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    3 years ago

    All those Russian jets shot down today are irreplaceable after the sanctions. They could hardly afford them before. Face it, mafia states aren’t very efficient if there’s corruption all down the line. Getting pissy doesn’t change the reality of it.

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      3 years ago

      You keep repeating that because you don’t understand what you’re talking about. You are a shameless charlatan. Meanwhile, here’s what actual experts have to say about all this

      https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fbusiness%2F2022%2F03%2F06%2Feconomic-war-will-test-wests-resolve%2F

      The shipping giants are like commercial red blood corpuscles, carrying the oxygen-equivalent goods that allow the vital organs of the global economy to function.

      The inability of Western firms to ship consumer goods to Russia will hurt, depriving them of what has become one of the world’s most lucrative markets. Of far more significance will be the inflation generated by the lack of commodity and raw material exports from Russia – not just energy, but food and metals.

      Consider also that fertiliser is made using natural gas and potash – with Russia and its ally Belarus accounting for two fifths of the world’s potash exports. That explains why fertiliser prices are soaring across the Western world. And the resulting rise in cultivation costs will, inevitably, drive up food prices too.

      Much has been made of the extent of the Western world’s sanctions – and rightly so. To see the likes of the US and UK joined by Switzerland and Japan in effectively declaring economic war on Russia is jaw-dropping.

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        3 years ago

        The question becomes, is it worth the price? Did Chamberlain trade Germany’s neighbors for “peace in our time?” Or did unchecked Nazi aggression only lead to a escalation of worse outcomes? You’re advocating that just letting Putin have Ukraine because prices will become too high? But he’d clearly move on to the rest of his lost Soviet empire, with the same phony tactics. Is that worth the loss of “lucrative markets”? Yes, it is.

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          People like you act tough because you don’t think that you’re going to be personally affected by all this. We’ll see what kind of tune you’ll be singing once the reality sets in.

          Meanwhile, don’t pretend to give a shit about the people of Ukraine. The west overthrew their democratic government to put a right wing regime in place that’s been waging a civil war for the past eight years. And you ghouls have been goading Ukraine to fight Russia pretending that you were going to support it. Then when Russia invaded the west didn’t lift a finger to help. The blood is on the hands of people like you who have been fanning the flames of war and cheering all this on. You’re a soulless ghoul.

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            Use the sponge between your ears. The west thrived during the Cold War, while the Soviet Union went broke. Tell me again, how Russia – alone this time – is vital to the world’s economy? They’ll just become a Chinese client state, at best.

            If you care about the Ukrainians, go protest in Moscow to end Putin’s war, along with all those brave Russians. All your lies are pathetically transparent.

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                3 years ago

                You seem very butt hurt that Putin fell for all those NATO tricks. The world may be changing, but Russia just wrote itself out. The world sees it for the paper tiger it is.

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                  3 years ago

                  You’re like baby Goebbels thinking that if you just keep repeating nonsense over and over it’s going to magically become truth. You may not have any interest in engaging with reality, but the reality doesn’t care what you think and you’ll get to experience it soon enough.

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                    3 years ago

                    Stop crying already. Go buy some rubles if you’re so sure in the lies you chose to believe. Walk to Russia, if you love it so much. Because all the flights there are cancelled. Just like Putin.