[theluckycountry]

West Failed To "Ukrainize" G20 As Global South Triumphed

Previously we noted how despite the best efforts of Washington and its Western partners, the G20 summit was unable to produce a statement condemning Russia and its invasion of Ukraine. Biden clearly failed to rally allies especially among BRICS and global south countries.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is at the G20 in New Delhi representing the absent President Vladimir Putin, is gloating over the Western allies' failure at "Ukrainizing" the summit's agenda

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... -triumphed

The G20 was important once, but it's being overshadowed now by the ever expanding BRICS. (they will need a new acronym soon) With Russia as a leading player in this union of anti-American nations the other members are deferring to her. These are all free nations too, they are choosing to align themselves because they see the obvious benefits of being equal partners rather than exploited colonies under the former US system.

Under the US system for example Saudi Arabia had to sell it's oil at the price the Americans dictated, even after the rise of OPEC. Now they are free and they are colluding with Russia to set the price at a more realistic level, not at an artificially low one that benefits the US and the energy poor Western European nations. It's a gigantic shift of power and the US will soon have to buckle under the pressure of it.

[Newfie]

Putin has been very hard on his Asian populations, they constitute the vast majority of conscripts and recruits. Apparently some group has been tracking health and estate claims to count casuality rates. The disparity between regions is massive, up to something like 350 to 1 from poor districts compared to Moscow or St Petersburg.

These outlying districts are very poor, with average income as low as $500/month. Then the military is offering $1,500ish/month.

That is the kind of thing that seeds rebellion, a sense of unfairness.

[Plantagenet]

Some western media are reporting that Putin has suffered a heart attack

Vladimir-Putin-heart-attack-Russia]

Other western media are urging caution.



Now we'll just have to wait for a proof of life picture or other evidence to know if the heart attack story is true or not.

Cheers!

[AgentR11]

Old people tend to die. Its just the way things go.

Don't think I buy the story though, something like that would blow up Russian TG...

[yellowcanoe]

Other western media are urging caution.

Wow, you mean the western media learned from their premature claim that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza?

[theluckycountry]

plant seems to find all the amazing news. His secret source is the anonymous Russian Telegram account General SVR

zelinskee is smiling cause the coffin's lined with coke

[theluckycountry]

Russian electricity is 10X cheaper than that of the U.K., at least 4X cheaper than the EU’s

According to the British government's website, floor unit prices for electricity for households averaged £0.34 ($0.41) per kilowatt hour (kWh) over the past year. Meanwhile, Russian consumers only pay $0.04 per kWh on average.

https://www.rt.com/business/584674-russ ... per-uk-eu/

4-cents a kWh, wow! I could only dream of that. We were 23c, up until July, but the cost here has risen 50%, to around 35-cents kWh. Blame it on inflation, whatever, but I tend to look past that and think in terms of the entire system not just the generation aspect. Here home solar has really taken off and the providers are paying out rather than collecting in may cases.

Well that's fine for coal consumption but it doesn't help with the maintenance and replacement of grid infrastructure, which is by far the most expensive aspect, especially in a nation like ours with vast distances between homes once you're outside the suburbs. "Town water" is limited to a small area, but not electricity, it has to flow to nearly every home across the nation, poles and wires up the Wazoo. This has to be paid for and the natural disasters haven't helped.

Why is Russia's electricity so cheap? Oil of course, they have oceans of it to build and replace anything. Look at the bottom of this list
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263 ... countries/

Meanwhile, thanks to their great crude oil and natural gas production output, countries like Iran, Qatar, Russia, and Saudi Arabia enjoy some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world.

Just as well for Putin. Imagine paying the electricity bill for his palace on the black sea.





It's even got it's own casino! How cool is that.

[Plantagenet]

Thank you for my laugh of the day!

Cheers!

[Newfie]

Some western media are reporting that Putin has suffered a heart attack

Vladimir-Putin-heart-attack-Russia]

Other western media are urging caution.



Now we'll just have to wait for a proof of life picture or other evidence to know if the heart attack story is true or not.

Cheers!

My understanding was it was first reported in Russian media and picked up by a few Western outlets.

But no one credited it much and it seems to have passed.

[theluckycountry]

Russia’s federal budget deficit in 2024-2026 not to exceed 1% of GDP — finance minister

The State Duma, the lower house of parliament, adopted earlier the law on Russia’s federal budget for 2024-2026 in the third and final reading. According to the document, federal budget revenues are projected at ($393 bln) in 2024, ($376 bln) in 2025, and ($382) in 2026. Expenses are expected to be ($411 bln), ($386 bln)...
Their current Federal debt, As of July 1, 2023 debt was close to 20.2 trillion Russian rubles, $225 Billion $US

https://tass.com/economy/1708639

Imagine that. Running a nation of that size on 400 Billion dollars a year. That's what happens with small government hey. No bloated SS system, no plethora of unnecessary government departments poking their noses into every aspect of life. And somehow they manage ok.

