If Russia needs the resources to fund the war in Ukraine, why doesn’t it throw open its doors to visa free western tourism? Enough people would be interested, & it would start to get some hard currency as €, CHF, £, SEK, $, JPY in the tills at shops.

Last Updated: 03.07.2025 00:10

If Russia needs the resources to fund the war in Ukraine, why doesn’t it throw open its doors to visa free western tourism? Enough people would be interested, & it would start to get some hard currency as €, CHF, £, SEK, $, JPY in the tills at shops.

Cheers!

(Which rather explains something else)…

Or; more likely, fighting each-other - trying to push someone-else (anyone-else) ahead of ourselves.

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I can just see us westerners; all fighting each-other to get to the front of the queue…

Yeah, right…

No-one in their right minds would ever, willingly visit Russia!

Are today’s baseball pitchers faster than a few years ago, or is it that radar guns have improved and get the pitch speed as it is released rather than as it reaches the plate?

(…and the Russians are paranoid that we in the west want to “INVADE” them!!!… Yeah, right… >In their bloody dreams<)!

Carson, Segal, Musk, Trump… (add to the list as applicable)…