OT: World Politics
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Volcanologist
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you wear a black uni with a big death's head skull on your hat bro...magic 8 ball says "likely"
lecoqsportif
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Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters into its fifth month, a common narrative has emerged that the unity of the world in standing up to Russia has somehow
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mbow30
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Sounds like it’s Time for iranian and Saudi delegates to the security council to hold another inquiry on Israel.You gotta hope there's a lot of Russians doing this right now
lecoqsportif
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lecoqsportif
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MindzEye
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War has a way of doing that, yeah.
Losing in Taiwan could topple the regime the way things are going there right now though
MindzEye
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Policy and politics matter.
Try getting that through the heads of the "theyre all the same" crowd though.
axlsalinger
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lecoqsportif
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Wow. They finally whacked Chubais, eh?
It’s been coming. He was a big, big wheel in the 90s - architect of economic liberalization and the rise of the kleptocrats before the KGB finally got their house in order and put all these upstarts in their place. Chubais seemed to hang in there for a while, but his pesky insistence on laws, property rights and transparency wasn’t popular with the Moscow siloviki.
He was against the war, so his long-standing enemies pounced. I’m surprised it took this long.
It’s been coming. He was a big, big wheel in the 90s - architect of economic liberalization and the rise of the kleptocrats before the KGB finally got their house in order and put all these upstarts in their place. Chubais seemed to hang in there for a while, but his pesky insistence on laws, property rights and transparency wasn’t popular with the Moscow siloviki.
He was against the war, so his long-standing enemies pounced. I’m surprised it took this long.
lecoqsportif
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I wonder how Elvira Nabiullina, Chairwoman of the Russian Central Bank, is doing?
She tried to resign at the start of the war, but they wouldn’t let her. Apparently she’s rather brilliant but, as we know, you can’t ever “retire” from the mafia.
She tried to resign at the start of the war, but they wouldn’t let her. Apparently she’s rather brilliant but, as we know, you can’t ever “retire” from the mafia.
Wayward DP
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you just haaate to see it: