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The Russian economy is on the brink of collapse, with industrial output falling and major companies initiating large-scale layoffs amid the economic fallout from the war on Ukraine

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/russian-economy-freefall-mortgage-costs-34869686


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[-] Skua@kbin.earth 18 points 22 hours ago

Russia's red lines are that:

  • Ukraine does not get to have its own foreign policy, demonstrated by its embargo of Ukrainian goods in 2013 in response to Ukraine choosing an EU trade agreement
  • Ukraine must be unable to defend itself against Russia. This is shown by Russia's repeated insistence that Ukraine both be barred from joining NATO and be demilitarised.

Absolutely wild to call these "very reasonable". These red lines are "be our puppet or else"

[-] m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

If ukraine was allowed to install nato weapons, usa would use that to nuke russia, then go to attack china, and then the bezos and zuck and other creatures would enslave and kill every single nonwesterner

But westerners want that because they are inhuman racist monsters

When the euros say "russia will invade europe and kill us all" they're doing projection, they're projecting their own cololonialist fantasies onto those they want to kill, to make up a reason for their rabid crusader behavior

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 0 points 9 hours ago

If the US was going to nuke Russia, why on Earth would it need Ukraine? It already has Finland, Estonia, and Latvia if it wants a friendly launch site that's on the border, or Turkiye or Romania if it just wants somewhere close. Besides that, the missiles are "intercontinental" ballistic missiles; they do not need to be on the border. This explanation does not hold up in the slightest.

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