Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by api on Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:59AM
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Russia will become a Chinese satellite state.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by jimbob45 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:44AM
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60% of the North Korean population lives in poverty[0]. Kim Jong-un wouldn't still be leader if his people knew how much better they could have it without his policies.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by kragen on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:42AM
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Knowing isn't enough. You also have to organize. Organizing in North Korea or Russia is infeasibly difficult.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by tablespoon on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:44AM
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> 60% of the North Korean population lives in poverty[0]. Kim Jong-un wouldn't still be leader if his people knew how much better they could have it without his policies.
IIRC, Russia media is basically like having pro-Putin Tucker Carlson on all the channels all the time. And if, despite that, anyone in Russia has even a small chance of actually undermine Putin, they'll find poison in their underwear and get an all-expenses paid trip to a gulag.
Forever? Look at North Korea: Kim Jong-un is doing fine.
It's a fantasy that the "entire world" would sanction them: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/world/europe/china-russia...:
> China on Wednesday criticized the expansion of economic sanctions against Russia, saying that they were unlikely to solve the Ukraine crisis and that they had the potential to harm average people as well as the interests of Beijing.
Putin doesn't care about Russia economy the way you think he does: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/lavrov-rus...:
> Their intentions are different from ours too. Putin’s goal is not a flourishing, peaceful, prosperous Russia, but a Russia where he remains in charge. Lavrov’s goal is to maintain his position in the murky world of the Russian elite and, of course, to keep his money. What we mean by “interests” and what they mean by “interests” are not the same. When they listen to our diplomats, they don’t hear anything that really threatens their position, their power, their personal fortunes.