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AssassinsMace
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The West needs money. It doesn't matter if it comes from selling advanced technology or fruits and vegetables. Money is money. The West is in panic because for leverage they don't want to sell anything to China that they can't get from anywhere else but by definition that means anything they're willing and want to sell, China can get from somewhere else and that's what's happening. Selling fruits and vegetables is that important? When selling to 1.4 billion people it is. Making that amount of money is like selling advanced technology and now the West is alarmed at the prospect of making no money from China and at the same time China is still making technological advancements that they thought they could stop. They're already paralyzed against a China that is behind in technology. China can survive without their technology. They can't survive without money no matter where it comes from.
The 2008 Western financial crisis exposed how Europe was spending more than they can make. They had to borrow money to maintain their first world lifestyles that they so much enjoyed and makes them feel superior to everyone else. The jungle is reclaiming the garden. They experienced riots on the streets by their citizens when austerity measures were proposed. And look at how natural resource rich the US, Canada, and Australia are but still not enough to support their allies. They need to takeover the world again because their fake front of respecting human rights is catching up with them because they can no longer take for free like they use to from the world they oppressed. Why are they in such a dire position? Because China is offering an alternative for the world. That's why they're targeting China because no China means everything goes back to their control and exploitation of the world. That's why don't believe that the West holds dear freedom and sovereignty of other countries. That's what China is ultimately and look at how they're floundering just because there's competition. That's not a crime. That's why the West has to make up crimes that they don't really care about except they think it gives them an excuse to stop China.
The 2008 Western financial crisis exposed how Europe was spending more than they can make. They had to borrow money to maintain their first world lifestyles that they so much enjoyed and makes them feel superior to everyone else. The jungle is reclaiming the garden. They experienced riots on the streets by their citizens when austerity measures were proposed. And look at how natural resource rich the US, Canada, and Australia are but still not enough to support their allies. They need to takeover the world again because their fake front of respecting human rights is catching up with them because they can no longer take for free like they use to from the world they oppressed. Why are they in such a dire position? Because China is offering an alternative for the world. That's why they're targeting China because no China means everything goes back to their control and exploitation of the world. That's why don't believe that the West holds dear freedom and sovereignty of other countries. That's what China is ultimately and look at how they're floundering just because there's competition. That's not a crime. That's why the West has to make up crimes that they don't really care about except they think it gives them an excuse to stop China.
They are all the same beneath the facade of these labels: imperialists, warmongers, corrupt. All have the same goal, just slighty different ways of achieving it. The last Democrat in office (Obama) was among the worst offenders.
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And folks thought I was exaggerating.... once AR kicks off, anyone in US who tries to call home to China on Wechat, or even Whatsapp will get labeled enemy combatant, stripped of all rights and even personhood.... not just deplatformed, but dehumaned...
The only real difference is that the Republicans will flat out tell it to your face while the Democrats will jump through 50 hula hoops before reaching the same conclusion
And what does Texas have that the world needs vs Russia…. Nothing. Face it, GDP on paper doesn’t mean as much as you think, otherwise Italy, a nation that has a larger GDP then Russia/France should in theory be able to send soldiers to Ukraine to drive the Russians out with ease, which is impossible because the Italians don’t have the guts to fight and the French well got kicked out of Niger of all places because the people had enough of them, GDP be damned.
Nothing you say now changes the fact that Ukraine is losing and will continue to lose no matter what. This stupid talk on GDP seems like you are just grasping for straws
Send the Texas National Guard to Ukraine then. I'm sure they'll be parading in Moscow soon. Not even joking.
Russia produces about as much steel as the whole US. And they graduate more STEM students a year than the US.
Of course it is always fun to compare Texan GDP in USD versus Russian GDP in RUB converted to USD. A totally bogus metric since the Russian ruble is not even allowed to be freely traded against the dollar. In GDP PPP the Russian GDP was like in between the German and Japanese one. At this point it might be roughly the same as the Japanese one. Fourth largest economy in the world according to the World Bank.
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I don't think so, even California is just 3.9 trillion $, while Russia is 5.2. Russia also surpassed Guangdong as well, so the sometimes repeated meme that Guangdong alone mogs all of Russia is not really correct anymore.
Maybe at 2014 that was true, but Russia grew a lot in the last few years.
The Russian economy has long been undervalued. A lot of what they produce is for internal consumption. People joke about how there are no Russian products anywhere so it is like the Russian economy does not exist in a world trade setting, but if you go to Russia, most things people consume are not Western brands either. And after Western brands left the market I think this will continue to speed up.
The major issue Russia still had is low salaries, which meant low motivation to automate production. But that stopped being the case two years ago. Another issue they have is lack of worker mobility. In Russia they are used to the zero unemployment of Soviet times. Companies hire staff and they seldom let them go completely even when there is no need to produce anything. Because if they lose the staff it is a bitch to get someone again.
The major issue Russia still had is low salaries, which meant low motivation to automate production. But that stopped being the case two years ago. Another issue they have is lack of worker mobility. In Russia they are used to the zero unemployment of Soviet times. Companies hire staff and they seldom let them go completely even when there is no need to produce anything. Because if they lose the staff it is a bitch to get someone again.