Alfa-Bank

It's actually three months before their ruble launches.

Now, Starting on September 1st, the 12 systemically important banks in Russia, which are banks like Spare Bank, VTB, Alfa Bank, T-Bank, right? They will all legally be required to let their customers transact in it.

By the way, VTB, that's also the same bank from the treasury list I mentioned earlier, the one that the Iranian bank employee was working on with currency conversions.

So just keep that in the back of your mind.

Then half of the Russian internet fell over.

Gosuslugi, the state services portal, Russian Railways, Avito and VKontakte, of course, what's remaining of Ozon and Wildberries, and two banks too, VTB and Alfa Bank, the mobile operators and the websites of, well, basically everyone in the media sphere, RBK, Ria Novosti, Kommersant, Vedomosti, Interfax, everyone.

My favorite victim is Cian, the biggest property portal.

In 2020, Cian chose Yandex Cloud as its disaster recovery site, the place you go where your main system dies.

No drones required in that instance.

A major systems failure hit Sber, Sberbank, VTB, Alfa Bank, and the central bank's faster payments system, and customers couldn't pay, transfer, or withdraw cash from ATMs or even bank branches.

Well, that was a software glitch that did that, not Ukrainian drones.

Now imagine the cause if it is a warhead, and the recovery timeline, uh, let's say for Yandex just gave is, well, we don't know if it can be restored at all.

They got the wrong Michael Cohen in Prague in the dossier.

They had the Alfa Bank hoax, stole a server at the top of Trump Tower.

Donald Trump meeting with the, the, the Russian diplomat or whoever, the, on, about the Magnitsky Act, but apparently they were meeting about collusion.

This circular reasoning, the confirmation bias.