Just an excuse to steal the frozen Russian foreign reserves
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Ending trade with China will essentially halt the US economy. If Covid was bad, Trump ain't seen nothing yet. Trump is a moron, all of his attacks on China failed disastrously. The trade war that he claimed was so "easy to win", was a defeat for America.
Biden is half-asleep gathering allies, but he is doing a much better job at it than Trump. For some unknown reason, the Democrats have much better talent at gathering allies than the Republicans. Nevertheless, Biden is now wrecking the world order that took more 70 years for the Americans to setup. So good luck to him.
I suspect that President Trump 2.0 might attempt to sue China $1T for "unleashing the China Virus". He might threaten to end trade deals with China, cut China off from the Western financial system, force US companies to close businesses in China, or worse things. Yes, it does sound infinitely stupid, but sometimes we just have to acknowledge the power of stupidity. And the Republicans have plenty of that.
Case in point: this pure garbage-quality podcast from The Telegraph:
I didn't bother listening to this, but apparently it argues that Russia is crashing its economy, and sending all its young men to die in Ukraine.
So basically, what is happening to Ukraine is actually happening to Russia, according to The Telegraph.
Do they know that it's mostly older, previously-trained soldiers being sent to the front in limited mobilizations in Russia? No, of course they don't.
I've never seen more execrable reporting on anything than what's coming out of Britain on this war. And the lies are effective. Go to the Youtube comments sections on any Western video about the conflict, and it's all "Russia can't produce tanks anymore because of sanctions. And they lost all their paratroopers when the IL-76s were shot down last February. The SU-57 is a scam and doesn't work. There won't be any more Russian advances after Bakhmut because they used up all their troops in cannon-fodder human-wave tactics."
And I'm not even kidding, these are comments I read in the last 2 days on "analyst" channels.
This is fundamental mis understanding of Russia. Russia much stronger on every level than Soviets or even US.
Russia fought in Syria and Libya in such away that Refugees are more in direction of Europa. It is fighting in Ukraine in way to minimize people in direction of Europa. Try think about the above.
That video is no longer on youtube but that you can see that Black AWACS behind those mountains are million of so called extreme people holed up that are angry of being relocated there. Try fight with any other air force see how many planes and choppers planes blown up during landing and takeoff. Mideast is covered by radars and AWACS on such capability that no other region in the world and they actually have the money to fly them. These countries can see and observe everything both internal behavior and external flying objects and even purchase intelligence from third parties due to extreme wealth. once that competence is demonstrated than Russia relationship with Mideast fundamentally changed. things were already moving in that direction anyway but it accelerated it.
There is Israeli report of all the humanitarian work in Ukraine with heading If I weren't Jewish, I would never have survived the Ukraine war this far. you can practically see hints in that report that things are managed. Even Lavrov hardly visit Israel it is to show that Azerbaijan special place will be respected.
There is no ending trade with China, But restrictions could essentially move final assembly to countries like Vietnam so that the end product is exported to US with the tag made in Vietnam, except all the components inside remains Chinese. This type of scenario is already happening due to the tariffs US has imposed on China.
As long as China has manufacturing prowess, US will have to trade with China whether directly or indirectly. China is slowly moving up the value chain which means it is increasingly moving to produce components inside all products instead of just doing the final assembly. They are also creating their own brands of TV, white Electronic goods, Phones and so on. So, they are essentially moving the entire supply chain to china.
Remember, war is expensive business which does nothing but drain your national comprehensive power.
:Russia is just trying to position themselves for the optimum position so they can defend themselves and their inner core when the inevitable confrontation with NATO happens. Same deal as when Stalin invaded the Baltics and Finland before WW2 to gain defensive space before the inevitable. The fact is the US and its allies have been eating at the table and now they try skip paying the bill. Both to Russia, by confiscating their reserves, and next is China.
The fact is, as much as this costs the Russian government in lost revenue, it is costing the European nations way more. Every single time you hear how Russia is "losing" money because they cannot sell at the same price because of lost market access to the largest consumer market right next door, what you do not hear, is how Europe is losing money paying inflated prices for those same resources. In Germany alone it is estimated that between inflated energy prices, other inflation, and extra military expenses, it has cost them $1 trillion in just one year. The fact is, thus far Russia is having low deficit for a country that is in a massive war like they are. The US had much larger deficit with a comparatively much smaller force structure in Afghanistan and Iraq. And to a large extent it is expected that oil price will climb back up as economies come out of the quarantine, also Russian gas exports should significantly increase over next 3 years. Power of Siberia is still ramping up, and gas sales over it are expected to triple over that period. At the same time Arctic LNG 2 is supposed to come online.
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I have given up talking to westerners that follow the NATO gospel in real life, in my view they have an information deficit. While they think im a Putin puppet for asking them the wrong kind of questions or show them the contradictions in the NATO gospel's view of the world. So i just laugh and agree to disagree.
