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| | #Russian bond investors wanted more than the 3.5% offered, but not nearly as much as the 5.5% [[US]] bond investors are now rejecting. | | #Russian bond investors wanted more than the 3.5% offered, but not nearly as much as the 5.5% [[US]] bond investors are now rejecting. |
| | #The question of whether Russia will become beholden to [[domestic]] [[oligarch]]s and foreign investors as the [[United States]] has become is a [[political]] question. IMO, Russia isn't that desperate yet. | | #The question of whether Russia will become beholden to [[domestic]] [[oligarch]]s and foreign investors as the [[United States]] has become is a [[political]] question. IMO, Russia isn't that desperate yet. |
| | + | :::What is the GDP per capita of Russia? What is the GDP per capita of the USA? |
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| | + | :::Russia has experienced repeated regime-ending or regime-threatening political upheavals: the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the armed constitutional crisis of 1993. International bond investors don't view Russia as a paragon of stability! |
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| | + | :::Russia has capital flight. The USA has capital flowing into it. People are leaving Russia. People are flowing into the USA. |
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| | + | :::Do you live in the USA or Russia? If Russia is so great, why do you live in the USA? Checkmate! |
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| | + | :::Does the USA have two big oceans on its west and east coasts and bordering nations not likely to go to war with it? |
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| | + | :::If Russia were truly richer, its currency would be stronger, its people would stay, and its bonds would trade at lower yields than America’s. None of that is true. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 11:27, August 27, 2026 (EDT) |
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| | == Do you like driving a gasoline powered car? Don't move to Russia! == | | == Do you like driving a gasoline powered car? Don't move to Russia! == |
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| | :::::Oh, alright. Well fortunately, we have a lot of trees. Also a lot of oil. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">DavidB4</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 03:30, August 27, 2026 (EDT) | | :::::Oh, alright. Well fortunately, we have a lot of trees. Also a lot of oil. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">DavidB4</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 03:30, August 27, 2026 (EDT) |
| | ::::::When [[sabotage]] groups start blowing up [[Amazon.com]] warehouses in retaliation for what [[NATO]]/[[US]] has done to [[Wildberries]], [[User:Conservative]] will be paying double and triple the price for his online toilet paper purchases. He can congratulate himself then for his [[narcissistic]] & "Patriotic" thinking again. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do heterosexual normies spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 04:05, August 27, 2026 (EDT) | | ::::::When [[sabotage]] groups start blowing up [[Amazon.com]] warehouses in retaliation for what [[NATO]]/[[US]] has done to [[Wildberries]], [[User:Conservative]] will be paying double and triple the price for his online toilet paper purchases. He can congratulate himself then for his [[narcissistic]] & "Patriotic" thinking again. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do heterosexual normies spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 04:05, August 27, 2026 (EDT) |
| | + | RobSmith, wrote: "When [[sabotage]] groups start blowing up [[Amazon.com]] warehouses in retaliation for what [[NATO]]/[[US]] has done to [[Wildberries]]...". I hereby give RobSmith the King of Wishful Thinking award. With that being said, if wishes were fishes, we would all have a fry! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 09:53, August 27, 2026 (EDT) |
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| | == It's a growing problem in Russia! == | | == It's a growing problem in Russia! == |