Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Why Russia's Economy is on the Brink of Collapse - TLDR News" video.
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This was the idea of the EU and US, basically, to make it as painful and costly for the Russian troops in Ukraine by supplying Ukraine a lot of arms and to hit the Russian economy hard with sanctions.
The idea is simply, to weaken Russia so much that they become less of a threat to the world whiles also trying to turn the Russian people against the government but lets be blunt about this, the west doesn't care, they see Russia as a threat and are going to weaken that threat, it's up to the Russian people to wake up and see what Putin is doing and if they don't, the west will just hit the Russian economy where it hits the people hard, either way, they don't care.
The reason they don't care is simply, the Russian people are partly to blame for Putin getting into power, the west isn't waiting around for the Russian people to wake up and see what's going on, they are going out of their way to weaken Russia so it's less of a threat and unfortunately, that will hit a lot of innocent Russians, but what's the alternative?
It's the same for China but in their case, the west would target the manufacturing sector, after all, there are many other countries around the world that would love to take that business away from China and that's probably already happening because of China hostile plans on Taiwan and if they are helping Russia out here, the west will likely just speed up that process.
It's high time that the rich countries stop funding these crack pots, after all, a lot of the wealth and power these countries are getting is from the rich and more open countries, maybe now it's time they start becoming more selective in who and how they trade with countries.
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@charliecan9603 Not quite, it will hit the economy in the short term but the west is far more adaptable to these things, modern countries can change quite quickly when the need arises, to give you an idea, what how quickly the Europeans will use alternative energy sources in the next few years, in other words, now the European countries have a massive incentive to kill the fossil fuel industry off, that would hurt Russia and many other countries a lot, guess who gains from that the most? countries that don't produce much oil, gas and coil, in other words, the EU, Japan and others like them, now they have a massive incentive to make that happen as energy is now a security risk.
Putin ironically is the best friend of Green Peace here and he doesn't even know it lol.
Also, you have to understand, there are many other countries that would love to fill that void that Russia leaves behind and it's a lot of money to make but they best be quick about it because it's clear that European countries will push hard on cleaner energy sources.
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@bryanbelshaw7725 They prepared for a short war in Ukraine with much weaker sanctions being put on them, clearly the sanctions are much tougher than Putin expected and the war in Ukraine is going at a snail pace for Russia, that's hitting the Russian economy hard, on top of that, about half of the $600 billion Putin saved up for this moment is frozen and if that's not bad enough, he never thought for a second that the EU countries would actively look elseware for oil, gas and coal and yet that is what they are doing, that will really hurt the Russian economy hard with how much Russia depends on the EU for that revenue.
What we should remember going off history is that sanctions take many months to really bite, we are still too early in them and we are already seeing early signs of them biting, expect that to get a lot worse for Russia as time goes on.
As for China, let's be blunt about this, China is no friend of Russia, they see this as a big opening to take advantage of Russia whiles they are weak, in other words, China could play games with Russia to sell it's oil and gas at a much lower price point, China also likely see this as an opening to make Russia a vassal of China, something I highly doubt the Russian government or people want but I doubt Russia will want to be too dependent on China as that would be a one way relationship, either way, Russia is screwed here.
As for the rocketing in prices for modern countries, that's a short term thing that will settle in time, a bit of short term pain for longer term gains.
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