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NYT: Russia is helping DPRK to circumvent sanctions. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 2 years ago by cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

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Welcome to the multipolar world, New York Times! And to the western ruling "elite": thank you for sanctioning Russia, you moronic imperialist scum. Now there is an alternative global financial architecture forming that will make western sanctions toothless and ineffectual, even against small countries you used to be able to bully, choke and rob. One step closer to the comprehensive defeat of the arrogant West, one step closer to the complete liberation of the global south.

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 70 points 2 years ago

usa helps israel to dodge sanctions so shrug-outta-hecks

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 2 years ago

Last I checked, neither Russia nor DPRK have any law that requires them to follow sanctions made up by the USA.

[-] TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago

I suppose now that russia is once again a pariah state they have no reason to tow the line on dprk sanctions. Cant wait until the libs say putin moved wmd into north korea or some shit like that.

[-] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 56 points 2 years ago

TBF also- the sanctions have no legitimacy on them; US unilateral sanctions are illegal, just another part of the western "rules based order" that flies in direct contradiction of all basic notions of decency and international consensus.

The ones increasingly becoming pariahs, are the west. Which is a good thing- as a Canadian I look forward to the day when all the devil cracker countries (including my own) are held to account for their crimes.

[+] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

And now, thank goodness, they have voted not to sanction the DPRK.

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 years ago

Russian bourgeoisie badly wanted (and still wants) to be part of the international bourgeoisie. Which shouldn't be any surprise

[-] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago

Well, thankfully now they have their yachts and all their foreign assets and cushy London homes stolen from right under them, and they're being forced to invest in their own country. Now if only Russia could just boot them out altogether...

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Issue is, they want those back. So far there's no indication that their partners in class would actually return anything, so dangling promises like carrots on a stick (the way it's been done before) may not work. At least, not for some time.

As for investing.. I don't think they will, not really. They will intensify the extraction of wealth from the populace, sure, but invest? Nah. If you could pick between building a mansion on Lake Cuomo in Italy, or building a mansion in Moscow Oblast (with similar prices for land, mind you) - you'll pick Italy every time. The climate is nicer, there's stuff indulge in, and they could pretend not to be part of the people they are robbing.

You know, just like their predecessors did in the empire days.

[-] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

As for investing… I don’t think they will, not really.

They're not being given much of a choice to my understanding- between the west blatantly stealing their assets wherever they find them, and their diminishing in influence allowing Putin and the Russian state to strongly "incentivize" the matter and finally reel them in.

The dynamic is less what you describe now, and more "they can choose Russia and their Russian assets- and play by tightening Russian rules- or they can choose to flee to their vacation homes in the west, and have to cut ties in the homeland for the west to allow them to do so." A very happy dynamic indeed (for everyone who's not the oligarchs)

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 2 years ago

I've seen this twice now, so I feel compelled to help out. The idiom is "toe the line" not, "tow the line". https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/pardon-the-expression/toe-the-line-vs-tow-the-line/

[-] TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

obliterated by facts and logic

eviscerated

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

How I remember the difference:

Towing is what you do with boats and trucks.

Toeing is what you do with lines and foot fetishists.

[-] taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 2 years ago

Ah more good news 🙌🏿

[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 44 points 2 years ago

Wow Putin must be a mad man, the reasonable thing to do would be helping burguerstates enforce sanctions

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 years ago

You jest, but I've met people - in Russia, not online - that appear to genuinely think that.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 years ago

Not to mention USA routinely and openly demands support from countries they openly call "hostile", like China, against those countries allies, partners and other friendlies.