Russian Economy Ravaged by Putin's Policies as Wartime Measures Inflict Serious Damage on Russia - Joe Blogs

[TexasTowelie]

In this video I look at a recent Paper published by the US Department of Treasury looking at the impact on the Russian Economy of 3 factors - Russia's Investment into the War, the Sanctions applied against Russia and the Economic Policies introduced by Russia since the war started. All 3 of these factors have caused severe damage to the Russian Economy and pose a long term threat to Russia.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:33 GDP
5:00 TRADE
10:42 EMMIGRATION
12:21 RUBLE
16:11 OIL
18:19 FOREIGN INVESTMENT
20:55 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION

[PortTack]

1. I've seen video clips of apartment bldgs with NO heat, no lights, pipes broken, huge icicles inside!

Terrible!

[erronis]

2. Why not have the paper that the speaker references posted for us to view?

I know some text showed up in the first 5 seconds of this presentation but it didn't seem complete. I'd really like to have the original paper to read myself.

[TexasTowelie]

3. You are free to either paste the URL here or start another thread. nt

[Starfury]

4. 5 second Google search...

Sanctions and Russia’s War: Limiting Putin’s Capabilities

[erronis]

5. Thanks. I'll repeat: Always include links to the material presented.

Starfury - asking each viewer to find the right keywords and put them into some search engine's query string seems a lot more work than you and I are expending getting original posters to be more considerate.

I really hate these dismissive responses when someone wants more information. "Just 'google it'." As if google is some god living in their mind. By the way, there are other and many better search engines.

[TexasTowelie]

7. I'm sorry, but I can't anticipate what each member might want to see in my posts.

In the case of a longer blog and trusted source like this one, I usually post it before I watch it. Therefore, if something is referenced within the video I am sometimes completely unaware of the other materials referenced. Considering that I've been suffering from a painful situation for the past week and can barely remain seated in my wheelchair, I am more concerned about providing the content from my regular sources rather than delaying it from other members while they wait for me to listen to it first.

I'm also of the mind set that everybody is intelligent enough on DU that if they want further details on any of these videos, then they can dig into it themselves. I'm going through the courtesy of posting videos and participating in the discussions. I am not taking the job of becoming a full-time researcher for anyone. I'm disabled/retired and if I'm going to return to being employed, then I would go back to my career as a statistical analyst (although I've been somewhat replaced by AI).

I believe that I go about as far as anyone on this site posting videos to include information that let the member decide whether they want to click the thread titles and videos. I try to stick to original titles rather than being "cute", I indicate the source of the video, I copy and paste the summary and transcripts from YouTube when provided, I convert ALL UPPER CASE words to mixed case in the thread titles so it isn't as annoying to read (my personal pet peeve), and I occasionally will write a brief summary when I feel it is needed. Quite simply, you are asking too much from me.

[Warpy]

6. Russia will miss the ordinary people even more than the best and brightest

The ordinary workers, who were skilled but not academics were the first to go into the meat grinder of Putin's folly of a war. Their loss is being felt acutely as things break down and no one is left to fix them.

That loss of skilled labor is going to cripple their economy for decades, at the very least