Absolutely, I hope Putin can capitalize on this sudden power and financial vacuum resulting from the sanction
Ukrainian War Developments
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Absolutely, I hope Putin can capitalize on this sudden power and financial vacuum resulting from the sanction
Hence why no tears were shed when oligarch yachts got confiscated. Thanks to that, they took out Putin's enemies for him, and as a bonus made the fence sitters realize that if they don't align with Putin nobody is on their side. They ensured that Putin's enemies will have no wealth or power and Putin's allies retain their wealth and power.
But they claim they don't like Putin.
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Putin just applied classical socialist theory. The state needed to control the commanding heights of the economy i.e. energy, transportation, telecoms, and media. And if you think he is stuffing himself with money, what about Biden and his son? The fact is we have no proof Putin is stuffing himself with money. While the same is not true for Biden. I do not know how he has not been impeached already.
If you believe the US all you need is low taxes. Russia has 15% flat tax rate. And as long as you keep your nose out of the commanding heights of the economy the government will not interfere with you. If anything I think the major problem Russia still has is a lack of enforcement of anti-competition laws. They need to clean up the judiciary system. But that is not something which will be easy to do.
Yes it would have been better if Russia just made corruption legal like the US does with lobbying. Do know a lot of people copy Pelosi's husband's stock portfolio? He always seems to miraculously know which stocks go up and down before it happens.
If russia manage to achieve some form of cosmetically reasonable outcome with respect to ukraine, such as leaving a reasonably independent looking ukraine that still has most of it territory, or offering some russia territory in trade for ukrainian territory it annexed, then I think the much of the extraterritorial effect of western sanction regime will slough off quickly.
Western sanction will no doubt remain in place for the foreseeable future with any possible outcome in ukraine, but their ability through threats to extraterritorialize the sanction onto other powers will swiftly decline unless Putin did something really odious to end the war, such as using tactical nukes.
Russia using tactical nukes will be an extremely bad outcome because it says having nukes not only make you immune, it also enables you to use the nukes on those without nukes whenever you want without too much consequence.
If that were to happen south Korea, japan, taiwan, even indonesia, will all have their own indigenous nukes in under 5 years.
Western sanction will no doubt remain in place for the foreseeable future with any possible outcome in ukraine, but their ability through threats to extraterritorialize the sanction onto other powers will swiftly decline unless Putin did something really odious to end the war, such as using tactical nukes.
Russia using tactical nukes will be an extremely bad outcome because it says having nukes not only make you immune, it also enables you to use the nukes on those without nukes whenever you want without too much consequence.
If that were to happen south Korea, japan, taiwan, even indonesia, will all have their own indigenous nukes in under 5 years.
Wait why was I quoted, I didn't say any of that lmao
I remember reading that when asked, most of Chinese private companies didnt want to invest in Russia because of its judiciary system and they wanted more law protections for their investments.
When was the last time you used something made in Russia? As far as I'm aware most manufactured goods from Russia goes to ex Soviet countries and Africa.
Transport could be an issue, but lots of countries manage without national airlines. A middle eastern or Chinese airline could take over the Russian market if needed. Loss of the use of Russian airspace will quickly kill all European-Asia routes for companies that
Finances - good. Get rid of them.
Anything Russia needs it can get via China. This is no different to Lithuania using Germany to bypass Chinese sanctions. Good luck sanctioning China.
From what I can see sanctions don't seem to be affecting Russia much at all. Hence the need to sanction Russian dogs, cats, trees and dead composers.
Europe and America seem close to economic collapse to me with the rising fuel prices, and desperate attempts to control oil prices and the cost of living. And that's before Russia has reduced oil/gas supplies, let alone cut it off.
With all that going on, what happens now if the Israelis try something in Palestine and OPEC decides to embargo the west again?
It can become a problem because they will be cornered. Russian got cornered with Nato expansion and look what happened... Nothing good about isolating parts of the globe, it cause only tension and from tension war. Nobody want a direct war with nuclear country but if one of them is cornered bad, it would use them for deterrence or attack and war will happen.
True to a certain extent. I'd say the failure has mostly to do with weak government and strong foreign intervention, Latin America in particular is "too far from heaven, too close to America"
On the contrary, the east Asian success models all starts with strong or even dictatorship government. So, yes it is no doubt going to be tough for Russia but I won't count them out, we shall see.
That. People like her was the main reason I did not vote in last election. I don't think she actually understands much of what her aids prepared for her photo op. I also don't think her aides are real techies. And unfortunately this is a common scene now here in the States. Sigh...sigh...fainting...
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