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To Everyone Saying Russia Is "Isolated", Here's A Map
While NATO is happy to provide Russia with geographical advice, we thought the following map of "the world" will help explain President Obama's increased use of the term "isolated" when it comes to Russia...
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Obama is peeing his pants over the "Boomerang"
Color the BRICS nation green. I dare you.
....then circle the BRICS with red lines and have John Madden do the voice over explaining it all.
A boomerang that doesn't come back is a stick
I am missing the point my man. Elaborate por favor?
It didn't "Pivot" or "Reset"
In the meantime, welcome to Novorossiya. Russia does not appear to be squandering time.
http://novorossia.today/
All of this boils down to Putin/Russia vs. the dollar.
Die Fed, die dollar.
Putin 100%
Golfer in Chief 0%
...Golf match, Chess match, Checkers...what have You
Putin is in more control than the media would have you believe.
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2014/08/top-putin-aide-foreshadows-war/
Not only is he in control, his approval rating at home is over 95%.
Ukraine and Crimea are colored violet! WTF?
Russia is islolated. It's isolated from freedom, decency, and basic human rights.
Your blog is uninteresting. Sorry. I'm just being honest here.
Hey let's bring 'em some of that good ol 'Murhan freedom! Ya know, like the stuff we brought to Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya? Comes in a few easy-to-deliver forms, Drone Freedom, Abrams Tank Freedom, Cruise Missile Freedom, Spy Freedom, and Wall Street Super Special Fake-O-Money Laundering and Debt Freedpm! Boo-ya!
Dude, seriously, your blog is terribly boring.
Give it up man.
Stop trolling this site with empty comments.
bored...
There's little point in trying to convey those realities to the people here at Zero Hedge. Most of them seem to be part of the American crowd which openly symphatizes with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, likely because of the latter's overt nationalism, homophobia and Christian conservatism.
After American actor Mickey Rourke having donned a "I love Putin!" t-shirt in Moscow recently, we apparently now also have Steven Seagal proclaiming his solidarity with mother Russia in the middle of Sevastopol.
http://youtu.be/aQEZGemK0FU
The conclusion I draw from all of this is that Americans appear to be growing a bit more nutty by the hour.
...or perhaps they're just tired of listening to their government lying to them at every opportunity and treating them like they're stupid?
Despite the endless western media demonization - I bet Putin has a higher approval rating than Obama in Amerika.
Dr. Jim Willie presents some important recent developments that bode ill for the dollar as Germany, France and other former allies and partners of the US are now aligning themselves with Russia, China and the BRICS bloc. Also, Willie’s source claims Blackwater mercenary group has been captured in Ukraine. “NATO is dead.”
"we thought the following map of "the world" will help explain President Obama's increased use of the term "isolated" when it comes to Russia..."
This coming from the prez who discussed 57 other states he'd visited. This is who we're dealing with...
I noticed that at: http://novorossia.today/ they are taking interns....lolz. They need to put up a job posting at Colombia Journalism School.
or Gold
+1 BRICS of Gold...
In Chinese, BRIC is "gold-bars-four-countries" (jin-zhuan-si-guo).
@ YuShun, thanks for hinting on it, you're right, never realize that the Chinese put such high meaning on the BRICS organization.
I just checked the online dict for the Chinese word on "BRIC / BRICS Economic Bloc", it says "Jin Zhuan"; whereas "Jin" means "gold; metals in general; money" and "Zhuan" means "tile, brick"
so literally the BRICS is called out as GOLD BRICK in Chinese :-) so smart, so true!!
Word dictionary - brics economic bloc - MDBG English to Chinese dictionary
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=bri...Ah, a version that even Canadian Ploticians and Military can understand!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-27/nato-canada-has-message-russian...
you forgot god's chosen piece of shitty desert.
Color the British financial colonies green? Next everything blue, I presume?
The black must be ISIS. That Saudi king wasn't exaggerating.
I did, adding Mongolia (recent trade deal announces it has come home to Daddy), Venezuela, Iran, and I'm sure a bunch of other gaps could be filled in too, particularly in view of the influence China is building in Africa. The fun thing will be to see how long it takes Europe to start going green. Seems some German industrialists and senior/ex politicians want this. Once the USD starts to wobble, it could happen pretty fast - like dominoes. It is the inevitability is the future vs B-52s.
http://i.imgur.com/QhzKWSe.jpg
Also China and Vietnam just made up too ...
Forgot to paint Crimea green...
as if he cares about anything but getting out of office and collecting his payola like his predecessors
Why do you think he changed his suit color to taupe?
Actually it's more likely a Brooks Bros. summer khaki: He fancies himself a preppy.
