Will Russia be next?

Voyager2002

Maybe now is a good time to buy shares in Russian companies, or companies that are very active there. Above all, businesses that sell weapons to the Russian military seem to be on to a good thing judging by the recent display on the border with Ukraine. Any funds or companies that you can suggest?

Investing in the Russian military value chain may be higher risk than bitcoin but is a lot safer than fighting in Donetsk.

ratechaser

Good one, you almost had me there 

IvanOpinion

As long as they only use environmentally friendly weapons and kill people in an ethical manner then I might be able to squeeze them into my portfolio.

csgohan4

I saw a fund the other day with the ticker spetznaz, I think you can only get it via specialized brokers who are authorized and regulated by the FSB

Depends on your risk appetite, Butcoin is risky for some but Russia could be the next financial capitol

LHW99

IvanOpinion said:

As long as they only use environmentally friendly weapons and kill people in an ethical manner then I might be able to squeeze them into my portfolio.

Thing is however "green" the bullets are, they tend to have this rather deadly side effect .........

Murphy_The_Cat

csgohan4 said:

 Butcoin is risky for some but Russia could be the next financial capitol

Your dead right that its risky - I wouldn't be carrying money in my rectum.

I prefer a gold old fashioned wallet

Bravepants

Voyager2002 said:

Maybe now is a good time to buy shares in Russian companies, or companies that are very active there. Above all, businesses that sell weapons to the Russian military seem to be on to a good thing judging by the recent display on the border with Ukraine. Any funds or companies that you can suggest?

Investing in the Russian military value chain may be higher risk than bitcoin but is a lot safer than fighting in Donetsk.

We have a friend from Ukraine, she is constantly worried about her parents who both still live there. So I would not want to be someone who would cash in on someone else's misery.

csgohan4

IvanOpinion said:

As long as they only use environmentally friendly weapons and kill people in an ethical manner then I might be able to squeeze them into my portfolio.

I think they have an ESG version, but some ESG are more ESG than others, some have TESLA in their funds

ErinGoBrath

Voyager2002 said:

Maybe now is a good time to buy shares in Russian companies, or companies that are very active there. Above all, businesses that sell weapons to the Russian military seem to be on to a good thing judging by the recent display on the border with Ukraine. Any funds or companies that you can suggest?

Investing in the Russian military value chain may be higher risk than bitcoin but is a lot safer than fighting in Donetsk.

14 days and 4 minutes late I think?

Malthusian

The trouble with the argument that "Xlandia is a corrupt basket-case country, therefore it has plenty of room for growth, therefore it should be a good investment" is that when corrupt basket-case countries do grow, they are very good at keeping all the growth for the corrupt officials and none for useful idiot foreign investors.

Remember when lots of us got rich from the liberalisation of the Soviet Union in the 90s? No? That's because it didn't happen. If you weren't Russian and well-positioned before perestroika, you didn't stand a chance.

The old adage "if you want to know who will own everything after a crash, look at who owned everything before it" also applies if you replace "crash" with "liberalisation of a corrupt dictatorship".

Voyager2002

Bravepants said:

Voyager2002 said:

Maybe now is a good time to buy shares in Russian companies, or companies that are very active there. Above all, businesses that sell weapons to the Russian military seem to be on to a good thing judging by the recent display on the border with Ukraine. Any funds or companies that you can suggest?

Investing in the Russian military value chain may be higher risk than bitcoin but is a lot safer than fighting in Donetsk.

We have a friend from Ukraine, she is constantly worried about her parents who both still live there. So I would not want to be someone who would cash in on someone else's misery.

I have good friends in Ukraine and would certainly not want to benefit from their misery. My analysis indicates that the current troop movements near their border are posturing (directed at Washington) rather than anything more serious. They do of course demonstrate that Putin and friends are spending lots on weapons.

And I have to say that companies like British Aerospace (sorry, BAe Systems now) who export weapons to be used in Yemen are probably causing far more misery than any company east of Odessa.