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> but there was a monumental improvement in economic relations after the Soviet Union collapsed, no? No. None of the sanctions levied against the USSR were lif
by otabdeveloper4 2y ago
> but there was a monumental improvement in economic relations after the Soviet Union collapsed, no?
No. None of the sanctions levied against the USSR were lifted and still technically apply to Russia. (Enforcing them is another matter.)
> I don’t think any leader of any country wants to end up like North Korea
North Korea is doing better than South Korea on every metric except "consumer goods availability" and "international relations". Not sure you're making your case here.
> ...or Iran
Iran is more modern, developed and free than any other middle eastern country. (That includes Israel.)
Your ideas are wildly out of sync with actual reality.
- loeg 2y ago> North Korea is doing better than South Korea on every metric except "consumer goods availability" and "international relations". This is very, very false and a pretty strong signal there's no useful discussion to have here.
- thodin 2y ago> None of the sanctions levied against the USSR were lifted It's a lie. Sanctions actually began to be lifted in 1989 (Jews were finally allowed to emigrate) when we received 80486 processors. In 1990, we got our first SS7 switches and equipment for the first two mobile networks. It was a big thing. > North Korea is doing better Too bad they are not allowed to tell this here, because internet access is available only to several hundreds people :) > Iran is more modern, developed and free than any other middle eastern country. (That includes Israel.) Nice joke :)