Don’t you just hate it when you’re building a pipeline and your mouse skips a few pixels and you end up with kinks?
The pipes would warp and break without those extra loops. They mitigate contraction and expansion due to temperature changes.
Fuckin’ finally. Took long enough.
Now go lower.
Fuck russia.
Isn’t this basically the same situation that ultimately led to the fall of the USSR? A fall in oil and gas revenue which led to a financial collapse. Paired with some unrest. Has Putain read the history he lived though?
As far as I know, the USSR collapsed because Gorbachev’s reforms weakened existing institutions and power structures, without providing replacements.
That is definitely a part of it. Collapse is not caused by a single event. If I remember correctly (not 100% on my timeline without looking it up) the reforms of Gorbachev were caused by already existing unrest that in part was caused by a loss of state income. When the state provides all and has no money…
You know the Afghan war and the loss of working age men, plus the high level of support the USSR gave its satellite states, were not helpful either. Lots of factors, but when you have no money everything is worse.
The best description of Russia and the USSR before that is a Gas station with an army. That is how important petroleum is to Russia
Unfortunately all oligarchs have enough money stashed away abroad to not feel anything. The real fun will start once the backs of camels start breaking. Russias demise is not going to be linear and fuck them tbh.
I’m not sure they’ll be able to contain a determined uprising given how the Russian police force is in crisis due to pay so low that one is better off working as a taxi driver. And I imagine that many unpaid soldiers won’t be feeling terribly loyal if things really go to shit.