US revenue is $3.5 trillion, nearly 9 times as great, and they need to borrow now an extra 1 Trillion a year to keep the bloated system running. Australia had revenues last year totaling 644 Billion, with 25 million people here. So were more spendthrift per capita than the US even. About 70% goes to SS. They will pay you here to stay home and look after your aged mother, or invalid sister, or anyone who qualifies for a "carer" Madness.

One day the West will have to have a reset like Russia did. It wont be pretty.

[theluckycountry]

Russia Moves Its "Doomsday Missile" Closer To Europe

Yars intercontinental ballistic missile, also known in the West as the “Doomsday missile,” has been moved to the Kozelsk military base in the western part of Russia... Taking into account its over Mach 30 top speed, the missile can hit London in less than five minutes.

The Kozelsk regiment, where the new missile was loaded into a silo, was the first in Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces to begin upgrading with Yars missiles. The move came hours after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu said that his nation was paying “special attention to the formation of strategic naval nuclear forces.”

...Meanwhile, Russia also plans to test the world’s largest ballistic missile, known as Satan 2, in the Arctic region. Last week, Russian missile forces loaded an intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with the nuclear-capable Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle into a launch silo in southern Russia.

The RS-24 Yars missile has a range of 11,000 kilometers and can carry up to 10 independently targetable warheads of 150 kilotons each. Designed to defeat current and future air defenses, the missile has a top speed of 36,800 kilometers per hour, meaning it is over 30 times faster than the speed of sound.

Although the top speed of the world’s current fastest anti-ballistic missile, the U.S.’s GBI (Ground-Based Interceptor), is classified, estimates range from Mach 16 to Mach 20, which, taking into account the Yars’ speed and the reaction time for detection and targeting would make the Yars practically untouchable.

https://rmx.news/defense/russia-moves-i ... to-europe/

[Shaved Monkey]

A collapsed state with that kind of fire power may not be the win most dreamed of

[theluckycountry]

It did collapse once, long ago, then rebuilt itself without the crushing social security liabilities. The West has yet to go through that collapse but I doubt they will come out as good though. The US is the most dangerous nation on the planet now. An old empire, riddled with debt and corruption, facing the loss of it's global control. Typically nations in that position start world wars, it's a great way to write of debts.

[theluckycountry]

Well the 20 years war in Iraq to control middle east oil seems to have been a waste of US taxpayer money. The whole region has gone over to Russia and China (the BRICS)

Russia Takes Control Of Iraq's Biggest Oil Discovery For 20 Years

Preliminary estimates suggested that Iraq’s Eridu oil field holds between 7-10 billion barrels of reserves. Senior Russian oil industry sources spoken to exclusively by OilPrice.com last week said the true figure may well be 50 percent more than the higher figure of that band. In either event, the Eridu field - part of Iraq’s Block 10 exploration and development region – is the biggest oil find in Iraq in the last 20 years, and Russia wants to control all of it, alongside its chief geopolitical ally, China.

This is in line with Moscow and Beijing’s objective of keeping the West out of energy deals in Iraq to keep Baghdad closer to the new Iran-Saudi axis and to “end [the] Western hegemony in the Middle East [that] will become the decisive chapter in the West’s final demise,”...

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/rus ... y-20-years

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/R ... Years.html

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, that's the lion's share.

[theluckycountry]

Russia's Supreme Court Bans "International LGBT Movement" As An "Extremist" Organization

...CNN and other media outlets have long acknowledged, during Hillary Clinton's time as Secretary of State (under Obama), promotion of "LGBTQ" became "a core value of U.S. foreign policy". This meant that any country seen as being resistant to this agenda was marked as a target for reform - and this has of course included Russia at top of the list.

Recent years have witnessed US Embassies across the globe fly large rainbow flags. But many have pointed out glaring hypocrisy in the fact that while the biggest flags can be seen in places like Moscow or Belarus, the US doesn't dare fly the 'Pride' flag in places like Saudi Arabia or other allied Muslim-dominant nations.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... ganization

It's ok, no need to comment. I know it must be Galling to see the evil empire of Putin making these rational decisions to protect family values while the rest of the world sits down to watch men figure skating in a women's event.
The Pride of Finland. Go Girl`
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf9fFrUoSBY

[theluckycountry]

Putin does a victory lap through the UAE and then Saudi Arabia where he got the red carpet

Putin "Man spreading" in a cosy chat with MBS. https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/ ... 7673370637





It's just as well the US president is converting that nation to rebuildables and won't need oil soon hey, because with Russia and the entire middle east as allies I can't see it flowing cheaply West in the years to come.