From: andronicus451@gmail.com   
      
   My calls and prayers for sense and reason were inended to the people   
   I met over the Internet: well-educated, well-meaning Russians who know   
   something about logic, mercy, truth and the Holy Scriptures.   
      
   But Mr. Putin appears to use minorities and mercenaries like Wagner   
   group in this conflict of "special military operation" in Ukraine.   
      
   None of the responded well to reason: Mr. Ramzan Kadyrov lead   
   his nation into a conflict that is neither his nor will contribute to the   
   cause of the freedom of his people the Chechens.   
      
   It was and still is my heartfelt prayer that Mr. Kadyrov and his Chechen   
   troops do noting to disgrace Chechnya and Islam and faith in God   
   on a larger scale.   
      
   Buryats appeared even more cruel at the scene of conflict, and especially   
   with the civilians.   
      
   Apparently, very few of them ever read the Internet, and I don't know if they   
   could be reached with any reasoning apart from the chain of command.   
      
   Where is this leading? How does the murder or rape of civilians contribute   
   to "denazification of Ukraine"; or how do mass graves?   
      
   This is clear to the educated Russians I spoke to and I still believe in them   
   and their honesty and dedication to the truth and peace. But there is   
   a circle around Mr. Putin, the likes of the "hawks" amongst the "neocons"   
   in the USA.   
      
   I don't like those, not only because they instill war in which they have   
   no intention to fight, but because I believe they are doing bad service   
   to the Russian people and Russia, too.   
      
   I always felt something fundamentally wrong when the "hawks" in   
   the cafe were discussing the price of my life on the frontlines, to which   
   they never planned to go themselves. This is called the sacrifice to Molech   
   in the Old Testament, and it is so common to communism as it was   
   to the apostatic Israel of the OT.   
      
   Right now we might talk about the real problems that prevent holiness   
   of Russia.   
      
   What about the rogue former intelligence soliciting Russian virgins   
   to sell their virginity to sex content sites?   
      
   What about printing rubles to cover budget holes, which is damaging directly   
   the value of salaries, retirements, and savings of the common honest Russian   
   citizen. And the accumulation of wealth of the startups and small and medium   
   businesses not connected with the oligarchy and FSB. Those will eventually   
   plummet from inflation and printing rubles, leaving even more of the economy   
   in the hands of the few oligarchs.   
      
   Rubel can be made convertible in a couple of years if Kremlin   
   decided not to print fiat rubles without coverage in commodities,   
   gold and foreign reserves! Citizens could work and save for old   
   age based on solid currency and a solid wage.   
      
   But someone lives well from inflation. Obviously, most of   
   the benefit goes to the ones in charge of the printing press and those around   
   them.   
      
   This might seem odd or controversial to you, but money is actually   
   the measure of the value of work. In the old days, there was a scale and   
   people would add silver (shekels) to one side of the scale until it would match   
   the value of goods purchased.   
      
   We do not shrink kilometers so it would look like a politician ran   
   the marathon. Neither should money have a value that is constantly   
   decreasing due to printing currency without coverage in gold, silver,   
   or rare earth minerals. In other words, worthless fiat money that   
   isn't worth the paper it is printed on.   
      
   Money should be a fixed unit of measure like meter, kilogram, second,   
   or Joule (calorie). Eventually, if the government decreased the calorie   
   in our heating system and deliver less energy in the same nominal   
   amount of Joules (calories), we would notice apartments get heated less and   
   thereof get colder.   
      
   If the electric company decreased the amount of power delivered   
   per kWh to get more rubles, we would eventually notice the deceit!   
      
   But leftie and communist governments traditionally printed money for social   
   expenses, generating inflation. The worst example of this is probably the   
   Weimar republic, which printed excessive money to cover German WW1 foreign   
   reparations, causing in turn    
   hyperinflation that made it only sensible   
   to drink for the salary in a cabaret before it becomes worthless.   
      
   Eventually, one man, an anti-alcoholic, vegetarian, war veteran, and lover of   
   animals came and said he has a solution.   
      
   But consequently, he led the country into the disaster of WW2.   
      
   This is why hard, convertible rubel is important: to make work   
   and savings, accumulation of wealth and investing worthwhile for every Russian   
   citizen, not just those connected   
   to the government and its printing press.   
      
   I have prayed over this for quite a while by now, and the best   
   answer I've got concerning inflation and its control is to   
   stop printing worthless money without value to cover the budget holes.   
      
   Eventually, though it seems like an easy way out, printing worthless   
   money doesn't solve anything as it makes money in everybody's   
   pocket less worth, like a silent, invisible tax that hits the poorest the   
   most.   
      
   Inflation makes the poor even poorer and the rich even richer,   
   because only the rich have enough to invest in real estate,   
   gold, commodities, shares and other assets that do not lose   
   value in inflation.   
      
   May God bless you and be with you all.   
      
   in the Lord   
   Amen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)