2024, the Russian ruble lost a LOT of its value compared to the US dollar]]
I hope this information helps clarify matters. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 08:45, November 24, 2024 (EST)
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:I warned against [[spamming]] too much of making [[Mearsheimer]] a credible and authoritive expert into dozens and dozens of [[Conservapedia]] mainspace and talk pages for several years. Now Mearsheimer says [[President Trump]] is [[delusion]]al and his so-called "[[peace]]" efforts are doomed to fail. So here we created a problem for ourselves which now has to be dealt with for the remainder of Trump's term.
:And to argue against Mearsheimer is to place oneself into the [[warmonger]] and advocate of [[perpetual war]] camp.
:As to the guns and butter argument, I can't remember how many decades ago I last ate butter. Butter was finally knocked out of the market in favor of oleamargarine during the [[Vietnam war]], which old timers then explained it was the ongoing legacy of [[World War II]] & the [[Korean war]]. In another 40, 50, or 80 years, maybe the predominantly rural & agrarian Russian Federation who make their own butter may have to convert to oleomargarine. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Zelensky Must Go!'']]</sup> 01:55, May 11, 2025 (EDT)
:Final note: As a veteran and survivor of the [https://daily.jstor.org/when-margarine-was-contraband/ oleo wars] anyone who says there is no difference between butter and margarine is a [[propagandist]]. Butter is made from animal fat (replete with [[cholesterol ]] and health risks), which there is a limited supply of, and margarine from plant or vegetable shortening which is abundant. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Zelensky Must Go!'']]</sup> 03:46, May 11, 2025 (EDT)
==Daddy Warbucks==
==Daddy Warbucks==