What does it matter if the gold is staying in Russia? It's still being sold off by the government to cover massive gaps in its budget.

Western governments can borrow to cover budget deficits. Russia has very limited lones of credit.

He's pulled a Leslie Nielsen, is what he's done, and far better than Liam Neeson ironically

Reader, you will not believe which one these guys accepted without comment and which one required justification

Also, I've heard that Belgium is earning a tidy little paycheck on the taxes on the interest of those assets

They're selling off their gold reserves and scrapping military sign on bonuses to plug their budget deficit. They really can't afford to lose a penny more

Or, indeed, English people about the idea of Scotland being a thriving independent country and not an expanse of barren, windswept moorland.

I had a really hard time explaining to yanks that this wasn't prompted by anything in particular, Lochee is just Like That

- ginger cats

Also not sure what you're basing your assertion that Ukraine's economy will fail before Russia's. That seems pretty far fetched, Russia's economy is much more fragile than Ukraine's, and they have fsr fewer allies willing to bail them out.

By what metric has it "failed"? Deep strikes have crippled Russia's oil industry in only a few months, I'm not sure how you can say it's "not enough". Even if that were true, it's easily fixed by giving Ukraine taurus, tomahawk, more atacms.

Maintain the line of defense, intensify deep strikes until Russia's economy or military or regime or all three collapse

I'll see myself out

Cask of A-missing-bombs-tillado?

Nothing excessive, mind, just some air bases, some ships at dock.

We should bombed Buenos Aires. Really hammered the message home.

Getchim and Jolyon on Rest is Politics tbh