Wars of attrition are not about territory. The fact that you don’t understand this basic fact shows that you have no business braying on this subject. The whole situation is an embarrassment for brainwashed westies who think a war between NATO and Russia would be over in a few months. One has to have an utterly infantile understanding of the world to expect that.

When you definitely understand how wars of attrition work.

Exactly, and going renewable is now long a question of choice. Oil and gas disruptions will last for years, so you can’t just sit that out and go back to business as usual.

I suspect it will because the old and gas supplies problems are structural now. Significant chunk of the infrastructure in the Gulf is destroyed already, the tankers aren’t moving, and not likely to start moving any time soon. Even when they do it’s going to be a long time before supply levels can go to anything like prior levels. So, we’re now looking at years of disruption. That’s very different from any other energy shock in living memory. So, countries will either have to start moving towards renewables or their economies are going to start crumbling. Either way the emissions will be going down. And by the time this all blows over we’re going to be living in a whole new world.

Imagine living in a shithole like Germany and thinking that China has a broken system. 🤣

Maybe stop guzzling propaganda there and try engaging with reality. It’s absolutely incredible how after 4 years people are still not able to realize they’re being lied to.

wrong site to clown around on, go back to reddit

vassals will vassal

as a percentage of land

western propaganda isn’t exactly subtle nowadays

Basically, China is strengthening ties with their neighbours here. It also suggests that China isn’t really worried about oil shortages going forward. So, if the US was trying to use the war on Iran as an attack against China’s energy supplies, looks like that turned out to be a massive miscalculation.

I don’t really agree with the attention to detail part from my experience. AI agents love to take shortcuts from what I’ve seen, and you have to pay a lot of attention to what they’re doing to make sure they do the right thing.

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The US is very obviously going to be impacted when the economies of their vassals start crashing because the US economy is highly dependent on trade. Furthermore, everybody knows this was an unprovoked war of aggression by the US, and that’s already souring relations between the US and the rest of the world.

Welcome to another market manipulation Friday

turns out fascists aren’t very good at logistics

Yes? We’re in agreement here. The neighbors are happy to get their oil at a discount. They would not be getting this discount were it not for the sanctions, since there would be more competition in the buyer’s market.

You’ve never seen a company offer a discount price initially to get people to sign up? This is the same approach. Once trade relations are established, and these countries build up infrastructure around buying Russian energy, Russia will start raising prices. The key part is that it’s already more profitable for Russia than selling pipeline gas to Europe on fixed contracts ever was.

If Russian leadership was under the illusion that NATO was secretly an offensive alliance, and thus needed to preemptively invade Ukraine, it should be clear with this Hormuz straight business that it really is a defensive alliance. Trump tried to get the NATO members to help and they all told him to pound sand.

NATO has literally been invading one country after another ever since Yugoslavia. One has to lack even a shred of intellectual integrity to claim that it is s defensive alliance. The Hormuz business simply exposes the fact that even Europe isn’t imbecilic enough to follow the US into this debacle directly. However, NATO members are currently actively participating in the war by providing the US military bases to stage attacks on Iran. This is in fact direct proof that NATO is not a defensive alliance. Try to put at least a bit of effort into your trolling here.

They’re down year-over-year, with the biggest hit coming in the first year. The sanctions did what they could (forced Russia to offer big discounts) and now they’re stable in their effect.

They’re not down year over year in any meaningful sense. It’s pretty clear that they are in fact quite steady. What’s down is economic activity all across Europe with energy prices being three times that of US and six times higher compared to China. The European industry is no longer competitive on the global stage. Europe cutting itself from Russian energy was the equivalent of cutting off your own feet to spite your cobbler.

I mean, this is an argument fraught with “nuh-uh” and hand-waving on all sides. “Worth it” is very subjective, especially when the harm to both sides is relatively minor, in the grand scheme of things. Both sides have adjusted to the new reality.

LMFAO no it’s not. Every single economic indicator from Europe shows shrinking economic activity and growing inflation. There’s a reason there’s no major European leader polling above 20% right now.

The European oil sources are super diverse, there’s no need to make this a false East vs West thing. I’m literally just here to explain that Russia is selling oil at a discount because it has to, not because it wants to.

If by super diverse you mean that you buy Russian oil at a markup from Kazakhstan, India and Turkey then sure.

It’s not, it is a terminal emulator application for Android that creates a Linux-like environment.

Additionally, it’s worth noting that public sector controls the commanding heights of the economy in China. While these are not run as cooperatives, the purpose of work is the key difference. The goal of a private corporation is to produce capital for the owners. Meanwhile, public enterprise exists to produce things the society needs. The workers in public enterprises are the primary beneficiaries of their labor. Additionally, the state owns the golden share in all major corporations, and thus makes final decisions on how they operate. So, even private sector in China exists on a tight leash. I can highly recommend this video from Ben Norton explaining how Chinese economy actually works for people who are interested.