do you just not understand what abstention means, lol?

maybe google the combined population and GDP of belarus, north korea, eritrea, mali, nicaragua, russia, and syria?

13% of the world's population has sanctioned Russia.

This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Mar 16 2023 04:58pm

Today's homeworks RED vs GREEN

- GDP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) )
- Military budget ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures )
- Population ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population)


Have a nice one

guess what, only 7 out of 180 nations voted against it. that's not even 4%.
fewer than 237.5 million people out of 8 billion, not even 3% (!) of world's population opposed the sanctions.
in terms of economic power, it's even lower, less than a tenth of a percent, lol.

nations like china and india abstaining from the vote is not the winning argument you appear to think it is - especially considering how many of the highly populated nations that did so for economic / strategic reasons, still oppose the war on principle, and merely aim to extract their own benefits from not sanctioning russia directly in the future.
in reality, pootin effectively isolated russia on the international stage - no amount of selective framing can deny that. its only loyal "allies" are de facto puppets like belarus and other rogue nations like north korea.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/27/1144226139/russia-sanctions-ukraine-war
https://www.bruegel.org/comment/are-sanctions-against-russia-working

no matter how the war ends, thanks to pootin, russia is doomed to be an economically insignificant outcast for decades to come. a toothless dog on china's leash, relegated to selling its natural resources at prices well under market value to a few nations that it will completely depend upon. i mean, it's not like russia wasn't already dirt poor, and its infrastructure, standard of living, and life expectancy well below western nations. if you also consider that russia's youth is sacrificed on ukrainian battlefields, while it's experiencing a significant brain drain of those who can afford to flee the country at the same time, it spells a demographic disaster in russia's near future as well.

congratulations. i hope trying to conquer an utterly destroyed country full of people who absolutely hate russia and will fight it to their last breath is worth it...

This post was edited by fender on Mar 16 2023 05:53pm

13%. That's all you have.

Russia is isolated according to your absurd Western math, and yet the Russian economy is growing faster than Germany's or France's. Higher PMIs, higher growth, lower commodity costs.

So why not say the obvious?

It is Germany that is isolated. France that is isolated. America and Canada which are isolated.

I realize that sitting inside the Western bubble is a weird experience. I spent more than two decades there! It leads to ideological insanity.

Hopefully you grow an egg tooth and get out before the nukes fall from hypersonic MIRVs which Russia and China, but not America or it's vassals, can intercept.

not even 3%. that's all YOU have.
also, imagine having to resort to hollow nuclear threats, because you have no real arguments, lol. almost as pathetic as russia's performance on the battlefield.

here's a reality check concerning your flourishing economy:

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/27/1144226139/russia-sanctions-ukraine-war
https://www.bruegel.org/comment/are-sanctions-against-russia-working

also, nice job ignoring how far behind the curve it already was before relegating itself to being china's lap dog for decades to come. xD
cope more, kremlin bot. less than a tenth of a percent stands behind russia. that's the reality. everyone else either directly opposes or aims to exploit it, lol.

It's kinda funny! These sorts of "don't worry, we're still winners!" articles are happening a year into this war.

The only reason for them to exist is because every previous prediction of Russia's collapse failed. If the sanctions were effective, there'd be no reason to write either of these articles.

So, why do these articles exist? To cope.

you should not worry: the russian culture will be safe in western block, much safer than with these authoritarian regimes like China or actual Russia.
Did you notice how the central power is oppressing artistic expression, developpement, how it can twist it ? Soviet era did alot of damage already. Alot.
And don't think about the american "culture" model, we are not in US: instead you should simply check the diversity of cultures available in EU. Thank you.

Your loser Americuck president just invoked the 'nuclear option' to destroy French pensions. Who gives even the slightest fuck what a Frenchman has to say about anything except how long bread should be in the oven?

France doesn't even have a culture, anymore. Just Ratatouille sliced into NATO deepthroating. Pathetic.