Dang, the Russian disinformation has corrupted the World Bank now too! They must be using their mind-scramble lasers.
the entire staff of the world bank has been Havana sydromed into Putin goon slaves
So the sanctions are going great
One could argue they have...for Russia at least. They've been a great impetus at pioneering industries independent of the dollar. A lot need time to reach maturity still, but that may never have happened if the dollar wasn't being weaponized.
At this point, the sanctions are doing phenomenal. For Russia, for China, and for BRICS that is... there's usually a bit of short-term pain, but in turn the rewards are a thousandfold.
I hope the west tries sanctioning some more (to those who can take it and then some at least, against China and Russia... maybe even India or Turkey as Russian oil-transit countries? 😂 Might hurt me some as well as someone living in an imperial core myself, but the results- the destruction of the imperial economic order, rapidly before our eyes- is just too beautiful, too inspiring all the same.
Reminds me, recently I was watching Scott Ritter talking on the effects of sanctions on Russia. They had been struggling with the destabilizing, corrupting influence of the oligarchs for so long, for instance. The west dealt with that, basically neutered the oligarchs with their targeted sanctions. 😂 They had been struggling to get domestic investments, with wealth flowing from Russia into the west- the west dealt with that too- suddenly Russia has plenty of capital with nowhere to go but to the people, developments are being built left and right (and not just in the MIC). 😂 NATO basically helped Putin cleanse out the rot the west had encouraged to fester during the years of shock therapy, and as they're the ones who did it (while showing the entire world their financial systems are not to be trusted) it didn't take much if any political capital for Russia to get things back into shape afterwards.
The US and EU did in 2 years what Putin not only couldn't but didn't ever really want to do in over 20 years, and Russia is better off for it.
I dearly hope Trump will get mask off and intensify squeezing Europe hard.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
So what does this actually entail? I looked at the world bank site, and it lists both USA and Australia as "high income countries". I'm sure a trip through any "food desert" will show how meaningless this label is
Yeah, I agree it doesn't change much materially. My take is being that this is a line goes up metric for western countries, it does show a widening fracture between the US policy narrative (esp. sanctions) and the emergent multipolar reality.
Exposing false narrative? I can dig that
Holy shit