"Ruscism": Ukrainian neologism

Investment Analysis Clubs Macro Economic Trends and Risks
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/magazine/ruscism-ukraine-…

**The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word**

**In a creative play on three different languages, Ukrainians identify an enemy: ‘ruscism.’**
**The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word**

**By Timothy Snyder, The New York Times, April 22, 2022**

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**Grasping the meaning of "ruscism" requires crossing differences in alphabet and pronunciation, thinking our way into the experience of a bilingual society at war with a fascist empire. “P?????” sounds like “fascism,” but with an “r” sound instead of an “f” at the beginning; it means, roughly, “Russian fascism.” ...**

**The new word “??????” is a useful conceptualization of Putin’s worldview. Far more than Western analysts, Ukrainians have noticed the Russian tilt toward fascism in the last decade. Undistracted by Putin’s operational deployment of genocide talk, they have seen fascist practices in Russia: the cults of the leader and of the dead, the corporatist state, the mythical past, the censorship, the conspiracy theories, the centralized propaganda and now the war of destruction. Even as we rightly debate how applicable the term is to Western figures and parties, we have tended to overlook the central example of fascism’s revival, which is the Putin regime in the Russian Federation....** [end quote]

Putin’s Russia has been called a “kleptocracy.” Putin’s main political opponent, Alexi Novalny (currently in prison after having been poisoned by Putin) made a remarkable video about Putin’s palace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMxqTae75Fs

Defining Russia as fascist has Macroeconomic impacts. The current sanctions on Russia have led to major boycotts but they were done on the fly.

https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-750-companies-have-curt…

I’m not sure but I think that the IMF treats fascist countries differently than democracies in terms of financial support. There was a time that countries (like Italy) proudly called themselves fascist but I think that this title would reinforce sanctions and also perhaps drive a wedge between Russia and China (itself nominally communist but actually fascist).

Wendy

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How does this help us make economically?

The Captain

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How does this help us make economically?
It doesn’t. Whether or not Wendy will FA her own political post, though, remains to be seen.

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This is not a political post…unless you are a Putin partisan and feel that it’s likely to stir up Putin supporters.

Wendy (rolling eyes -=- grow up)

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Defining Russia as fascist has Macroeconomic impacts. The current sanctions on Russia have led to major boycotts but they were done on the fly.

Viewed through a cold war lens, classifications like “fascist” are meaningless. The only thing that matters is alignment. Was Greece, or Argentina, or Chile, under their juntas, any less repressive than the eastern European regimes that Moscow kept on a short leash? Or was the only thing that mattered that the juntas paid lip service to being “good anti-Communists”, while they rounded up their citizens in the thousands, to be tortured and killed in secret?

So the real question with economic implications is will there be a significant geopolitical realignment that will impact trade relations? Could be. First indication is western Europeans finally realizing being beholden to the likes of Putin for energy supplies is not a good idea. If energy supplies come via ship, rather than pipe, they are not married to a particular supplier. Lithuania discovered that, when they built a new LNG terminal: they had a choice of vendors, and the prices were lower than what Gazprom demanded, when they had monopoly control.

Steve

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This is not a political post…unless you are a Putin partisan and feel that it’s likely to stir up Putin supporters.

You’ve FA’d others for this same crap. Of course, considering you’ve yet to come up with a legitimate response to my teardown of your “M1 is spiking because the wage slaves aren’t spending” bull…