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They thought they could make Russia dependent on their money, and thus encourage russia to integrate with the EU.
by NickNameNick 5y ago
They thought they could make Russia dependent on their money, and thus encourage russia to integrate with the EU.
- throwaway894345 5y agoThat’s a wild gamble with the lives of your populace. It’s one thing to build an interdependence on a democratic country and quite another to put the fate of a continent in the hands of a single dictator.
- abalashov 5y agoHow about an "emerging democracy"? /s
- tarsinge 5y agoIsn't that similar to what the US did with China? The interdependence is maybe not at the same strategic level but it is still significant, wouldn't overnight interruption of any import from China be very painful both to US consumers and industries?
- abalashov 5y agoIt's very similar, and I think the pandemic supply chain situation--which persists--laid that bare.
- throwaway894345 5y agoThe supply chain situation was global and for Americans it largely amounted to an inconvenience. People weren’t freezing for lack of energy to heat their homes. America should do more to decouple itself from China, but it isn’t the same as Europe’s dependence on Russia.
- throwaway894345 5y agoThe “strategic” bit is key. The US doesn’t get food or energy from China (although our economy is deeply intertwined at this point), but it does provide a lot of food to China. Even still, I wish the US did less to aid and abet China.