Russia and economic war by the west #2

The American reporter showed the shelves of our stores with genuine delight, converted his basket into dollars and was shocked;

I watched that, both the material made in Moscow and the interview with Tucker.
The point of shock was because in the US people are being told how about Russkie well die of hunger any moment because of unprecedented sanctions.
They really are spreading this bullshit.
So the guy was devastated by the fact, that some regional store far away from Moscow had a better supply of goods than he is used to in the US.
When he came to the big store - actually French Auchan - the multiple of choices blow his head off.
When Tucker saw a grocery part of the store that was huge, and freshly baked bread delivered to the shelf while still hot, his jaw just dropped. On live.
And then, he saw that milk can be purchased in four fat content categories up to 4.5%, each in multiple types like UHT/fresh/seven brands each.
The price factor was only secondary, he was shocked as well how cheap the things are. And that is quite interesting because most of the prices in Russia are quite similar to the let's say Polish or Czech or Hungarian level, yet the milk products are much more expensive. I would say double the price tag. I have no idea about the price ranges in US, but here you can have a 1l 3.2% milk for about $0.7, while it cost some 90RUR, so $1.3 ...

The American reporter showed the shelves of our stores with genuine delight, converted his basket into dollars and was shocked;

I watched that, both the material made in Moscow and the interview with Tucker.
The point of shock was because in the US people are being told how about Russkie well die of hunger any moment because of unprecedented sanctions.
They really are spreading this bullshit.
So the guy was devastated by the fact, that some regional store far away from Moscow had a better supply of goods than he is used to in the US.
When he came to the big store - actually French Auchan - the multiple of choices blow his head off.
When Tucker saw a grocery part of the store that was huge, and freshly baked bread delivered to the shelf while still hot, his jaw just dropped. On live.
And then, he saw that milk can be purchased in four fat content categories up to 4.5%, each in multiple types like UHT/fresh/seven brands each.
The price factor was only secondary, he was shocked as well how cheap the things are. And that is quite interesting because most of the prices in Russia are quite similar to the let's say Polish or Czech or Hungarian level, yet the milk products are much more expensive. I would say double the price tag. I have no idea about the price ranges in US, but here you can have a 1l 3.2% milk for about $0.7, while it cost some 90RUR, so $1.3 ...

Here in St. Petersburg, 2.5% (900ml) costs about 60-70rub. So comparable.

Some places you can get milk for like 20-25rub, in this sort of plastic bag, and usually quite close to the expiry date. But those are great for making porridge or semolina on the cheap

@Alfa, check for Carlson Tucker show. It was this weekend I believe.

Edit : I have just found it.

If the ruble weakens against the Euro, as it has happened more recently, then the EU price cap on Russian oil and gas exports will have zero effect for Russia's oil export companies & Gazprom in terms of rubles.
Furthermore, the caps will induce a black market in the global oil and gas markets with its disruption, and will ultimately cause a rise in prices.

https://www.auchan.ru/catalog/moloko-syr-yayca/moloko-slivki-molochnye-kokteyli-i-sguschennoe-moloko/moloko/

https://dostavka.magnit.ru/catalog/moloko_syr_yaytsa/moloko?spcSecProductsWhatProd=moloko&sort=price_asc&page=2&spread=true

https://dostavka.dixy.ru/catalog/molochnye_produkty_yaytsa/moloko_slivki/

this is to the question of the cost of milk in stores. the average price is 65-85 rubles per liter. The cheapest you can take at a price of about 36 rubles per liter.

This milk in bags is a rare species in the EU. Haven't seen it for years as a regular supply. It is still produced, but I guess exported or something. It is the only product suitable to make sour milk, as the UHT ones will just spoil instead of getting sour.

In the United States revealed how Russia destroyed Washington's favorite weapon, 12.28.2022.

Foreign Affairs: Russia and China End the Era of US Economic Sanctions.

