Posted on 03/27/2022 3:03:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When we look at damage being inflicted on the Russian people and businesses by the economic sanctions being placed on them by the West, it’s clear that they’re feeling more pain than we are. But as Joe Biden noted, the sanctions are causing food shortages across the globe. He also said the sanctions would influence Russia in the long-term. Is he right?
Probably not. Even though Russians are feeling more of an impact than we are, they are also much more prepared to handle it. Both Russia and China have four things going for them that the West does not have. First, they have a history of citizens living in destitution. President Ronald Reagan used to joke regularly about how bad things were for citizens in the Soviet Union. Millions of those people are still alive today. In other words, they’ve experienced the hardships and are more resilient to them than the vast majority of Americans. The same can be said about China whose people were still suffering through massive poverty just a couple of decades ago. In other words, they have much tougher skin for this sort of thing while most Americans have never gone a full day without food or water.
Second, they are dictatorships. Sure, they don’t call themselves dictatorships but the Putin regime and the Chinese Communist Party have nearly absolute control over their nations. Meanwhile, western nations have elections to consider and people who can hold them accountable. When turmoil strikes, dictatorships can maneuver more freely even as their people suffer tremendously.
Third, they’ve been preparing for this. While the Biden regime was doing great harm to our energy industries with his Green New Deal ambitions, Russia and China were ramping up fossil fuel production. While we were shipping food everywhere and...
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Brandon was going to tank things any way possible.
They want to justify their “democratic socialism”.
The inflation, gas prices, etc... went out of control well before they got Putin to invade.
Russia for sure and China are the last countries standing against the new world order biden wants the US to lead ( pay for with our military sons and daughters and pay again as in finance entirely).
This ukranian fakery is about removing Putin. Period. I have aaid this before and i will say it agian. They would sacrifice 1000 time the population of unwashed deplorable Ukrainian people.
Of course Russia and china were ready. They are the targets of resistance.
You could add that the advantage that “leadership” in China/Russia doesn’t give a rat’s ass about their people...but neither does ours, right? So I guess we’re even on that score.
Elections? ahahaha
Why the 25th amendment must be implemented for Joe.
He is incompetent due to mental deterioration. His controllers or puppet masters are even more left wing than he. Thus we have Kamala an extreme leftist as president whom would be a total disaster for the democrat party. If she were president no policies would change as the same puppet masters would still pull the strings. The upside is she would be an absolute disaster for the democrat party up and down ballot.
I forgot to add there is a good probability that Joe could get us in a thermonuclear war. Kamala is slightly less likely of such.
“One might even argue that it’s all by design, that the Biden regime and the globalist elites knew exactly what would happen. If they truly want The Great Reset to become a reality, the economic sanctions crippling and dividing the entire world is one fast and elegant way to achieve it.”
Joe Biden is the champion of neocons on Free Republic.
They LOVE these sanctions because they hate Americans as much as they hate Russians.
China and Russia paid the Biden crime family more than enough, to allow it to happen.
And we are not.
Hmmm..smart people prepare for bad times and stupid people don’t. And this is not simply a matter of income. How did the US and Europe prepare for bad times? By blowing up defecits and becoming energy dependent.
“China and Russia paid the Biden crime family more than enough, to allow it to happen.”
You have to admit that it was money well spent.
[snip] But as Joe Biden noted, the sanctions are causing food shortages across the globe. [/snip]
No, they’re not.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4050104/posts?page=65#65
How many Russians and Ukrainians has the US taken in since the Soviet Union broke up? How many of them could we take in? Get rid of all welfare and unemployment insurance so that all available jobs are filled with legal Americans. Fence hoppers? We’ll need them too as long as they’ve committed no more than one misdemeanor-no perverts.
It just might save our country. The worst that can happen-we’ll be called racists. Just keep in mind that Va. assemblyman who’s not gonna take it anymore.
We’ll need the WH. Start thin November.
Ukrianian refugees-take em’ in. Put it on paper for November. American women wanted to take their pants off in front of the Kenyan. We can offer more than that-a home for the Ukraine widows with 3 kids. It will save this country. There are 50,000 communities in the US with a lot more than 50k potential sponsors. Think churches for starters.
The fissures within this country are worse outside. We can help the outside and show our critics how wrong the America haters really are. If the idea is on paper for everyone to see it will flush out the leftists double standard. Just think-America being the father to widowed kids compared to a party that doesn’t know what a father is.
Don’t let a crisis go to waste. Democrat mantra. Are we too stupid to not play the game? We’ve got the issues.
I don’t know about Ukrainians, but Russian immigrants have become standard fare for US crime shows. This is unlike the many Latinos who are filling our construction jobs, child care, restaurant, and other jobs that lower income Americans have not been trained for or encouraged to fill.
thanks bud.
Grew up in a suburb with a relatively large Polish (among other Europeans) enclave. Most of the 3rd-generation folks moved out and about. When the Berlin Wall fell, there was a considerable influx of Eastern Europeans taking advantage of the opportunity to get out from under communism. Totally revitalized the area, especially with their work ethic and piety.
My mother’s parents were immigrants from East Prussia (Germany). They wouldn’t let the children learn or speak German. My mother and her 5 siblings all moved out in their generation. May paternal grandfather was also an immigrant from Wales. I never even was aware of being second generation until about age 25. I think an important part of my parent’s and their sibling’s mobility was speaking English from childhood.
My mother and her siblings eventually learned resonably competent German and visited relatives in Germany, but the only one who spoke really good German was my uncle who had scarlet fever at age 7 and was isolated for a number of weeks being cared for by my Great Aunt who had come over from Germany to help her sister care for 6 children. She and my mother would speak German when they didn’t want me to know what they were talking about. Instead I learned Spanish in school, which has been useful over the years, especially for finding good workers to do house renovation work.
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