Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Putin says 'economic blitzkrieg' has failed in anti-West rant | DW Newas" video.

@Gudang9 Ahem, products are manufactured goods. You're saying that Russia has commodities, not products. It's poor consolation, since they can't turn them into products themselves. Instead, they have to rely on foreign manufacturers, which increasingly won't do business with Russia. It's like you're saying that Russian cavemen were the richest of the Stone Age, because they had oil and gas a few kilometres under their feet.
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The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that India is still too immature for a permanent seat in the UNSC. We need less -- not more -- unprincipled egotists.
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If Putin was striving for a multipolar world, he's taken Russia out of the running. Russia is a pariah state, only second to North Korea.
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@catherineleslie-faye4302 Russia is currently seeing professionals and the rich leave for greener pastures. I don't know if that's common enough for you, but it's gotta hurt.
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There's a measure of schadenfreude in seeing an aggressor being punished with a weapon for which he doesn't have a defence.
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Sure you can. There's American Otis, Finnish Kone and Korean Hyundai. However, all have pulled out or are in the process of pulling out from Russia. Putin will have to take the stairs.
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@jirachi-wishmaker9242 Thanks for illustrating my point. Oh the embarrassment, if a permanent member of the UNSC were to state that a major war on this planet of ours is of no interest to them. Did someone suggest Ukraine for the UNSC? What did I miss?
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@jirachi-wishmaker9242 Sure, India should have intervened as in taking a stance and condemning what amounts to an illegal war of aggression, something which the UN Charter specifically forbids. Hence, fence-sitters like India need not apply for a permanent seat on the UNSC.
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You're giving way too much credit to the US. Their erstwhile trade with Russia was dwarfed by that of the EU. It's the EU that's putting the thumbscrews on Russia.
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Maybe you're puzzled because your economy is a chronic basket case and you simply don't understand these matters. Oh, we did have to shave off a percentage point from our growth estimate, but we're not expecting a recession. Besides, Putin provided a great impetus for increased investment in a carbon-free future. He should get an environmentalist award or something. He'll have something to console himself in his prison cell in The Hague.
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Putin's Asian soldiers are easily replaced with more cannon fodder. Russia's true casualties are highly-educated and wealthy professionals who're leaving the country in increasing numbers.
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 @peppersghosttheater Western companies will exist just fine without Russian raw materials. Which part of "commodity" don't you understand?
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@davidnoelfranks1124 Which weapon would that be? Time? Are you saying that Russia is fully prepared to sink slowly to the same level of poverty as Afghanistan, patiently waiting for the sanctions to be lifted? Uh, be my guest...
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@michaelagbayani4961 73% of the UN member base can't be called Western. Ha-ha.
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Sanctions are always a double-edged sword. It's just that one cut is spurting arterial blood, and the other hardly warrants a band-aid.
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@ilovenathi2082 It's a temporary. Besides, I'm a Euro -- our consumer prices have risen less in relation to the US. Also, our cars are more fuel-efficient, we have much better public transportation and EV adoption is far ahead of that of the US.
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True. In a democratic country, the economists would look ahead and strenuously object to the economy being driven off the cliff. Sadly, in Russia, they have to keep mum while Putin does just that. But who knows, maybe saner minds will prevail. In the West, we have elections. Russia has revolutions.
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@russiandrivers9986 Not really. There's been a lot of consolidation in the lift business, with the big companies gobbling up their smaller competitors. They're mainly after the lucrative service business. They're surprisingly flexible in accommodating different models and solutions.
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Only raw materials matter? Turning commodities into products is the lucrative part. Funny you should mention lumber. Before the sanctions kicked in, Russia exported lumber to Scandinavia, which is not exactly in short supply of the stuff either. In Scandinavia, the lumber was turned into furniture and sold back to Russia at a tidy profit. With Russia's cheap labour, it was WIN-win. Guess who WON and who won.
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@vikramk6592 Has the UNSC mistreated Indian and African students, and how so?
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@zorlaxreefer1322 No worries, high-tech imports from non-Western countries are effectively cut off as well. The manufacturers in question aren't keen on suffering sanctions as well.
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@zorlaxreefer1322 I doubt that the Russians are pining for it either. Sure, they'd like the superpower status of the Soviet Union, but not the economy that went with it.
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