yogthos

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by yogthos 3y ago
Not nearly as sharply as people claim, what's happening in practice is that Europe is just buying repackaged Russian fossil fuels through resellers. I find it amazing that people can't understand that you can't just make huge
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by yogthos 3y ago
It's pretty weird to claim that providing articles with the information that supports the points I'm making is an agenda. The problem with the claims in the articles you linked make is that they're at odds with the reality we
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by yogthos 3y ago
Basic economics say that Russia is a major commodity exporter and that as long as there is global demand for these commodities then Russia will have no problem selling them. It's like you don't understand how basic supply and dema
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by yogthos 3y ago
That's just factually wrong I'm afraid https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/energy/russia-oil-exports-iea...
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by yogthos 3y ago
This is just wild speculation that's completely baseless I'm afraid. We've literally been hearing this story for nearly two years now, and there is zero substantive evidence to support any of these assertions.
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by yogthos 3y ago
The only person with an agenda here is the one who keep using ad hominem attacks instead of providing any actual arguments. The reality is that the economic war has gone on for nearly two years now, and so far there is no sign of Russian ec
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by yogthos 3y ago
Russia's April gas exports to Europe up 7.5% from March, and as statistica link shows, Europe is nowhere close to cutting off Russian gas. The whole narrative that EU is independent from Russian fossil fuels is just fake news. https:&
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by yogthos 3y ago
I guess we'll see won't we. However, it's pretty obvious that Russia is doing massive amounts of trade with China and India. Trade between China and Russia has already reached over 200 billion this year. So, not really sure w
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by yogthos 3y ago
IMF is literally projecting growth for Russia this year, but whatever you say buddy. Here is another article you might want to read carefully https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-economic-war-aga...
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by yogthos 3y ago
This isn't the Russians arguing, this is mainstream western pres saying this.
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by yogthos 3y ago
CNN article I linked in another disagrees with you.
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by yogthos 3y ago
This has already happened.
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by yogthos 3y ago
That doesn't actually follow. Had the west not got into a sanctions war with Russia, then they might've never increased their output. The end result is that the profits have not been affected. More importantly, what actually count
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by yogthos 3y ago
The discounts Russia offers to its partners are minimal, and as CNN reports, Russia's revenues are back to pre-war levels. So, not sure what you're going on about there. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14&#x2
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by yogthos 3y ago
That logic only works if Europe was the only trading partner available to Russia. What happened in practice is that Russia simply redirected trade to other countries while Europe now pays a huge markup buying from resellers.
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by yogthos 3y ago
Europe used to get pipeline gas at a fixed price, and now it's getting LNG at a much higher rate that fluctuates with the market.
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by yogthos 3y ago
What they can and have done about it is to redirect their trade towards non western countries that constitute the majority of the world. Plenty of recent articles clearly show that the sanctions have been an utter failure in practice. The o
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by yogthos 3y ago
That's also the case in US politics as well, and has been for a while now.
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by yogthos 3y ago
How is this different from what we have now? His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore.” maybe it's jus
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by yogthos 4y ago
I don't think it makes sense to look at this as China or India problem. This is a problem the entire human race faces. It's also important to note that people in India who are already affected by this crisis are the ones with leas
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by yogthos 4y ago
Here's the timeline for China to become carbon neutral https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-energy-transition-in... China will spend 400 billion to build at least 150 new nuclear plants https://www.bloomb
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by yogthos 4y ago
Pretty obvious that if a billion people finds themselves in the conditions that the article describes they will take drastic measures.
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by yogthos 4y ago
Replacing fossil fuels with alternative energy and nuclear power. If US spent even a fraction of the resources on that instead of maintaining its global military empire, the world would be in a far better place today.
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by yogthos 4y ago
Countries will obviously start taking risks with uncertainties when it becomes certain that they risk destruction due to rising heat.
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by yogthos 4y ago
I disagree with you there. I think the book paints a plausible way out of the crisis we are in, and shows what systemic changes need to happen to create a positive future for humanity. It's one of the few books that paints a realistic
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by yogthos 4y ago
Nowhere was I talking about Russia in this thread. I made a point that USSR developed a lot faster than western capitalist nations, and that it made a lot of inventions ahead of the west. You're the one who started bleating about Russi
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by yogthos 4y ago
The same point that's been explained to you in detail in this very thread.
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by yogthos 4y ago
you should read the page you linked
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by yogthos 4y ago
Yeah, half of those achievements are just rocket science. Seethe and cope harder.
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by yogthos 4y ago
USSR achieved around a century of advancement under capitalism in the west a few decades after USSR was formed. Despite US having vastly more resources than USSR, the Soviets were able to keep ahead of US in many technological advancements.

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