Russian Getting Ready For War???

[Steve]

My guess is that the Russians produce a lot of their own food, so they're panic-buying imported stuff while they can still afford it.

What puzzles me is why Saudi are crashing the Russian economy. They must have known it would happen, what do they have to gain from it ? Or, perhaps, they don't want it to happen but have no choice in order to keep their own country from revolt.

It's possible, also, that Saudi want to sell as much oil as possible while oil is still legal to sell - if climate change goes crazy there could be an immediate restriction on sales, this will cause massive problems for the worlds economies as much of the debt is "guaranteed" against oil that is still in the ground, known as a "Stranded Asset". The Saudis oil fields are able to pump very fast, in the past they have deliberately pumped slowly to keep the price up and preserve their supplies, but perhaps they have decided to sell it all while they can.