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A weak, underfed population whose military cannot keep its vehicles in working order isn’t going to be invading its neighbors with any degree of success.
That sounds humanitarian...
I suppose you were being sarcastic, but put away your snide and come up with actual better suggestions!
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Which only holds true if you want to be an adversary. NATO countries don’t care about Russia as a military adversary except to the degree that they want to be one. The Cold War is over. Russia could just grow into a prosperous economy and ally with the west. They choose not to.
If that's true then if you were a rational actor why would you overspend on military, even if we adjusted by cost of labour, GDP per capita and other relevant economic parameters? US spends more than the next 10 countries by military spending combined. US was the dominant influence behind economic reforms in Russia in the early 90s, so I do not understand how that argument can be made in good faith. It's Dr. Frankens…
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Well, this was coming straight from Russian officials: https://tass.ru/politika/13873997
Ah found it - it denies they will institute martial law, but that definitely qualifies as it being talked about https://tass.ru/politika/13980355 (Clearly very a pro-Russia site fyi) Does anyone understand what this means: “Russia is considering the decriminalization of economic crimes, especially damages”? Very interesting site to read! Perhaps you linked the wrong article though, that one is about Russia being kick…
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And western people are responsible for a culture that colonizes half the world. Why do you always escape punishment?
First of all - most of the countries recognized their mistakes and got rid of governments pushing for such things. Secondly - many ghosts of the past are still torment western countries (e.g. last year BLM protests), and in general they are at least recognized as a problem, by general population, not that stubbornly deflected and "whatabouted" as we can observe now in Russia. BTW I'm not westerner. I'm living far clo…
After benefiting from stealing their resources, eventually colonization ended in no small part due to huge amounts of resistance from the colonies(ex Ghandi). I don't think that's exactly deserving of a humanitarian prize. Not only are there are reparations for those who were used, there were even recent military incursions in the Middle East
>Secondly - many ghosts of the past are still torment western countries (e.g. last year BLM protests), and in general they are at least recognized as a problem, by general population, not that stubbornly deflected and "whatabouted" as we can observe now in Russia.
Cold comfort. That isn't fixing the problem that's just saying "yeah well we feel bad and have problems due to the abuse we inflicted on others". No surprise, but that doesn't help any of the populations that were set back and marginalized by colonization
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And western people are responsible for a culture that colonizes half the world. Why do you always escape punishment?
ColonizeD half the world. There've been empires for many thousands of years, and for a number of decades now (we can't say a century yet), there haven't really been any. There've been foreign interventions and neo-colonialist activities and exploitation, but on the grand scale, and relative to all of the past, you have to be honest and admit the worst is over. There's a complete culture shift in countries like Britai…
And who was the most recent to colonize? It's good that it isn't still happening, it really is, but the west still did that until they sufficiently benefited and then gave it up and said "it's okay no one is colonizing anymore! This is a new peaceful Era". No reparations just deciding to forget about it all. So again, what should be taken from western citizens until they are willing to fix their culture into one that makes right on the wrongs they've done?
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Regarding a bank account, try wise.com they will give you US bank details (among others) which you can use to get paid, and a debit card.
For Russians at this time? I am not so sure.
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I think it will be very interesting to see what happens when the war ends. If there are significant reparations to be paid and if the sanctions remain, I think this easily opens it up for a repeat of WWII. Similar to post WWI Germany, Russia will be fucked. Putin will eventually die (natural causes/bullet to the head) and the next guy will be a bigger nutjob that rallies the people behind him by blaming the West/Jews…
It’s certainly an important lesson. There were a lot of other ones too though like would WWII have happened if the Allies enforced German disarmament? The world is different now today though and far more global. Post WWII, West Germany and Japan became Western success stories by integrating them into the global economy. I suspect future post-war reconciliation will like more like WWII than WWI.
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Maybe I'm just brave, because I find that cowardly. But then what kind of word do we use to describe Ukrainians - heroic, I guess.
Wearing a shirt with profanity printed on it is not heroic.
Wearing it in Egypt? The OP knows better than us. It might simply be self-preservation. I won't fault him either way.
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"Putin denies rumours Russia was going to declare martial law" https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/puti... This mean will be done next week....
Yeah right, just like he's denazifying Ukraine. He "won't have a choice" (horrific words in this context) but to use military force to compel the populace into complacency if there's merely a hint of civil revolution.
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For Russians at this time? I am not so sure.
There are no rules against doing business with non-sanctioned individuals in Russia.