All the queens are wearing them this year
It's trendy.
Wouldn't the cloven hooved sheep in the logo make it unclean for a muzzie like Barry to wear?
Those are sex objects, silly
I regret that I only have one up vote.
I put one in for you !!!
Sheep chew the cud. I think they're considered clean.
"Sheep chew the cud. I think they're considered clean."
The way they eat garbage in Muslim countries, they are hardly clean.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3188/2784219374_7f6afac797_z.jpg
only ATH for precious 500 or beloved 30 stocks on a weekly basis will bring Russia to their knees. That's all the US/EU central bankers can construct and control in the world.
Way out of her leauge....
I wouldnt fuck with Putin if I were you Jarret,,,,you fucking bitch!
I would....AND I AMMMMMMMM!!!!!
(wouldn't phuck with Russia though. I respect Russia and the Russians...especially their Army way too much for that. As an American who is quite familiar with General Custer however I also understand the possibility of error. Custer was no pushover either. I think he and Putin share a lot in common actually. His glorious death pushed General Grant into some serious action...and changed the face of America forever.)
"Once these things get serious...they don't become unserious anytime soon."
Putin F's back, with interest payable on demand.
You can add Germany, France and maybe the UK to Russia's partners soon too
I can't see the UK Govt becoming a partner to Russia anytime soon. Cameron has burnt his bridges and Putin's got better taste.
Cameroon seems to have doubled down on stupid.
When I lived in the UK way back in the 60's we were always chastised by our cousins for our bad "policies with your* Negros"; the cities up in flames during the summers of love, etc. Then the UK announced that for some reason I have yet to remember because whatever reason it sounded ominous, that anybody who had a passport from a Commonwealth nation could come live and work in the UK. Thereafter when chastised by the Brits, we'd warn them that they would be facing the Exact Same Social Strains as the US which they criticized so openly. But oh no..... we didn't understand, it was different, we'ren't it, eh?.
Back then, most everybody in London was still English with some Scots, Irish and Welsh sprinkled here or there about and a few quaint Indian restaurants. Big social conflict were the Mods and Rockers. Oy! Or the Chelsea and Spurs fans duking it out in some pub after a match. And the Kray brothers.
Go figure
*note the language.... yes they were referred to as "your" Negros. ....real nice.....
By the time I got to London - 72/73 the evening sport/social conflict seemed to have evolved into "Paki Pounding" - "their" Negros by then.
By the time i got to high school in the UK (81) the 2 Pakis in the whole school were completly untouchable (not just because of the smell) They could do anything and never get in trouble for it.
1. You can't blame them for the system.
2. You may have smelled as bad to them as they did to you.
I guess you always fall for the divide and conquer techniques used against you.
I bet you have a favourite delusion, I mean religion, too.
Nope, you should know that. Im C of E, thats barely 1 step above no religion at all.
I was there 76-79. Pakis were still their negros. Haven't been back since. I assume things haven't improved.
The UK is having its own problems with Pakistanis and their preferred form of child abuse, er, I mean multiculturalism.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rotherham-child-sex-abuse-sca...
And by the time I went to grad school in London in the 80s, I knew some "Negro" guys from Brixton, who liked to hang out in the City of Westminster (London's fashionable West End).
Funny thing is, their appearance aside, they were totally 'regular' guys: No attitude, no chip on shoulder, no slave culture baggage. Just regular guys to joke with and drink with. I remember thinking how completely different they were from 95% of American "Blacks" I knew. All other guys (from all over Europe and a few from the US) noticed the same thing.
OT: The city of Chicago is changing all their German Shepard police dogs for coon hounds. Seems they are not having trouble with Germans. Yes, I know, but it's still funny for us old guys.
It's divide and conquer in the USA, thanks to the puppet in chief.
The Krays.
If they'd gone into banking they would have been unbelievably successful - Their attitude to life would have been a perfect fit!
Lambretta and Vespa schooters vs Norton 750s, Triumph Bonnevilles and BSAs - memories are made of this!
Enoch Powell and Gerald Nabarro were right, and got pilloried for it.
Used to live with a woman whose ex was a Kray Bros. enforcer, she taught me Cockney,
along with a lot of other things.
There were a lot of other races there but they kept to their own patch,Poles,West Indians,
Turks,Greeks etc.Plus the visiting Aussies and Kiwis.,
a Kray Bros. enforcer -
like Chas in Performance?
Those were the days when Europeans with their homogeneous societies would lecture us about our 'negroes' (their usage, not mine). I also pointed out that trouble was headed their way.
LOL. Fuck them.
