Depends entirely on how much they have to buy and how quickly. If China, Iran and the rest require prompt payment of gold...well, it may not last past the summer. One final push for the summer months!
Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion
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The Russians haven't ever really disclosed how much gold they had in reserve, and they can mine gold from Siberia at will, so Russian gold reserves are effectively a 'who knows' situation and should not be expected to dry up any time this decade, never mind this year.
hyperspacewizard
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I mean it takes time money and manpower to even start a mining operation or increase it from where it’s at so I would assume their running off of whatever is already ready to go which I can’t imagine is going to last for very long if their buying at any kind of scale. But I haven’t looked into the actual numbers though.
At the same time war is expensive, they have been cut off from much of global trade and their blowing through their cold war stock piles fast. The fact that we have such a major conflict and its not affecting gold prices nearly as much as they should be is a sign that Russias going through a lot of dosh fast.
King Arts
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Ok your definition is reasonable I was asking about a definition for cultural destruction because it is varries obviously taking kids away from parents and forbidding their language clothes religion and other cultures is one thing. But if the the group that is oppressing the other is so similar is it even possible to culturally genocide them? For example if china invaded Canada and forced them to be Chinese that would be a great difference and I would agree it’s culturally genocide. But what if America or the UK invaded Canada instead and did that? How different are Canadians and Americans their lifestyles are so similar that I have doubts it would be cultural genocide.
Again you might be biased because of what your people went through so you are having trouble looking at it objectively. The Natives were a completely separate civilization to the English colonists so the schools that natives were forced into would erase their identity. But Ukraine might be more like if the British acted like the mongols and in the 1800s went o America killed all the men raped the women then reeducation the kids. The culture of Britain and America did not diverge enough to be that seperate back then. The Ukrainians are related to the Russians it’s not like they are being invaded by the Chinese or Argentina or South Africa.
The Japanese were willing to kill themselves so no they would have cared. Your arguments reek of spacebattles. And the Japanese still revere their emperor, the only thing you are right about is that we might have been able to replace the emperor.
I see what you mean about not having enough difference in culture. I'd say that if an attempt is made to indoctrinate kids, clearly there was enough of a difference in culture for it to matter to the decision makers, and thus it'd qualify. Basically, I doubt the US would bother crushing the Canadian culture, outside of maybe Ottawa, because there would be no point.
But if America felt the need to crush the culture by, for example, banning people from speaking French or using the metric system or whatever, clearly then there would be enough of a culture difference to qualify, as America is recognizing it as different in it's attempt to crush it.
According to any public data from recent years it's something around 300 tons/year. So in terms of budget, it's a nice bonus, but it's still oil and gas sales that will decide the fate of their budget, not this.
Well, that's interesting, didn't realize Russia was going to try to use kidnapped kids as hostages for prisoner exchanges.
Guess the Russians would prefer to handle it this way, rather than Ukrainian/Western SoF doing the rescues in a more kinetic fashion inside Russia itself.
She was exchanged for a Party official's relative. One of the Russian PoWs was probably a politician's relative. Of course they'd use children as hostages.
Since that ministry handles the census and housing records used by the military for conscription I am surprised the partisans took this long to firebomb it. The offices in the other republics have already been destroyed or have had many attempts so far. Then again they didn't start conscription in Moscow and St Petersburg until the start of February.
China asked Łukaszenko to come to Pekin with kowtow,and he obliged.
It seems,that Moscov lost another vassal state .
They should fight China and Turkey,who want their lands,not Ukraine or Poland.
Idiots.
It seems,that we would get polish-chineese border from old jokes.
It seems,that Moscov lost another vassal state .
They should fight China and Turkey,who want their lands,not Ukraine or Poland.
Idiots.
It seems,that we would get polish-chineese border from old jokes.
Because they like beating up small, weak targets and getting away with it. Like with Georgia.
With China and Turkey, they would be under real risk of losing and the other side outright taking large parts of their or allied territory because those are countries willing to go all fuck you like they do.
They thought Ukraine was such a target.
Yes,but why? KGB do not made such mistakes,somebody there must lied to Putin.Quite a few somebodies,actually.
China spies? If nothing change,they would got Moscov on gold plate in next few years.
And it would be not funny to have China border on Bug river.
Aldarion
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You have a point.They should wait and invade Iran when Chomeini take power.
I hope that you are right.Becouse now i waiting for invecible hidden putin army to come and get me when i arleady though that they are done.
And i am only half-joking here - there must be some hidden kgb plan to crush us except super Ebola mixed with plague.
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