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Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo (united24media.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
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Buying one way tickets to hell for Russian soldiers by selling off Russia's gold and treasure... What will be left when all the humans and gold have been carelessly traded away by Putin to power the mindless Russian war machine?

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[–] 5 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

Except gold has huge intrinsic value because it's not that common and exceedingly useful.

Diamonds, diamonds are the scam that seems to be implied here.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Absolutely but most of its value is due to it being rare…. And shiny. The industrial uses were just a bonus we worked out later. In the early days it was valuable simply because we all told ourselves it was worth a certain amount of chickens.

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