Maybe when you lose your healthcare you will understand why they did it.

I don’t think tomorrow is what most have claimed, but maybe “any time now”, which has kind of been true for the past year.
The signs have been clear for a couple of years now, that the Russian economy can’t handle the war effort against Ukraine in the long run. But the time scale is very hard to predict, if not outright impossible. But in the beginning we knew that when the war chest Putin had saved up was dry, it would only be a matter of time before the Russian economy would see a steep downturn, those early predictions have come true.
But if for instance we get an extremely mild winter, Russia might actually push through it this year too.
But the way it looks, the infrastructure is collapsing, one aspect is that Russia commonly has centralized heating plants, that supply hot water to apartments. These are often based on waste heat from electricity production. And we known in many areas they are behind on maintenance of those, which potentially can leave people without both electricity and heat.
How bad this goes is hard to predict, but we are seeing problems already, despite we are only just out of maintenance season!
The Russian economy, infrastructure and population have been stretched beyond their limits for some time now, the real question is when the parts begin to snap.
I am pretty certain this winter will do it to a big enough degree on the economy and infrastructure for the population to snap too.
The story from the power plant where the workers strike is an example of it. Remember this is GRU (KGB) country, workers don’t complain unless they have really really serious reasons to do so. If you complain you risk going to prison, and going to prison is almost like a death sentence in Russia.

All the Scandinavian countries support Ukraine more than Canada.
So although we appreciate the help from Canada, canadianaffairs.news can fuck right off with this moronic rhetoric.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/total-aid-to-ukraine-by-country

Norway has given 14 billion against Canada 13 Billion.
And Canada is a country of about 40 million while Norway is only 5½. So per capita Norway is giving 7 times more than Canada!

I agree, Those 2 are connected, because Putin knows he won’t survive politically if he ends this war at a point where Russia has gained almost nothing, at extreme cost to the country.
And for Putin, not surviving politically is probably the same as simply not surviving.

I think they will. Russia has had revolutions 2 times before.
As they say, third time is the charm. 😀

The Russian economy was already strained by the war and sanctions. But now the Russian economy is outright collapsing. Ukraine’s attacks and sanctions have cut Russian oil exports in half compared to the beginning of the war, and in the same time the price has dropped to half.
That means that oil exports are only worth a fourth now compared to the beginning of the war!
But it is not only oil, it is EVERYTHING!

Russian oligarchs overall are estimated to have lost about half their net worth!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_billionaires

As shown in my original post, Russian companies are now at a point where they can’t pay workers, transportation is failing, and some people can’t even get food reliably.

There were recent stories about how Russians in certain regions wouldn’t have power or water or heat due to “planned” maintenance. Except this is not possibly planned maintenance, because that is ALWAYS done in the summertime!

Russia is out of options to cover the deficits in creative ways. From now on they will have almost immediate effect, and old deficits will catch up too, and the whole thing will probably collapse over the next 3-6 months, or earlier if the Russian people decide they’ve had enough.

Seems to me that Russia is already unable to handle the current level of attacks. But of course if the attacks on Russia were escalated, the end of the war would come sooner.

I included a very thorough post with documentation that the story is actually true.
I admit the headline is clickbaity, but if you read my comment I absolutely do provide information on what it is about, with 2 other sources confirming it.

As I’ve been posting many times before, many workers in Russia are behind on payments. People working in factories being 3 months behind is not uncommon.
Anna from Ukraine explains the situation here. She is an excellent source, because her English is excellent, and being Ukrainian she understands Russian, and makes frequent news updates about the situation in Russia.

Anton Gerashchenko on Bluesky confirms the story with documentation:
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3m56ndvbujs2i
The post contains video from the situation.

Inside Russia on youtube was first to report on the Russian population beginning to have had enough to a degree they are actually beginning to complain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoR5_bJywWQ

I’ve claimed before I don’t think Putin will last through the winter, and I see this as the first signs that the Russian people is about to have had enough.
The story reported by Anna tells that the workers are at least 2 months behind on wages, they were promised transportation to work, something that is important because of the lack of fuel, and public transport becoming unreliable. But they do not get the promised transportation. They were also promised 1 hot meal per day, but do not receive that either.
Finally in their homes, they are out of water and heat.

This is the economic and infrastructure collapse many have predicted was inevitable, that is now beginning to really show. And it isn’t even really winter yet!

Yes:
https://www.space.com/38313-elon-musk-spacex-fly-people-to-mars-2024.html

Yes, it will definitely not be the 1% that eliminate poverty, but when a majority decides to do so.

So how’s it going with that political party of yours Musk?
Or was it just vaporware just like FSD, hyperloop, solar tiles, Optimus and Starshit manned mission to Mars 2024.
The man is a manic maniac. 🤣🤣🤣

Optimus will finally make it possible for us (the 1%) to eliminate poverty for 2 reasons: First because we don’t need the poor anymore for manual labor, and second because with Optimus we can automate their extermination.

Let the hate flow through you, and feel the power of the dark side. Then fight fire with fire.

AI research is very complex and includes several fields, like AI programming experts, linguistic experts, neuro scientists and philosophy. These people are highly specialized in their field, and it is a field of scientific study. Scientific AI research today is a combination of several scientific fields.

So all the stories a couple of years ago, that their active armor failed was because corruption replaced it with cardboard, might not have been true?
The actual active armor on Russian tanks simply doesn’t work!

It was not just “not Trump”, it was “not insane”, and not threatening to tear down democracy and destroy healthcare and the economy. It was business as usual over sociopathy.
The choice should have been clear. But too many Americans are sociopaths, and chose to really stick it to the minorities until they die. Americans voted for Trump not despite he is a sociopath, but because of it. Americans want revenge for their lousy lives more than they want to improve things for everybody.
The Dems won other places than New York.

Doesn’t matter, when the stock is registered it’s diluted, and will impact the numbers in earnings per share, and the total stock value of the company.
You can’t just issue stock, to increase the value of the company, the stock price will always go down when you issue a significant amount of stock.

The Musk compensation package itself won’t effect the stock price

Maybe not as long as it’s just a piece of paper, but as soon as this compensation begin to actually have to get paid, you can bet it will have an impact.
I sincerely hope the Norwegian fun pulls out, and even if they try to do it slow to not impact the stock value to much to get as much out as possible, there is no way you can put 5% of the stock back to the market without it having an impact.

It will still be a big dilution of the stock. Which will put very hard pressure on the stock price.
There is no way to dilute that much without it having a significant impact.