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[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 10 months ago

factual terms

industrial sector dropping by 2% in 2023

It’s just little data points

Make up your mind. You don't get to decide which facts matter and which don't. Every fact you've thrown out has been devoid of the critical context. Every fact I've thrown out you have said "doesn't matter because it isn't the right fact".

I’m interested in your explanation for this: When everything kicked off, Russia simply kept any airliners it had leased, effectively stealing them from the West.

You're right, Russia should have returned every one of those planes immediately. What a doofus you are.

That’s a big part of why they’re fucked on maintenance, because any goodwill they might have had to get some help keeping them in the air is permanently gone

No you fuckwit. It's the sanctions. Goodwill doesn't allow US companies to sell parts to Russia under fucking sanctions.

The West is still examining the legal options for confiscating frozen Russian sanction-money and using it to fund the war, but it hasn’t done so yet. Why not? How would you compare and contrast these two actions (assuming that you acknowledge them both as reality)?

LOL, sanction-money. You're so delusional. The West is still trying to figure out if it should STEAL the money and assets of Russian citizens that were held in accounts in Western institutions. It hasn't done so because it has no international legal basis for doing so, and if they did it would open up precedent for retaliation by every colonized country in the world to seize US assets. That money, however, while not seized, is still frozen, so from the Russian perspective it literally doesn't matter because the assets are unusable while they remain frozen. The USA is not doing it because of a desire to maintain goodwill. They already collectively punished Russian citizens by freezing the assets. The seizure would create so much backlash from the rest of the world, it's a self-preservation technique. Seizing assets in German institutions would actually violate the German constitution.

You're the one constantly trying to craft narratives from decontextualized facts. It blows my mind that you don't see it.

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