Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
Well I bought some Russian shares for my pension fund on Monday.
No doubt they will be back to previous levels within 1-2 years maximum, so for me, this is a good deal.
My only worry about this is that Russian companies de-list from the London Stock Exchange.
There wasn't a lot to choose from so I bought Sistema, Gazprom, VBT bank and Magnit.

Blimey! This was Monday. Sistema shares went up by 150% since then. Magnit with 9%. I made £3500 for my pension fund in 4 days, just from buying random Russian shares. Спасибо вам, Владимир Владимирович! I got an email from the account manager warning me about insider trading. LOL! I dont know anything, just need to keep the money in that fund invested and I never have any clue what to buy. My strategy is BRICs, technology and energy.
Or should I thank America for orchestrating this insanity in the first place?

Quote Originally Posted by hddscan View Post
It's ok. It's a new game of the world: to be afraid of Russia. Who is afraid more will get some "made in USA cookies"™
I personally see nothing wrong if Swedes would want to brush up their military defense capabilities.
Well it is insane, since the destroyer of nations, is the USA, whether it's via invasion like the Middle East, or orchestrating a coup d'etat or civil war (UA, Syria, Libya.....)

Personally I think Russia's behaviour is predictable and restrained and I can't help admiring what Putin did with Crimea because it was incredibly slick. Ukraine brought that upon itself by pure stupidity. Besides, they should have seen that coming and had a plan for it.

And even if Russia did become aggressive, Sweden has nothing that Russia could possibly want - not even an ice free port to the Atlantic. There is just zero credibility in this proposterous tin foil conspiracy.

I am just really, really paranoid that Sweden will be pushed into NATO. Not only would it be awful for Sweden (and Finland) but it would actually piss off a certain bear completely unnecessarily and create a really unpleasant situation pf suspicion where none needs to exists.

There is a small section maybe 5% who say they'd love to be invaded by Russia to stop mass immigration, Pride parades, radical feminism, and they believe it would be fun to be conscripted to the Russian army since it is a "real" army and some other ideas along those lines. They believe a republic in the RF is no worse off than a country in the EU. Mostly young right wing men have this view.

I thought we were done with the Cold War, but some people just couldn't leave a dead man in his grave.....