throw202203

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   by throw202203 5y ago

   There is: stop buying gas and oil from Russia. This is where the money you’re talking about come from. The bombs that are destroying Ukraine are bought with Western money. But oh no, we can’t do it, we can’t have prices go up when inflation
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   by throw202203 5y ago

   Russia created its own system similar to Visa/MasterCard after the first round of sanctions in 2014 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(payment_system)
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   by throw202203 5y ago

   In this case you’re not hitting an enemy, though, you are hitting someone who’s actually on your side.
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   by throw202203 5y ago

   What Russia is doing now is terrible and completely fucked up, but having the US as the only superpower is also not good. We need a place where Snowdens of the world could go.
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   by throw202203 5y ago

   As many have said, this is not whataboutism. Western companies also paid (and keep paying) for death and destruction in Ukraine. It’s not a wild stretch to say that the whole thing was financed through selling gas and oil to the West. Googl