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by alexashka 464 days ago
Would bricks of gold really change anything in a dire situation? I don't get it.

I'd bet on aligning with people who know how to make use of bullets personally.

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Since Russia is loading planes with bricks of gold to pay for imports and evade banking sanctions, they must think bricks of gold are useful in a dire situation.
With an obvious drawback highlighted on the 15th of March 2018.
I had to look this one up…

“Approximately 3,400kg of gold ingots break free from a Nimbus Airlines Antonov An-12 cargo plane and fall onto the runway at Yakutsk Airport.”