It’s always so strange to me that we don’t see the same bombastic support from the tankies over news like this, surely this is another genius move which underscores the futility of Western sanctions, right? Another 5d chess move to bring Ukraine to it’s knees, or dismantle the petrodollar, surely? 🙃
You think the kids that sat at the back of the classroom, saying learning math is a waste of time because they’ll never need to use it, can form an opinion on this? They see the words “interest rate” and decide this news is completely irrelevant because they can’t understand it.
you are aware russia hasnt been socialist for decades right?
russia is a failed proto-fascist state.
Yes, they’re aware. They’re also aware that ML types will support Russia regardless, because no evil is too great so long as it even mildly inconveniences the West.
thats because we cant compare the evil of the west with russia.
further entrenching US power is really bad for everyone not on the west.
Hard for them to respond after they were all banned from Lemmy.world. Really easy to be smug when you have no opposition lol.
Bro people is with the jews now, they provide more impactful videos
Are the tankies in the room with you right now?
This joke’s getting as stale as the “attack helicopter” shit your alt-right counterparts say.
I’m sorry, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Yes, that was clear from your previous comment
Removed by mod
Sad.
How helpful.
Not on this instance since defederation, thankfully. Doesn’t mean they cease to exist
Defederation? What happened?
Lemmy.world defederated from hexbear and lemmygrad which are the two largest tankie instances. Defederation is essentially an instancewide ban. In practice this means that any users on Lemmy.world cannot see any posts, comments, or communities from either of those instances.
That explains the substantial improvement in my mood lately.
For those who want the full experience, lemm.ee is an alternative.
buT tHE sANcTioNs dOn’T dO ANyThiNg
Part of me is hopeful that this means something will eventually break, but it’s also hard to get past some of the initial predictions I was reading when the war first started, that Russia couldn’t keep up the war longer than a few months, that Russia was going to collapse at almost any moment. Now it seems like Russia is converting to a permanent wartime economy and that this thing is expected to drag on for years to come. It makes me wonder, even when Putin eventually dies, does Russia just continue on with the war out of sheer momentum, because the next person knows what a shitshow things will turn into if they try to end the war?
when Putin eventually dies, does Russia just continue on with the war out of sheer momentum
My prediction that in such event war will just stop, Shulman’s prediction is war will be immidiately forgotten as mass delirium.
“Time will come when Putin’s mansions will be shown on federal TV”.
Fuck ‘em.
