Yeeclaw! Clearly the best option is for private corporations to own all the crab and reap the profits for themselves because it will for sure "trickle down".
For real though, I'm pretty sure nationalizing gas was the first thing Putin did to piss the WEF crowd off.
I started questioning the sale of Russian gas to Europe in various posts ... in April. Like you I stated why help people who are killing Russian soldiers (over and over again)? Another point, if the Europeans refuse to sell articles (machine tools, electronics, whatever) that Russia wants, then what good are Euros? Russia might be smart to convert any Euros they earn into gold.
Aside: Long before it happened, I posted on the Duran to a livestream, that if Russia wanted to protect the ruble, demand payment of gas in rubles. This was in response to a lot of idiotic nonsense that Alexander was stating. I am not an economist, but I never read that anywhere before, which really surprised me. If I can figure that out, where are the 'experts'. The Duran guys usually come to reality, about 4 months after it is obvious ... they are not real bright.
Of course the standard answer of why you would sell goods to another country is that you have too much of one thing and not enough of another.
But, Russia is one of the few countries on Earth, capable of Autarky and that should be worked toward. Trade for Russia is only useful to create political friends. And, perhaps some technologies are too expensive to do on your own ... even for Russia, but I'm not convinced that is true. I had a lot of books on my shelves by Russian Physicists and Materials Scientist, and if it isn't gone, they need to support that.
Excellent allegory Rolo and it makes the case well for local economies with short and localised supply lines (as opposed to 'chains' which implies multiple links). I am convinced that, as the global economy fractures, we will find ourselves beginning to think and behave locally and this is what I am encouraging here deep in rural Somerset, UK:
AND in Russia you have the ideal landmass, like China, to engage in this lifestyle. I often remind people that the USSR did not actually collapse in 1991 - it transmogrified - because the population were well prepared to 'go local' and not only survived but prospered. If the same were to occur in America a majority of their landfill-consumer-pampered population would not survive.
I stayed in Belarus in 1994 for a few weeks and I was so impressed when we were billeted each night in small, self-sufficient, villages. OK the wood-fired showers and earth toilets were something different for a westerner , and the pickled-everything shocked my pallet, but the vodka made it all OK - morning, noon and night!
I gave one host a $20 bill and he was so pleased he gave me handfuls of rubles in return, saying they have pretty pictures on them! We will have a lot to learn in the West in the coming years and I hope I live long enough to see the outcome!
Yeeclaw!! I love eating blue crabs but you can keep those long-legged freaks from the Pacific.
Like many others, I'm baffled why Russia continues to supply the EU and Ukraine with energy. Deprive the fake, gay b*stards of energy and push them back to pre-Industrial times. Are the Oligarchs sympathizers like the Liberals?
Ten years ago, I stayed at the Inn on Biltmore Estate, in Asheville, NC. Crab cakes cost $30.00 apiece. It must be wonderful to live in Russia. No wonder Edward Snowden and Steven Seagal moved there. Consider the music and literature that came out of that Winter Wonderland! And, of course, there are now crabcakes. IF THIS ISN'T NICE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
Prasad Records – Crab Cakes Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
the entire season has been cancelled in the Bering Sea because there are no crabs to be harvested. many people think it has something to do with the terrorist act at Fukushima.
Too bad Russia doesn't have its own planetary system to live on -- then it could become completely autonomous and local crab prices would really drop. Until then, like the rest of us, it also has to work one way or another with its neighbors of all sorts. Hence, hydrocarbon sales to some of Russia's antagonists. The trick, over the long run, is to competitively make much more constructive use of the energy flow that comes your way than your antagonists do -- and you could make the argument that Russia is doing just that with its current approach to the Ukrainian matter. Have to wait longer to see if such an approach and argument are valid, though.
Yee-claw, crabs ftw! 😂 [Side note: Jordan Peterson might reluctantly agree.] Follow-the-money never misses the mark. It’s for a reason all these tired clichés suffer from overuse exhaustion, no relief in sight 😏
I frankly can’t wrap my head around *how ffs* folks en masse can happily fall for a blindingly obvious ruse aka NWO. Centralised governing doesn’t scale well in economy—as in ‘not at all’. It fails to work even within a single smallish country, let alone the whole world. For a simple reason: mindblowing infovolumes come distributed across great multiplicity of actors, and are subject to layered & dynamically-coupled feedback loops. No way a handful of smartassy overlords could handle this ordered complexity. Pink elephant’s dream.
A global free market wielding its invisible hand would seem the answer. Yet in theory only, for flawed human nature precludes the very existence of such a beast w/ qualifier *free* 🤷 Then the next best solution is to run a maximum number of different experimental set-ups as it were, and sort out on the go what works for whom & in what circumstances.
As the enlightened West-collective continues to merrily prance down the highway to hell, an autarky looks more of a shining beacon by the day. Blessed are countries sitting on opulent natural resources!
~~
[unnecessary] PS 💬 with a click of the *curser* <-- I wonder whether Freud wouldn’t have had a spicy insight here 🤭
Yeeclaw! Clearly the best option is for private corporations to own all the crab and reap the profits for themselves because it will for sure "trickle down".
