LiveLeak on telegram has alleged footage of the wreck, including corpses but none are identifiable.

Honestly though, political assassination has been the game in Russia for the last 100 years at least.

I have bad news for you: princess Anastasia did not escape and died with the rest of the Romanovs.

The more interesting thing to watch is the remnants of his army that are currently in Belarus.

Russia is none of those things, and if you are not 100% ethnically Russian you are fucked. One of my friends, who was born in Moscow, grandparents born in Moscow, educated as a doctor in Moscow, and owns property in Moscow has people come up to her on the metro and say "you don't belong here, leave". Why? She has a more olive skin tone due to some distant ancestry.

The only pride Russia has is from the past, and they try hard to go back to it and the days of communism. It's truly frightening if you are an average person with any self awareness.

Historically, Russia goes through cycles of "strong men" and then near total collapse. It will be no different with Putin as he has murdered everyone who could possibly run it and when he eventually goes it will be a mess.

I lived there three years and still have friends and family there. Most of my American friends, Even those who studied Russian their whole lives and actually are sympathetic to the regime left as there is just no way to make a life there. As it is now, I support several Russian friends who are fleeing to avoid the draft.

The reality is very different than what is in your mind. Russia has always been one of the most harsh places to exist in the world and there's a reason life expectancy of men there is so low.

There are much better places to go.

In Europe consider Serbia or some other non EU countries.

Thailand you can post anything you want, so long as it isn't about the king.

Several island nations that are former British colonies that don't even have the capacity to look at your internet postings. I believe Clease even described them as being more British than Britain.

Don't go to Russia.

Certainly true for political prisoners, but as an average Joe you don't want to be in Russia.

Tommy really should come out as trans.

I'm not sure where "here" is, but it's about 90% chance the prisons are better than the Russian ones.

At least in the West you can claim to be a woman and go to the cushy women's prison!

You have clearly never been to Russia. They are still arresting people for saying "war" instead of "special military operation".

Yeah there's a fair chance Russia will invade there next.

Oooh, your link is bad but I figured it out. A few gems there I was looking for, thanks.

I think the bigger issue is few countries are taking Russian men as refugees. It's pretty much Turkey and Georgia

Russian men as well. They get even less sympathy and have way less support.

Insightful and accurate.

Damn, NATO propaganda now controls RT too?

This goes deeper than I thought!

It does mesh.

Inflation is always self inflicted. What it means is they have been running the printing press full tilt.

People can speculate as to why, and if that is because sanctions, war spending, or as Russian gov officials in this article say, incompetence. But that's all conjecture.

Regardless, increased credit will definitely build an economy output. It just might cripple your currency.

Inflation is not caused by speculation. You are confusing it with prices.

Inflation is caused by money supply. That is to say Russia is firing up the printing press massively and is now trying to scale back.

ZeroHedge is far from "Mainstream". This reporting is directly from Russia.

And yet, the rouble is collapsing

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-hikes-rates-12-emergency-move-halt-roubles-collapse

The government only has a few ways to raise prices: Taxes Destruction of supply

Neither of these can be implemented quickly.

If/when it happens people will be too busy trying to survive to do anything. Even getting enough food will be difficult, especially protein.

Better have easy access to hunting/fishing.

Agree on central bank digital currency being an effective way, but implementation of that cannot happen quickly.

I think they have to get that piece done before the rest is possible.

Maybe if they did some sort of "optional lockdown" I could see.

Mechanically/technically, how do you limit the amount of meat/gas/whatever that someone buys?

Politically what happens when old people die of heat strike?

I don't see it being feasible even if desired.

Great find

The article did a good job convincing me to eat more beef so I can be more masculine. I love that they tie beef to evil colonization, with no mention of if/why bison are somehow better in terms of pollution.

These writers, like most leftists, have never actually grown anything thus haven't been to a farm supply store to purchase cow poop. One must wonder what they think "organic fertilizer" is.

It does not show "economy collapse" as stated.

What is more likely is the denominator is changing, i.e. population. PPP will increase as people leave Russia and/or die in war.

Still total FUD

Clearly evil NATO re-animated the corpses and forces them to party!

They can't keep getting away with it!

Russia is ranked 5th only in your imagination and your "kompromat media" source. Russia is actually ranked 9th, barely ahead of Canada.

As always OPs only source is a shitty screenshot.

Here is the real ranking and source

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268173/countries-with-the-largest-gross-domestic-product-gdp/