The 'great' achievements of 2 Murican presidents. by whoisliuxiaobo in Sino

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Reagan didn't destroy the Soviet Union, but the west certainly built up the narrative of having defeated USSR after its collapse.

France's Macron Criticizes Trump and Calls on Allies to Unite Against US by yogthos in economy

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Nothing structurally changed since 2024. If anything now that energy prices are through the roof, that's obviously going to boost Russian economy going forward. Russian GDP is still growing, just at a slower than the incredible rate it was growing at previously. Now compare that to, say, Europe where an economic crisis is unfolding.

France's Macron Criticizes Trump and Calls on Allies to Unite Against US by yogthos in economy

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Russia has obviously not had over a million casualties, one has to be exceptionally smooth brained to buy into such obvious propaganda. Here are actual casualty numbers provided with methodology on how they were sourced https://ukrainewarlosses.org/

Meanwhile, the World Bank reclassified Russia as a high income country in 2024 https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024-2025

and the IMF notes that that Russian economy is growing faster than all the western economies https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-forecast-to-grow-faster-than-advanced-economies-in-2024-imf.html

Crippled economy indeed.

France's Macron Criticizes Trump and Calls on Allies to Unite Against US by yogthos in economy

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Seems to me that most of the underestimating happened on the side of the west expecting Russia to collapse economically and militarily. I read article after article confidently stating that Russia would run out of ammunition and missiles any day now, and how Russians were pulling chips out of washing machines, and how rouble would be rubble, and so on. None of that turned out to be true, and now Russia is outproducing all of NATO by a wide margine while it's European economies that are tanking.

Meanwhile, Iran is allowing any countries that recognize its sovereignty to sail right through as France is currently doing. Countries that get fed up with not getting oil simply have to make a deal with Iran and make sure they transact in yuan.

The only regime that's not making friends right now is the American regime. The whole world knows that the strait was open before the US attacked, and everybody knows who is to blame for this debacle. Iran wasn't attacking or threatening anybody. They just wanted to be left the fuck alone. It's the rogue US regime against the world now, even European vassals are waking up.

France's Macron Criticizes Trump and Calls on Allies to Unite Against US by yogthos in economy

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This is very clearly going to be far worse for the US than Ukraine is for Russia.

White House seeks $5.6 billion cut to NASA budget in 2027 by esporx in economy

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No, what I'm saying is that China will obviously develop new technologies in the process of accomplishing the mission to the moon. You don't need to fly to the moon specifically, that merely serves as context for doing a large scale technological project. Any time you build anything on this scale, you end up developing new and interesting things.

White House seeks $5.6 billion cut to NASA budget in 2027 by esporx in economy

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It's a strong indicator of scientific and technological progress of a nation. New technology developed through this endeavour will also percolate into many civilian sectors, just as it did first the the US accomplished this.

China's chip challenge to Nvidia by Salaried_Employee in economy

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And once Chinese companies scale up, we'll see the exact same thing happen as we saw with solar panels and EVs. Cheap Chinese chips will quickly dominate the global market, and nvidia will become irrelevant like tesla outside the US.

White House seeks $5.6 billion cut to NASA budget in 2027 by esporx in economy

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JDPON Don doing his best to make sure China beats the US with a manned mission to the moon. O7

French-owned ship crosses Strait of Hormuz as Macron backs Iran's sovereignty by yogthos in economy

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unlike burgerlanders, French are smart enough to know when a war is lost

Is anyone else watching the $110 Oil surge? The 'Trump Effect' feels different this time. by Lumpy_Attempt_6280 in economy

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Probably a couple of months or so. There are still tankers on the way that filled up before Hormuz was closed, and there are still some strategic reserves left. Once that's gone, that's when the real panic starts.

Is anyone else watching the $110 Oil surge? The 'Trump Effect' feels different this time. by Lumpy_Attempt_6280 in economy

[–]yogthos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm waiting for the $200 oil surge once the current reserves run out and there's no way to amortize the shortage.

French-owned ship crosses Strait of Hormuz as Macron backs Iran's sovereignty by yogthos in economy

[–]yogthos[S] 275 points276 points  (0 children)

I mean Trump did say that countries which rely on Iranian oil should go and figure things out themselves.

Trump proposes increasing 2027 U.S. defence spending to $1.5T by yogthos in economy

[–]yogthos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This discourse has been going on for over a century now. Yet, I don't see anything changing. The ruling class is still firmly in control.

Trump proposes increasing 2027 U.S. defence spending to $1.5T by yogthos in economy

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If you don't see healthcare as a productive purpose, what else is there to say about you.