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How are they tying up the cells together? That's usually done with Nickel bars.
Nickel plated copper. Doesn't help much, since copper is one of the few things more expensive than nickel...
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Russia was always in control of when this ends. They can simply leave Ukraine.
So, if Russia leaves Ukraine now, all the sanctions will be dropped? :)
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Russia was always in control of when this ends. They can simply leave Ukraine.
Even if they did that and all sanctions immediately ended (which is doubtful), it would take a long time to undo the effects of those sanctions (investor confidence getting rebuilt, the memories of foreign-owned civil aircraft getting expropriated to fade etc).
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Russia was always in control of when this ends. They can simply leave Ukraine.
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Maybe someone can enlighten me, but is this not the equivalent of saying "You can't fire me - I quit"? Are there any practical consequences from this besides symbolism?
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Some few Russian products are in high demand. Natural gas, as others have said. Russia is the third biggest supplier of nickel, and iirc the biggest supplier of high grade nickel- a key component in many applications, not the least of which is in lithium batteries. London recently had to suspend nickel trading because the price was astronomically high. There will be no getting off of fossil fuels without nickel, and…
There is plenty of nickel in Canada (Sudbury Basin). Raise the price a little and there will be plenty of non-Russian nickel available around the world.
By the time you're halfway done, we'll be importing from the Russians again and the investment will collapse.
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They’ve got plenty of opportunities with China.
For now. But we are already seeing a few chinks in that armor. China prizes stability. Countries that start wars over imagined slights do not promote stability. China's largesse is not unlimited nor does it ever come without a price.
The Iron Curtain cut through the heart of Europe, dividing east from west. Curtain 2.0 looks to be forming only around Russia, walling it off from all of Europe. Things will be so much worse for people on the inside this time. It will be like Soviet Russia without the Warsaw Pact to support it. It is one thing to be without Twitter and Hollywood movies, but can Russia feed itself? Can any country? Modern industrial a…
Russia is a leading producer and exporter of wheat, corn, and fertilizer [1][2]. The question you may want to ask is whether the rest of the world be able to feed itself if Russia loses access to its markets [3]? [1] https://www.rbth.com/business/332948-russia-leading-wheat-ex... [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-04/russia-ca... [3] https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2022/0309/1285347-world-foo...
The Iron Curtain cut through the heart of Europe, dividing east from west. Curtain 2.0 looks to be forming only around Russia, walling it off from all of Europe. Things will be so much worse for people on the inside this time. It will be like Soviet Russia without the Warsaw Pact to support it. It is one thing to be without Twitter and Hollywood movies, but can Russia feed itself? Can any country? Modern industrial a…
>but can Russia feed itself I saw some article on this topic, apparently 100% of "material" for inseminating cows is imported. Also like 80% of wheat seeds and majority of potato seeds (or whatever). Something similar with chicks
Much more damming, for Russia anyway, is that they apparently don’t have a single factory producing ballbarings. That isn’t going to be an issue for a while, and then it is really going to be an issue.