Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by throwaway894345 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:13PM
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> Their industry and economy was struggling and fell apart overnight but the West wasn’t happy to just win, it wanted to Win Big. We rubbed the unproductivity of it in their face, kicked the market wide open to fire sales and mass demobilization
I'm not familiar with this; can you elaborate or link me to something?
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by emteycz on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:07PM
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Post-communist states sold off their remaining assets after 1989. Many people think (correctly in many cases) that there was a lot of corruption during the process. That allowed people (usually foreign) to buy a lot of key infrastructure and other stuff for nothing.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
by throwaway894345 on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:49PM
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The OP seemed to imply that the West actively orchestrated this? Is that what is meant by "there was a lot of corruption during the process"?
What worries me is the idea that some ex-soviet apparatchik (someone like Vladimir himself) might want to take eye-for-eye, and reduce western infrastructure to the same level of ruin of the Soviet’s, after ‘89.
Their industry and economy was struggling and fell apart overnight but the West wasn’t happy to just win, it wanted to Win Big. We rubbed the unproductivity of it in their face, kicked the market wide open to fire sales and mass demobilization… these humiliations create resentment, and you never know who’s the more spitefully determined.