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If by "back on its feet" you mean standing on two wobbly, splintered wooden legs infested with termites, then sure. This is how capital controls work: You cont
by kstenerud 5y ago
If by "back on its feet" you mean standing on two wobbly, splintered wooden legs infested with termites, then sure.
This is how capital controls work: You control how your currency can be traded, and then of course it closes in on whatever value you've decided upon. Naturally, the value is meaningless and sweeps the underlying problems under the rug, but it makes for great propaganda.
Russia has been a Potemkin village for a long time now in so many ways, and it's embarrassing how they've managed to fool the Western public so spectacularly. It feels like the late 80s all over again...
- jjtheblunt 5y ago> how they've managed Perhaps with help from Western propaganda, in turn funded by big Western industries?