I see you tend to quote Nesmiyan. He likes to cry wolf every time Russian or Chinese economies show slightly worse performance than what could be amounted to Wirtschaftswunder. His predictions often fail so spectacularly that they seem so bad they're purrfect. Last but not least, he was a friend of none other than Strelkov, and later a minor counselor at the Russian-backed governments of DPR and LPR for some months in 2014 — 2015. He had abstained from such grave criticism of Kremlin gremlins then…

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