[FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

[Marcus Daniels]

Good at math and prone to early death due to lung cancer?   Reduced pension overhead!

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2022 10:56 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions

Yeah but think of that McMansion you could build in rural Bashkortostan with that kind of salary! Maybe Musk would appreciate their "relaxed constraints". I hear those Ruskies are good at math.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufa#Ecological_problems

On 2/24/22 10:39, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Work real hard in the Russian army, and one could make $12k a year.
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> https://russiandefpolicy.com/2021/12/27/russian-military-pay-still-lag
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of glen 
> <gepropella at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 24, 2022 11:24 AM
> *To:* friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] sanctions schmanctions Yeah. The asymmetry 
> between the actual size of Russia/Putin and its influence is [in|not]credible. I suppose it's a bit similar to Ireland, at least culturally, but also as a haven for tax dodging. In addition to hard tech like drones, it's unclear to me why we don't use soft tech more often. Hell, even simple ddos attacks on RF state media outlets might help with some of the propaganda. Where is Anonymous? Where is Palantir? Oh, right, the script kiddies and Thiel probably support Putin. [sigh] Perhaps we can regard Putin simply as a well-intentioned disrupter ... those middle-man fees Ukraine gets routing oil are exactly like taxi medallions. Pfft.
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> On 2/24/22 10:07, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> It seems like a great excuse to sell renewable tech. to Germany as well as LNG.  And even if there are “investments” find a better steward for them.   Russia is like an undiversified economy about the size of Florida.
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>> I wonder what kind of havoc US supplied drones could unleash on Russian troops..
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>>> On Feb 24, 2022, at 9:07 AM, glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> UK Sanctions Will ‘Flop’ Because City of London Is Compromised by 
>>> Russian Money 
>>> https://bylinetimes.com/2022/02/24/uk-sanctions-will-flop-because-th
>>> e-city-of-london-is-compromised-by-russian-money/ 
>>> <https://bylinetimes.com/2022/02/24/uk-sanctions-will-flop-because-t
>>> he-city-of-london-is-compromised-by-russian-money/>
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>>> I can't help but wonder what "investments" we have over here.

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glen
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

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