Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How do the ALLIES want to DESTROY the RUSSIAN ECONOMY? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. Iraqis also provided considerable support to take down Saddam, and a lot of the hardship was caused by local insurgent groups trying to establish their turf when the Americans weren't around. Ukrainians have long ago rejected affiliation with Russia, and civilian casualties are clearly caused by Russian forces.
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  2. China and Russia already weaponize the internet through nearly shameless trolls and hacks, with China further destabilizing poor countries by feeding local corruption through their loan arrangements and not demanding better governance and transparency like Western aid does. The weakening of globalization comes more from the realization that a "Sunshine Policy" ultimately fails, as the prosperity emboldens autocrats while not effectively compelling them to interpret the rules the way everyone else does.
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  3. Paradox of Tolerance: to have a tolerant society, intolerance cannot be tolerated lest it take over like a psychological cancer.
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  4. Russians still largely tolerated Putin, especially when considering their prosperity compared against the relative fiasco of post-Soviet Yeltsin's Russia. We've been warning about how his political adventurism is going to cross the rest of the world, who will ultimately push back; no other real democracy recognizes Russia's need to reimpose the USSR's political colonies in Eastern Europe. The same can be said with Putin's PRC umbilical cord and their dreams to reestablish China's old imperial arrangements over East and SE Asia.
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  5. Nuclear is also expensive and increasing in costs while also creating thousands of years of hazard on the tail end. Renewables by contrast are getting cheaper and more available. The main problem isn't sourcing, it's storage of the excess for when demand surges later like it does every evening.
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  6. That treaty though was proudly punitive to keep Germany from rising again through reparations debts regardless of changes in leadership and policy. The current sanctions are meant to degrade Putin's ability to cause that damage in the first place.
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