Russia’s Achilles Heel

[Camilo]

Reflections from St. Petersburg

http://m.journal-neo.org/2016/07/02/russia-s-achilles-heel-reflections-from-st-petersburg/

This article by the insightful William Engdahl explains how Russia is being choked from the inside by its Rothschild “independent” central bank and those serving its IMF and related agendas.

No surprises here.

Remember, they’ve owned the place since the Bolshevik (read Jewish takeover) revolution of 1917, funded by Jacob Schiff (read Rothschild agent) of N.Y. and the Warburg family (read Rothschild agents) of Germany, one of the first acts of which was to send the almost immeasurable hard assets of precious metals, etc. scurrying to the Rothschild vaults overseas. Remember, you will never find the truth of things in the official history books. You have to look elsewhere. Whilst you still can. Today, people look at you like you’re crazy when you explain the truth of the Bolshevik Revolution. Back in 1920, Winston Churchill, still in his journalist days, wrote a piece called Zionism versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People. As I said, this was common knowledge back then. It’s since been well buried. (R.P.)

[Baby Steps]

This article is over optimistic about the situation.
Russia has returned to a kind of 19th century position where they struggle to attract hard currency investment into the vast resource opportunities that exist, because international investors fear that their assets will be decimated by inflation or corruption.

Any Russian that makes it big prefers to buy foreign currency and salt it away abroad. Oil at $50 is not enough for the Russian state to be solvent. As the ruble depreciates, foreign imports become increasingly unaffordable, and then the shortcomings in domestic production are exposed. What production there is, because it is weak and lacking, threatens inflation.

So these neo liberal thinking mandarins may not be saboteurs or foreign agents. They may be attempting to defend the Ruble and encourage hard currency deposits within Russia.(with excessive interest rates)

But yes, in the process, the public prosperity is being wiped out.

This is dangerous if it creates internal political instability.
This is dangerous as it will decimate Russia's war waging capacity- potentially, and this might encourage PREDATORS, not just NATO, but potentially China.

The potential for Russia now is the same as it was in the 19th century - they looked at USA's success and saw that they could replicate that kind of boom in Russia, if only they could kick start a business led investment boom, driven by both domestic and international investors.
They failed mostly, due to corruption, then War & revolution

In the communist era they invested massively.

Can they create a domestic boom? Maybe look at what China is achieving, but also I think Putin is on the money with his new anti corruption drive. The Ruble is probably at the level where they can start an industrial expansion driven by exports. I wish them well for all our sakes.

[ThePythonicCow]

Reflections from St. Petersburg

http://m.journal-neo.org/2016/07/02/russia-s-achilles-heel-reflections-from-st-petersburg/

This article by the insightful William Engdahl explains how Russia is being choked from the inside by its Rothschild “independent” central bank and those serving its IMF and related agendas.
In my view, this is a very important article by F. William Engdahl.

Thanks for posting it.

[avid]

Loving the 'Stolypin Bonds', if only the example would be followed by folk with common sense and not adhered to greed....

[ozmirage]

Russian Depopulation is the real heel.
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http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/drunken-nation-russia%E2%80%99s-depopulation-bomb

By 2005, male life expectancy at birth was fully fifteen years lower in the Russian Federation than in Western Europe. It was also five years below the global average for male life expectancy, and three years below the average for the less developed regions (whose levels it had exceeded, in the early 1950s, by fully two decades). Put another way, male life expectancy in 2006 was about two and a half years lower under Putin than it had been in 1959, under Khrushchev.

Russia’s patterns of death from injury and violence (by whatever provenance) are so extreme and brutal that they invite comparison only with the most tormented spots on the face of the planet today. The five places estimated to be roughly in the same league as Russia as of 2002 were Angola, Burundi, Congo, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. To go by its level of mortality injury alone, Russia looks not like an emerging middle-income market economy at peace, but rather like an impoverished sub-Saharan conflict or post-conflict society.
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Population Doubling time by Nation
http://sweeneyr.faculty.mjc.edu/Population%20Doubling%20time%20by%20Nation.pdf
FR=fertility rate (live births/female). DT=doubling time in years. P=population in millions.
. . . . . . . . . FR . . . DT . . . . P
Greece - - - 1.4 . . . ZPG . . . 10.5
Portugal - -1.4 . . . ZPG . . . 9.9
Slovenia - -1.3 . . . ZPG. . . 2.0
Spain - - - -1.2 . . . ZPG. . . 39.3
Sweden - - 1.6 . . . ZPG . . . 8.9
Belarus - - 1.3 . . . NPG . . 10.3
Bulgaria- - 1.2 . . . NPG . . .8.3
Croatia- - - 1.6 . . . NPG . . 4.8
Czech Rep 1.2 . . . NPG . . 10.3
Estonia - - 1.3. . . NPG. . . 1.5
Germany - 1.3 . . . NPG . . .82.0
Hungary - -1.5 . . . NPG . . .10.2
Italy - - - - 1.2 . . . NPG . . . 57.3
Latvia - - - 1.2 . . . NPG . . . 2.0
Lithuania - 1.5 . . . NPG . . . 3.7
Romania - - 1.3 . . NPG . . . 22.5
Russia - - - -1.3 . . NPG . . . 147.3
Ukraine - - - 1.4 . . NPG . . . 50.7
(NPG = negative population growth)
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Thanks to socialism, European birthrates have tanked, and they're depopulating in countries with negative population growth. Those who expected to be supported by "other people's children" forgot to procreate their own. Their dire fate is the result of running out of "other people's children."

[Snoweagle]

This article may be related to this topic.

Putin apparently has sacked his fleet commanders for not engaging in disruptive actions against the war games hosted by the US/NATO fleets.

http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/putin-sacks-fleet-commanders-in-stalin-like-purge
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3685805/Putin-sacks-commander-Baltic-fleet-Stalin-style-purge-brass-refusal-follow-orders-confront-Western-ships.html

In my opinion it appears the Russian military are as reluctant to instigate global warfare as their American counterparts have shown in recent years. Of course I may view this incident with "rose tinted glasses" and may be for entirely different reasons. Either way, I am grateful to those Commanders. Pentagon staff, please take note:-)