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>but nobody will sell to them. The self anointed "international community" is only a very small fraction of the actual world. This is typical western hubris an
by Mountain_Skies 5y ago
>but nobody will sell to them.
The self anointed "international community" is only a very small fraction of the actual world. This is typical western hubris and arrogance thinking that everyone will blindly follow them and those who don't, will powerlessly suffer the consequences of the wrath of the west. Russia has money, the world loves money, the world will sell to Russia. Not only that, but there's no shortage of western corporations busy trying to find ways to covertly sell to Russia because that's what they've done to every other pariah state. Russia will incur higher costs to acquire the things it wants but it will still be able to get them and it will often be western companies covertly doing the selling.
- pjc50 5y agoThis is unfortunately true. https://ukrainetoday.org/2022/04/23/exclusive-france-and-germany-evaded-arms-embargo-to-sell-weapons-to-russia https://ukrainetoday.org/2022/04/23/exclusive-france-and-ger...
- Markoff 5y agoyup, international community = less than 1/4 of countries on this planet judging by Western MSM you see here in Europe you would think everyone in world sanctioned evil Russia while opposite is true
- kaba0 5y agoMaybe look at the relative size of the countries’ respective economies. Whether French Guiana sanctions Russia doesn’t matter nearly as much as e.g. the European Union doing so.
- Markoff 5y agoDo you have also conversion chart for human life cost based on GDP? Since clearly small minority of world population and their politicial representation is more important to you than actual number of people/countries who don't care about sanctions against Russia.
- bigodbiel 5y ago>60% of global GDP is not a small fraction. As for countering sanctions, no one doubts the cat and mouse chase, but the Kremlin will be forced to funnel these to its weapons industry undermining economic and social development, akin to North Korea mid/long term.
- lionkor 5y ago60% is a lot, but it may not be enough to be existential here