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Vancouver Sun: Conversations That Matter: Russia Collapsing ... Ep 410 ... Guest: Diane Francis


Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ZcX_GJp6o
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Peter Burgess
Conversations That Matter: Russia Collapsing ... Ep 410 - Russia Collapsing ... Guest: Diane Francis

Vancouver Sun

Jul 29, 2022

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Ep 410 - Russia Collapsing ... Guest: Diane Francis

The EU just announced its’ seventh sanctions package which is set to put an embargo on Russian gold. Gold is Russia’s largest non-energy export. The Russian government’s response was to shrug it off and downplay the impact of sanctions. A position the Union of Gold Producers in Russia disagrees with, noting, “the country’s gold industry may suffer irreparable damage.”

Author, National Post Editor-at-Large and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council” Diane Francis says, “Russia is in trouble economically, demographically, financially and militarily.” Francis goes on to say, “Punitive Western sanctions, as well as brain and capital drains are shredding the country’s future.”

In an article titled, “To Russia With Malice” Francis states, “Sanctions against the import of technology such as microchips have caused factories to stop making many consumer products as well as weapons of war. Automobile production is down by 96.7 per cent, Aeroflot is using spare parts from outdated aircraft to keep its fleet operating” Francis warns, “ don’t ever fly Aeroflot, and, worst of all, hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of energy, nuclear, and infrastructure projects have been canceled.”

I invited Diane Francis to join me for a Conversation That Matters about the devastating consequences of Russia’s irredentism toward Ukraine and throughout the remainder of the former Soviet Union.

Join us at a Conversations Live event, sign up for advance notice about upcoming events at conversationslive.ca 231 Comments Peter Burgess Add a comment... kellycrete kellycrete 2 days ago I’m so happy someone FINALLY mentioned Kazakhstan and what’s happening there in relation to the war. So many western media have completely missed it 28 Rolfe Horne Rolfe Horne 1 day ago I think this is the first time in years that I have heard a Canadian speak what many of us think and talk about only privately. It is encouraging to know that there are like minded people. Let's have more content like this. We may regain some of the respect we have lost since we've taken up drinking the liberal cool aid. 8 LMCsquared Greendale LMCsquared Greendale 5 days ago (edited) I love this woman and she's Canadian and considering how small the population of Canada is she just might be a distant cousin. God, it is wonderful to hear her put the complete truth out there. I am saving this to watch again after I locate and read her article. She understands not only Canadian, American, European politics but also Chinese, former members of the USSR and Turkey. That China built up its Army and Navy not to invade Taiwan or go to war with the US but due to its fears of Russian aggression is an interesting hypothesis that I have never come across before. I need to see what books she has written. I love to expand my library with intelligent female authors. I love her words damning PM Justin Trudeau's lack of foreign policy knowledge. He's just like his father, never seek out advice from someone smarter than you because then too many people will learn that you don't know your ass from your elbow. Living in a city in the US that has a city council that is made up of people in their early thirties as well as a young mayor I can understand her views. They also have no real world experience and yet they will put out press releases that are so ridicules that they qualify as science fiction. Here's one. The City of Burlington is working toward a zero carbon footprint and we hope to achieve that within 5 to 10 years. Now let me describe our city. It has a major university that has a well regarded medical school that has just under 12,000 students and housing for first year students and it has 460 acres of land in the city and that doesn't take into account its hospital or medical offices. It does not pay a penny in taxes to the city and also part of that same university is a large hospital that has a monopoly on medicine and almost every specialty you can imagine in medicine is either housed there or in surrounding cities and towns and they do not pay taxes because they are part of a not-for-profit that makes a profit so it builds something new or buys out another regional hospital to hide the profit. We also have another college that has been allowed to grow that was not required to deal with the number of students that would flood the city or parking for their cars nor do they pay a penny in taxes and they take up another 27 acres. There are also a goodly number of non-profits in the city as well that don't pay taxes. The majority of properties, mine included, is multi-family and we have a 1% vacancy rate and they want to control the cost of rent with rent control but they need to raise our taxes pretty much yearly to offset the debt that having so many non-profit and not-for-profit buildings burdens them with and they know that we will raise holy hell if they try to control our rents. I keep my rents reasonable (at least 25% below market because I value a good tenant and want to keep them). Here's the kicker. I heard about a program for state subsidized solar panels but I discovered that as a multi-family dwelling I don't qualify. Nor does my building nor any larger rental properties qualify for other methods of reducing our carbon footprint. So how is the city supposed to get to a zero carbon footprint in 10 years - it can't. It is pure science fiction. It seems that electing people with no real life experience is detrimental to good government. 9 DriftinDoug DriftinDoug 2 hours ago Stop whining about the Trudeaus. Zahimi Ibrahim Zahimi Ibrahim 1 day ago (edited) She's correct about China. China pays lip service to solidarity with Russia but holds deep resentments to being treated as inferiors by Russians during the Soviet era when China struggled to modernise itself. Now the boot is on the other foot and China has a long memory. 5 Molino de Viento Molino de Viento 3 days ago You can tell how this lady have a deep insight into the Eurasian continent, in particular Kazakhstan. Indeed, Kazakhs are completely different ethnicity with completely different language (Turkic group of languages). Kazakhs used Arabic alphabet until 1929, then they started using Latin alphabet and then Cyrillic alphabet (Russians use it too). Now Kazakhstan is going back to Latin alphabet and gradually transitioning there (signs, names are in Latin alphabet now). Russia is freaking out because of that. They feel pissed off that Russian alphabet is not gonna be used. They are pissed that more Kazakh language schools are being opened instead of Russian. More and more people in Kazakhstan started speaking Kazakh language (even some Russians that were born there) because before it was not encouraged. You would be laughed at if you happen to speak Kazakh in public. That is why Russian politicians and public figures are furious because their loyal and convenient 'little brother' is reclaiming its identity. They threaten to take the Northern and Eastern part of Kazakhstan after they are done with Ukraine. These announcements are triggering tensions inside Kazakhstan between Russian and Kazakh populations. Those Russians that were born and raised in Kazakhstan and have got nothing to do with Russia's politics, they are getting subject to nationalistic verbal attacks from small but vocal and loud radically wired nationalistic groups. Now Putin and his puppets are using this argument to claim that Russians in Kazakhstan are in danger, that they are harassed by nationalists and that Russia needs to come and 'put things right' - exactly the same narrative they used when invaded Ukraine. 20 Ingrid Bens Ingrid Bens 2 days ago Thank you for sharing your brilliant insights. Why are we not communicating this to the public. People are asleep and need to wake up. 4 g nolan g nolan 1 day ago One learns so much from people who have actually been involved to the degree that this woman has. When she began talking about how she was seated in the Ukatainian parliament building at the time the nuclear surrender was being debated I realized that I needed to watch this in its entirety. 1 Marshall Mintz Marshall Mintz 1 day ago America still carries the trauma and embarrassment of the end of the Vietnam war. Russia will experience the same for decades when this is over. It will not end well for Russia Psyche which is so important to them. 6 Julia paralina Julia paralina 3 days ago As an American national living in Estonia and close to the Russian border I appreciate this woman's deep insight. This is scary stuff, especially in the part of the world i presently reside, We all hope that the brutal dictatorship with whom I share borders will soon go to the dustheap of history where he belongs-without taking the rest of humanity with him And hello to my good Canadian friends! Living on this side of the globe, I surely miss that side. 17 Dadalux Dadalux 6 days ago Russia's GDP is half of Portugal's GDP per capita . That was before the sanctions . 58th rank in the world. In 2 years Russia will have lost 40 % of its GDP. 40 % unemployment .



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