Posted on 03/16/2022 8:44:13 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
They shouldn’t trust the West ever again, nor should we trust the Russians ever again. So then we can see who needs who more, eh?
The “approved narrative” is always a pack of lies.
You will figure it out—eventually.
Who is it that you think I'm defending?
The left is always sanctimoniously lecturing us how we must give blow jobs to diversity but yet look at how they have treated ordinary Russian people.
The American left are the most hypocritical cretins nature has ever produced.
They really are the greatest enemy to freedom-loving people everywhere.
Are we on the side of good now?
We were in 1981, when the adversary was totalitarian socialism.
The Berlin Wall fell because we lost the Cold War, and now we have our own American form of totalitarian socialism.
All enemies, foreign and domestic. Not everyone is incapable of focusing on both, working on taking out both. Repeat after me: Walk and chew gum, walk and chew gum, ...
the only winner here is china.
One man has $1000. Another has $10. Both lose the same amount- $2. Who suffers more from the loss? Your own words prove you are wrong.
But it isn’t the same amount. Trade isn’t a zero-sum game. Did you read the article?
We lose trade with a minor player. They lose trade with a major player. Who is screwed more? Hint: Not us.
The economic effects aren’t confined to the trade balances between the two countries. The fact is, sanctions don’t work, and won’t work in this case, since there are many countries that aren’t participating (India, China, and Kazakhstan to name 3). Russia can sell their oil to Kazakhstan, which then resells it on the global market.
These sanctions are just progressive political window dressing, out of Ukraine-flag-on-Facebook-profile urgency to “do something”.
It will be as effective as Jimmy Carter’s sanctions. It has the same ideological origins.
That must be why the ruble and the Russian stock market are reaching new heights....
Ruble is 13% up from its recent lows. It’s recovered about half of its loss since late Feb.
The United States is a proxy for China in this one. China owns us lock, stock and barrel. They unleashed the Wuhan virus as revenge against Trump and similar people of independent minds. Now they are trying to not only elinate the US (gee all those supply problems) but also Russia so that the future is Chinese.
We are weak and doing China's bidding.
China clearly owns YOUR MIND.
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