302. Konstantin Samoilov - Will Russian Economy Buckle & Break Before Western Resolve to Support Ukraine?

Silicon Curtain - En podcast af Jonathan Fink

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@INSIDERUSSIA ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- THEMES: - General overview of the economy. - How Elvira Nabiullina and the Russian Central Bank deal with economic challenges. - Credit and bankruptcy for ordinary citizens (the halving of month income in real terms). - Drop in car production – what other outputs suffering? - The devastating effect of sanctions – but holes, major gaps and loopholes remain. - Oil export volumes and revenues rebound. Grey fleet of tankers / sanctions breakers. - Western companies breaking components embargo and trading in Russia. - War economy – is there no turning back? Too many benefit from a 'forever war'. - Cars, planes, computers, and drills – when will infrastructure start to buckle & break? - Schrodinger dictator – doubles and intrigues. Patrushev’s growing role. - The antisemitic mob that stormed Makhachkala Airport in Dagestan. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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