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At the start of the article it says Russian troops get paid $50K if they are wounded (presumably lightly, for the scheme to work). Color me skeptical, but I ser
by g42gregory 4y ago
At the start of the article it says Russian troops get paid $50K if they are wounded (presumably lightly, for the scheme to work). Color me skeptical, but I seriously doubt that. Russia is not that rich or that generous.
- quantified 4y agoAnd the Soviet Union was thoroughly gone by 1991, so there would be no American-Soviet joint ventures in 1995. Total BS? Or BS storytelling with accurate insights?
- Const-me 4y agoI don't know the answer to your questions. But IMO these joint ventures are believable. AFAIK companies like McDonalds and Pepsi started local operations during the last years of the Soviet Union. It's possible that for at least a few years which followed, the regional operations were still managed from their office in Moscow.
- wobblyasp 4y agoMaybe that's what's stipulated. But I do agree, seems far fetched that those are real payouts given their economic situation
- orionion 4y agoUkraine crisis: Russian oil turns to Asia as sanctions bite https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60783874 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60783874 China and India together buy over 2 million barrels of oil a day. ~ $5 billion a month / 60 billion a year. Plenty of cash.
- AareyBaba 4y agoRussia received an estimated $430 billion over the past year from oil and gas exports to Europe. https://www.bbc.com/news/58888451 https://www.bbc.com/news/58888451
- mariuolo 4y ago> At the start of the article it says Russian troops get paid $50K if they are wounded They are /promised/ the equivalent of $50k. How many actually receive that sum is yet to be seen, the Russian state can also play the same game.
- Someone 4y agoThe article talks of $50,000 in rubles. Russia can create those for about nothing.