MOSCOW, December 28 - RIA Novosti. Russia and China have won a landslide victory in the fight against US sanctions, writes Foreign Affairs.

According to the author of the article, director of global forecasting at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, Agatha Desmarais, the era of the "favorite economic weapon" of the United States is coming to an end.

"The permissiveness with which Washington operated on these punitive measures provoked the resistance of the world," she said.

As an example, the expert named the three most "convincing" responses from Moscow and Beijing to the US sanctions policy.

Among them are the creation of bilateral currency swaps that allow Moscow and Beijing not to use the US dollar, the development of non-Western payment systems like the Chinese alternative to SWIFT CIPS, which has already been joined by more than 1.3 thousand banks from more than a hundred countries, as well as the gradual introduction of digital currencies.

"It (digital currency. - Approx. ed.) Is protected from sanctions, since the United States does not have the ability to restrict the use of virtual money issued by the central bank of another country," summed up Desmarais.

After Russia launched a special military operation to liberate Donbass, the United States and other Western countries increased financial pressure on Moscow. This plunged Europe into an energy crisis and led to higher fuel and food prices. The Kremlin called the actions of Washington and Brussels an economic war, but stressed that they were ready for such a scenario.

https://ria.ru/20221228/sanktsii-1841890786.html

"Good luck" as was said in The taken

Bro,
The Euro elites are blown away from any sense of reality for years.
An EU deputy gets about around 10k euro of a monthly appliances, but that is just the beginning. They have money for everything, including 40+k euro monthly for "coworkers", 5k or so for "office operations" and so on.
One of our eagles, while facing corruption charges, calculated with pen and paper that it was not a challenge "save" half a million E in less than two years.
Those fukers are so corrupt, that some of them have been caught while getting back payments for "business trips with own car" while not having a driving license.
My favorite thug was taking money and filling the papers with the cabrio car he junked two years earlier, and never owned a car whatsoever. All year around, Warsow-Brussel, with cabrio Fiat Punto that was 20 ears old when claimed
And we talk the parliamentarians only, because the real money starts higher, in the EU commission.
A regular European won't see such money ever. People in Spain or Italy are struggling to get a E2k monthly. Just ask Hole or other lads from used-to-be-wealthy Germany how much you can get there for a job ...
Those illusory "elites" are incapable to make sane calculations because live in an alternative world they are creating.
If something jumps out of the box - just increase the propaganda.
Russkie must bend because they told them so. They won't be able to do anything, being incapable of doing anything.
People are really being told here that Russia is on the edge of cannibalism, shops are empty and robbed etc.
The same is in the US, which is why showing them bottom-stocked giant shops the Russie have leads to the dropped jaw on live.

"POWER MACHINES" HAS COMPLETED THE ASSEMBLY OF THE HEAD SAMPLE OF THE RUSSIAN HIGH-POWER GAS TURBINE GTE-170

The Power Machines company has completed the assembly of the head sample of the Russian high-power gas turbine GTE-170. The turbine successfully passed the program of control operations at the assembly stand of the Leningrad Metal Plant, confirming the high quality of manufacture and assembly.

https://power-m.ru/press-center/news/silovye-mashiny-zavershili-sborku-golovnogo-obraztsa-rossiyskoy-gazovoy-turbiny-bolshoy-moshchnosti-/

Siemens managers are crying bitterly somewhere.

ALAMO wrote:A regular European won't see such money ever. People in Spain or Italy are struggling to get a E2k monthly. Just ask Hole or other lads from used-to-be-wealthy Germany how much you can get there for a job ...

At the same time, Western lovers in Russia say that 2.5 k euros is the average salary in the EU, and that in more "respectable" EU countries it is normal to receive 4.5-5k euros per month.

By the way, I earned 27 thousand euros in Russia in 2022 in terms of the current exchange rate. That is, on average, about 2.25 k per month AFTER taxes. And I'm not counting the purchasing power factor yet, because, you know, my monthly spending on housing, transport and food is maybe 700 euros in total.