• CableMonster@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Can we just try to get peace and stop with the escalation? I am not going to send any of my children to these wars.

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    8 months ago

    US: Let’s send weapons to our allies that are at war! Iran: We’ll do the same! US: shocked Pikachu face

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    8 months ago

    Lol they still haven’t learned that sanctioning these massive countries just backfires

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      8 months ago

      It doesn’t though. Raising costs by forcing a country to dodge sanctions is very effective. A supply will never entirely dry up, but it will shrink and become more expensive, and that’s enough.

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        8 months ago

        It’s just speeding up dedollarisation at this point. Trade is increasingly done in other currencies because the US dollar is just a minefield of sanctions and regulations. The US had this power back when they produced everything people needed, but nowadays everything’s coming from China, so why involve a third party in your trade that can freeze your accounts for no reason?

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        8 months ago

        So far sanctioning Russia and China has mainly just sped up the Global South’s economic integration and China’s becoming self-sufficient. I can see this happening with Iran too since its economy is already somewhat Global South-oriented.

        Though of course, sanctioning less developed countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK, and Afganistan does successfully greatly harm their working-class population, and it has.

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          8 months ago

          Sanctions on Russia have crippled their ability to get modern chips for their war machine, so they have to rely on Soviet tech. They hurt Putin personally so much that he went and bought an entire Presidential campaign.

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            8 months ago

            so they have to rely on Soviet tech

            Well that part is true enough at least. Capitalist Russia naturally can’t innovate as much as Socialist/Soviet Russia could. Even its highly sophisticated public transport like in Moscow are stuff that the USSR built; they’d probably be filled with high-speed rail by now, like China is, if it wasn’t overthrown.