Thread: How dangerous is Vladimir Putin?

Oil and gas account for 70% of Russia's exports. If that doesn't make it a fucking gas station then I do not know what would.

Australia has been described as a big hole in the ground. But we do well from it.

Originally Posted by sabang

Australia has been described as a big hole in the ground. But we do well from it.

I guess Russia is supposed to apologize for making the best of their opportunities. It took Apple till 2015 to beat Gazprom for the most profitable quarter. Not bad for some Commi throwbacks

Apple dethrones Gazprom for the most profitable corporate quarter in the history of mankind - PhoneArena

Originally Posted by Backspin

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Very nice! And Putin once again fucked it up!

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Did you ever wonder why all the young Russian entrepreneurs want to leave russia?

Originally Posted by Backspin

I guess Russia is supposed to apologize for making the best of their opportunities. It took Apple till 2015 to beat Gazprom for the most profitable quarter. Not bad for some Commi throwbacks

Apple dethrones Gazprom for the most profitable corporate quarter in the history of mankind - PhoneArena

Now just imagine Gazprom would have been managed by U.K. or Netherlands. Think you can follow?

Does Shell ring a bell!

Every Russian would be driving a Mercedes by now.

Originally Posted by sabang

So what have you established Herman? Vlad is very dangerous- but Russia is not? OK, it's back to China then, poised to become the World's largest economy.

Putin has failed and the numbers proof it. Of course Russia is better off then 25 years ago, but so are most countries in this world.
Is Putin dangerous? Yes, mostly to his own people.. like all Russian dictators.

-Russians don't receive their hard earned social security when they decide to live in another country. The money stays in Russia.
-If a Russian decides to give up his Russian citizenship he will loose ALL his social security.

It has always been a bitch being a Russian.

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Putin has failed and the numbers proof it. Of course Russia is better off then 25 years ago, but so are most countries in this world.
Is Putin dangerous? Yes, mostly to his own people.. like all Russian dictators.

-Russians don't receive their hard earned social security when they decide to live in another country. The money stays in Russia.
-If a Russian decides to give up his Russian citizenship he will loose ALL his social security.

It has always been a bitch being a Russian.

Show me some numbers that prove Putin failed. Some tangible economic data that proves he failed.

Russia has more foreign exchange reserves than India (a billion + people) and more gold reserves than China (a billion+ people) which puts it 5th place respectively. Now tell me what place Russia should be in.
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Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Very nice! And Putin once again fucked it up!

SEATTLE – F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in multi-cloud application services, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of NGINX, an open source leader in application delivery. On March 11, 2019, F5 announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire NGINX.

Did you ever wonder why all the young Russian entrepreneurs want to leave russia?

I hate it when open source gets bought out. There should be a law against it.

Originally Posted by Backspin

Oil and gas was 15% of Russia's GDP in the 90's. It's around 7% or something now.

Why do you bother trying to be part of a discussion?

Originally Posted by Backspin

Show me some numbers that prove Putin failed.

Number 3!
I have 3x Caviar lids in my kitchen made in U.S.S.R
That's the only thing I have made in Russia aheeem... U.S.S.R.


Number 144,5 million
Russian citizens that want to leave their country (not including Backspin)

Once again, I tried to keep it simple for you.

I'm just checking in.

Is Putin dangerous? Absolutely not imho. Back to page one.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

I'm just checking in.

Is Putin dangerous? Absolutely not imho. Back to page one.

But you're not Syrian, Georgian, Ukranian, a journalist or an opposition politician.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Oil and gas account for 70% of Russia's exports.

Actually, as per official (US) sources it was 52%, but perhaps it has changed since 21. January?

What a luck that we have here experts who can feed us with figures and knowledge..

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Putin has failed and the numbers proof it. Of course Russia is better off then 25 years ago, but so are most countries in this world.
Is Putin dangerous? Yes, mostly to his own people.. like all Russian dictators.

That's why his approval is so high that no other world power leader ever had reached - and despite the generous help of his "friends" (those world power leaders) ...

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

It has always been a bitch being a Russian.

Wasn't it a favorite slogan of your compatriots after certain events at Stalingrad some 80 years ago?

We have missed to be informed what was this year at (virtual) Davos. Even the deafening silence of RFE, RFA, perhaps because the leadership was fully exchanged?

From some we have learned something, but mostly something was lost in translation. Even in The Moscow Times report...

