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3 hours agoAt this point only Hungary and Slovakia recieve Russian gas via pipeline and are EU members. Good for Austria to slowly get out of the Russian depenedence.
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Russia already has problems to keep its locomotives in service and massive personal shortages make this even worse. So hitting locomotives is actually a good idea.
1·2 days agoCustomer and member are not the same thing. A member owns a share of the business and has a vote, with cooperatives having one vote per member. That makes it different to company stock. For consumer cooperative like credit unions, most customers will own a share in the company, but it is not a requirement. For example when you withdraw money from a credit unions ATM, you are a customer of the credit union, but are not necessarily a member. There also are workers cooperatives, where the workers of the company are the members.
Also cooperatives are meant to benefit their members, which makes them different from charities.
Credit unions are a type of cooperative bank. The key is that anybody who opens a bank account becomes a member automatically. That is not the case for other types of cooperative banks.
American banks offering credit card have the highest profit margin of ANY US industry. In most other countries cash is still king. Hence credit unions in those countries need to charge fees and offer worse services. That is true for other banks as well.
Georgias election did go well for Russia. They did get a pro Russian party into government. However the last time they invaded Georgia they used 70k soldiers. Russia does not have a force like that, which is not being used in Ukraine right now.
That would mean Russia actually ends the war soon. These losses combined with manpower and economic problems are a decent sign that Russia can keep the war in Ukraine going for about a year. Ukraine might very well be in a position to keep its fight up for long enough to make that a reality, if only some European countries continue sending aid.
TL:DR So far Russia has been able to draw from its reserves, but if current losses continue 2025 will see problems in some categories due to depleted storage namely IFVs and other personal transports, as well as most of the more modern weapon systems. 2026 most storage categories will be empty. This is already a massive loss, as the massive weapons storage allowed Russia to maintain a large military cheaply and sell upgraded Soviet weapons to maintain its arms industry.
Russian losses are above their recruitment numbers for some time now and they are already paying a lot for it and have worker shortages. A draft would mean another wave of migrants. That is not to mention the state the Russian economy is in.
3/4 of a million soldiers lost. Holy crap.
Also they produce something like 30 war planes a year and production seems to be falling. Combined with crashes from the planes being old, this is a total disaster for the Russians.
Bloodbath of Russians incoming.
Not just the Far East, Moscow is no longer able to receive containers via train:
Not even. Russia has sanctions on food products from the EU, USA and other Western countries. The West is fine with exporting food to Russia.
NK is not shooting at European arms factories, besides the ones in Ukraine.
Interesting that he has to say that…
5million shells is a hell of a lot. Just incredible that South Korea does not want to send or even sell weapons to Ukraine. I really would not want to be Poland right now, with all the arms deals they did with them.
or just Russia having fewer tanks and armoured vehicles. Looking at their tank storage that is not that unlikely.
A Hummer is much smaller then the truck or the tank shown.
It is also about how expensive cars are. If it is relatilvy cheap, you might well consider buying a second one, have a car basically not used and so forth.