I always enjoy being lectured to by my inferiors as well.
It seems to give them comfort and me a good laugh ;-)
nmewn "I always enjoy being lectured to by my inferiors".
Yes you enjoy it, however, it hurts at the same time knowing these people are ...shall I say, STUPID.
Cameron works for the Red Sheild. Putin is for Russians. The English establishment are for letting their children get raped by Pakistanis and punishing anyone who speaks out about it. F Cameron, Milliband, the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems, the BBC and the UK zio-media.
Isolated except having established a strong alliance with China that has the lions' share of manufacturing of imports into the US
Yep. Change China green, and India too.
And Cuba and Venezuela
That map shows Crimea as part of Ukraine. Haven't you been watching the news or reading your own website?
Yep, change Crimea green, and change Iran green while your at it.
So about 75% of the world is directly on Russia's side, plus about 40% of what's left.
That's about 85%. Poor poor isolated Russia.
Then again, all we need on our side is that mysterious bond buyer in Belgium and all is good.
Quality over quantity I always say. One Belgium friend is worth 3 billion people or so.
Agreed on quality vs. quantity.
Overlay GDP figures on this map, and the isolation becomes apparent.
The deeper implication to the reply is that the quality is really refering to access to capital markets. I believe the credit markets to be an illusion and would much prefer the company of 3 billion individuals, regardless of a marker as meaningless as GDP. The Belgian bond buyer is a phantom entity.
To each their own, I guess. You can have your company of 3 billion poor souls. I'll take the company of a few hundred thousand of the right kind with a "meaningless" per capita GDP of $1M.
Each to their own Ex.
My belief is that the impending great reset will put a premium on a human and reduce the value of a phantom to nil. We will see.
Care for a friendly wage of a bottle of Blue Label?
(PS. +1 FWIW)
Yes. Which side withstands the reset better is the crux.
You are looking at one picture, if you watch the movie, you will have a different viewpoint.
George Washington warned us not to become entangled in the affairs of Europe. Belgium literally could bring down the US overnight. He was right.
How isolated are you when you just started the largest gas pipeline on earth direct to the world's largest economy? How isolated when Brazil begins building 17 food processing plants and looking to hire 20,000 workers just to meet your food import demands? I could go on, but fuck CNN, why should I spend more time refuting that lie machine?
Jack Burton, take a look at this video, because you will appreciate both the humor and ingenuity.
An anti-nazi Kiev blogger explains how he set up several small shell companies in various Ukrainian cities to sell paint. Not just any paint, but blue and gold paint, the colors of the Ukrainian flag. He then thanks the Ukrainian 'patriots' for funding the Donetsk militia, which is where all of the profits were sent.
Length is 7 minutes 35 seconds, with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHBqa5apKuQ
"I could go on, but fuck CNN, why should I spend more time refuting that lie machine."
'Cause it's a good hobby. It keeps you off the mean streets at night.
Yup, and China are going to build a nice new deepwater port in Crimea to bring all those imports into. Oh and build a bridge from Crimea to Russia just for good measure.
Those two certainly know which side of their bread is buttered!
They may build the bridge anyway, but it looks like they're not gonna need it.
Anyone with half a brain is practicing Russian and brushing up on engineering/management skills to go build that pipeline next year.
And if you have a brain and a half, you're reading Pushkin in Russian and learning how to play chess while watching "Swan Lake"
<< practicing Russian >>
I wish I could. I'm stuck at Spanish 101! I've at least mastered the Canadain language and have the "eh' down pat.
Forget Mandarin or Russian...but I would encourage any and all Yutes to at least try to learn some Mandarin and Spanish and if they're really adept at languages, Russian also. My older sister took Russian for five years awhile back for fun an dall she learned how to do was to order pirogees from the menu. It's not in my DNA, evidently.
Russian Accelerator is best Russian Language course....
My goodness Jack, you're killing me with this phrase:
HA HA HA HA HA HAHA
ROFL>ALOL
Keep an eye on those black ones....
Just my two cents, they are in fact the biggest commodity (i.e. oil and gas) exporters, I wonder what would happen if they just kept all those calories...
They'd roll back free-shit and the people would burn down the palaces.
...and then the recovery would begin in earnest. Yes.
I agree that South America holds the balance of power.
Only thing they lack is a nuclear deterrent. If Russia provides a nuclear umbrella, South America and Russia can overturn the debt-based-world-order.
That's why the CIA is working hard to take back control. The fifth columnists in Brazil are being showered with cash by George Soros.
S. America has always been pivotal ever since europeans discovered it.
The Spanish and then the British empires, both failed when they lost them ,
either as possesions or trading partners.Seems the Russians and Chinese both know
real history.
