Windows to Russia
It is Americans themselves who are destroying their own political system, even the very society structure and the whole country. They are doing it with their own hands, their own paranoid schizophrenia form of mindset and it is done merrily, without consideration for the consequences…
They even vote in support of their own ruination: without any assistance from a “foreign enemy”…
It is Americans themselves, no one else…
WtR
It took me three days, but after a bit of rewiring and alternator bracket jimmy rigging, I accomplished in putting a high amp alternator on Sammy the Volga….I even wired the tachometer to work at the same time…
I was able to install an alternator with 30 + more amps available (60 amp stock to 90 – 100 amps) and now it looks like we will have many less issues. Got power to spare for all the accessories. The only thing I will do in the Tiny Russian Village is to run a separate plug to allow Svetochka to be able to boil water for her tea…
Now that is living the High Life…
Once I discovered and it sunk in my thick head that it is the same alternator (With a bit of modification.) as fits a Citroen, Fiat, Peugeot and or a 3102 & 3110 Volga. I was able to search and find a very good price on an alternator. Thank goodness for Alibaba in China…
4400 rubles is what it cost us to get Sammy the Volga fixed. That is $67 give or take according to the day we bought it. You get use to daily variances in price after a few years. It is a learning process to buy at the exact moment, for if you buy smart, you will save many dollars….this alternator cost over $100 normally…
It is always something and I had fun doing it. Even if it was freezing cold outside the whole time… 😉
Time to go to The Tiny Russian Village…
WtR
Putin is 67 years old and doing good…
Putin was born on 7 October, 1952 in Leningrad… (That is now Saint Petersburg.)
Putin took some very rare time off and walked in the Taiga woods in Russia’s Siberia. Putin is a leader who loves his countryside as well as his people. Live long and strong Mr President…
Happy Birthday!
WtR
But there is a whole bunch of nonprofessional governmental ignoramuses whom all think they are experts on Russia…
WtR
I have talked about Gillette and that they deserve to go out of business and that I will never buy a Gillette razor again…
Gillette has raised recently their prices, four times and even five times the original price in Russia. I mean seriously, they have reduced the quantity (9 razors now at 3 in the pack for a higher price.) and raised the price. I at one time (two weeks ago) could buy 5 basic double blade Gillette razors for around 89 rubles. They now sell at 599 rubles at Globus. The image is of their checkout stock and I will tell you that hardly anyone will buy them…
The Russian manufacturing has produced the equivalent razors, at the same quality and higher quantity in a package for what is now 69 rubles a 5 pack… (Touch more than a Dollar for five razors.)
A company that raises the price this high in the foreign market shows that it is under stress. It either means that the US market is collapsing and or has collapsed and they are trying to make up some profit downfall by foreign sales increases. This is a stop gap measure and even more Russians will stop buying Gillette…
I have to smile when I see a company as pathetic as Gillette falter. They will lie and cover it up for a year or more. That is typical corporate manner, but it will start showing on their bottom line in the future…
Gillette you deserve to be out of business for your slanted, hateful advertisement to your biggest buyers of razor products…
WtR
It is snowing like crazy…
Good thing I took an umbrella when I walked…
Gonna be one long winter in Russia and I can feel it in my bones…
I predict 8 to 9 months of winter this time….gotta get to the Tiny Russian Village…
WtR
Russia’s largest oil company Rosneft has asked and is tendering transactions in the euro. They have switched from the US Dollar as its main default currency. This is for all exports of crude oil and refined products, as the oil company is turning off the Dollar trap for as many sales as possible in order to avoid illegal U.S. sanctions being slapped against it by the USA…
I have talked about the fact that Russia has to leave the Dollar and either go to the Euro and or go to Gold. The Euro is a stop gap measure, but by making the Euro first in transactions, time will be bought as Russia continues to De-Dollarize…
You can’t blame Rosneft for doing it. The Dollar has be weaponized and thus it must be excluded from the world transactions. It takes time, but companies like Rosneft can do it…
Remember that a snowball and or a avalanche starts small and gets big as it goes downhill…
I have also talked about how Europe is being destroyed by America. The EU went along with too many sanctions and played too many games. I guess they thought that the USA was going to come out on top and or they have been trying to play along to garner time to salvage themselves…
For the last 16 years (Since the Iraq war started) the world has started to walk on egg shells and have been smiling at America while they hold backroom meetings to figure out what to do…
Unless the EU wakes up and turns East and leaves the West behind. This action of using the Euro will be only a stop gap measure. If the EU embraces other countries and plays fair, they can salvage the EU and the Euro…
Again…
The USA is at war with the whole world, just that half the world has not woke from their nap yet…
WtR
Update:
Russia’s largest oil company Rosneft has set the euro as the default currency for all new exports of crude oil and refined products. As of September, Rosneft is seeking euros as the default option of payment for its crude oil and products, Reuters reported on Thursday, quoting tender documents the Russian firm has published. “Rosneft has recently adjusted all the new contracts for export supplies to euros,” a trader at a company that regularly procures oil from Rosneft told Reuters, adding that buyers
Source: Russia’s largest oil company ditches dollar in new oil deals — RT Business News
Started Sammy the Volga this morning and I found an issue that has to be fixed before we leave…
When we had the car redone two years ago, the wonderful workers had stolen our new alternator that I had installed and put on an old one from a piece of junk. Of course the guys ran from town or the Big Village as I call it and have never been seen again…
But we got two years out of it and now it has gone belly up and is dead…
While they did a good job on the body work, we had a bunch of little things that happened like this and we are still, two years later, paying for their workmanship…
Be it Russia and or America and or anywhere we have been, that is the story of our lives…
So I will be working on the Volga the next few days…
WtR
Just walking and looking at things…
Actually this was yesterday as I walked. Today I am feeling sick and taking it easy. Getting ready to go to the Tiny Russian Village this weekend and spend about two weeks there…
Sveta will come home to Moscow and go play with the grandkids and I will get the two village homes winterized…
Never enough time to get everything done…
WtR
Hmm…
The idea of Ukraine joining NATO is an attempt by the West to stand on Russian soil without an invitation. The US has Russia completely surrounded by military bases, but I have not heard of Russian military bases in the Western Hemisphere near the US border. Explain to me who is the culprit in this situation. Russia or the West led by America?
Hmm…
Kyle