JC Denton wrote on May 26
th, 2023 at 8:43am:
Quote:Mattyfisk posted
Not just humiliated, dear, thoroughly rogered.
A so-called superpower invades its nearest neighbour and gets forced back to the fringes.
Then, piece by piece, forced into retreat from that. Banished from the world, up for crimes against humanity, GDP growth back to 1990s levels, and an entire generation forced into the meatgrinder - or exile.
One thing we know, Aquascoot, you sure can pick the losing side.
Ever get the feeling you've been plundered?
wot?
on the GDP thing, how is that true? isn't the russian federation's gdp projected to grow this year more than most european countries?
who called the russian federation a superpower? you are conflating it with the soviet union which is not the same thing. why do so few people understand the 'superpower' concept
banished from the world? you mean a few western countries - most of the world is located in south and east asia, latin america and africa, and the rf is certainly not 'banished' from those places. india and china a piece are about a third of the world's population - the indian govt is ambivalent towards the russian federation, with some people there telling me the average indian person supports it somewhat (go look at what the hindustani times publishes on its yt channel), same is true in china. it's one of the reasons these allegedly devastating sanctions have had such a minimal impact.
an entire generation? the force the russians are deploying in ukraine is relatively small -- way too small in my opinion -- and even of the 300,000 recently mobilised, most are still being held in reserve. this is pure projection, it's the ukrainians sacrificing most of their young male population.
what is this absolute bullsh1t karnal lol
Russia has lost an entire generation of
smart workers, dear, lost either to exile or the war.
Banished from
Europe, where it was economically integrated. It now has to sell
more oil to China and India for less, and this deal is far from sustainable. No country wants to be a fossil fuel economy alone. The gulf states are doing everything they can to diversify and get out.
Russia is on the UN Security Council with veto powers. That's a superpower.
GDP-
growth is down, with Russia's own accounts far from believable. Russian foreign reserves have been frozen, billions in capital lost, the foreign wealth of it's entire kleptocracy seized. There's no Western foreign investment or trade, and an over-reliance on one fickle fair-weather friend: Chi-na.
The West has locked Russia out, with sanctions biting hard:
[url]The evidence presented here suggests that these measures have been highly effective since, perhaps, mid-2022 and that the Russian economy by the end of 2023 will be in serious difficulties. By this time, it may become clear whether the war on Ukraine can be maintained militarily and whether the Russian regime in its current form will survive.[/url]
https://www.economicsobservatory.com/what-is-the-current-state-of-the-russian-ec...This is not bullsh
it, dear, it's the truth. If you want to see how insulated economies survive with a sole reliance on China, look at North Korea.
The damage to Russian
soft power, of course, is incalculable. Its former Soviet satelites are looking for friends elsewhere, China is soaking them in. It has become personal, the world turning on Russian people too. Outside Russia, Russians can't apologise enough. Russians have become the new Germans.
On the hard power front, Finland has joined NATO, Sweden's nearly there, and Europe's increasing weapons spending. Trump couldn't do this - Putin could.
Don't kid yourself, JC. Fu
ck with the G7, this is what you get. Remember this: it used to be the G8.
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
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