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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
He's using anti-American (unjustified)
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Not really "unjustified" actually. He uses it to manipulate the Russian citizens. As far as you should know, Russian ruble rate is falling because of low oil prices. Also we know that the USA have imposed sanctions against of Russian oligarchs and their actives. As an "answer" to those sanctions, Putin has imposed sanctions against... his own people (now you can see how crazy this mofo is). He has banned cheap and quality EU products (especially food). Course his sanctions have double-impacted pocket of the regular Russian citizen: once it was done by cheap oil and twice by banning of cheap EU products.
Now guess what Putin did? He said that all those financial problems were made by... (guess whom?) By Americans! Almost everybody here thinks that those bastards (the USA) have imposed sanctions against Russia and now an average Russian Ivan can not buy a Spanish jamon. If anybody think that's not true, he should listen to Obama, who says he did it.
So the hate is not so "unjustified". The US president is an idiot who works for Putin's propaganda (perhaps not intentionally, but because of his stupidity). In fact the United States shares about only 4% of the whole Russian trading system and course they can not hurt Russian economics somehow noticeably. But Obama thinks he is real responsible for a weaken ruble and he don't mind to say it publicly. Course Putin's propaganda pushes it on the top to make people think that the USA is the cause of their problems (Obama fully confirms that Putin's statement).
Here is the real reason of weaken ruble:
As you can see above, all the US and EU sanctions together do not actually affect the ruble rate while the oil price does it just easily. The problem is that Putin has made Russian economics fully oil-dependent. But it's a taboo to mentioned this in his media. If people will know the truth, nobody give even a month to the Putin's regime. So he plays "the enemy from outside" card to cover his own ass, especially if Obama is real stupid and always ready to play along. This is how the hate grows. As you say "it's just a business"...