Herewith a full transcript of the speech of dangerous Mr. Putin:

Сессия онлайн-форума <<Давосская повестка дня 2021>> • Президент России

And here some excerpts saying something else than our experts on China and Russia :

Globalization and domestic growth have led to strong recovery in developing countries, lifting more than a billion people out of poverty. So, if we take the level of income at 5 , $ 5 per person per day (in purchasing power parity), then, according to World Bank estimates that in China, for example, the number of people with lower incomes decreased from 1.1 billion in 1990 to less than 300 million in recent years. This is definitely China's success. And in Russia from 64 million people in 1999 to about 5 million at present. And we believe that this is also a movement forward in our country in the most important direction, by the way.

But what about the developed economies, where the level of average wealth is much higher? Paradoxical as it may sound, but the problems of stratification here, in developed countries, turned out to be even deeper. Thus, according to the World Bank, if 3.6 million people lived in the United States of America with an income of less than $ 5.5 per day, for example, in 2000, then in 2016 there were already 5.6 million people.


During the same period, globalization led to a significant increase in the profits of large transnational, primarily American and European, companies.

By the way, in terms of citizens, the developed economies of Europe have the same tendency as in the States.

But again, if we talk about the profit of companies, who got the income? The answer is known, it is obvious - to one percent of the population.

What happened in the lives of other people? Over the past 30 years, in a number of developed countries, incomes of more than half of citizens in real terms have stagnated and did not grow. But the cost of education and healthcare services has increased. And do you know how much? Three times.

That is, millions of people, even in rich countries, have ceased to see the prospect of increasing their income. At the same time, they face problems, how to keep themselves and their parents healthy, how to provide quality education for children.

A huge mass of people is also accumulating, who, in fact, turn out to be unclaimed. Thus, according to the International Labor Organization, in 2019, 21 percent, or 267 million young people in the world did not study anywhere and did not work anywhere. And even among working people (here is an interesting indicator, interesting figures), even among working people, 30 percent live with an income below 3.2 US dollars per day at purchasing power parity.

Such distortions in global socio-economic development were a direct result of the policies pursued in the 1980s, and often carried out in a vulgar and dogmatic manner. This policy was based on the so-called Washington Consensus. With its unwritten rules, prioritizing private debt-led growth in an environment of deregulation and low taxes on the rich and corporations.

As I said, the coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated these problems. Last year, the decline in the global economy was the largest since the Second World War. By July, the labor market losses were equivalent to almost 500 million jobs. Yes, by the end of the year, half of them were restored. But still, this is almost 250 million lost jobs. This is a large and very alarming figure. In the first nine months of last year alone, the loss of labor income worldwide amounted to $ 3.5 trillion. And this figure continues to grow. This means that social tension in society is also growing.

Originally Posted by panama hat

Why do you bother trying to be part of a discussion?

He is a moron and uncapable of knowing better.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

That's why his approval is so high that no other world power leader ever had reached - and despite the generous help of his "friends" (those world power leaders) ...

That's the problem with Russian people, they never learn. They like to be beaten, kicked, pissed on and treated like subhumans. Must be in their genes or something.

A record 70 percent of Russians approve of Soviet leader Josef StalinÂ’s role in Russian history, according to a poll published by the independent Levada Center pollster on Tuesday.

Stalin’s Approval Rating Among Russians Hits Record High – Poll - The Moscow Times


If Hitler where Russian he would have a 99.9 approval

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Wasn't it a favorite slogan of your compatriots after certain events at Stalingrad some 80 years ago?

It was before, it is now, and it will always be a bitch being a Russian. (see above)

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Actually, as per official (US) sources it was 52%, but perhaps it has changed since 21. January?
What a luck that we have here experts who can feed us with figures and knowledge..

Speaking of knowledge, where is all that money going to?

In 2019 Russia’s Natural Resources and Environment Ministry estimated the value of natural resources to $844 billion or 60% of the country's GDP.

Originally Posted by panama hat

Why do you bother trying to be part of a discussion?

Why don't you shut the fuck up ? You know oil and gas are 2 different things right ? The oil part is smaller than the gas part.

All the fucking numbers that get trotted out are either percent of exports or percent of nominal GDP which amounts to the same thing.

The real number is percent of PPP GDP. Not any of that other shit.

I am still fucking looking for the number but total hydrocarbons as percent of PPP GDP was around 40% in the 1990's and it has fallen since. To somewhere around 20% or less.

Originally Posted by bsnub

He is a moron and uncapable of knowing better.

Oil and gas do not come even fucking close to 70% of total PPP GDP. Not even in the 90's when it was higher than it is now