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[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It must be useful in some way to the people doing it but what could be a personal benefit?

Financial speculation likely plays a part. It might seem geopolitically insane that Europe traded cheap russian energy for expensive american/norwegian/russian but through third parties energy... but everyone who's invested in American LNG is making a killing. And Europeans who own the privatized import businesses are also making a second killing too.

That aside there just seems to be a culture of sanctions. The west is used to breaking weak nations by isolating them from western finance, capital and technology. By sheer inertia this keeps on going despite how a country like China can just keep on prospering, or how countries like Russia and India can more than make do as well. Or how all the new economic powers mean that countries like the ASS group just has options and people to talk to.

Is western finance good at insurance? Probably. But it's not like Mumbai, Shanghai or Singapore can't do the same service.

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago

The world is so lucky that China focused on self sufficiency and innovation instead of just becoming a western owned sweat shop.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 9 months ago

Distant Chiang Kai-Shek howling coming from the abyss

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