bilqis

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by bilqis 4y ago
It’s not unheard for “the West” to maintain good relationships and trade with countries engaged in armed conflicts or human rights violations, if there’re good economical and political reasons. So I won’t be surprised if after conflict has
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by bilqis 4y ago
It’s also a mistake to think that Putin is some kind of Czar with absolute ultimate power.
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Majority of main advances came from cooperation and how education, science and engineering was organised and funded. So all achievements are Soviet achievements, not Russian/Ukrainian/Georgian/etc, saying otherwise has been a
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by bilqis 4y ago
I can easily imagine both a) countries restoring relationship with Russia with Putin and b) Putin by various reasons being replaced by another server of national capital, with some shifts in money, giving excuse to EU to reestablish relatio
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by bilqis 4y ago
Both countries also heavily invested in Nordstream-2, and there were good economical reasons for that. Current sanctions are temporary, as well as this war, and if it haven’t been blown up, it would start working again in no time.
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by bilqis 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell%27s_list
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by bilqis 4y ago
While individual consumers do such choices to feel better about themselves/feel like they’re doing something, big capital is pumping money nonstop to China. It’s the same with Russia. It has been overflowed with money from EU before an
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by bilqis 4y ago
I kinda missed, did this biologist served some time or was he convicted?
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The same reason why Russian gas is still getting transported through Ukraine’s territory and why Ukraine gets transfer fees from Russia for it.
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In some places they did deliver on it. I understand that cellular data is pretty shitty in the US, but in many places in EU you’re getting 100mbps with unlimited data for like 20€ a month. I could even get 200mbps if I pay extra.