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Ruble has all capabilities to be the world national currency

that doesnt tell us anything


I think that some value would have to be applied to the ruble for it to be considered currency. =p

that doesnt tell us anything


I think that some value would have to be applied to the ruble for it to be considered currency. =p

Russian ever increasing GDP and world oil dominance will make it so. Lukoil is already overtaking the world.

I think we should all switch to conch shells for currency. They spend great...and have a delicious chewy center!

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=1&from=EUR&to=RUB&submit=Convert

Sand dollars would be more appropriate for they already know what they are worth. ;)

Russian ever increasing GDP and world oil dominance will make it so. Lukoil is already overtaking the world.

And how long will that last.. ? The oil I mean.

And how long will that last.. ? The oil I mean.

after oil will come natural gas...as for reserves...Russia has got a lot of them...and if its not oil or gas...Russia supplies and manufactures uranium energy producing facilities/powerplants.

I think you have a serious bias towards russia...I may be going out on a limb with that one i know. :D

I think you have a serious bias towards russia...I may be going out on a limb with that one i know. :D

I am just saying what will happen, you choose to accept it or not.

I think the pizza bagel will replace the Ruble, followed by Cotton candy replacing oxygen!

Actually I don't care what money is used as long as I have a lot of it :D

I think the pizza bagel will replace the Ruble, followed by Cotton candy replacing oxygen!

I am telling you I know what I am saying, the ruble has all chance on becoming a world financial currency.

Just look at Russia in 1990's and Russia now. Totally different countries, much more powerful, and it will be that way.

It wont be in the near future in any case

I can't read the article since you need subscription.

Anyways, ever considered that your just experiencing grandeur delusion?

What good will this do to the world anyway, besides making a few already extremely wealthy people even more wealthy?

The Ruble will be replaced by rice cakes.

after oil will come natural gas...as for reserves...Russia has got a lot of them...and if its not oil or gas...Russia supplies and manufactures uranium energy producing facilities/powerplants.

And don't forget sex workers! A major resource.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118843402422512950.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Ruble has all capabilities to be the world national currency

1st place in natural gas reserves
8th in oil reserves
Not a single carrier battle group, little navy left
No army capable of fighting
Cold
Huge distances and rudimentary infrastructure
Surge of nationalism (if not racism) and imperialism among rank&file Russians

Zero vision for future, it's not all about money (USA has, perverted, but it has a vision for the world future and it spreads it through mass cult and consumer culture). Russia is just a copycat. It copies, copies,.... everything. It needs time to digest.

No capable, world level mass cult
Corruption
Science is on death bed, supplying brain matter to the West, in the best case.
Expensive (by Asian standards) workforce

And much, much more


In two words, NO WAY.

I am telling you I know what I am saying, the ruble has all chance on becoming a world financial currency.

Just look at Russia in 1990's and Russia now. Totally different countries, much more powerful, and it will be that way.

Wrong, USSR circa 1990 was far superior to Russia today. It had army, it had science, it had closed circuit industry independent of the world's markets, it had everything for the modest and independent existence. Russia today doesn't have anything of above, it's just a dependent country with perepipheral capitalism doomed to follow and pick up scraps from master's table.

Wrong, USSR circa 1990 was far superior to Russia today. It had army, it had science, it had closed circuit industry independent of the world's markets, it had everything for the modest and independent existence. Russia today doesn't have anything of above, it's just a dependent country with perepipheral capitalism doomed to follow and pick up scraps from master's table.

scraps huh? I'll show you scraps in the next 10 years, the European market will be fully integrated into Russian, capitalism?!! hahahaa

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118843402422512950.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Ruble has all capabilities to be the world national currency

bwhahahahahaha hahaha haha ha oh god..... I almost shit myself

hahaha it says that over the past 5 years the value of the ruble has fallen from 4.55 per us dollar to 28.87 how is it going to replace the euro or the dollar?

FYI ruble totally collapsed in 1998, it was worth less than toilet paper it was printed on.

scraps huh? I'll show you scraps in the next 10 years, the European market will be fully integrated into Russian, capitalism?!! hahahaa

Dream on, it's Russian gas pipes are integrated in Europian economy. Russian elites are totally on the mercy of the international capitalist sharks (hint: where do megarich Russians keep their money, educate their children, invest, buy mansions, etc.?) Russia has lost its industrial/agricultural/scientific/.... self-sufficiency. You can't eat, wear, drive... damn natural gas. Nuclear weapons in a corrupt country? As for me, Americans may just buy key Russian generals, famous for their "pennyless" services to Motherland (that's in the very unlikely case of Russia's partial pulling out of world markets).

The concept of comprador capitalism was described by Marx very well. Read about it and understand that Russia is nothing but a country of comprador capitalists with mighty delusions of grandeur.

Hint number 2: for Russia to catch up with USA and Europe economically, Russia MUST BUY (not sell) oil and gas.