Is Putin laughing after short selling rubles?

[PurgedVoter]

If so, he is playing all of us like 3D chess.

[uponit7771]

1. The problem is getting the money in the hands of avg RU cit, not happening. By the end of April ...

... RU citz will be in a world of hurt and they've had 1.5 generations of them that don't anything about the world Putrid lived in economically before the wall fell.

Hell, they're more sanctioned now than NK ... end of May the horrid levels of repression begin

[Demovictory9]

2. i hope not

[Metaphorical]

3. I just don't see Putin being a short-seller

Keep in mind that Putin's reputed wealth is very likely not in easily liquid assets. It's stakes of equity ownership, significant material acquisitions, land, and so forth. This means that even if, by some miracle, Putin survives this idiocy intact, he's not going to benefit financially by being the last man standing. Moreover, short-sellers short because they believe that a company (or a government) is on the verge of collapse and want to take it down. Russia wasn't in great shape before the pandemic, and it's likely that the country would have faced a few hard years regardless, but it was not in danger of collapse prior to this.

He is smarter than Trump, unquestionably, but he's not at the 3D chess level. This was a blatant miscalculation based upon his own wishful thinking, bad intelligence, and to be blunt, poor decision-making.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. The Soviet Union fell, the oligarchs and Putin let capitalism have its way in Russia.

They have integrated their economy into the international economy. The West has cut Russia off. Russia is screwed.

This post liberal, go it alone, nation-state individualism is a pipe dream. The Pig was pushing that bullshit too. GQP still does. Rand Paul and the freedumb caucus.

They are still dreaming of a utopia where they can divorce the US from the UN, NATO, and withdraw from the world economy to get away from their racist boogeymen, the Illuminati, the Jews and the socialists.

[denbot]

5. Oh yeah, he's a real "stable genius".

LoL