Quote (fender @ Mar 17 2023 05:20am)
you could have just told me you simply don't know what words mean. first "abstention", now "military occupation", lol. be that as it may, none of your silly insults change the facts about what pootin's war has done to russia's future:
the sacrificing of your youth on ukrainian battlefields and the massive brain drain russia is currently experiencing spell demographic doom. economically it's even worse. you already started from a significantly shittier place. russian standards of living, infrastructure, life expectancy, and freedoms were already on a level barely resembling an industrialised nation - your future as china's insignificant lap dog will be the ultimate humiliation of russia's pride.
You have to talk about the future of Russia because as it stands now, in the present, Russia is doing fine.
In the future, Germany will still be what it is today. A non-country with no sovereignty, passively watching as America hollows you out by imposing higher gas prices and ripping German industry to shreds.
Talk all you want about China, too, but realize that when it comes time for America to drive a wedge between the Chinese economy and Europe, Germany will do exactly what it's doing right now, which is to do everything Washington tells it to. More than a third of BMW sales are in the Chinese market. Nearly half of Mercedes. Those sales will disappear overnight, and there is nothing Germany can do about it because Germany has no sovereignty.
Quote (fender @ Mar 17 2023 07:47am)
regarding ns2: we didn't "let" anyone blow up a "crucial pipeline", moscow shill. first of all, nothing was flowing to us through it in the first place, and wouldn't have for decades to come - so much for "crucial". secondly, we most definitely did not greenlight its destruction, or accept the destruction as fine. that's just absurd - so much for "let". third of all, the pipeline didn't belong to germany alone. fourth point: we still don't know who actually did it, and if it was indeed the US, it will definitely have some serious ramifications. you're just uncritically regurgitating kremlin propaganda again, you bot.
In what way has Germany "not accepted the destruction" of the Nordstream pipelines? You've done literally nothing about it.
At least when America scuttled France's submarine deal with Australia, France threw a little hissy fit and recalled their ambassador for a little while. All show, but Germany can't even muster that, lmao. Just a completely cowed, broken nation.
America blew up your pipelines, tricked you into sending tanks to get demilitarized in Ukraine, passed the IRA that is designed to poach your industries, and you've done nothing at all about any of it, because Germany is not a sovereign country.