Australia is green - Tony Abbotomy just doesn't know it!
I just said to my wife that there has not been a decent racist map of the world on ZH for a while and what do you know...
This page is so anti US and anti West, and pro Russia it's getting disgusting. Why don't you Zerohedgers go live there if Russia is so great?
Many of us do business with the BRIICS countries. I, for one, don't believe the propaganda in any country, but I do understand what real value is and the numbers are what they are when it comes to precisely who the creditor countries are and who the debtor countries are, that's just math.
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Butthurt by the truth? That's a common affliction among members of the She-Man Putin Haters Club. You'll get used to it.
Living in America is like living in a fertile food rich section of a forest, sure you can eat, build a house and survive, but there are these freaking Mosquitoes (Fed-Squitoes) the size of bats swarming around you everywhere sucking you dry.
Its a testament to the STRENGTH of the average American out there , that this country is still standing with such an infestation of blood sucking vermin.
Just get rid of the following
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_azimCSzqNnc/SSw3HRLi1JI/AAAAAAAAABo/XW2ezmmeYe...
And America will be awesome again.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CsuG16ooWNY/TynJfRpgOuI/AAAAAAAAEs8/2A2MMifQFu...
That 2nd pic is really good, reminds me of one of my favorite bumper stickers I used to see when I lived in San Diego...
"MAKE WELFARE AS HARD TO GET AS BUILDING PERMITS"
If you feel comfortable putting your faith into the strategy-less Kenyan parading as the taupe knight go ahead. I would rather not.
Says the anti-ZHer who won't leave.
5 weeks and you think you are an expert.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
I completely agree with you. I love the US and old american thinking, while I dislike the way the US politicians mess with everything. And while, on one hand I disagree strongly the FED's interventionism and all about the CIA, I think this site has forgotten that not only the US (and its European allies) is a bad guy. Those ones are bad too, and defending them while waving the Anti-US flag is being dishonest to freedom's principles and liberty rights. If we are going to bash someone, let's bash about them all.
PS: However, it is true that *maybe* here the US is the bad guy, but, as I am completely against separatists movemments (they are not fair in my opinion, as the tend to create new countries forgetting all their parents ones inverted on them and how they got benefitted from the position of being theirs), I think Putin's troops' invasion of Crimea (even if it's a pacific one, I would like to know what would happen if Ukraine or the US did the same in, let's say, St. Petersburg) is NOT the best example of diplomacy and pacifism. If Russia gave Crimea to Ukraine they do not have the right to get it back, it's not theirs anymore.
Not your choice.
Crimea voted.
Crimea is Russia
Too many Russians died through history defending it.
No fat ass "Red" Mafiya oligarch ever did
@ anita22
please kindly direct your speech to the Yugoslavian/Balkanization; Serbia-Kosovo; South Sudan-Sudan...
I for one am not "pro-Putin" or "pro-Russia" It seems to me that what is being read here is a singular negative reaction, indeed a whiplash, to the US's own foreign policies and propaganda. "They" are simply accumulating kudos for calling the blubbery and buffoonery from the West's side. Wars are not good things and nobody but a few deeply disturbed, crazy (as in should be institutionalized) "folks" cheer for them. But alas, it seems that there is an ever present hand of the West in the series of Arab Springs, Ukraine, etc., that have served to ignite the misery death and destruction. That's the why and where from which the push-back comes....
Look at it this way. Were the West and especially US to simply pack up and go home, cease foreign entanglements, there would be none of the "rooting", "cheerleading" or "pro Russia" and Putin propaganda to which you refer.
Exactly knuks. I felt the same way about the old soviet union.
The US has become a carricature of even the old soviets.
Replying to Knuckles...
Don't know if you ever followed Chuck Missler, but after he bailed from Southern Cal for Idaho around 1995, he had a kind of epiphany and summed it up with: "Don't confuse the USA with the Kingdom of God".
With that in mind, patriotism kinda takes a back seat to looking at who defends our fellows from serious mistreatment worldwide, and it ain't the USSA going all the way back to Serbia/Croatia and Clinton bombing the Christians in favor of the equally bloodthirsty Muslims in what has been the frontier between the two worlds for 1000 years.
Sad as it is, nowadays Russia is the only country that consistently ends up supporting the Christians or at least the 'not anti-Christian' side, and pulls no punches about ther bias. So yes, as a Christian who's been bobbing and weaving to stay out of USSA's clutches for years, Putin is more my president than any other in years.
I just like playing their game, ie the enemy of my enemy, etc. They can't keep ALL of the good stuff to themselves.
