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> Putin's butthole is clenched to the max. I guess we'll have to take your word for it. It's the same old trope from the "experts" for the past 20 years. Putin
by dntbnmpls 7y ago
> Putin's butthole is clenched to the max.
I guess we'll have to take your word for it. It's the same old trope from the "experts" for the past 20 years. Putin is about to lose power. China is about to collapse.
> Last time oil dropped too steeply the Soviet Union disintegrated.
The oil price isn't why the soviet union disintegrated. It was their weak leadership.
> Take one look at this graph https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha.. https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha.... and you can tell immediately where Perestroika began, as well as Russia's 1998 default.
It's not the oil prices. It's called the reign of gorbachev and yeltsin.
> You don't even need to superimpose anything.
Sure you could cherrypick any data set to superimpose whatever you want to believe. Here's another one for you to try. The time frame from perestroika's beginning and Russia's 1998 default correlates to the NFC's 13 year superbowl domination over the AFC. Are you saying that we are about to enter another era of NFC's domination?
Also, you conveniently ignore the fact that since 1998, we've had 3 oil prices collapses and putin is still around and russia hasn't collapsed. I wonder why?
Nations don't collapse due to oil prices. It collapses due to weak leaders. Economic strain can expose weak leaders, but ultimately, it is the weak leaders who lead to national collapse. Strong leadership helps weather the storm.