|
|
Post by AztecWilliam on Dec 16, 2014 11:33:12 GMT -8
|
|
|
|
Post by aztecwin on Dec 16, 2014 12:19:32 GMT -8
Notice how closely the ruble tracks the price of oil. They are like a banana republic with a dwindling price for bananas. Oil is the Russian banana. What can they do?
|
|
|
|
Post by AlwaysAnAztec on Dec 16, 2014 13:30:03 GMT -8
If their economy gets much worse, Putin may do something really stupid like invade the Baltic states or Ukraine to take the Russian public's eye off of the economy.
|
|
|
|
Post by AztecWilliam on Dec 16, 2014 17:32:37 GMT -8
If their economy gets much worse, Putin may do something really stupid like invade the Baltic states or Ukraine to take the Russian public's eye off of the economy. He might do that, but he would be REALLY stupid if he did. AzWm |
|
|
|
Post by kctxr on Dec 21, 2014 8:21:16 GMT -8
If their economy gets much worse, Putin may do something really stupid like invade the Baltic states or Ukraine to take the Russian public's eye off of the economy. He might do that, but he would be REALLY stupid if he did. AzWm I think Russia/Putin might be getting pushed and bottled up in a corner. Some scary things might happen. I also think that Germany/Merkel is doing a lot of the behind the scenes bottling up. Although they need the Russian energy, they also want to keep the Russian politics in it's place. As quickly as fracking totally revamped the US petroleum production, just think what is sitting under Germany, I bet a bunch. I would hope that Mr. Putin comes around and gets back to playing nicely in the sand box, but probably not unfortunately.
G^3
|
|
