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Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by colechristensen on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @02:24PM (#31658249)
The economic sanctions against Russia really do seem to be creating quite a lot of internal pressure to stop the war in Ukraine which is not going so well.

Without those sanctions, it is quite conceivable that a troubled war effort would not be nearly so much of a problem, but because of the trade dependency Russia feels quite threatened by the consequences of war. Not enough to have prevented it in the first place, but they overreaced.

Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by Dma54rhs on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @02:43PM (#31658477)
Its the same for Ukrainians since EU big powers want the end of war because of economies even if it means Ukraine giving away their territories. You could argue without globalism and a lot of trade that pressure wouldn't exist.
Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by blackoil on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @09:04PM (#31662030)
But without the global support, would Ukraine have lasted this long this successfully?
Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by Dma54rhs on Thursday June 09, 2022 @04:28AM (#31678851)
Obviously not, all I wanted to say was that these geopolitical relationships are complicated especially in the globalized world.