Russian sanctions are not impressive

Based on the numbers, the sanctions have hurt Russia's poor somewhat, but haven't caused the oligarchs any trouble at all.
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Russia's stock market has nearly doubled!

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The drop in oil prices could just as easily explain the modest drop in GDP.
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dervish's picture

Do you have one on the value of the ruble r/t $ and Euro?

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Lol, if it doesn't further enrich and empower Those Who Matter at the expense of those who don't, it would never be!

Edited to add an important bit which probably, but not certainly, goes without saying - and definitely too often does.

We must always keep in mind that the endless profiteering for the few increasingly and impossibly super-rich is bled from we, the people and the life and resources of the world on which we all depend for survival. And as we are all crushed into mush beneath their trampling feet, there also goes the very footing they stand upon, which no technology/Super Jesus can replace.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.