An Annoyed Ukrainian American

More unknown debris arrivals overnight.

Huh.

Mass bankruptcies followed by government supported “consolidation” can do that, yes.

Let the great harvest of fines begin!

(Or selling to foreign customers for their winter storage needs)

Wait, consumption as in use or in putting away for storage?

Can we assume that this means they have no room to put anymore and no customers to buy anymore?

Time to raise taxes on the plebs!

That always works great in russia.

Being free of the burden of having to pay for new railway cars should help russian railways meet the challenge of trying to ramp up business to offset the coming collapse of russian road transport as gas and diesel disappear just at the same time shipping companies drown in a sea of lease debt.

Ok, I’m not sure making me break out the Malört in celebration is a “warning” but ok.

When properly motivated, changes can happen fast enough.

It took one year after 1904, three years after 1914, and two years after 1989.

It’s been three years since 2022, and lines at the gas stations are growing.

“His enemies” in this case referred to the people that have his bar tab. They were afraid he was skipping out on them.

Even better, the government is considering tax holidays for some (or most) of these industries. Because what the government needs right now is less tax revenue. That they’ll never recover because it’s not the tax rates that are causing the businesses to go bankrupt.

What another delightful way to learn russian geography.

That was it, thank you!

This is the second time that this has happened that I’m aware of. The first was a few weeks ago, I believe?

Better get to it before everyone empties their bank accounts in order to pay for gas in buckets on the street corner.

Going to have to be honest, you do plenty enough as it is.

Sorry about your dad, though. :(

Not only that but there was an attack (unclear as to the result, so probably not as great as we'd like...yet) on the Tyumen refinery not 48 hours after you posted this.

You should write stories about all of the refineries in russia, regardless of location. Let's see what happens.

Or you could calculate how much inflation would have to be in order to reach these new revenue projections and then you have a better idea what the government really thinks the inflation rate is.

More likely it's whatever makes them feel better about themselves, but you never know...

Just to point something out. At a time when you have to introduce a moratorium on bankruptcies for wheat farmers, when the buckwheat harvest is collapsing and you can't produce enough potatoes to say you are building greenhouses for bananas sounds insane.

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I had hoped we'd have further work for you, but it's unclear if the explosion at the refinery in Tyumen tonight resulted in significant damage to production.

dangerous, but with special emphasis on idiotically, as they're as dangerous to themselves as they are to anybody else. With the right resources (which we have an overabundance of), it should be a very manageable fight. Hell, the Ukrainians are fighting, and the one thing they lack is resources.

different, and right now a lot of that revolves around convincing other Americans that we really do have a much higher chance of winning because the guys we're up against really are a lot dumber, ill prepared, and unequipped than they try to make themselves out to be. They're still idiotically

"not being good enough to win." We're Americans, we tell ourselves that the only good American is a winning American. This is a major fucking problem, and repeatedly telling people the bad things that will happen as a result has done absolutely zero, as far as I can tell. So I have to try something

issue with what they feel like is someone belittling their plight, *as they should.* But that's not my goal here.

*Far* too many Americans refuse to stand up and fight if they feel there's even the slightest chance they might lose. They'd rather lose by not trying than risk the "embarrassment" of

I've been scolded a few times for the flip attitude I have towards the russian military. And...I took it. I have to. These posts aren't meant to sway Ukrainians' perspectives, but those in the US and the west. Ukrainians are dealing with horrors I can barely comprehend. They're going to have an

I wonder if oil companies have figured out how to recoup their losses from retail gasoline.

"Steal" their own product, sell it on the black market at true market rates. The only taxes paid are for bribing the underpaid police.

Economies take time to collapse. Especially wartime ones where the government spends all its efforts to prevent it.

It’ll be difficult to predict exactly when, and it may take a while, but it won’t be surprising when it does happen.

So revenues in this case refers to government revenues, not the oil companies, yes?

Which means all they’ve done is help cripple their economy by stripping oil companies of needed revenue by forcing them to make gasoline at a loss.

Especially because retail prices are effectively fixed.