• @pingveno@lemmy.ml
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    11 year ago

    Cool. I guess. Ukraine won’t see a ruble out of Russia’s coffers, so this is purely symbolic. And it’s hard to really read the tea leaves on what it even means.

    • @guojing@lemmy.ml
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      11 year ago

      They already froze 300 billion usd of Russian assets. This is their excuse to steal the money and put it in their own pockets.

    • @knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 year ago

      It would take cues from the last hundred years of US imperial debt strategy, from the Allied loans and German reparations of WWI up to IMF austerity-and-neoliberalism-by-force. It will be structured to turn Russia into a US capitalist controlled vassal state, and in order to repay it Russia’s natural resources will have to be turned over to the west.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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        01 year ago

        That’s the wet dream that neocons have. Unfortunately for them, Russia proved that it’s able to decouple from the west while the west is struggling without Russian commodities.