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Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Zincy
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The Russian ruling party intends to implement “criminal charges” on companies that comply with western sanctions.
I’m scratching my head as to how they expect that to work? If the businesses are international, and not directly based in Russia, they’re untouchable. Where would they try them? The Hague? Russia doesn’t recognize the ICCs jurisdiction.
If they’d try and go after the oligarchs that wouldn’t work either. For starters they have not control over if international companies they work with pull out of Russia. And even if they were to go after them, that’s just a faster way to ensure that Putin ends up with a polonium pellet in his morning coffee.
If they, stupidly, go after the workers all that will do is further disenfranchise millions of Russians who would already be suffering from the loss of their jobs. Seems like an easy way to further foment unrest in your own country.
To me this just sounds like Russia is stamping its feet.
China likely wouldn’t risk retaliatory sanctions, as it would have feedback on their own economy. More likely, China would prefer to avoid the problem altogether.
I’ve been of the opinion that China and Russia are fairweather friends.
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@Zincy
More sanctions seem impossible unless US and EU prepare to suffer the consequences, the bondage with China is much stronger than Russia. Thanks to Trump, China is getting used to the sanctions, if a new sanction intends to make China feel the pain, afraid that the pain will also be suffered by the US.
Well, you can’t really sanction China, not without the World Economy taking damage. After all, the World Economy is intergraded to China.
At one point or another, we’re going to have to stop outsourcing our manufacturing to China.
Well, we have to figure out how to do that without causing some prices on certain products to skyrocket.
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Manufacturing is already moving back into Southeast Asia, though preferably it should move back home…but our moronic green parties won’t have a word of it.
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@Zincy
Just “friend” based on against the pressure from US. Both China and Russia tried to join the US-led order but US refused them both, then they found each other in the same dilemma. I bet when the US is no longer a threat, more conflict will occur between China and Russia as what happened in history.
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Not only the party problem, but low levels of education in Southeast Asia also limited their industrial potential. It’s hard to find a country with a surplus of educated workers and engineers which ensure the low cost of most productivities.
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@Zincy
Russia’s FAA equivalent said a few days back that China was refusing to supply them with airplane parts after Boeing and Airbus cut them off. If they’re holding back on that because of sanctions, I have to think actual weapons are a no-go.
The bigger the hole Russia digs themselves into now, the better the deal China can get when they annex Siberia.
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The bigger the hole Russia digs themselves into now, the better the deal China can get when they annex Siberia.
I’m now imagining the Ob and Katun rivers being the new border (which would mean… Poor Mongolia. Now an enclave, and likely to be taken over as well)
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Bill is not needed. They just don’t like schools saying it’s ok to be gay, it’s ok to be Transgender etc etc. They even don’t like it when they teach kids obout Slavey. Name 1 school that teaches a kid to feel ashamed for being white. These dumb Republicans just don’t want kids learning about this because it’ll effect their votes
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It’s Elon Musk, it’s a 50/50 chance he’s either joking or dead serious.
Also e didn’t say how he wanted to “fight” him. For all we known Elon wants to pull of some big style MMA fight and Putin could just walk in there and rattle him with an AK.
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The guy who names his children after hyperlinks vs a guy who doesn’t wear shirts. For ownership of Ukraine.
We live in the wrong timeline but I say let it happen. Let Musk and his “The people around me are paid to never tell me no” haircut go a few rounds with a former KGB. Sell tickets, then forward all proceeds to Ukraine’s defense fund.
There’s is only upsides here.
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@Dustcan
Considering Elon done a complete 180 on his stance on Ukraine within the span of about a week (Went from showing genuine support to Ukraine to posting the latest 4chan NPC wojak that basically amounted to “Supporting Ukraine is kinda cringe ngl”), i doubt any money from this hypothetical situation would go to helping anyone but himself.
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In Vino Veritas
I just read a pants-shittingly dumb article on the Hill.
In it, the author (whom I shall name shortly) argued that the US’s 1550 nuclear missiles were not enough of a deterrent for both Russia and China and their own nuclear stockpiles.
The US has enough nuclear firepower to reduce both Russia and China to radioactive ash, adding a few more nukes to the pile will do nothing more than please warhawks and line the pockets of the firms that build the missile parts.
Which brain trust is responsible for this? One Patty-Jane Geller, the arch-warhawk of the Heritage Foundation and firm believer in “destory the world to save it” philosophy.
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