I never claimed that Russia was gonna collapse immediately without the European market. And yes, I still stand by my take that the loss of the European market will hurt Russia big time in the medium and long term.

This is particularly true for their natural gas exports, where it will take many years and tens of billions of investment to build a pipeline infrastructure to China which has the capacity to replace what they already had towards Europe. And like I've explained numerous times, they will never be able to send pipeline gas to India since these pipelines would inevitably have to go through Pakistan or China, i.e. India's two biggest geostrategic foes.

i wouldnt really disagree in theory, but unfortunately most states are not benevolent and treat you like a slave

What a complete non-argument. Are you parroting your favorite MSM news outlet?

Fact of the matter is that NK has massive stockpiles of artillery ammo and massive production facilities and NK borders Russia, there are railroad connections without the need to pass through a third country.

This post was edited by Djunior on Sep 14 2023 11:53am

https://twitter.com/ducaena/status/1701741396363792650?t=ZbmBGsD73KnOEammh2r33w&s=19

somebody please tell me that this is satire

The sanctions backfired, it's a simple fact. Quite possibly the EU has lost access to cheap Russian energy forever.

Weaponized cringe

it's ALMOST like there is a difference between the bully getting hurt and his victim getting hurt, almost as if the invading force losing means to kill innocent people is something i prefer over the defenders losing the means to defend themselves...

it's ALMOST like people who are not kremlin bots DON'T think this is a simplistic "bOtH SiDeS aRe eQuaLLy bAd" situation...

We thought Russia had all its manufacturing geared up and supplies were plentiful?
Pick one. That's your problem you want to have your cake and eat it, permanently.

This post was edited by Prox1m1ty on Sep 14 2023 12:18pm

literally no one did. it's one of those ridiculous strawmen russian propagandists (who ironically HAVE been dead wrong on many of their ACTUAL predictions - like "3 months military operation" and "russia will never attack ukraine, it's just US propaganda"...) have to resort to, because they don't have real arguments...

In fact NATO started all this in 2008 so stop crying




I read that Russia fires 40K-60K shells some days, I guess it means that they have huge stockpiles to be able to do that. That's simple math.

You just pointed out Russia must be desperate. How about Ukraine? They rely 100% on the West to keep supplying them.

Inb4 dodge