No cuck n chad ranking this week, maybe next week as well unless something funny and cool happens. I'm travelling to Bashar Al Assad's based Syria this week and staying for a while. I'm changing jobs soon and got a relatively fat paycheck for doing that and also around two months off in between jobs. So I decided to take my wife to Syria and Lebanon, where it's quite cheap, and I live for free there with random family members, and I sort of got addicted to the Middle East when I last visited. In exchange for no rankings, you'll get cool stories and possibly some pics if the internet situation permits and I feel comfortable doing so. If I die in an American or Israeli airstrike on Damascus, tell Bernie Sanders that he's a cuck and bury me next to Prigozhin.

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Zzzzelenskyyyy quoted in the Economist: https://archive.ph/LsGEy

I just saw a video of the NAFO meetup in Lithuania and holy shit. These are the people posting about how indestructible NATO is? They're the sort of people that street gangs in my country would send 14 year old boys after to beat them up as a joke. I have a feeling that the people posting SLAVA UKRAINI on Reddit are cut from the same cloth lmao

I bring a sort of "constantly bringing up the Chilean coup" vibe to 9/11 that liberals and chuds don't really like

Allende was a threat because he was a marxist, and it is a FACT that all marxists don't know Basic Economics (TM), so he was going to run Chile down completely and plunge them into stone age. So We (TM) had to intervene to avoid this, we had to grab this shady general Pinochet, give him money and training and direct him to coup Allende and install a decades-long dictatorship in place, so that WE can run Chile down by OUR terms.

Bank of Canada study finds it is more profitable for countries to ignore sanctions on Russia than comply

The Bank of Canada has published a study that concludes that as not enough countries have joined the sanctions on Russia, it is more profitable to ignore sanctions than comply.

The study looked at what affect on a country non-adherence of third countries to the sanctions regime affects the sanctioning countries. The study concluded if an insufficient number of countries support restrictive measures, Russia loses less, while those countries that are friendly are better off thanks to increased trade of goods that can be sold at higher prices.

“Our welfare analysis demonstrates that the sanctioned country’s welfare losses are significantly mitigated, and the sanctioning country’s losses are amplified, if the third country does not join the sanctions, but the third country benefits from not joining,” the study found.

To illustrate, the study’s calculations conclude that if a critical mass of countries were to join in restricting Russian gas purchases, Russia's GDP growth would decline by 9%. However, as long as only European countries comply with the measures, Russia's per capita GDP is reduced only by 4%.

At the same time, those countries facilitating the trade of sanctioned goods see substantial gains in their balance of trade. A raft of countries have seen their trade turnover with Russia explode in the last 18 months, including most of Central Asia, Turkey, China and even the Baltic states, which have become a gateway for goods to Russia. Despite the war with Georgia in 2008, today the small country in the Caucasus is more economically dependent on Russia than at any time since its independence thanks to booming trade.

Over 20,000 feared dead in Libya flooding.

If only they had a government that could fight disasters.

“We came, we saw, he died” - The most bloodthirsty ghoul imaginable. I hope their ghosts await Hillary in the afterlife.

You guys remember the 2014 coup in Ukraine? They put Poronshenko in power from 2014-2019. Here he is wearing a Nazi black sun.

https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/1702382472615567735

Looks like the French plan of ignoring the Nigerien dismissal is not going well. The military is now stopping food deliveries to the embassy as the staff are blockaded inside.

"Here is a direct translation of a speech Osama Bin Laden gave outlining his reasons for doing 9/11."

"You can't trust what Bin Laden says, he's not reliable."

"OK, I guess that means he might not have done 9/11."

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Encouraging news coming out of Germany as a statute erected for the erstwhile dictator and strongman Angela Merkel collapsed overnight. German freedom fighters have yet to comment on this historic event.

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Erected just two years ago near the CSU stronghold of Nürenberg the statue depicted the german despot on a horse and was over 2.7 meters tall and made out of concrete weighing 1.5 metric tons, the german government have not yet commented on this historic event presumably out of a fear of 'Gesichtsverlust'. Still the pictures of Mother Merkel, a subtle reference to the lesser book 1984 by writer 'George Odergut' are making the rounds on social media and may be what will make the german people cast of the authoritarian one coalition government that has kept the reigns of power for decades.

notceps reporting live from outside of germany

In portugal 2 red wine depots broke and red wine is just flooding down the street like a river it's crazy 🇵🇹

Hell yeah Gunther

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Courtesy of the failing New York Times:

Russia Overcomes Sanctions to Expand Missile Production, Officials Say

As a result of the sanctions, American officials estimate that Russia was forced to dramatically slow its production of missiles and other weaponry at the start of the war in February 2022 for at least six months. But by the end of 2022, Moscow’s military industrial manufacturing began to pick up speed again, American officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose the sensitive assessment now concede.

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In October 2022, the United States gathered international officials in Washington in an effort to strengthen sanctions on the Russian economy. At the time, American officials said they believed the sanctions and export controls were working in part because they deterred countries from sending microchips, circuit boards, computer processors and other components needed for precision guided weaponry as well as necessary components for diesel engines, helicopters and tanks.

But Russia adapted quickly with its own efforts to secure supplies of the needed parts. Today, Russian officials have remade their economy to focus on defense production. With revenue from high energy prices, Russia’s security services and ministry of defense have been able to smuggle in the microelectronics and other Western materials required for cruise missiles and other precision guided weaponry. As a result, military production has not only recovered but surged.

Before the war, one senior Western defense official said, Russia could make 100 tanks a year; now they are producing 200.

Western officials also believe Russia is on track to manufacture two million artillery shells a year — double the amount Western intelligence services had initially estimated Russia could manufacture before the war.

As a result of the push, Russia is now producing more ammunition than the United States and Europe. Overall, Kusti Salm, a senior Estonian defense ministry official, estimated that Russia’s current ammunition production is seven times greater than that of the West.

Russia’s production costs are also far lower than the West’s, in part because Moscow is sacrificing safety and quality in its effort to build weapons more cheaply, Mr. Salm said. For instance, it costs a Western country $5,000 to $6,000 to make a 155-millimeter artillery round, whereas it costs Russia about $600 to produce a comparable 152-millimeter artillery shell, he said.

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