Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Shalcker]

Stop lying.

That isn't rate at which Russians can buy or sell dollars.

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Perhaps Germans are aware that EU regulations have placed certain requirements on banks and financial institutions so they have more fat to protect themselves in cold seasons that did not exist in 2008 (and in fact exist because of events around that time)

Russia has them too. And they do work.

All banks that weren't robust enough have been long purged from existence. "Bank Run" is pure Western copium.

[uuuhname]

how different would the world be now if, after the surrender of Imperial Japan, America forcibly absorbed China and Russia after all three parties were exhausted?

I mean... I'm sure if they had the avengers, they'd have done it, or Dr. Manhattan. or any other absurdly powerful fictional character. because that's what you're dabbling in here: FICTION.

[Elegiac]

That isn't rate at which Russians can buy or sell dollars.

It's literally the exchange rate, habibi. Rofl.

[dextersmith]

People run on banks when they think they're going to collapse and lose their money, that's way worse than inflation.

I keep recalling images of Germany at the end of WW2 where people push home wagons full of worthless paper currency after every work day. Russia must be thankful things have gone digital.

[Mihalik]

That isn't rate at which Russians can buy or sell dollars.

Oh so Russians and Russians only, get some special unlisted magical exchange rate?

[Shalcker]

It's literally the exchange rate, habibi. Rofl.

Do you even understand concept of different exchanges having different rates?

The only Russian currency exchange is MOEX. And there lowest value is 126 roubles per dollar around today's open.

[Elegiac]

"Bank Run" is pure Western copium.

"The West" didn't make up the long lines at banks and ATMs, comrade.

[YUPPIE]

I mean... I'm sure if they had the avengers, they'd have done it, or Dr. Manhattan. or any other absurdly powerful fictional character. because that's what you're dabbling in here: FICTION.

how do you think history could have gone differently in a more positive way, then? As in, not leading to the current events

[Elegiac]

Do you even understand concept of different exchanges having different rates?

The only Russian currency exchange is MOEX. And there lowest value is 126 roubles per dollar around today's open.

We're talking about actual comparison of currency values, not the crap the Kremlin makes up to pretend there isn't a problem. Keep up.

[Xarkan]

I keep recalling images of Germany at the end of WW2 where people push home wagons full of worthless paper currency after every work day. Russia must be thankful things have gone digital.

The weimar republic was before wwii. your picture even has it in the name, 1922

To be (more) exact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic
1919 to 1933

[Elegiac]

Oh so Russians and Russians only, get some special unlisted magical exchange rate?

Well technically speaking, they do.

!Trade Offer!
i receive: increasingly scarce foreign currency
you receive: a currency so worthless that Robux have outstripped it

[Shalcker]

We're talking about actual comparison of currency values, not the crap the Kremlin makes up to pretend there isn't a problem. Keep up.

Except that's the one Russians are dealing with, not your toy markets.

[Poopymonster]

It's literally the exchange rate, habibi. Rofl.

No, she's right. There is no rate at which Russians can buy or sell dollars, because the ruble isn't worth a fart in a spacesuit. No one would do it.

[Mekh]

It's at 0.0084 right now; it never was at 0.0075 so far (lowest was 0.0079).

[Elegiac]

Except that's the one Russians are dealing with

Well duh, because y'all are being frozen out of the international market because you... *checks notes*... launched a war of conquest.

Which is the point. Letting the exchange rate reflect the actual value would just further tank public confidence in the Robux Ruble.

[Jessicka]

I was born quite some time before 1990, not that it's relevant. I don't believe Putin would resort to using nukes, because MAD.

Strategic nukes and MAD no, but tactical nuke and no more Kyiv, very high chance. That is very much in the Russian playbook.

It’s not a matter of binary choice, it’s a matter of bumping the odds from something like 0.5% to even 15% isn’t worth it.

Furthermore, the NFZ and perception of disunity with NATO over it provides a clear distance between the two parties, which is actually beneficial diplomatically.

Lastly, NFZ means no one flies, and Ukraine have actually had some successes with their own Air Force and with drone strikes and the longer it goes on, and the more of the latter we can get to them the more useful that is - especially since the Russian Air Force are dialling back their own operations.

[Shalcker]

"The West" didn't make up the long lines at banks and ATMs, comrade.

*Image of a guy looking at butterfly*
Text: Is that a Bank Run?

Any queue is a bank run, sure, habibi, whatever you say.

[Mekh]

Except that's the one Russians are dealing with, not your toy markets.

Toy markets, as opposed to your real market, you have to keep closed, because it breaks when you let people use it.

[uuuhname]

how do you think history could have gone differently in a more positive way, then? As in, not leading to the current events

why the hell should I bother with the most absurd, power fantasy hypotheticals when we have real-world problems to deal with?


see, this is why no one in this thread wants you here, you're not taking this very dire situation seriously. you're trapped in your mind palace, and expect the rest of us to live in there with you. fuck. off.

[Shalcker]

Toy markets, as opposed to your real market, you have to keep closed, because it breaks when you let people use it.

Tell me when London opens their Nickel trade.