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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

2018 russia M2 money supply: 47T rubles. 2025: 129T. Nearly triple. And that doesn't include anything from Jan 1.

An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Any estimates on what cumulative inflation (official, unofficial) have been since 2018? It ain't small: both Covid and the war did a number on russian M2, I know that.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are a dozen cases of plague every year in the US and they don’t quarantine entire hospitals every time one shows up. russia has apparently (difficult to verify) quarantined three entire hospitals in one city alone. The one that has the actual biolab where one person died already.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is to make sure the supply of orphans can continue to grow.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look at it this way: now they won’t have to worry as much about providing diesel to all those farms that are about to go out of business. Also, is the production cost of 12k ru/t based on current estimates or historical? I’m guessing you’ve provided info on this before but it’s hard to keep track.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, while I know you are Bulgarian, I had thought you had worked some time in russia. Thus allowing me to interpret your statement as if it were applying to russia. For dramatic effect, obviously.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Economic prosperity after russia collapses, thus freeing your countries from their decaying influence. Mwuahaha!

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m not getting the impression the conditions in russia were much different at the time, however.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’re one of the very few people that can claim to have changed how the Kremlin reports economic data. They’re not doing that because it makes them “look bad.” They pay enough to people to drown out that noise. They’re doing it because someone else is making them hurt. With the data you provide.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh yeah, also, if people are going to insist on being stupid, just block them. It can be very soothing.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wait what? Remember, this place is a lot like high school: there are people who are going to give you grief for not doing the work they could also do, but aren’t. Don’t let their guilt be your problem, too. Bad enough they can’t deal with it. The rest of us are still here for you.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Let’s assume they can’t. In which case it’s probably effectively the same answer: instead of individuals demanding more money, Kim is demanding more as he’ll end up with most of it anyway.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There really isn’t any reason both soldiers and workers can’t go: russia needs bodies to fill both categories, and NK could use the military experience and money. Even if most of the infantry gets wiped out, having the NK military learn drone warfare would be well worth it.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

OH! Since I’m assuming you have a vehicle, if you’re not using the L and are trying to find parking, use Spot Hero or Park Whiz to reserve a spot in a garage or the like. Parking is *insane* downtown especially.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Also, the weather's terrible for it today and tomorrow, but the next time you're in town I can't recommend the river architecture tour (by boat) strongly enough, weather permitting.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Ukrainian National Museum or the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art are pretty good. There’s the churches, and if you’re looking for a place to eat I’ve taken quite a few local Fellas to Tryzub. Tuman’s across the street is a good bar, but if you have munchkins along you could also try Shokolad.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Well nuts. I didn’t know you were in town. Hope you enjoy the museum campus! Have you considered stopping by Ukrainian Village? If you have the time.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Huh. Another 17 billion rubles disappeared. 19301 revenue vs 19318 previously.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s important to understand that the Kuzbass, aka Kemerovo Oblast, is next to Mongolia, not Ukraine.

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I will cover this article in depth later today but I want to point something out. Insiders are telling Kommersant Russian diesel production is below consumption. Let me repeat RUSSIAN DIESEL PRODUCTION NOW CANNOT KEEP UP WITH DEMAND!!! That means refining is down over 50%.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Another major problem is that these factories don’t rebuild themselves. And a lot of them require foreign (now mostly Chinese) expertise and equipment. Because the MoD’s rebuild after the fall of the USSR relied heavily on Europe. Pictured: VNIIR in Cheboksary after Flamingo visit.

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Things Russia's ran out of this summer: Gasoline Jet fuel Diesel LPG The ability to ship 30% of its harvest. We're at the stage of the Russian fuel crisis that's akin to Wile E Coyote running off the cliff but still not looking down at his feet.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A bit surreal to then see Kazakhstan donate 50,000 tons of fuel to russia instead of her Central Asian neighbors. russia has the money to buy from afar. They do not.

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak has ordered the government to take all possible measures to prevent a fuel shortage in Russia. I have to say that they ran out of measures 5 days ago and Ukraine hasn't ran out of drones that can hit Russian refineries.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The fun part is even if they don’t the cash outflow from banks has forced them to raise depositor’s rates, even after the last quarter point cut. Which is typically followed by a commercial lending rate increase as otherwise they risk losing money.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Trust the russians to come up with the most evil solution to the Trolley Problem ever. “Why only kill five, I’m going to try to kill an entire building.”

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

According to the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade there currently aren't any systemic issues in regards to the delivery of produce to Russian stores. I have a strange feeling tomorrow we might get news that there are indeed such systemic issues.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In case anyone was wondering what kind of churches are acceptable churches in Trump's vision of America.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Huh. I had thought I had heard of older ones. I must have been mistaken. Nuts.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Define "foreign." Are they planning on reflagging everything in the shadow fleet that hasn't already?

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The answer is "yes." But my reply to that as someone who approves of boarding shadow tankers is "that's only a problem because the impounder can then only find about $20 worth of scrap to auction off for Ukraine afterwards."

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

There’s going to be a golden age of dissertations digging into how exactly they nuked their own economy sometime soon in the future.

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Updated map of the regions of Russia where there are shortages of gasoline or diesel. As always it's worse in the occupied territories. Added 2 regions. Ingushetia and Ugra ( ХМАО ). Over 90% of Russia's regions have fuel shortages and population wise well over 95%.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I mean, I'd do it for free, the malort is just a bonus. But don't tell anyone that. 🤫

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

not going to be able to bail anyone out, because they have no cash, failing businesses aren't going to be able to get any loans, because the rCB severely tightened credit requirements for banks. Because otherwise the banks will all fail. This is going to get VERY bad, if the russians can't get gas.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Most of the revenue is still non oil and gas. But economy activity in entire regions is about to come to a halt. It already has in Crimea, but there it's a bit worse because it's based on tourism. But what you see there is what you will see everywhere. And unlike COVID, the government is not only

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Current assessment is that 6-7 storage tanks are on fire. Which is quite a few. But leaves others for future visits.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is the FIRMS fire map for Slavyansk-on-Kuban right now. This is not for the refinery this is the entire town.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I understand russia is a very walkable country. If you have several years free. And plenty of bear spray. Tiger spray out east.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Because nothing discourages panic buying like officially saying the gas could be gone in a week.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

With oil prices crashing, it’s beginning to look like the russians have once again gotten into their own way by getting a gift of free money and then spending *even more* with the expectation that the freebies would continue. This is amazing.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Define “decoy.” Some of these may be actual air defense systems, but one of the major problems russia has had since the beginning of the year is having enough missiles to arm them. “Sure, boss, I can give up these Pantsirs for the boys back in Moscow. Here you go. Ammo is your problem, however.”

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Uncoordinated price controls are the absolute best form of price controls. Without the ability to compete on the russian open market, purchasers of wholesale fuel in Samara simply won’t be able to buy any, which guarantees the retailers won’t have any to sell.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Nowadays I'm more interested in a recap of what's said. But I've always preferred reading to watching the news.

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Let me illustrate how bad things are this time when it comes to the fuel shortage. In the capital of Tatarstan, Kazan, the gas station chain of the Tatarstan region owned Tatneft oil company, which has its own refinery, doesn't have not just gasoline but also diesel.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Are you still doing the maps? Looking forward to seeing if we can go full red and if so, how long it’ll take.

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