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To: JonPreston

Yeah Russia has lots’o’money now. So what?

What good is all that money if you have nothing to buy with it?

Because Russia is currently under sanctions by most countries that supply useful stuff.

Look inside any modern electronics - you’ll see a whole bunch of parts that come from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, etc.

Taiwan Semi-Conductor Manufacturing Co. makes 95% of the world’s electronic chips. Russia has ZERO chip-making factories of their own, and is now cut off from TSCM and other Asian countries.

So Russia can use all that money to make domestic products - more lumbering tanks, katyuisha batteries, dumb bombs, etc., but can’t make anything high-tech

Ukraine is under no such embargo, and continues to be freely supplied, so they can keep making drones and other high-tech weapons that are proving decisive

money by itself is useless in a war


19 posted on 04/28/2022 7:49:20 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Do you think China would buy things, via Russian money, that will ultimately end up in Russia?
Do you trust all countries to abide by the sanctions imposed?
What about shell corporations with their country of origin not being in Russia?


20 posted on 04/28/2022 7:52:42 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: canuck_conservative
money by itself is useless in a war

What? Your president has chosen money as the weapon to damage Russia, and it has failed spectacularly. Putin is now raking in twice as much. The rest of your post is a mix of propaganda and delusion and unworthy of comment. Please try harder.

21 posted on 04/28/2022 8:02:17 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: canuck_conservative
Ukraine is under no such embargo, and continues to be freely supplied, so they can keep making drones and other high-tech weapons.

So the Ukrainians are now manufacturing drones...

Yeah Sure GIFs | Tenor

And the Ukrainians are now winning. I guess that is why more than 10% of the Russian population have now become refugees. /s

31 posted on 04/28/2022 8:22:41 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: canuck_conservative

so they can keep making drones and other high-tech weapons that are proving decisive
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Not disputing any of your post, but where will they be manufacturing those weapons if/when their factories are destroyed?


49 posted on 04/28/2022 4:45:00 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (It's obvious! Democrat politicians and voters are dangerously psychotic.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Will Russia develop new factories to manufacture electronic chips?


50 posted on 04/28/2022 4:47:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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