For real though, I'm pretty sure nationalizing gas was the first thing Putin did to piss the WEF crowd off.
I started questioning the sale of Russian gas to Europe in various posts ... in April. Like you I stated why help people who are killing Russian soldiers (over and over again)? Another point, if the Europeans refuse to sell articles (machine tools, electronics, whatever) that Russia wants, then what good are Euros? Russia might be smart to convert any Euros they earn into gold.
Aside: Long before it happened, I posted on the Duran to a livestream, that if Russia wanted to protect the ruble, demand payment of gas in rubles. This was in response to a lot of idiotic nonsense that Alexander was stating. I am not an economist, but I never read that anywhere before, which really surprised me. If I can figure that out, where are the 'experts'. The Duran guys usually come to reality, about 4 months after it is obvious ... they are not real bright.
Of course the standard answer of why you would sell goods to another country is that you have too much of one thing and not enough of another.
But, Russia is one of the few countries on Earth, capable of Autarky and that should be worked toward. Trade for Russia is only useful to create political friends. And, perhaps some technologies are too expensive to do on your own ... even for Russia, but I'm not convinced that is true. I had a lot of books on my shelves by Russian Physicists and Materials Scientist, and if it isn't gone, they need to support that.
Crabman Smiths "Invisible Claw" at work..
Excellent allegory Rolo and it makes the case well for local economies with short and localised supply lines (as opposed to 'chains' which implies multiple links). I am convinced that, as the global economy fractures, we will find ourselves beginning to think and behave locally and this is what I am encouraging here deep in rural Somerset, UK:
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/progressing-plan-b-a-quarterly-review?s=w
AND in Russia you have the ideal landmass, like China, to engage in this lifestyle. I often remind people that the USSR did not actually collapse in 1991 - it transmogrified - because the population were well prepared to 'go local' and not only survived but prospered. If the same were to occur in America a majority of their landfill-consumer-pampered population would not survive.
I stayed in Belarus in 1994 for a few weeks and I was so impressed when we were billeted each night in small, self-sufficient, villages. OK the wood-fired showers and earth toilets were something different for a westerner , and the pickled-everything shocked my pallet, but the vodka made it all OK - morning, noon and night!
I gave one host a $20 bill and he was so pleased he gave me handfuls of rubles in return, saying they have pretty pictures on them! We will have a lot to learn in the West in the coming years and I hope I live long enough to see the outcome!
Yee-Claw! Thank you, Rolo, brilliant analysis as always.
Yeeclaw!! I love eating blue crabs but you can keep those long-legged freaks from the Pacific.
Like many others, I'm baffled why Russia continues to supply the EU and Ukraine with energy. Deprive the fake, gay b*stards of energy and push them back to pre-Industrial times. Are the Oligarchs sympathizers like the Liberals?
Yeeclaw!
Ten years ago, I stayed at the Inn on Biltmore Estate, in Asheville, NC. Crab cakes cost $30.00 apiece. It must be wonderful to live in Russia. No wonder Edward Snowden and Steven Seagal moved there. Consider the music and literature that came out of that Winter Wonderland! And, of course, there are now crabcakes. IF THIS ISN'T NICE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
Prasad Records – Crab Cakes Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Prasad-records-crab-cakes-lyrics
the entire season has been cancelled in the Bering Sea because there are no crabs to be harvested. many people think it has something to do with the terrorist act at Fukushima.
Too bad Russia doesn't have its own planetary system to live on -- then it could become completely autonomous and local crab prices would really drop. Until then, like the rest of us, it also has to work one way or another with its neighbors of all sorts. Hence, hydrocarbon sales to some of Russia's antagonists. The trick, over the long run, is to competitively make much more constructive use of the energy flow that comes your way than your antagonists do -- and you could make the argument that Russia is doing just that with its current approach to the Ukrainian matter. Have to wait longer to see if such an approach and argument are valid, though.
Yee-claw, crabs ftw! 😂 [Side note: Jordan Peterson might reluctantly agree.] Follow-the-money never misses the mark. It’s for a reason all these tired clichés suffer from overuse exhaustion, no relief in sight 😏
I frankly can’t wrap my head around *how ffs* folks en masse can happily fall for a blindingly obvious ruse aka NWO. Centralised governing doesn’t scale well in economy—as in ‘not at all’. It fails to work even within a single smallish country, let alone the whole world. For a simple reason: mindblowing infovolumes come distributed across great multiplicity of actors, and are subject to layered & dynamically-coupled feedback loops. No way a handful of smartassy overlords could handle this ordered complexity. Pink elephant’s dream.
A global free market wielding its invisible hand would seem the answer. Yet in theory only, for flawed human nature precludes the very existence of such a beast w/ qualifier *free* 🤷 Then the next best solution is to run a maximum number of different experimental set-ups as it were, and sort out on the go what works for whom & in what circumstances.
As the enlightened West-collective continues to merrily prance down the highway to hell, an autarky looks more of a shining beacon by the day. Blessed are countries sitting on opulent natural resources!
~~
[unnecessary] PS 💬 with a click of the *curser* <-- I wonder whether Freud wouldn’t have had a spicy insight here 🤭
Do you know anyone in Saint Petersburg? I live here and interested in meeting like-minded people.