Its almost like all these sanctions are meant to make stern headlines instead of having any real crippling effect lol. Even the sanctions on oligarchs have loopholes
Its almost like all these sanctions are meant to make stern headlines instead of having any real crippling effect lol. Even the sanctions on oligarchs have loopholes
Cutting off from swift is no small measure
It's likely to cause carnage
look ive already written too much about this
all im saying is that US citizens acting like US corruption affects them more negatively than Russian corruption affects Russian citizens is dumb.
"always" isn't accurate; the data in the polls you linked are from 2015, one year after Russia's annexation of Crimea, which saw Ukrainian's support for Russia dwindle drastically. However, prior to the annexation, Ukraine-Russia relations were much closer. Study I linked earlier from 2011:

Also see this Wikipedia section:

honestly this surprised me too, I assumed that Ukrainians always viewed Russia in a negative manner but thats just recency bias
Its almost like all these sanctions are meant to make stern headlines instead of having any real crippling effect lol. Even the sanctions on oligarchs have loopholes
If they cut off the Russian energy sector the global market would collapse
It’s a necessary measure
look it's like ur just intentionally missing my point I'm pretty sure we agree on almost everything except a few specifics
I meant that US corruption affects US citizens negatively, but to a lesser degree than Russian corruption affects Russian citizens. US citizens going "we got it worse" sounds dumb and is frankly pretty privileged and ignorant, no? I think we agree on this.
I think you mean specifically financial corruption while he looks at it broader, but could be wrong
look ive already written too much about this
all im saying is that US citizens acting like US corruption affects them more negatively than Russian corruption affects Russian citizens is dumb.
So it's okay as long as its not affecting Americans too badly?
So it's okay as long as its not affecting Americans too badly?
He’s not saying that
Those go hard af lowkey
So it's okay as long as its not affecting Americans too badly?
you have to be kidding me
there's no way u honestly read my posts thru and came away w this. no shot. i refuse to believe it
I thought people were expecting this attack to happen though
"Hi mom I got captured"
you have to be kidding me
there's no way u honestly read my posts thru and came away w this. no shot. i refuse to believe it
Sorry I missed some posts my bad
0 chance gov officials and oligarchs didn't know that sanctions being placed on them was a real possibility and didn't take the necessary precautions to move assets to safe havens in advance
No s*** the photos weren't recent is he supposed to be taking selfies for the gram 💀💀
0 chance gov officials and oligarchs didn't know that sanctions being placed on them was a real possibility and didn't take the necessary precautions to move assets to safe havens in advance
they been doing this for the last 8 years, stockpiling gold for exemple
No s*** the photos weren't recent is he supposed to be taking selfies for the gram 💀💀
He’s supposed to be giving away his exact location in the middle of a Russian invasion, duh