Then you must be stoned all the time.
Why do the clowns always have "only" one retort - go live somewhere else - when they can't muster and back up a position?
It's usually the result of a weak intellect
Putin may well be a thug, but at least he stands directly in the way of the avaricious financial globalists that the West is utterly beholden to, and I salute that. Go Vlad Go!!
Russia can pull of Autarky rather well. Tons of land, tons of resources, and an ongoing trade surplus. The stuff it does import... eh, it can go to China for most of it, and the BRICS for the rest. Russia's not going to be hurting anytime soon. Europe on the other hand....
The BRICS could be a world unto themselves. Just what does the developed world offer them?
Slavery, serfdom, plunder of resources...did I leave anything out?
War, Walmart and Air Jordans.
Hollywood whores & prons; NSA's superb backup and archival services;...
Ya nailed it pretty well right there. The developed world gives them an export market, but as a percentage of GDP, exports are nothing all that crazy. Germany relies on over 50% of it's GDP from exports. The BRICS... mid-20s and lower and generally falling as they turn more to domestic consumption. Once a nation has the ability to autarkic, you really can't do shit to them, and if it's a union of states combined... again, you're basically fucked once that solidifies. Sure there are some high end imported luxuries and shit that the moneyed class likes, but cutting it off doesn't actually hurt anything. China and Russia forming a union combining Chinese labor with Russian resources... a pair of nuclear powers with no external debt and no actual need for much in the way of outside imports? Good luck rest of the world.
Hey Taylor: Do you get your payments before or after your "opinion," “news,” and "investigation" pieces? What is the going rate for pushing Russian propaganda these days?
toad
Go anywhere else and enjoy a heaping helping of all the MSM lies you want you freakin' bankster monkey toad.
Taylor who?
Dumbass.
My mistake. Sorry. Taylor, Tayler -- they both sing for money, just dufferent tunes.
Strike Two.
Trolling is hard. Spelling even more so.
It's Tyler Durden, numbnuts.
He means (George) Taylor aka Charlton Heston in the Planet of The Apes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAbqRvUZGtc
Damn you all to hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do_pHzBwN8M
Bite me !!!
Just adding another toad into my toad list at ZH board
Even the best part of the U.S. is on Russia's side.
So, this is BRICS and all the interested in joining countries.
So.Isolated.Feeling.Lonely.
http://tinypic.com/r/20kx3y8/8
Tyler, you are trying too hard.
Why is Crimea blue?
Why is Japan black?
Because of the massive imports of Africans to act as radiation sinks in place of the failed ice dam.
/s
The BRICS in my country are usually RED... why are they black in this picture (surprise smile)?
Western world would go blind if this map is full of RED(s).
the usa and europe and japan do control 50% of the world economy albeit, ex japan and germany, on the consumer side much more than the producer side. i just read a stupid article that posited that asia cannot become a global economic entity until they lever up for global growth. what if asian companies told the west fuck off and pay a lot of money or build your own washing machines? afterall, the west is only a fraction of the total market and is a built out mature relic of the industrial revolution.
anyway, the comforting thing about history is the algos for forecasting are a lot simpler than the crap one must build as an economist or actuary. history says the usa loses the next confrontation even if it wins and the people of the usa will suffer great financial hardship paying for it in the aftermath.
killing them all now probably wouldn't prevent the preordained end but would be a great preemptive party, a sort of primer for the future.
How come Crimea is blue, that is Russia. Also, happy to see that Serbia had the sense to support its big brother.
I hope Putin sends in a strike force, takes Kiev down and smashes those nazi assholes in the face so hard that they don't forget this lesson for 200 years.
You send in that strike force starting with a bombing campaign of existing troop concentrations and watch how fast those Maidan cowards shit their pants and run back the West like the fucking cockroaches that they are.
He won't need to. Once the Rebels have beaten back the Ukie army to their borders they will just sit back and watch Ukraine implode as the various private armies/gangs tear the country apart.
There is a reasonable chance that in 6 months time whoever is in power in Kiev will be pleading for the Russians to send their 14,000 strong Peacekeeping Divisions in to restore order. At that point the EU is a busted flush.
Yes. Patience.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence.
Supreme excellence is defeating your enemy, without fighting.
Take a lesson from Carlito's Way, if you don't smash your enemies and drive them before you they will keep comming back like the cockroaches that they are. That's all enemies think about all day long, how to refight the last war they lost. Just look at Israel and the PaliRoaches.
Depends where you are standing and how you see the world.
Fog in Channel; Continent Cut Off - the Brit attitude to Europe in the early 20th Century
I don't see any golf courses on that map